The Mark Discordia Singles Tournament
Seeding Round 1
Question Set 1: 60 tossups
Editing and non-science questions by Matt
Weiner
Science by Anthony de Jesus, the
Washington University Academic Team, and Matt Weiner
1. One of the lesser purposes for introducing this bill was to
facilitate the re-election of Senator David Atchison, while its passage allowed Eli Thayer to grow wealthy from an
interest in the recently founded New England Emigrant Aid Company. Opponents of
both this bill itself and its sponsor, Stephen Douglas, coalesced into the
Republican Party. FTP, name this 1854 law which voided the Missouri Compromise,
allowing for �popular sovereignty� to decide the slavery question in two newly
organized territories.
ANSWER: Kansas-Nebraska Act
2. A companion of
Catullus in the novi poetae, he claimed to be �the Roman Callimachus.�
Although his surviving texts are inconsistent, there is general agreement that
he wrote his poems in four books. His first book is entirely about his
mistress, who also appears as a ghost in book four. Scholars are not certain as
to what real individual is represented under this poet�s name for his mistress,
�Cynthia.� FTP, identify this poet to whom Ezra Pound wrote an �Homage.�
ANSWER: Sextus Propertius
3. Although four of
them have four lobes, the fifth has a doughnut shape in the x y plane and two
lobes along the z axis. Associated with a value of two for the azimuthal
quantum number L, they are encountered in the third electron shell and higher.
FTP, name these orbitals which are generally not filled before the p and s
orbitals of the same shell.
ANSWER: d orbitals
4. Because they add a
connotation of collective well-being, they are stronger than folkways. They are
sometimes defined as norms with formal punishments or rewards attached, and
when they are negative and extreme, they are called taboos. FTP, identify this
concept developed by William Graham Sumner, describing core cultural beliefs
about right and wrong.
ANSWER: mores (MOR-ays) [prompt on taboos before it is mentioned]
5. In 2000, his
biography of Camille Pissarro was published under the title of Tiepolo�s Hound. His first successful
poetry collection was In a Green Night,
while critics usually cite The Dream of
Monkey Mountain as his premier play. The fishermen Philocrete and Achilles
are the central characters of his 1990 epic, Omeros. FTP, name this winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in
Literature, probably the most important author to come from St. Lucia.
ANSWER: Derek Alton Walcott
6. A member of the Tetsus clan, his family was hunted by the competing chieftain Navik the Red, causing him to flee to Nar Shaddaa, where he learned his trade while apprenticed to Goa. His corpse was distilled into a prized liqueur after his death, which occurred shortly after he informed a target that his boss had no time for smugglers who drop shipments too quickly. FTP, name this Rodian bounty hunter who met his end while attempting to kill Han Solo.
ANSWER: Greedo
7.
It�s an archaic word for �to shudder,� as well as a remarkable property that�s
the subject of Goodman�s Paradox. An objects possesses this property if and
only if the object is green before some time T and blue after time T.
Additionally, according to the Encyclodpaedia
Frobozzica, it is the most evil-tempered of all creatures. FTP, identify
this word, the name of the thing which is likely to eat you in the dark in Zork.
ANSWER: grueness
8. During his
apprenticeship to a printer, he supervised the publishing of Fourier�s The New Industrial World and Society.
Marx�s The Poverty of Philosophy was
a mocking response to this man�s System
of Economic Contradictions: or, The Philosophy of Poverty. The last word in
the title of his most famous essay has long been mistranslated in English; a
better rendering would be �profit from landholding.� FTP, name this theorist
who answered �theft� to the title question of his essay �What Is Property?�
ANSWER: Pierre-Joseph
Proudhon
9. The component
passages of this piece include Lentement,
Bourr�e, Rigaudon, Sarabande, and Air. The usual grouping is into three
suites in D, G, and F, respectively. Newspaper accounts of its first
performance say that it was played three times, until 4:30 in the morning. FTP,
name this 1717 work composed for a Thames excursion of George I, by George
Friederic Handel.
