Holiday Classic Toss-Up Round 2:
1. The name's the same: a large sheet of glacial ice in Jasper National Park Canada, the Ivy League School established in 1754 as King's College, a river in the northwest U.S. that flows along the border of Washington and Oregon, and the capital of South Carolina. For 10 points, what is the common name?
Answer: Columbia
2. His novels include Gabriel Tolliver and Sister Jane. Of his shorts stories Mingo and Other Sketches are the most noted after his famous children's stories which first appeared in the Atlanta Constitution in 1879. For 10 points, identify this Georgia native and creator of Uncle Remus.
Answer: Joel Chandler Harris
3. Pencil and paper ready. For 10 points, at the point x equals one, what is the slope of the tangent to the function 1 over x?
Answer: zero
4. Its original title was "The Rake Punished" and it's libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte was based on Italian legend. Set in Seville, it concerns an unrepentant young nobleman whose treasures disappear one by one. In the end, the title character is dragged down to hell by a statue. For 10 points, identify this Mozart opera.
Answer: Don Giovanni
5. For 10 points, what is the oxidation state in the sulfate radical?
Answer: six or plus six
6. It was a unanimous decision written by Chief Justice Earl Warren and overturned a decision reached 58 years earlier. For 10 ponits, what is this Supreme Court decision that promoted the doctrine that the equal protection clause of the 14th ammendment prohibited racial segregation in public school?
Answer: Brown vs. Board of Education
7. Pencil and paper ready. In mathematics, what symbol is used to denote the base of the natural logarithm?
Answer: e or euler's number
8. She wrote the words for what has become the unofficial national hymn. For 10 points, identify this woman whose lines: "Oh Beautiful for spacious skies,/For amber waves of grain" appear in "America the Beautiful".
Answer: Katherine Lee Bates
9. In it, you would find the major portion of the Rio Negro and along its southwest shore is the estuary of the Rio de La Plata. For 10 points, identify this South American nation, nestled between Brazil and Argentina that has its capital at Montevideo.
Answer: Uruguay
10. It is found in the forelimbs of birds, mammals, and reptiles. It articulates with the scapula on one end and the radius and ulna on the other. For 10 points, what is this bone of the upper arm?
Answer: humerus
11. The term originally implied a "getting together" of several voices or voices accompanied by instruments. In 1567, the first publication to use the name was produced by Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli. For 10 points, identify this musical form, perhaps the most famous of which are the six "Brandenburg" by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Answer: concerto
12. The son and successor of King Snefru, he mobilized nearly all of Egypt's male population for his massive building project. For 10 points, identify this ruler of the 4th dynasty after whom the largest of the Great Pyramids at Giza is named.
Answer: Khufu or Cheops
13. It was first discovered in application to sound, but the man in honor of whom it was named postulated a similar effect for light. For 10 points, what name is given to this phenomenon of the shifting of frequency based on the relative velocity of a source and observer.
Answer: Doppler effect or Doppler shift
14. It tells the story of an American woman who inherits a fortune from her kindly English host. The novel traces her increasing self-awareness finally rendered concrete in her sacrifice. For 10 points, identify this novel of the life of Isabel Archer by Henry James.
Answer: The Portrait of a Lady
15. During his Leiden period, he made many studies of his family, the elderly, and peasants. He experimented with chiarascuro to determine its impact on the drama of a piece. For 10 points, identify this Dutch painter of "Syndics of the Cloth Guild" and "The Night Watch".
Answer: Rembrandt (van Rijn)
16. You may know that John C. Fremont was the first candidate of the Republican party, but for 10 points, what party nominated William Wirt in the election of 1832?
Answer: Anti-Masonic