(Message inbox:1306) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 10:47:47 CST To: hgherron@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu, rthomson@owlnet.rice.edu, topquark@iastate.edu, gaius@uclink2.berkeley.edu, uslkendall@msuvx1.memphis.edu, David_Dalton@cofo.edu From: Eric Bell <ebell@uoknor.edu> Subject: Round 4 X-Sender: ebell@mail.uoknor.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Attachments: C:\TEMP\ROUND4.TXT; part 1 text/plain 0 Press <return> to show content...part 2 text/plain 20K Press <return> to show content...OU ACF Tournament Round 4 Questions by Wichita State 1. As Secretary of War under Martin Van Buren from 1837 to 1841, he directed the army's campaigns against the Seminole Indians; earlier, in 1825, he accepted the post of minister to Mexico, being the first American to hold that job. However, he is probably best remembered for the flower he brought back from Mexico in 1829 when that country asked the U.S. to recall him. For ten points, who was this man after whom the eponymous name was given to a genus of the family Euphorbia, a flowering shrub popular during the Christmas season? Answer: Joel R. POINSETT (prompt for: poinsettia) 2. Told through Word Smith, a retired baseball writer, this novel is an account of the ficticious Ruppert Mundys baseball club, the Patriot Baseball league and that league's decline from the early twenties into 1943. It is also an examination of the nature of fiction and what its author Phillip Roth calls the desire that haunts every American novelist. For ten points--name this 1973 social satire which takes its name from that elusive epic. Answer: The Great American Novel 3. This Asian peninsula, with an area of 143,000 square miles has roughly 85% as much area as California; it extends out from the mainland 750 miles and is connected by an isthmus about 60 miles wide. It seperates the Sea of Okhotsk from the Bering Sea. For ten points, what is the name of this peninsula and territorial region which gives its name to the easternmost Asian "country" on the game board of the Parker Brother's game Risk? Answer: Kamchatka 4. He published Waverly, a popular novel of his time as "the Great Unknown" because he thought that it would hurt his literary reputation to be classified as a novel writer. Ironically, though, this Scottish writer has been called "the father of the historical novel." For ten points-- name this author who gives his name to a dangerous shipwrecked steamboat in Huck Finn and who wrote Rob Roy and Ivanhoe. Answer: Sir Walter Scott 5. It states that the ratio of the rates of effusion of two gases equals the square root of the inverse ratio of their densities. For ten points-- name this chemical law which was applied to seperate the rarer, fissionable Uranium-235 used in atomic piles and atomic bombs from its heavier, nonfissionable isotope U-238, and named for the Scottish chemist who demonstrated it in 1829. Answer: Graham's Law 6. Set in Spain, it ends with the Count di Luna screaming in horror as his gypsy captive reveals that the knight that the Count had slain, Manrico, was his long lost brother, Garzia. Shortly before, Leonora, the Count di Luna's love interest who had fallen in love with Manrico, killed herself with poison rather than giving herself to the Count, which she agreed to in order to free Manrico. Thereby, Avucena, the gypsy, avenges her mother's death at hands of the Count's father. For ten points, name this plot-intensive Verdi opera which features the famous "Anvil Chorus." Answer: Il Trovatore (grudgingly accept: The Troubador) 7. Beginning his art career, he began as a NeoBaroque Romantic, but switched, as he said, because, "I cannot paint an angel because I have never seen one." A leader of the French Realists, he open his own exposition under the theme, Manifesto of Realism, when The Paris Exposition of 1855 refused to show his works. For ten points, name this French master who died in exile in Switzerland and whose works include "Woman with a Parrot" and "The Stone Breakers." Answer: Gustave Courbet 8. Point of No Return, Repent in Haste, Warning Hill, So Little Time, It's Loaded, Mr. Bauer, Sincerely, Willis Wade, Melville Goodwin,USA, and The Late George Apley are all novels by -- for ten points-- what Harvard-educated World War I officer and later war correspondent who created the Japanese intelligence agent, Mr. Moto? Answer: John P.