ANSWER: the Water Music
10. Memphis�s Grotto
Caf�, owned by Joe, is the scene of Red�s funeral. Ruby La Marr calls the
sherriff on Vernon Tull�s telephone after Tommy is killed. Another death is
that of a man who is hanged for committing a crime at The Old Frenchman�s
Place. However, that man is the innocent Lee Goodwin, due to the weakness of
Horace Benbow and the lies of Temple Drake. FTP, name this novel about the
infamous Popeye, by William Faulkner.
ANSWER: Sanctuary
11. They must be
observed after the amrit and Khandey di Pahul ceremonies, in which
one of them plays an integral part. They became a component of the religion
during the reforms associated with the founding of the Khalsa Panth by Gobind
Singh. Their name is derived from the Punjabi words for a steel bracelet, a comb,
a sword, uncut hair, and shorts. FTP, identify this quintuplet of practices
among Sikhs.
ANSWER: Five K�s [or Kakkars]
12. They are
described as "wide" or "narrow" based on the degree of
change from beginning to end and "closing" or "opening"
based on the manner of the change. The �falling� and �rising� kinds are
uncommon in English, where most are "centering," meaning that they
move towards schwa. FTP, give this word, describing a multiform sound composed
of two or more vowel sounds.
ANSWER: diphthongs
13. In prison under
treason charges, Timoci Silatolu and Metusala Mua of this country�s
Conservative Alliance Party were not permitted to take their seats in this
country�s newly elected Parliament. President Josefa Iloilo remained in office,
while the Labor Party of Mahendra Chaudhry was returned to a legislative
majority. FTP, name this country, which, in summer 2001 elections, saw
democracy restored for the first time since a May 2000 coup led by George
Speight.
ANSWER: Republic of Fiji
14. This structure is an improvement on direct addressing because it uses an array proportional to the number of keys used rather than the total number possible. Keys for the elements are computed with an internal function and serve as the index into the array. Collisions of the key values can be resolved by chaining or by open addressing.� FTP, name this data structure with expected constant-time search.
ANSWER: hash table
15. One team,
composed of two right-handers, saw both members forced to take lefty shots.
Further cramping the players� style were the 110-degree temperatures and
25-mile-per-hour crosswinds. The winners split a 1.2 million dollar prize after
shooting par on a playoff hole. FTP, name this July event in which Karie Webb
and David Duval lost to Annika S�renstam and Tiger Woods in a playoff.
ANSWER: 2001 Lincoln
Financial Group Battle at Bighorn
16. Alfred Kempe�s
1890 proof turned out to be defective, but the Kempe chains were used in later
attempts that turned it into a graph theory problem, where regions became
vertices and shared boundaries became edges. The final proof, in 1976, was the
first ever to require a computer. FTP, name this theorem which stumped
mathematicians for years but had long been accepted by mapmakers.
ANSWER: four color theorem
17. She played Dr.
Wickings in the 1985 post-apocalyptic teen biker movie City Limits. The appearance of that film on Mystery Science Theater 3000 in June 1992 led to an infatuated Crow
composing a song which called Mannequin �a
really good movie� due to her performance as Emmy. Other film credits include
gym teacher Miss Honeywell in Porky�s,
Lieutenant Valeris in Star Trek VI,
and Gracie Law in Big Trouble in Little
China. FTP, name this actress, now on television as Samantha Jones in Sex and the City.
ANSWER: Kim Cattrall
18. His ten extant
paintings include The Meeting of Saint
Erasmus and Saint Maurice, the Stuppach
Madonna, and The Temptation of Saint
Anthony. His masterpiece in nine panels was set up at a hospital for plague
sufferers, who were to take comfort in the depiction of wounds being healed.
FTP, name this German artist, a contemporary and philosophical opposite to
D�rer, the creator of the Isenheim Altarpiece.
