Vancouver Estival Trivia Open 2003 Packet by Maximal Entropy: Rogue Squad (Dean, Shaun, Joanne, Paulman of SFU) 1. Consisting of the Society Island chain, the Tuamotu Archipelago, the Gambier Islands and the Marquesas Islands this colony has a population of 220, 000 on its 118 islands and atolls covering 1,359 square miles of land and one million square miles of ocean. In 1966 Mururoa atoll was a site for nuclear bomb testing. FTP Name this large French Colony with its capital at Papeete on the island of Tahiti. Answer: _French Polynesia _ 2. Based on a Goethe poem, and written in the style of Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel, it begins with muted violins harmonizing against flutter-tongued flutes. Its secondary theme features a glockenspiel, violins suggesting a flood, and a bassoon representing the broom. FTP, identify this piece by Dukas, central to Disney's Fantasia. Answer: The _Sorcerer's Apprentice_ (L'Apprenti Sorcier) 3. Born in England in 1929, he received his legal education from Oxford and the Sorbonne and entered the Canadian House of Commons in 1962. As minister of finance, his second budget was voted down in 1974, and resigned shortly after being reappointed following Trudeau's win in the resulting election. Years later he returned to succeed Trudeau as Liberal leader and became, FTP, what short lived Prime Minister of 1984? Answer: John _Turner_ 4. It can be accurately determined using quantized Hall resistance and gives correction terms for the gyromagnetic ratio for electron spin. Introduced by Sommerfeld, Leon Lederman once said that holding a sign with the inverse of this value on a busy city street corner while in distress would get you aid from a physicist. Equal to the square of the charge of an electron over h bar c this is, FTP what dimensionless quantity, the electromagnetic coupling constant, thats approximatly equal to 1/137? Answer: _Fine structure_ constant (prompt on alpha) 5. This novelist, born in Burlington New Jersey in 1789 studied at Yale College and entered the American Navy at age 18. His three years in the navy gave him a knowledge of sea characters which he used in his novels, among them The Spy, The Pioneers, The Prairie and The Water Witch. He also inaugurated the "Leather Stalking Tales" and served as consul for the US in Lyon France. FTP Name this author who produced more than 30 novels up to his death in 1851, including The Last of the Mohicans. Answer James Fenimore _Cooper_ 6. Originally named what its capital is called today, its leader was elected to his current office in 1997 following a military takeover. Two years later, a rebel group was formed which by June 2003 controlled two thirds of this country, leading to an agreement to change leadership. FTP, identify this country whose current leader, Charles Taylor is expected to leave for Nigeria after the arrival of US peacekeepers. Answer: _Liberia_ 7. He was sent to Northridge Military Academy for setting his sister's treehouse on fire, and he was thrown out of there for pinging a classmate on the head with a tire. Val Kilmer convinced him to enter Julliard's drama program, but he quit early to pursue stage productions, and then a movie career. In an episode of SNL, he pretended to audition for Star Wars. FTP, identify this actor, winner of a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for The Usual Suspects, and a Best Actor Oscar for American Beauty. Answer: Kevin _Spacy_ (accept _Fowler_) 8. He was a prominent Bolshevik activist who came to Lenin's attention because of his involvement in a bank robbery in Tiflis in 1907. He contributed to the Russian Revolution of 1917. He ruled with an iron fist and was responsible for the Great Purges and the Five Year Plans. FTP Name this leader who initiated the first Five Year Plans in Russia in 1929. Josef _Stalin_ 9. The Ricci one of these controls the growth rate of the volume of metric balls in a manifold. General relativity describes the relationship between the stress energy and gravitational ones of these. Having wide application to the physical sciences, they can be expressed using covariant or contravariant indices. FTP, identify these mathematical objects, most simply described as the generalization of scalars, vectors and