(hillips) Marquand 9. With a population density of approximately 5 people per square mile, it is one of the most desolate nations in the world, second only to Mongolia: no wonder, though, as approximately only 1% of its land is arable and it possesses the driest climate in Africa. Peopled in the north by the Ovambo culture, it is sandwiched between the Kalahari and the desert which gives the nation its name. For ten points, name this nation, independent since 1989, formerly known as South West Africa, and with its capital at Windhoek? Answer: Namibia 10. The title character in a play by the same name, she is, according to her creator, a very immoral female. Written in response to Ibsen's A Doll's House, the story concerns a faithful wife who chooses her husband, the Reverend James Morell, over the young and shy rival, Eugene Marchbanks. For ten points, name this drama or heroine which takes its name from an adjective meaning "truthful" and sounds like the female counterpart to an optimistic and lucky wanderer famous in world literature. Answer: Candida (do not accept Candide) 11. The integer is the same: it corresponds to the ordinal number of the U.S. Federal Census which was 97% lost due to a fire in the Commerce Building, it is the total number of songs on R.E.M.'s Life's Rich Pageant album, it is the number of Oscars that Ben-Hur won, it is the number in the title of the definitive "Rat Pack" film, it is the number of years in a Sunspot Cycle, and it is the number of people on a soccer team. For ten points name this prime number. Answer: Eleven 12. He received his early art training from his father before joining the Umbrian School of painters in 1499. He is considered the central painter of the High Renaissance because of his ability to absorb other painter's techiniques and to fuse them into his own style and so his works define the style of the High Renaissance better than any other single painter. For ten points-- name this Italian master whose works include a famous portrait of Pope Leo IX, "Galatea", and "the School of Athens." Answer: Raphael (It: Raffaelo; Raffaelo Santi or Sanzio) 13. According to Livy, when workers were digging the foundation of the Temple of Jupiter they uncovered a bloody human head. At first it was thought that it was an ill omen; however, later the Romans became convinced that the discovery was a good sign and that it meant that Rome would become the head of a vast empire. Hence the latin word for "head" was given in the name for the site where it was found. For ten points -- what was that hill, one of the seven hills of Rome? Answer: Capitoline 14. He obtained a doctorate in law and practised as a lawyer from 1796 to 1799. In 1800 he began taking private lessons in math and physics, and, having much success, decided to switch careers. At the time of his death in 1856, his contemporaries considered him a self-deluded narrow-mind and the hypothesis for which he became famous was largely ignored until 1858. For ten points, name this man who hypothesized that at the same temperature and pressure, equal volumes of different gases contain the same number of atoms. Answer: Amedeo (Conte de Quaregna) Avogadro 15. Tradition holds that he refused a crown when he aided the people of Agrigentum in an overthrow of the ruling oligarchy, instead instituting a democracy. He was also something of a visionary, stating a primitive Law of Conservation of Matter and theory of evolution. For ten points, name this pre-Socratic philospher who reportedly threw himself into Mt. Etna to convince the people he was a God and formulated the theory of the four elements. Answer: Empedocles 16. Set in Hilldale, it revolves around family life. Dave and Midge Kelsey were the neighbors. The eldest daughter Mary left for college. Eight-year-old Trisha "adopted" the Stones, filling the vacancy left by Shelley Fabares. For ten points, what was this ABC sitcom on the air from 1958 to 1966 now known mostly for the outdated portrayal of the doting mother by the actress who gives her name to the program? Answer: The Donna Reed Show 17. This fourth century saint, patron of youth, merchants, sailors, and thieves, was, according to legend, imprisoned by the Roman emperor Diocletian and freed by Constantine, and attended the Council of Nicaea. His feast day is on December 6th. For ten points-- name this patron saint of Russia whose benevolence now associates him with a different feast day, celebrated more widely, also in December. Answer: Saint Nicholas (acc: Santa Claus) 18. With a surface temperature of -381 degrees Fahrenheit, it is thought to be the coldest body in the solar system. Besides Earth and Io (EYE-o), it is the only object in the solar system known to have active surface features, with geysers spewing nitrogen gas into its atmosphere. It is also noteworthy in that it rotates around its planet in a retrograde motion. For ten points, name this largest moon of Neptune named after a merman demigod who also gives his name to the first vessel to circumnavigate the globe underwater. Answer: Triton 19. Be Proactive, Begin with the End in Mind, Put First Things First, Think Win/Win, Seek First to Understand Then To Be Understood, Synergize, and Sharpen the Saw are THESE title concepts in the #1 bestselling self-help book by Stephen Covey. For ten points what is this title, subtitled Powerful Lessons in Personal Change? Answer: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People 20. Most scholars conclude she was born of the Gambian Fulani & brought to Amerca as a slave in 1761, taking her first name from the slaveship which transported her. She learned English rapidly, and mastered Latin. In 1773, she published Poems on Various Subjects, Religous and Moral, becoming America's second woman to publish a book of poems. Many of her patriotic poems