ANSWER: Matthias Gr�newald [accept Matthias Gothardt; accept Matthias Neithardt]
19. He led a military
unit which spent six years stealing livestock from farmers in Shiliudaogou
before scoring defeats of the Japanese at Mount Paiktu, Liudaogou, and
Hyesanjin. During his subsequent political career, he propounded the ideology
of juche, an egoistic concept of
communism, and he spent more time as the political leader of one country than
any other twentieth-century individual. FTP, name this man who, from the
country�s founding to his 1994 death, ruled North Korea.
ANSWER: Kim Il Sung [prompt on partial
answer; accept Kim Sun Ju;
accept Kim Il Sun]
20. Tradition
dictates that the Israelites overslept on the day commemorated by this holiday,
so some now stay up through the night as it begins to avoid repeating the
mistake. Customary celebrations include decorating the home and temple with
greenery and eating dairy-based dishes. FTP, name this Jewish holiday with a
name meaning �Feast of Weeks,� which commemorates the receipt of the Ten
Commandments at Mount Sinai.
ANSWER: Shavuot [or Shavuos; or Shabuot]
21. Predictions due
to this theory were substantiated in 1983 by Simon van der Meer and Carlo
Rubbia, when they observed W and Z particles. Using a mathematical technique
known as gauge symmetry, Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam independently
developed this theory in 1967 and 1968. FTP, name this first step towards a
Grand Unification Theory, which reduced the number of fundamental forces from
four to three.
ANSWER: electroweak theory [accept electroweak interaction, etc.]
22. The bottom 1200
meters of this lake contain no living organisms and are estimated to be full of
�fossil water� in place for up to twenty million years. The Lukuga is the only
river that flows out of this lake, the exclusive home of 176 species of fish.
It has the longest maximum distance between two coastal points of any lake in
the world. Cities on its shore include Mpulungu, Kigoma, Kalemie, and
Bujumbura. FTP, name this lake, which borders Burundi, Zambia, the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, and Tanzania.
ANSWER: Lake Tanganyika
23. Their cosmology
envisioned a world divided into four quadrants, with the northeast the area of
riches and the west the abode of the underworld. A wise child-god named Tages
revealed their religious doctrine to them near the Marta River. Other gods included
Fufluns, Turan, and Turms.Their sky-god and chief of the pantheon, Tinia, is
said by some to be more influential than Zeus in shaping the Roman concept of
Jupiter. FTP, name the people with such beliefs, the pre-Roman inhabitants of
Italy.
ANSWER: Etruscans [or Rasenna]
24. As a result of an
attempt to sneak into Sleary�s circus, the clown Jupe and Jupe�s daughter Sissy
move in with the central family of this novel. The clerk Bitzer gives false
evidence against a man accused of robbing a bank owned by Josiah Bounderby; Bounderby
eventually enters an unhappy marriage with Louisa, whose brother Tom, not
Steven Blackpool, is the bank robber. FTP, name this Dickens novel which
attacks reliance on material fact as exemplified by the philosophy of Thomas
Gradgrind.
ANSWER: Hard
Times
25. In the mid-1970s,
this river was the object of a program to restock the salmon which had been
forced out by pollution in the nineteenth century. Its sources are the small
streams which gather and flow through Lake Francis, and its tributaries include
the Wells, Millers, and Farmington. Cities upon its banks include Brattleboro,
Holyoke, Bloomfield, and Northampton. FTP, name this river which forms the
boundary between Vermont and New Hampshire but is named for another New England
state.
ANSWER: Connecticut River
26. Characters in this novel include Eva, who cut off her leg for insurance money and sets her drug-addicted son Plum on fire; Nel Wright, who begins to question her mother Helene after a trip to New Orleans; and Shadrack, who proclaims January 3 �National Suicide Day.� Taking place in the area of Medallion, Ohio called �The Bottom,� it climaxes with the title character accidentally killing Chicken Little. FTP, name this novel by Toni Morrison.
