***************** BONUSES -- Packet for Technophobia Four at Cal Tech By Trevor Schultz ***************** Technophobia Bonuses 1. He is a manufacturer of substandard and defective war materials and its his faulty airplane parts that cause the death of his son and other flyers during world war two. For 10 points apiece: A. Name this dramatic character a post-war embodiment of guilt Answer: Joe _Keller_ B. Keller is the central figure in what 1947 play in 3 acts? Answer: _All My Sons_ C. Who wrote All My Sons? Answer: Arthur _Miller_ 2. He filed a discrimination complaint in 1999 after 5 New York, City taxicab drivers refused to give him a ride, presumably because he was black. For 10 points each: A. Name the actor who no longer has a "Beloved" attitude towards the Big Apple and will now probably retreat to the "Grand Canyon." Answer: Danny _Glover_ B. What New York mayor promised to crack down on discriminating cabbies in response to Glover's complaints? Answer: Rudy _Giuliani_ C. Give the two-word name for Giuliani's plan that includes sending 100 undercover black officers to hail cabs and penalize cabs that don't stop? Answer: _"Operation Refusal"_ 3. Answer the following about the wonders found inside the Acropolis for 10 points each: A. The Parthenon was a temple crafted in this architectural style. Answer: _Doric_ B. This was the name for the elaborate gateway that led inside the Acropolis Answer: _Propylaea_ C. After the Persians destroyed the acropolis, this ruler had it rebuilt and the Parthenon and Propylaea resulted from that re-building. Answer: _Pericles_ 4. He resigned in 1855 after he was blamed for mismanaging British involvement in the Crimean War. For 10 points apiece: A. Name this British statesman, a campaigner for Free Trade and supporter of Sir Robert Peel in repealing the Corn Laws. Answer: George _Aberdeen_ B. Aberdeen helped to conclude two treaties dealing with USA-Canada boundary disputes. One dealt with the Oregon territory. The other was the Webster-Ashburton treaty which helped to settle the boundaries of what state and what province? Answers: _Maine_ _New Brunswick_ 5. Identify these structures in, around or near the brain 10 each. A. This group of fibers in the midbrain serves to arouse the forebrain when something unusual happens Answer: _Reticular Formation_ B. These are the membranes that surround the spinal cord and brain. Their inflammation contributes to a potentially dangerous namesake condition. Answer: _Meninges_ C. The largest element of the diencephalon, this component of the forebrain serves as an integration point for sensory impulses. Answer: _Thalamus_ 6. At 550 feet high and over 4,000 feet long, this structure impounds a lake named for a 20th Century President and has a capacity of up to 9.7 Megawatts of hydroelectric power. For 10 points apiece, name this Northwestern U.S. dam, the over 1200 mile river on which it sits and the lake it impounds. Answers: _Grand Coulee_ Dam _Columbia_ River _Franklin D. Roosevelt_ Lake 7. All of these monstrous works were written by women. Name the authors 10 points each: A. The Troll Garden, published in 1905, was her first short story collection. Answer: Willa _Cather_ B. Her poem Goblin Market tells the story of Laura who eats forbidden fruit. Answer: Christina _Rossetti_ C. This English author captured the 1993 Booker Prize on the strength of her novel Moon Tiger. Answer: Penelope _Lively_ 8. Identify the following about 1999 Court Cases dealing with crimes from recent years for 10 points per answer. A. This Eugene, Oregon high schooler received a 112 year prison sentence in 1999 for killing and wounding almost 30 people in a May, 1998 shooting. Answer: Kip _Kinkel_ B. In November of 1999 Shawn Berry became the third man to go on trial for the June, 1998 murder of what African American, who was dragged to his death on a Texas country road? Answer: James _Byrd_ Jr. C. In November of 1999, a Pontiac, Michigan jury began deliberations on the fate of this 13 year old who shot Ronnie Greene Jr. outside a convenience store in 1997. For 10 name the suspect or for 5 name the famous Michigan lawyer who is assisting with the defense. Answer: For 10: Nathaniel _Abraham_ For 5 : Geoffrey _Fieger_ 9. Identify the following about political events with "Adrianople" in the name for the points stated. A. 5 each -- The battle of Adrianople in August 378 CE saw what empire's army suffer defeat at the hands of what tribe? Answers: _Rome_ or _Romans_, _Visigoths_ B. 5 each or 20 for all 3 -- The 1829 treaty of the name was a peace signed between what nation and what empire that confirmed the autonomy of what now-disputed region? Answers: _Russia_ _Ottoman_ Empire _Serbia_ 10. There was some talk of awarding the 1912 Nobel prize in physics jointly to two inventors. But because of the animosity of one of the inventors towards the other, neither received the prize that year or any year for that matter. For the points stated: A. For 10 -- The animosity was spawned in the eccentric mind of what Croatian-American physicist who has the unit of flux density named after him? Answer: Nikolai _Tesla_ B. For 5 -- Tesla accused what U.S. inventor of the electric vote recorder of financial misdoing? Answer: Thomas Alva _Edison_ C. For 15 -- What Swede did win the 1912 Nobel for his work with gas accumulators? Answer: Nils _Dalen_ 11. Answer the following about Biblical Josephs for 10 each: A. The feast day of St. Joseph as in the husband of Mary, mother of Jesus, is on what calendar day? You have one week's worth of leeway to get the points. Answer: _March 19_ (accept: March 12 to March 26) B. Joseph, the 11th son of Jacob in the Old