received acclaim, and she met George Washington at his invitation. For ten points, name this renowned black poet considered by some to be America's first internationally respected author? Answer: Phillis Wheatley (Peters) 21. Hugo Black, George Westinghouse, Dashiell Hammett, John Mitchell, William G. McAdoo, Earl Warren, Joe Louis, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., William O. Douglas, Constance Bennett, Medgar Evars, Robert Todd Lincoln, Lee Marvin, Pierre L'Enfant, Robert Peary, Walter Reed, Abner Doubleday, and William Howard Taft, are just a few of the over 200,000 burials in this 612-acre cemetery... for ten points, name this National Cemetery second only to Long Island National Cemetery in number of burials. Answer: Arlington National Cemetery Assorted Bonuses by Wichita State ACC 1. With the 1996 election right around the corner, analyists are anticipating the changes AROUND our nation's capitol. Prior to 1800, our nation's capitol changed around-- at least eight cities have served as the U.S. Capitol before Washington, D.C., held its first meeting of Congress on November 17, 1800. The most famous other two cities are Philadelphia and New York City... Name the other six for 5 points apiece. Baltimore, Maryland ( Dec 1776 - Mar 1777 ) Lancaster, Pennsylvania ( 27 Sep 1777 ) York, Pennsylvania ( Sep 1777 - Jun 1778 ) Princeton, New Jersey ( Jun 1783 - Nov 1783 ) Annapolis, Maryland ( Nov 1783 - Jun 1784 ) Trenton, New Jersey ( Nov 1784 - Dec 1784) 2. Let's see if you can find your way around in the dark... dark film that is. Identify the following film noir classics after a brief description for ten points apiece: 1) The film ends with apron-string obsessed crook Cody Jarrett, played by James Cagney, screaming aloud atop an exploding oil tank, "Made it Ma! Top of the World!" Answer: White Heat (1949) 2) This film's plot, aped in the movie Fletch, features actor-director Orson Welles as an Irish adventurer who gets hired to stage a murder, then gets framed for murder. Answer: The Lady from Shanghai (1948) 3) Stanley Kubrick's first major film features Sterling Hayden, as Johnnie Clay, leading a group of down and out hoods in holding up a horse racing track. Answer: The Killing (1956) 3. Identify this military figure, 30 - 20 - 10. 30: Born in Tokyo, he attended military college, became military attache in Germany in 1919, and served in Manchuria as Chief-of-Staff from 1937 to 1940. 20: He was the Japanese Minister of War from 1940 to 1941 and Premier. 10: He was Prime Minister from 1941 to 1944. After being arrested in 1945, he attempted to commit suicide but was hanged as a war criminal in Tokyo. Answer: Hideki Tojo 4. For Ten Points apiece, I'll name a song and the recording artist, and you name the original motion picture soundtrack that the song is from. For example, if I said "Danger Zone" by Kenny Loggins, you would say "Top Gun." 1) "Don't You Forget About Me" by Simple Minds Answer: The Breakfast Club 2) "Crazy For You" by Madonna Answer: Vision Quest 3) "End of the Road" by Boys II Men Answer: Boomerang 5. Since its publication in 1938, T.H. White's retelling of the Arthurian legend, The Once and Future King, has become a modern classic. For five points apiece, name the four books that comprise The Once and Future King. Answer:The Sword in the Stone The Queen of Air and Darkness The Ill-made Knight The Candle in the Wind For an additional five points apiece what two names are represented by the initials T.H. in the author T.H. White's name? Answer: Terence & Hanbury 6. According to the Kubler-Ross model, there are 5 distinct stages that one goes through when confronted with a traumatic, unchangeable event such as the death of a loved one or the diagnosis of a terminal illness. For five points each, with a five point bonus for all correct, list the five stages to the Kubler-Ross model of coping. Answer: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance 7. Name the following writers who were killed in World War I for ten points each, given a brief description. 1) Educated at Rutgers and Columbia, this enlisted man's chief fame comes from a twelve-line lyric poem that poorly develops its conceit, saying that the anthropomorphic title objects both reach their leafy arms to God... while at the same time press their mouths "against the earth's sweet flowing breast." Answer: (Sergeant Alfred) Joyce Kilmer 2) Educated at the Birkenhead Institute and The University of London this English poet most noted for his antiwar poems served as a company commander and was killed in action the week before Armistice Day. He wrote the poem Dulce et Decorum est. Answer: Wilfred Owen (do not accept Owens) 3) This Scottish journalist and writer most famous for short stories was known for well-contrived plots often with surprise endings and used epigrams throughout his writing. He is perhaps most famous for the novel The Unbearable Bassington and the short story "The Monkey's Paw." Answer: Saki or Hector Hugh Munro 8. The theory that the mass extinction that involved the dinosaurs and many other living things was caused by the impact of a large asteroid with the earth about 65 million years ago is named after the father and son team of scientists who first suggested it. For 15 points: name the theory. Answer: Alvarez hypothesis For 15 more points, evidence indicates that the asteroid fell near what peninsula? Answer: the Yucatan peninsula 9. Although some psychologists make us of many models which use many more stages of human development, Freud believed that there are only five general stages. For five points apiece, identify those stagesof human development, with a five point bonus for naming all of them in the correct order. Answer: Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, Genital 10. Identify this famous American after one clue for 30 points, or after 2 clues for 15 points. 