ANSWER: Sula
27. The executioner
Abhorson fails in an attempt to substitute Barnardine for a condemned man,
finding a third victim instead. Pompey Bum and Master Froth are accused of
having an affair with Constable Elbow�s wife, Claudio is ordered to die for
impregnating the unwed Juliet, and Mistress Overdone frets the loss of her
brothel as Vienna is forcibly moralized. FTP, identify this Shakespeare play in
which Duke Vincentio resumes the throne after posing as Friar Lodowick and
orders Angelo to love Mariana.
ANSWER: �Measure for Measure�
28. This process
begins with an impulse from the SA node which causes a p-wave. The impulse then
flows through the AV node and then the bundle of his. The next contraction is
represented by the QRS complex, and the T wave shows the re-polarization of the
muscle. FTP, identify this common bodily action, graphically illustrated by an
ECG.
ANSWER: heartbeat [accept equivalents]
29. Except for the
absence of downward curve in the horizontal arms, it is identical to the tiet.
An ideogram derived from the shape of part of a sandal, it is commonly held in
front of the nose by figures in art, as it was believed to be the vessel for
the �breath of life.� FTP, identify this hieroglyph for �life,� now a symbol of
Egypt.
ANSWER: ankh [accept crux ansata; accept ansate cross; prompt on Egyptian cross]
30. While he was
imprisoned under the orders of Grand Vizier H�j� M�rz� Aq�s�, his followers
organized the Conference of Badasht at which his successor was proclaimed.
Executed at Tabr�z in 1850, his ashes are buried in a temple on Mount Carmel.
Taking a title which means �the gate,� he proclaimed that he was ninth in the
line of ten �Great Manifestations of God.� FTP, name this man who, along with
the tenth Manifestation, Baha�u�llah, is considered the founder of Bahai.
ANSWER: Bab [or Siyyid Ali-Muhammad]
31. His Still Life With Old Shoe was an artistic
response to Picasso�s Guernica.
Attempting to filter a primitive conception of nature through modern intelligence,
he painted The Farm and The Tilled Field, and he created six
aquatints to accompany William Butler Yeats�s poetry collection The Wind Among the Reeds.� FTP, name this Spanish surrealist painter of
Red Sun, Harlequin's Carnival, and Dutch
Interior.
ANSWER: Joan Mir�
32. His wife Rohe
left him to become ruler of Uranga-o-Te-Ra. His adventures included capturing
all of the winds except Fisaga and attempting to become immortal by crawling
through Hina�s body, which resulted in his death when he was crushed by Hina�s
genitals. Earlier, he had slowed the progress of the sun to please Hina. While
fishing, he pulled a porch from the bottom of the sea, creating the north
island of New Zealand. FTP, name this Polynesian trickster-god, the namesake of
a Hawaiian island.
ANSWER: Maui [or Maaui-tikitiki; or Maui-Potiki;
or Koriro; or Rongo]
33. In 1831, this
estate was purchased by James T. Barclay, who failed in an attempt to turn it
into a silk farm. Its eponymous main building has no single main entrance, with
fully styled fronts on both the east and west sides. It has thirteen skylights;
one is above a room of uncertain purpose, said by some to have hidden a
billiards table. Its name comes from an Italian word used by Palladio,
describing the hill on which the Villa Rotunda is located. FTP, name this
Charlottesville estate of Thomas Jefferson.
ANSWER: Monticello
34. To make ends meet
during the Depression, he sold the trademark diamond cap on his front tooth.
The leader of such bands as the Levee Serenaders and the Steamboat Four, his
records included �King Porter Stomp� and �Animule Dance.� FTP, name this
pianist who claimed to have personally invented jazz in a whorehouse in 1901,
the leader of the Red Hot Peppers and the holder of a gustatory nickname.
ANSWER: Jelly Roll Morton [or Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe; or Ferdinand Joseph La Mothe]
35. Acquaintances of
this Columbia City, Wisconsin native include Mrs. Hart, Mr. Ames, and Mrs.