matrices? Answer: _Tensor_ 10. It was Chief Justice John Marshall's decision that he couldn't issue one of these to William Marbury that established judicial review in the United States. Only issued when no other remedies are available, it is not a writ of right and cannot be issued against the Crown. Latin for "we command" this is, FTP, what order from a superior court to a public official, body or lower court to perform a specified duty? Answer: Writ of _Mandamus_, accept Writ of _Mandate_ 11. She won a Gemini for her work on Lantern Hill. Her roles include a jaded cashier who switches Aspirin for Extascy pills, a journalist who befriends a "beastly" serial killer, and a Lucy Maud Montgomery heroine. As an activist with the Canadian Peace Alliance, she had two teeth knocked out (by Toronto police) at a political rally. FTP Name this Canadian actress whose breakout performance was in Atom Egoyan's 1997 movie "the Sweet Hereafter". Answer: Sarah _Polley_ 12. Host of the 1982 Commonwealth Games and Expo '88, this city is 25km upstream from the mouth of its namesake river. Originally serving as a penal colony for convicts who reoffended after being banished to Australia, free settlers wern't allowed to settle there until the colony was closed in 1839. Today its footy team is the Lions and its rugby team is the Broncos. The third largest city in Australia, this is FTP, what capital of Queensland? Answer: _Brisbane_ 13. The creation myths of this culture tell of the trickster Raven who cajoles man out of his hiding place in a clam shell. Another myth has Raven using his cunning to disguise himself and steal the Sun, Moon, and Stars from the House of the Sky Chief to give to this group of people. The late Bill Reid is a world-renowned carver and artist from this First Nations group. FTP, name this indigenous group of Canada whose name for the Queen Charlotte Islands can be translated into "Islands of the People". Answer: _Haida_ 14. In 2000, HavenCo, a web hosting company was set up in this state, which has no corporate reporting or registration requirements, and no internet regulation. Once serving as a military site during World War II, it is a man made island. Located 6 miles east of Britain this is, FTP what site recognised to be a principality after a British couple hoisted their flag and declared it so in 1967? Answer: Principality of _Sealand_ 15. He was an avid backgammon player during his college days and discovered surreal numbers while analysing games of Go. In 1965 he showed that the symmetry group of the Leech lattice was a previously undiscovered finite simple group, with previously unknown groups as subgroups. With his career kickstarted, he turned to a field pioneered by von Neumann in the 1940s. FTP, identify this mathematician who effectively opened the field of cellular automata with his Game of Life. Answer: John _Conway_ 16. Despite severe visual impairment stemming from birth, she graduated from the University of Toronto in 1955 with an honours degree in English. She worked teaching handicapped children until 1962, when her first book "Mine for Keeps" was published. She has written over thirty novels, many with the theme of dealing with a handicap. FTP, name this Canadian author who entitled her first autobiography "Little by Little". Answer: _Jean Little_, accept _Little_ before mentioned 17. There is considerable debate as to whether this type of good is just very rare or doesn't exist at all. It is a special case of an inferior good where the income effect triggered by change in price must overwealm the substitution effect. The case of Irish potatoes is often forwarded as an example, where an increase in potato price lowered disposable income that consumers have for more desirable food, resulting in an increase in potato consumption. FTP, identify this paradoxical set of goods that violate the law of demand. Answer: _Giffen_ good 18. Quadratic probing is a technique used to avoid collisions in these data structures. They are assocative arrays where keys are computed using a namesake function, which serve as an array index. Using array sizes related to the number of keys used, rather than their possible range, this is FTP what data structure with order one insertion, deletion and searching? Answer: _Hash table_ 19. Billions of them are freely available, and the vast majority of them can be found in one country where most people have at least one. Those who use them tend to be blamed in cartoons, and the value of one tends to vary on a daily basis, often based on statements from an organization in Ottawa. FTP, identify this national unit of legal tender, currently worth about 73 american cents. Answer: _Canadian dollar_ 20. The protagonist of this tale is a wrestler, farmer and has three wives. He is highly regarded in the Igbo (E'BO) tribe, whose struggle and transformation under British colonialism at the turn of the 19th century is a major theme of this work. Taking its name from a poem by Yeats, this is, FTP, what novel about Okonkwo, the first by Chinua Achebe? Answer: _Things fall apart_ 21. This alliance isolated France and by the terms of the Treaty of Frankfurt, which ended the Franco-Prussian War, Otto von Bismarck wanted to ensure that France will be in no position to undertake an offensive against Germany. In order to achieve this he created a union consisting of a vague declaration of friendship expressed by the Hohenzollern, Habsburg and Romanov Emperors of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia which Bismarck brought together in 1872-3. This marked the precursor to the Triple Alliance. FTP Name this alliance that made it clear that Austria-Hungary and Russia did not regard Germany as an international criminal threat. Answer: _Dreikaiserbund_, or _League of the Three Emperors_, accept variations. 22. This war was fought over the Russian efforts to protect the Orthodox Christians within the Ottoman Empire and a dispute with France over Holy Places in Palestine. During the war the Russians occupied the Danubian Peninsula, alarming Austria. It started when a Russian squadron destroyed a Turkish naval force in the Black Sea in November of 1853. FTP Name this the first major war in Europe since the fall of Napoleon, which lasted from 1854-56. Answer: _Crimean_ War Bonii 1. Name the composer 30-20-10-5 [30]: A French composer of opera, he studied at the Paris Conservatory and won the Prix de Rome. Some of his early operas include; The Pearl Fishers, and the Fair maid of Perth. [20]: Some of his other compositions appear in concert such as Patrie and two suites for orchestra entitled L'Arl�ienne. [10]: His most famous opera was Carmen. Answer: Georges _Bizet_ 2. Given a recent event, identify the Canadian federal cabinet minister involved, FTPE [10] In July 2003, he signed your congenial question writer's certificate of Canadian Citizenship. Answer: Denis _Coderre_ [10] One of two ministers to support John Manley's bid for higher office, he unveiled new draft marriage legislation last week. Answer: Martin _Cauchon_ [10]. His ministry is currently attempting to determine the circumstances surrounding the death of Montreal based photojournalist Zahra Kazemi. Answer: Bill _Graham_ 3. Identify these early Greek mathematicians, FTPE [10]. He wrote the Arithmetica, a work on the solutions of algebraic equations. It is in the margain of that book that Fermat famously scribbled his claim to have had a proof of his last theorem. Answer: _Diophantus_ of Alexandria [10]. Often called 'The Great Geometer', his book _Conics_ introduced the terms today used to identify conic sections. Answer: _Apolonius_ of Perga [10]. Widely considered to be the first female mathematician, she wrote commentaries on the Aritmetica and Conics in her native Alexandria. Answer: _Hypatia_ of Alexandria 4. Name the philosopher 30-20-10 [30]: He introduced the concept of Natura naturans, the active power of nature which is God distinguished from the creatures of nature, natura naturata. [20]: Despising the original teachings of Descartes and Cartesianism he moved to an idea of one substance (nature) and that nothing can be created from nothing. [10]: His philosophy was introduced in 1660, and he wrote several books during the Radical Enlightenment including: Ethics, Tractatus Theologico Politicus, and Opera Posthuma. Answer: Benedict de _Spinoza _ 5. Given the mountain, identify the country you could find it in, FSNOPE [5] Mt Logan Answer: _Canada_ [5] Mt Fuji Answer: _Japan_ [10] Mt Kosciusco Answer: _Australia_ [10] Ben Nevis Answer: Great _Britain_ or _United Kingdom_ or _Scotland_, but not _England_ etc 6. Name the Canadian Author from clues on a 30-20-10 basis [30] Her first collection of stories, Dance of the Happy Shades, was published in 1968, and won that year?s Governor General?s Award, Canada?s highest literary prize. [20] In 1980 she was named Writer-in-residence at University of British Columbia and University of Queensland. [10] Two other of her short story collections have also won Governor General?s Literary Awards, Who Do You Think You Are? (titled Beggar Maid in American editions), and The Progress of Love which also won the Marian Engel Prize. Answer: _Alice_Munro_ 7. Name the Island FTPE [10]: This island forming part of the Ryukyu Islands housed a US airbase since World War II. Answer: _Okinawa_ [10]: This island in Hong Kong houses the airport, Po Lin Monastery and the future site of Hong Kong Disneyland. Answer: _Lantau Island_ [10]: This island home to Frobisher Bay is the largest in Canada. Answer: _Baffin Island_ 8. Assign formal oxidation numbers to the specified atoms in the following compounds, according to convention FTPE. [10]. The Cl atom in KClO3 _+5_ [10]. The Na atom in Na3PO4 _+1_ [10]. The O atom in K2Cr2O7 _-2_ 9. Insert Multimedia Rope Bonus Here. Skip if no rope available 10. FSNOP, identify these colleges of Cambridge University [5]. The most famous of Cambridge Colleges, it was founded by Henry VIII. Notable alumni include Isaac Newton, Lord Byron and Earl Grey. Answer: _Trinity_ College [10]. Founded in 1960, it serves as a national memorial to a former statesman. As per its namesake's vision, 70% of members are scientists, mathematicians or engineers. Answer: _Churchill_ College [15]. Sharing its name with a London street, it was founded in 1800. This college's greatest gift to humanity is unquestionably John Cleese. Answer: _Downing_ College 11. Name the leader from clues. 30-20-10-5 [30]: He was a British scholar, soldier, author, and archeologist born in Wales who visited castles of the Crusades in Palestine in the early 1900s while he was working on his honours thesis. [20]: He learned Arabic and took a liking to the Arabian people, and worked as a British intelligence officer in Egypt at the outbreak of World War I. [10]: In 1916 he was sent to help Arab leader Faisal (who later became king of Iraq) in his revolt against the Turks and trained an army suitable to desert warfare on camels. He drove Turkish garrisons from Arabian cities and cut back their line of communication by destroying railroads and bridges. [5]: After the war he lived quietly as a mechanic and died in a motorcycle crash in 1935. His life story was told in 1963's Best Picture Oscar winning film. Answer: Thomas Edward _Lawrence _ (accept _Lawrence of Arabia_) 12. Identify the Popular Canadian Artist and Song from Lyrics on 5 points for Artist, 5 points for song basis [5/5]. You're happy you're in love/ you need someone to hate/ An ordinary girl an ordinary waist/ but ordinary's just not good enough today Artist:_Our Lady Peace_ Song:_Superman's Dead_ [5/5]. Isn't it beautiful to see two people so much in love?/ Barenaked as two virgins hand in hand and hand and hand in glove./ Now that I'm far away it doesn't seem to me to be such a pain./ To have you hanging off my ankle like some kind of ball and chain. Artist: _Barenaked Ladies_ Song: _Be My Yoko Ono_ [5/5]. And these memories lose their meaning/ When I think of love as something new/ Though I know I'll never lose affection/ For people and things that went before/ Artist:_Chantal Kreviazuk_(Kreh-VEE-ah-Zuk) Song: _IN MY LIFE_ 13. In honour of the 11th edition of the mutilation of the English language that Webster's calls a dictionary, identify these new word additions, FTPE [10]. Defined as a dead end, low paying job, this word is based on the name of an associated corporation. Answer: _McJob_ [10]. Simply defined as genetically modified food, its name is taken from a 19th century work of science fiction. Answer: _Frankenfood_ [10]. This two word phrase commonly refers to US paper money. Answer: _Dead Presidents_ 14. Things dont have a habit of staying constant, especially if they're names of African cities. Given a former name of a capital