Testament, spawned descendants that are not traditionally considered in the "Tribe of Jacob" but rather of what two other tribes? (Name either) Answer: _Manasseh_ and _Ephraim_ C. Joseph of Arimathea had to petition this man to bring Jesus's body down from the cross in order to give it a proper burial. Answer: Pontius _Pilate_ 12. This shortest play of Shakespeare was based on Menaechmi by Plautus. For the points stated: For 10 name this play that begins with the arrest of a Syracusean in Ephesus. Answer: The _Comedy of Errors_ For 5 each give the name of the mother, the father, their same named twins and their same-named slave twins who get separated and reunite for mirth and frolic. Answer: _Aegeon_, _Aemilia_, _Antipholus_, _Dromio_ 13. It grew out of informal meetings of such luminaries as Rene Descartes, Christian Huygens and Blaise Pascal. In 1699, it was given a formal constitution. For 10 points each: A. Name this society. Answer: _Academie des Sciences_ or (French) _Academy of Sciences_ B. What minister to Louis the XIV founded the Academie des Sciences in 1666, one year after he became Controller General of Finance in France? Answer: Jean Baptiste _Colbert_ C. The Academie des Sciences was established 4 years after and may have been modeled on what other society? Answer: _Royal Society of London_ (prompt on partial answer) 14. With a vote of 96-2 in the Senate, she was confirmed as ambassador to New Zealand in November of 1999. For the points stated: A. For 5, name this former Illinois senator. Answer: Carol _Moseley-Braun_ B. For 5, name the Senator from North Carolina whose vendetta to block Moseley-Brauns confirmation was a resounding failure. Answer: Jesse _Helms_ C. For 10, this Republican from Illinois now looks stupid as the only Senator to agree with Jesse Helms on this Senate vote. Answer: Peter _Fitzgerald_ D. For a final 10 still hanging in the balance on the Senate Floor was the fate of Joseph Prueher who is waiting to be confirmed as ambassador to what country? Answer: _China_ 15. Conspiracy theories were high in 1776 when bodyguard Thomas Hicke, was court-martialed and hanged for mutiny, sedition and treachery for his involvement with a plot to kidnap his employer. For 10 points each: A. The plot was to kidnap what military leader? Answer: George _Washington_ B. What then New York governor and New York City mayor were found to be involved in that devious plot. Answer: William _Tryon_, David _Matthews_ 16. They were hot last month but getting a 2nd hit on the charts will be tough. Given a song by a recently hot 1999 music group, name it for 10 or for 5 if you need the hit that they might be remembered for until the year 3000. A. 10 Girl on T.V. 5 Summergirls Answer: _LFO_ or _Lyte Funky Ones_ B. 10 Waiting for Tonight 5 If You Had My Love Answer: Jennifer _Lopez_ C. 10 Bug a Boo 5 Bills, Bills, Bills Answer: _Destinys Child_ 17. Piggs Peak sits in the north while the Komati and Lusutfu Rivers run through the entire country. One of its largest cities, Manzini, lies almost in the exact center of the territory. For 10 points each: A. Name this African nation bordered by South Africa and Mozambique. Answer: _Swaziland_ B. Identify its capital Answer: _Mbabane_ C. Taking the Mbuluzi river from its source in Swaziland to its terminus will find you in a bay that has what other world capital on its shores? Answer: _Maputo_ (capital of Mozambique) 18. Identify these "O" terms from science, 10 each. A. This is when a planet or moon passes across the line of sight to a star. Answer: _Occultation_ B. In a depression, this when a cold front catches up with a warm front and lifts the warm front off of the ground. Answer: _Occluded Front_ C. This is the generalized term for the angle at which the celestial equator intersects the ecliptic. Answer: The _Obliquity_ of the Ecliptic 19. He has dark eyes, rosy cheeks, red lips, a hockey player's haircut and a soft gaze that looks directly at the viewer while a craggy plain and swirling cloudy sky extend behind him. For the points stated: A. For 5 name this young subject, most famous for his colored clothing. Answer The _Blue Boy_ B. For 5 Who painted The Blue Boy? Answer: Thomas _Gainesborough_ B For 10 what does The Blue Boy hold in his right hand?. Answer: A _hat_ (accept equivalents) C. For 10 within 10 what year was The Blue Boy painted? Answer: _1770_ (accept 1760 to 1780) 20. They were 15 family members who over the span of 100 years were most successful in printing, publshing and selling the New Testament and other classics in The Hague, Utrecht and Leiden. For 15 points each: A. Name this family who ruled the Dutch book business from 1587 to 1681 Answer: _Elsevir_ or _Elzevir_ B. Their famous version of the New Testament was printed in what language? Answer: _Greek_ 21. Japan unleashed photographs from their brand new "Subaru" world-class telescope in 1999. A telescope that now features the world's largest single piece mirror designed for cosmic searches. For 10 points each: A. The Subaru telescope stands on what Hawaiian island? Answer: _Mauna Kea_ B. Subaru is the Japanese name for what star cluster? Answer: The _Pleiades_ C. The first photographs taken with the telescope were of what nebula with Messier number M 42? Answer: _Orion Nebula_ 22. Identify the following about the mythical hydra, 5 points apiece plus a bonus 5 for all parts correct: A. The hydra was the offspring of what two monstrous parents? Answers: _Typhon_ and _Echidna_ B. This was the name of the swamp where it resided Answer: _Lerna_ C. These two men successfully killed the Hydra with a mix of brains and brawn. Answer: _Heracles_ or _Hercules_ _Iolaus_ or _Iolaos_