Vance, and she variously assumes the names of Wheeler and Madenda. After
briefly working at a shoe factory, a performance at the Elk Lodge launches her
career as an actress. She pretended to be married to Charlie Druet, then became
the lover of George Hurstwood. FTP, name this title character, whose real name
is Caroline Meeber, in a novel by Theodore Dreiser.
ANSWER: Sister
Carrie [accept Caroline
Meeber before it is mentioned; accept Caroline Meeber before it is mentioned]
36. The holder of a
master�s degree in engineering from the University of Southern California, he
is currently the spokesperson for the organization Recovery of the Grizzly
Bear, and he has written the autobiography It
Doesn�t Take A Hero. After several decorations for service in Vietnam, he
was the deputy commander in the Grenada action, and from 1988 to 1991, he led
U.S. Central Command. FTP, name the general who in that role oversaw the Desert
Shield and Desert Storm operations.
ANSWER: H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
37. Named for its
sponsoring Minnesota representative, it was passed over the veto of Woodrow
Wilson. Repealed in 1932, it defined its subject as containing one-half of a
percent of a certain organic compound by volume, and allowed the continuance of
religious and medicinal uses. FTP, name this 1919 law which acted upon the
Eighteenth Amendment by prohibiting the transport, manufacture, and sale of
alcohol.
ANSWER: Volsted Act
38. It includes both
a wildly popular bass-baritone aria, �Non piu andrai,� and an equally popular
mezzo-soprano piece, �Vo che sapete,� the latter sung by Cherubino. Marcellina
and Bartolo are found to be the parents of the title character, the beloved of
Susanna. FTP, name this opera in which Count Almaviva fails to stop the title
event, adapted from a Beaumarchais play by da Ponte and Mozart, the sequel to The Barber of Seville.
ANSWER: The Marriage
of Figaro [or Le Nozze di Figaro]
39. Examples include
benzocaine, which is found in some sunburn lotions, the explosive
nitroglycerin, and aspirin. When hydrolyzed in the presence of a base, the
reaction is known as saponification. The naming convention for these is to
first use the group from which the alcohol is derived and then the group from
which the acid is derived. FTP, name this class of organic compounds that
includes the diuretic ethyl nitrate and the banana flavor pentyl acetate.
ANSWER:
esters
40. The losing side in this battle recorded it as a two-day fight, while the winners claimed that it lasted for seven. The heavily burdened horses moved slowly over the terrain, leading to a rare victory for infantry over a previously invincible cavalry. The battle was concluded with the capture and execution of the governor of Spain, Abd-er Rahman, which sparked a massive retreat. FTP, identify this 732 CE battle at which a Muslim army was defeated by Charles Martel.
ANSWER: Battle of Tours [or Battle of Poitiers]
41. He turned his
acceptance of a bloodless surrender into the title of �Hero of Tampico.� He
financed his dictatorship by selling shares in a nonexistent mine to foreign
investors. He was once captured while napping in an unguarded tent during an
important battle. He lost his right leg in the �ludicrous skirmish� known as
the Pastry War. He deceived James K. Polk into sending an American fleet to end
his exile in Cuba. FTP, name this hilarious figure of history, the winner at
the Alamo and loser at Buena Vista.
ANSWER: Antonio L�pez
de Santa Anna
42. He served as his
country�s ambassador to Canada and spent four years leading the Committee on
the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. In another role, he attempted to mediate
crises in Cyprus and Iran, but it was his position on the Vietnam-China war
which led to a veto of his bid for a third term. He became president of Austria
in 1986, just as revelations about his involvement in the Nazi army came to
light. FTP, name this secretary-general of the United Nations from 1971 to
1981.
