Pack by Peter Keshavan at BU edited by Chris Morse TOSSUP 1 1572, 1576, and 1604 all witnessed them. The Greeks thought they took place in the sublunar realm, but Tycho Brahe's observations showed that the 1572 one was as distant as, well, any old star. FTP name this astronomical phenomenon, whose name comes from the Latin for "new." A: _NOVA, NOVAS, or NOVAE_ (Not Supernovae) TOSSUP 2 "Trying to untie the string and turning to the window...she left him altogether ...and stood with her back to him. He unbuttoned his coat and freed the axe from its noose, but did not yet take it out altogether... He had not a minute more to lose. He pulled the axe quite out, swung it with both arms... [and] brought the blunt side down on her head." Thus reads the famous murder scene in, FTP what novel by Dostoyevsky? A: _CRIME AND PUNISHMENT_ TOSSUP 3 Newspapers were overwhelmed with news of the Allied invasion of Europe, so there was little attention paid when FDR signed it into law on June 22, 1944. Its main feature, as understood at the time, was a program guaranteeing $20 a week in unemployment benefits to veterans, but its most lasting provisions were those that put 22 million through college. FTP name this famous bill. A: The _GI BILL_ of Rights TOSSUP 4 Last month this company took out full-page newspaper ads, signed by senior executives Yoshito Mochizuki and J.T. Maloney, in response to a news release by Consumers Union. CU had reported that a product of the company was potentially unstable based on a "simulated avoidance maneuver." FTP name this manufacturer of the Hombre, Rodeo, Oasis, and the unstable Trooper. A: _ISUZU_ TOSSUP 5 According to the results of a 1993 study, this treatment does nothing to help victims of adrenoleukodystrophy (a DREE no LU ko dystrophy). But Augusto and Michaela Odone still believe in its efficacy, as did their characters played by Nick Nolte and Susan Sarandon in a 1992 film, sharing its name with FTP what treatment? A: _LORENZO'S OIL_ TOSSUP 6 (Host: Read these as three digits, e.g. "three one five" rather than "three hundred fifteen.) 315... 607... 518... 716... 914... 516... 212... 718. These are all area codes in, FTP what state bordered by Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and New Jersey? A: _NEW YORK_ TOSSUP 7 At the age of eleven, he fought as a midshipman in the war of 1812. In 1862, he led the naval capture of New Orleans, and the following year helped to capture Vicksburg. In 1864, while fighting in Mobile Bay, he had himself bound to the mast of the _Hartford_ so he could direct the fighting from above. FTP name this naval hero who at that battle said "Damn the torpedoes." A: David _FARRAGUT_ TOSSUP 8 The American Playhouse television presentation starred Esther Rolle and Danny Glover as Lena and Walter. Its title is taken from a line in "A Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes. FTP name this work by Lorraine Hansberry. A: _A RAISIN IN THE SUN_ TOSSUP 9 It controls hormone secretion by the pituitary gland, and regulates body temperature. FTP what part of the diencephalon (di en SEFF uh lon) regulates many psychological drives and rests below the thalamus? A: _HYPOTHALAMUS_ TOSSUP 10 She was scheduled for a short stay in Providence this past month with Meredith Barnett, the daughter of Washington lawyer Bob Barnett, and CBS White House correspondent Rita Braver. A good idea, since she might be there herself for the next four years, although her parents might prefer that she attend school at Georgetown or Wellesley. FTP name this senior at Sidwell Friends School. A: _CHELSEA CLINTON_ TOSSUP 11 (Host: Jan is pronounced "yon.") Jan was a clarinetist, and encouraged his two sons in their own musical ambitions. Edward bought a drum set, but to pay for it, had to take a paper route. While Edward was out delivering papers, Alexander played his brother's drums, and eventually gave up the guitar for them, while Edward switched to Alexander's guitar. FTP name the band formed by and named for these brothers, which has included Michael Anthony, Sammy Hagar, and David Lee Roth. A: _VAN HALEN_ TOSSUP 12 Nelis, Seckel, Forelle, Comice, Bosc, Anjou, and Bartlett, are all varieties of, FTP, what fruit? A: _PEAR_s TOSSUP 13 Surname's the same: the physicist who discovered that an electric field causes spectral lines of dispersed light to split, the general who blocked Burgoyne's retreat across the Hudson in 1777, and