30) In 1866, she received severe injuries after a fall, but read about the palsied man in Matthew's Gospel, and claimed to have risen from her bed similarly healed. 15) Thereafter, she devoted herself to developing her spiritual discovery, and in 1876 she founded the Christian Science Association. Answer: Mary Baker Eddy 11. Name the author 30-20-10-5 30) His mother, Charlotte, witnessed a cholera epidemic in Sligo, Ireland and her accounts of it influenced his childhood. His brother gained fame as a surgeon and was knighted. 20) Graduating Trinity College in Dublin with an honors degree in Mathematics, he found a menial job as a clerk, which provided material for his first book, The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions of Ireland. 10) It was discovered in 1975 that he wrote his last book, The Lair of the White Worm, while dying of syphillis. It was inferred that he sought after prostitutes, and that his wife, Florence, had lost interest in sex after childbirth, possibly accounting for his heavy use of sexual symbolism in his literature. 05) His career has been overshadowed by his greatest literary creation, Dracula. Answer: Abraham "Bram" Stoker 12. Given the following insects, place them in their taxonomical order for five points apiece: 1) moths & butterflies Answer: Lepidoptera 2) beetles Answer: Coleoptera 3) wasps, bees, and ants Answer:Hymenoptera 4) grasshoppers & crickets Answer:Orthoptera 5) aphids Answer:Homoptera 6) the "true" bugs Answer:Heteroptera 13. Name the American artist from works 30-20-10. 30) Pitching Horseshoes, Prisoners From the Front, Defiance: Inviting a shot before Petersburg, Virginia 20) Crouqet Scene, Crack the Whip, The Carnival 10) A Haul of Herring, Breezing Up, Undertow Answer: Winslow Homer 14. I will read three brief descriptions of historically and culturally famous Henrys; name each for ten points apiece. 1) He failed in his bid for the mayorship of New York City, but his book, Progress and Poverty made him noted as a social reformer and economist. Answer: Henry George 2) It is said that his burial site in Port Royale fell into the sea as a result of the evils he committed in his days as a pirate, before becoming lieutenant governor of Jamaica. Answer: Sir Henry Morgan 3) This english inventor and engineer invented a process for steel manufacture that decarbonizes pig iron with air blasting. Answer: Sir Henry Bessemer 15. Just when you think an NFL team will stay put, POOF, it moves to another city. It's getting as bad as baseball in the 50's and 60's. Given a year and the location moved to, identify the "from" location for ten points each. 1966, the Atlanta Braves MILWAUKEE 1961, the Minnesota Twins WASHINGTON (acc Senators) 1955, the Kansas City Athletics PHILADELPHIA 16. Definition time! Given the definition, identify the art term on a 5-10-15 basis. ( 5) The practice of applying a thin layer of gold leaf to the surface of an object, then burishing it. GILDING (10) A metal framework constructed by the sculptor as a skeleton for clay or wax in the making of a piece of sculpture. ARMATURE (15) A method of composing groups of figures in such a way that all are shown at the same height, regardless of posture or purpose. ISOCEPHALY (eye-so-cef-al-ee) 17. Identify the author from works 30-20-10. A. Liza of Lambeth; The Painted Veil B. Then and Now; The Narrow Corner C. The Razor's Edge; The Moon and Sixpence W. Somerset Maugham 18. Identify the composer from works 30-20-10. (30) Trouble in Tahiti; Facsimile (20) Fancy Free; On the Town (10) Candide; West Side Story Leonard BERNSTEIN 19. Identify the novel from characters 30-20-10. (30) Harris; Juanito Montoya (20) Bill Gorton; Edna; Robert Cohn (10) Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley The SUN ALSO RISES 20. For 5 points apiece plus 5 for all four, name the cities where you'd find the following newspapers. The Plain Dealer CLEVELAND The Times-Picayune NEW ORLEANS The Post-Dispatch SAINT LOUIS The Free Press DETROIT The Mercury-Courier SAN JOSE part 3 text/plain 288 Press <return> to show content...Eric Bell (ebell@uoknor.edu) * http://iguana.ucs.uoknor.edu/~ebell/ OU ACF Team / CaPD College Bowl * You think OU agrees with me? HA!!! "It's a lovely day. Birds are singing and bees are trying to have sex with them, or at least that was the impression I got." --Bart Simpson