ANSWER: Kurt Waldheim
43. A resident of the valley of Sorek, she was paid 1100 pieces of silver by each lord of her people for her deed. Three lies were told to her, involving seven undried withs, unused ropes, and the construction of a web. FTP, name this Philistine woman who, in the Book of Judges, was answered truthfully the fourth time on the subject of a lover�s strength and had soldiers cut the hair of Samson.
ANSWER: Delilah
44. In September
2001, Captain Christopher Ramsey, Lieutenant Colonel Odin F. Leberman, and
Colonel James E. Schleining were found to have been derelict in duty as a
result of actions at a New River, North Carolina facility which trains Marines
in the use of this item. Five other officers were cleared of doctoring reports
to exaggerate the performance of this vehicle. FTP, name this tilorotor
aircraft which has crashed several times, endangering plans for it to become
the standard aircraft of the U.S. military.
ANSWER: V-22 Osprey
45. His first name
means �Saturday,� following the Akan tradition of naming children for the day
of birth. With George Padmore, he drafted a militantly anti-colonialist
declaration at the Fifth Pan-African Congress. He was selected as Prime Minister
under the Constitution of the Coussey Commission five years before total
independence; by 1964, he had declared himself President for Life and banned
all parties except his own Convention People�s Party. FTP, identify this first
prime minister of Ghana.
ANSWER: Kwame Nkrumah
46. The first body to
bear this name developed from the druzhina
council of Kiev and was composed of boyars. A later incarnation, created by the
October Manifesto, was dominated by the Trudovik and Kadets parties and
selected Sergei Muromstev as speaker. It was selected in four increasingly
unfree elections until the Bolshevik Revolution, then restored under the
current constitution. FTP, identify this lower house of the Russian parliament.
ANSWER: Duma
47. Anaxagoras was
the first Greek mathematician known to try to solve it, but it became a popular
enough problem that Aristophanes referenced it in The Birds. Although several good approximate solutions have been
discovered, Carl von Lindemann proved in 1880 that pi is transcendental, and
thus the impossibility of solving this problem with a ruler and compass. FTP,
name this ancient problem of constructing two certain shapes with identical
areas.
ANSWER: squaring the circle [or obvious
equivalents]
48. Twenty-three
years after the first one was removed in 1872, the Supreme Court ruled that the
third, established by the Wilson-Gorham Act, was unconstitutional in Pollock v. Farmers� Loan and Trust.
Reinstating it became a chief goal of the Progressives, and it was made legal
in 1913. FTP, identify this subject of the Sixteenth Amendment.
ANSWER: federal income tax
49. Ribot�s Law deals
with one form of this disorder. The diencephalic type is also known as
Korsakoff�s syndrome and can be caused by alcoholism. Its three major types are
psychogenic, which can be caused by emotional trauma; anterograde, which
affects events before some physical incident; and retrograde, which involves
events after the incident. FTP, identify this disorder associated with an
inability to remember facts or events.
ANSWER: amnesia
50. He became the Minister of Health in 1939 and President of the Senate six years later. After three failed attempts, he reached the national presidency on the National Unity Coalition ticket. His government seized vast amounts of private property and he added military officers to his cabinet to control a trucking strike, but his inability to prevent rampant inflation was the breaking point for the 1973 coup which caused his death. FTP, name this Chilean President who was replaced by Augusto Pinochet.
ANSWER: Salvador Allende Gossens
51. Eeple Jote Hyewze, Daniel Hearing, Peter Crew, and Jonathan
Dyce are some of his pen names. His children�s verse books include What Is the Truth? and Under the North Star, and his critical
career is marked by several reviews of Dr. Seuss works. His own� books include Tales of the Early World and the poetry collections Lupercal and The Hawk in the Rain. FTP, name this late English author, author of
�The Iron Man� and onetime husband of Sylvia Plath.