the Governor in Robert Penn Warren's _All The King's Men._ FTP, don't be raving mad or naked, and give the common name. A: _STARK_ (Johannes, John, Willie) TOSSUP 14 At the battle of Chalons, the Roman general Aetius defeated his forces. Gibbon wrote of him, "His features... bore the stamp of his national origin... a large head, a swarthy complexion.. and a short square body... of disproportionate form." He died by drowning in his own nosebleed, suffered during a drunken attempt at sex. FTP name this "Scourge of God" and ruler of the Huns. A: _ATTILA_ the Hun TOSSUP 15 Her estranged brother, Mir Shahnawaz, spent 16 years exiled in Syria, and returned home in 1993, but last month suffered six gunshot wounds, which proved fatal, in a confrontation with police outside his Karachi home. FTP, name the victim's sister, who is Prime Minister of Pakistan. A: Mohtarma Benazir _BHUTTO_ TOSSUP 16 In 1962 the first one was won when the top-seeded Australians Lesley Turner and Margaret Smith lost in the finals to Americans Darlene Hard and Billie Jean Moffitt. FTP name this women's team tennis world championship, analogous to the men's Davis Cup. A: _FEDERATION CUP_ TOSSUP 17 This legend turns up in Paradise Lost and Candide. The name was first applied to a ruler of an Indian town near Bogota, Colombia, who supposedly covered himself with gold dust and plunged into a lake in an elaborate ritual. The conquistadores came to believe that the name referred to a fabulous country of gold, and spent much effort searching for it. FTP what is this name, Spanish for "the gilded one?" A: _EL DORADO_ TOSSUP 18 Percy Shelley probably chose the name _Adonais_ (Add oh NAY iss) for his elegy as an allusion to Adonis. Adonis died young, like the subject of the poem, who died at age 25. But in his short life, he composed numerous works, including his odes _To a Nightingale_ and _On a Grecian Urn._ FTP, name this Romantic poet. A: John _KEATS_ TOSSUP 19 Born in 1832 in Strasbourg, he is known as a sculptor for a huge bronze vase decorated to represent _Vintage_. As a young man, he did sketches for the French comic paper _Le Journal Pour Rire_, and it is as an illustrator that he is best known. The works of Rabelais and Tennyson, Milton's _Paradise Lost_, and Dante's _Divine Comedy_, were all,FTP, famously illustrated by whom? A: Gustave _DORE_ TOSSUP 20 The nation of Bangladesh comes into existence... Idi Amin comes to power in Uganda... The Aswan High Dam opens in Egypt... The People's Republic of China is given the UN seat formerly held by the Republic of China... Richard Nixon is the first US President to visit China... All these events took place in FTP what year? A: _1971_ TOSSUP 21 "Moral laws do not stand in need of the divine sanction..." "Every man is free to embrace... the religion he shall believe true..." "The Roman Pontiff can and ought to reconcile himself to, and agree with, progress, liberalism, and civilization as lately introduced." In 1864, these views and others were rejected by Pope Pius IX in, FTP what document whose name sounds like a mistake-filled plan for a semester course? A: The _SYLLABUS OF ERRORS_ TOSSUP 22 Gonorrhea (gahn er REE uh) is a nasty but treatable venereal disease. FTP spell "gonorrhea." A: _G O N O R R H E A_ TOSSUP 23 In the background, two boats float on a pond. To the left, two figures on a bridge are looking at the water while walking away from the central figure. The gender-ambiguous central figure seems to have no bones, and presses its hands to the side of its face, with wide-open mouth. FTP name this 1893 work by Edvard Munch (Moonk). A: THE _SCREAM_ or the _CRY_ or _GESCHREI_ TOSSUP 24 In linguistics, it has several meanings. In a generative rule, it indicates that an element may be repeated zero or more times. Next to a word, it indicates an unattested, reconstructed word, such as Indo-European "ekwos" for horse. Next to a sentence, it indicates ungrammaticality. FTP name this symbol, found below the seven, and left of the zero, on a phone. A: _ASTERISK_ (prompt on "star") TOSSUP 25 If OJ Simpson were guilty of murdering his wife, the murderer's glove would fit him, but it doesn't. Therefore, OJ Simpson did not murder his wife. All crows are black. This bird is white, so it is not a crow. P entails Q. Not Q. Therefore, not P. These are three examples of, FTP what mode of inference, not to be confused with _modus ponens_? A: _MODUS TOLLENS_