city, identify the name of that city today, F15P, or for 5 if you need the country its in. [15] Leopoldville [5] Democratic Republic of the Congo Answer: _Kinshasa_ [15] Salisbury [5] Zimbabwe Answer: _Harare_ 15. Identify these Graham Greene novels, FTPE [10] Exploring corruption and atonement, this novel follows a priest who escaped attempts by a mexican state to eradicate his church. Answer: _The Power and the Glory_ [10] Clearly inspiring the Tailor of Panama, this novel's protagonist is a vacuum cleaner salesman recruited by MI6. Answer: _Our Man in Havana_ [10] This story, about murder, racketeering and mystery in post World War II Vienna became a motion picture starring Orsen Welles and Joseph Cotton. Answer: _The Third Man_ 16. Answer these questions about recent happenings concerning the US Supreme Court, FSNOPE [10] In a stunning display of sensitivity, this prominent religious broadcaster urged his audience in a July 2003 episode of the 700 Club to pray for God to remove a US Supreme Court justice. In his plea, he stated that one justice is 83 years old, another has cancer, and another has a heart condition. Answer: Pat _Robertson_ [5] We'd never accuse the esteemed Pat Robertson of *gasp*, making stuff up, but many were left wondering who the justice with the heart condition was supposed to be. A few days later, Robertson revealed to CNN that he was referring to this Reagan appointee from Arizona. Answer: Sandra _Day O'Conner_ [15] Pat Robertson was responding to the court's decision to allow homosexuals to have consensual sex in private in this case. Answer: _Lawrence_ vs Texas 17. Yes, the Nobel Prizes also have their Kennedies and Bushes. Identify these prize winning familly members in physics, FSNOPE [5] He won the 1903 prize in physics with his wife, Marie. Answer: _Pierre Curie_ [10] George shared the 1937 prize with Davisson for the discovery of electron diffraction. His son J.J won in 1906 after discovering the electron while investigating electric conduction in gases. Give their shared name. Answer: _Thomson_ [15] Frits Zernike won in 1953 for his invention of the phase contract microscope. This grand-newphew of his shared the 1999 prize with Martinus Veltman for renormalising electroweak theory. Answer: Gerard _t'Hooft_ (Pronounced Ut HOfed. Accept any plausible attempt.) 18. Identify the character from the Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy, from description, FTSNOPE: [10]. Douglas Adams once explained that his name was chosen to sound rude, but still broadcastable over radio. He won an award for the design of Norway. Answer: _Slartibartfast_ [10]. He wrote the blockbuster trilogy, Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes, and Who is This God Person Anyway? Answer: _Oolon Colluphid_ [10] She has degrees in Math and Astrophysics, and bizaarley met more Zaphod Beeblebrox and Arthur Dent at a party in Islington. Answer: _Trillian_ or _Tricia McMillan_ 19. Everyone and his pet rock knows that Vancouver will be hosting the 2010 winter olympics, and Salzberg and Pyongchang wont. But how much do you remember about the 2008 summer games host city race? FFPE, and a bonus 5 for all correct, identify the 5 finalist cities for contention to host the 2008 Summer games. Answers: _Beijing_, _Paris_, _Toronto_, _Istanbul_, _Osaka_ 20. Name the artist from clues. 30-20-10 [30]: One of the most important artists of the twentieth century, he is best known for paintings, but also worked in fields such as ceramics, sculpture, and engraving. [20]: Born in Malaga Spain, he was the son of an art teacher and from 1895-1901 he painted realistic works in a traditional style. [10]: He had a Blue Period in which he used blue shades, and in 1905 he entered his Rose Period in which he used only pinks and reds. After turning to expressionism and surrealism. "The Young Ladies of Avignon" is a famous painting from his Rose Period. Through the late 1920s and 30s he became known for his many paintings of distorted figures. Pablo _Picasso_ 21. Given the cricketer, identify the test playing nation that he plays, or did play for FTPE [10] Imran Khan Answer: _Pakistan_ [10] Hansie Cronje [Cron year] Answer: _South Africa_ [10] Muttiah Muralitheran [MooTIRE MOO ralith Eron] Answer: _Sri Lanka_