ANSWER: Edward James �Ted� Hughes
52. In this work, the
coming of night is miraculously delayed so that revenge may be taken after a
massacre. Baligant is killed in a duel and the people of Saragossa are forcibly
Christianized, but Bramimonde is expected to convert voluntarily. Pinabel and
Thierry go from legal arguments to a duel in the treason trial of Ganelon, who
betrayed Charlemagne�s rearguard to the court of Marsile. FTP, name this work
in which the title character dies blowing his horn at Roncesvalles, a late
eleventh-century French epic.
ANSWER: The Song
of Roland [or Le Chanson de Roland]
53. He left his
birthland with a silver goblet full of native soil, never to return, an
experience which inspired the �Revolutionary Etude.� Joseph Elsner expressed
disappointment that he never wrote an opera set in his native country, but his
works did include
�Barcarolle,� and �Sonata in B Minor.� Twenty-four of his twenty-six Preludes
were written in Mallorca during a winter with George Sand. FTP, identify this
Polish-French pianist and composer.
ANSWER: Frederic
Francois Chopin
54. The A variety of
this substance is more compact and exhibits a large tilt with respect to the
axis. The Z type is left handed instead of right and shows a zig-zag
appearance. In addition to the normal B type, there is a triple helix type,
which only occurs when one strand contains purines and another, pyramidines
which allows the third strand to join.�
FTP, identify this substance containing the nitrogenous bases adenine,
guanine, cytosine, and thymine.
ANSWER: deoxyribonucleic acid
55. Vozrozhdeniya island, located within it, hosts waste from Soviet biological warfare research. Found to the southeast of the Ustyurt Plateau and northeast of the Kyzyl Kum desert, it is fed by the Syr Darya and Amu Darya rivers. Over the last fifty years, its fish have been killed and its surface area has been cut in half by its use to irrigate cotton farms. FTP, name this sea found on the shores of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
ANSWER: Aral Sea
56.
Its predictions are demonstrated by graphs with two peaks, where the wavelength
of one peak doesn�t change, while the other peak varies with the angle. The
non-changing peak corresponds to the tightly-bound inner electrons of the
target atoms, while the variable peak is a function of the scattering angle.
FTP, name this effect, in which radiation scatters from loosely bound, nearly
free electrons.
ANSWER: Compton effect or Compton scattering
57. As chief of
government, he negotiated a peaceful settlement to a dispute with Spain over
the Falklands and instituted a lottery to reduce the national debt. Serving in
Parliament as representative of the rotten borough of Banbury, he took control
of the coalition government formed with James Fox by engineering the defeat of
the East India bill supported by Fox�s Whigs. FTP, name this British prime
minister who oversaw passage of the Intolerable Acts and remained in office
during the American Revolution.
ANSWER: Lord
Frederick, Eighth Baron North
58. His sword fought
giants without any prompting from the wielder; he gave the sword to his servant
Skirnir as compensation for winning him Gerda. His possessions included
Gullinbrusti, a glowing, flying boar; and Skidbladnir, a boat which could be
folded to pocket size. He rules over the light elves in the world of Aflheim.
FTP, name this Norse Vanir god of sunshine, rain, harvests, and fertility.
ANSWER: Freyr [or Frey; do not accept any other variations]
59. His dislike of his father, a lazy debtor, causes him to be
authoritative to the point of frightening his own wife and children. He even
assists when the Oracle of the Hills and Caves orders his adopted son Ikemefuna
to be killed. His forcefulness is his downfall when he kills a messenger from
the District Commissioner. FTP, name this resident of Umuofia, the protagonist
of Chinua Achebe�s Things Fall Apart.
ANSWER: Okonkwo
60. Their demands
included greater leeway for individual preachers, communion for the laity,
poverty of the clergy and Church divestiture of land, and legal retributions
for prostitution and other sins. A crusade was called against them by Martin V;
leaders in their defense included Procopius the Great and Count �i�ka, whose
Taborite faction was responsible for a 1419 defenestration. FTP, name this group
which issued the �Four Articles of Prague,� the followers of a Bohemian
religious dissident.
ANSWER: Hussites [prompt on Taborites before �Taborite� is
mentioned]