By BU Meshach: Matt Bruce, Erik Corley, Ashlie, John TOSSUP 1 This playwright attended Goddard College in Vermont and taught theater there. From 1973-1976 he founded and directed the avant-garde Saint Nicholas Theatre Company of Chicago. Several of his plays have been made into movies. FTP, name the author of "Glenngary Glenross" and "American Buffalo." Answer: David _MAMET_ TOSSUP 2 A series of double-layered membranes found throughout the cytoplasm, each of these provides surface area for enzymes to catalyze chemical reactions, particularly those leading to protein synthesis. FTP, what cell part can be described as "smooth" or "rough" depending on whether it has ribosomes? Answer: _ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM_ (Prompt on E.R.) TOSSUP 3 Offa of Mercia forced him into exile. After Offa's death, however, he returned to the warpath, completing his conquests by 802. Almost fifty years before the birth of Alfred, he helped Wessex dominate other Saxon nations. FTP, what king's name sounds as though Scott Adams created him? Answer: _EGBERT_ TOSSUP 4 For much of the 1970s and '80s, this school was among the powerhouses in college football. Its success came to a grinding halt after a rash of uncovered misdeeds, culminating with the arrest of quarterback Jamelle Holloway and resignation of its coach. FTP, name this school rich in football tradition -- both good and bad -- once coached by Howard Schnellenburger. Ans: University of _OKLAHOMA_ TOSSUP 5 Begun in 1946 as a ferry, this boating operation soon expanded into the tourism business. It operates in two countries and offers some of the best views of the local attraction. All passengers wear raincoats as they approach Niagara Falls on, FTP, what boat line? Answer: The _MAID OF THE MIST_ TOSSUP 6 This twelve-letter word describes a process in which a particle and its anti-particle combine, releasing rest energy that can appear in the form of mesons, protons, or gamma rays. FTP, what word can also describe the total destruction inflicted upon a losing faction by the victors? Answer: _ANNIHILATION_ TOSSUP 7 Cave artists usually filled in as much of the wall area as possible, believing that the empty spaces were where evil spirits dwelt. FTP, what two-word phrase do art historians use to describe the fear that motivated this phenomenon? Answer: _HORROR VACUI_ TOSSUP 8 A devout Jew in exile in Assyria is blinded despite the good deeds of him and his son. As he prays to God to end his life, Sarah, whose seven husbands have each been killed by demons on their wedding night, also prays for death. The angel Raphael helps Sarah and the son get married, and cures the father's blindness. This describes, FTP, which book in the Old Testament Apocrypha? Answer: The Book of _TOBIT_ {TOH-bit} (accept "Tobias") TOSSUP 9 In the law of Torts, this six-letter word refers to whether one who commits a voluntary act knows or could have known, with substantial certainty, the result of that act. In jurisprudence, it can refer to legislators' frame of mind on passing a law. For ten points, what word got Robert Bork into ideological trouble? Answer: _INTENT_ TOSSUP 10 When he died of a 1961 mugging, the only baseball person at his funeral was Bob Kane, the pitcher who had walked him ten years earlier on four pitches. The number "one eighth" and Saint Louis Browns' owner Bill Veeck are forever associated with, FTP, what famous midget? Answer: Eddie _GAEDEL_ TOSSUP 11 Called the "Goddess of the Harvests" by the Nepalese, it was first climbed in 1950 by Maurice Herzog and his party, making it the first mountain peak above 26,000 feet to be scaled. FTP, name this 30-mile long massif in the heart of the Himalayas. Answer: _ANNAPURNA_ {an-uh-POOR-nuh} TOSSUP 12 Pencil and paper ready: Three capacitors, in a series circuit, have capacitances of 4, 6, and 12 farads, respectively. For ten points, what is the capacitance of the circuit? Answer: _TWO_ (2) farads (Do NOT accept "22" - the circuit is series, not parallel.) TOSSUP 13 This poem is addressed to its inspiration, Henry Saint John, Lord Bolingbroke. Its four epistles deal with humanity's relation to the universe, to itself, to society, and to happiness. Name, FTP, this Alexander Pope work. Answer: An _ESSAY ON MAN_ TOSSUP 14 Graduating near the bottom of his class at the University of Miami, he spent a few years on Wall Street before taking over _The Wine Spectator_. In 1992, he found a luxury product with a more tangible demographic, and helped start a craze. FTP, name the "Nutty Tobacco Character" recently lampooned by _SPY_ magazine who publishes _Cigar Aficianado_. Answer: Marvin _SHANKEN_ TOSSUP 15 Theodoros and Christos Gannikos shut down this money- losing newspaper in July and announced that a new tabloid version would keep some leftist writers on hand, but emphasize sex and violence. Thus the effect of capitalism on, FTP, what former Soviet propaganda machine? Answer: _PRAVDA_ (also accept "Pravda Pyat", its new name) Also accept _TRUTH_ or _TRUTH FIVE_ or _PRAVDA FIVE_ TOSSUP 16 "President Wilson and his fourteen points bore me. Even God almighty has only ten!" Perhaps only a Frenchman would have the gall to say such a thing. FTP, what Premier joined Woodrow Wilson and David Lloyd George at the Versailles conference? Answer: Georges _CLEMENCEAU_ TOSSUP 17 You must be crazy to want to fly more missions, since you don't want to, you must be sane, so you have to fly, for only the crazy are grounded! FAQTP, name this novel, set in World War Two, featuring Yossarian. Answer: _CATCH 22_ by Joeseph Heller TOSSUP 18 Petra Lovetinska, Nancy Mace, Jeanie Mentavlos, and Kim Messer are not your average college freshmen. Mace's father is an alumnus and Mentavlos's brother is a senior, but these four hope to become the first alumnae of, FTP, what South Carolina military school? Answer: The _CITADEL_ TOSSUP 19 Mayor Joe Smitherman beat a black challenger by 300 votes in this summer's elections. Smitherman was a much younger mayor on March 7, 1965, when close to 200 state troopers attacked 525 civil rights demonstrators who were preparing to march to Montgomery. FTP, name this Alabama town. Answer: _SELMA_ TOSSUP 20 The youngest Republican ever elected to the U.S. Senate, he handed out wooden coins in his 1980 race for name recognition. It was his bill that allowed states to set their own speed limits, and he is a co-sponsor of the Defense of Marriage Act. FTP, name this Oklahoman. Answer: Don _NICKLES_ TOSSUP 21 Its most common name was coined by Lawrence Alloway, but it has also been called Neo-Dada, Commonism, OK Art, and Common Language Art. Its artists have been called the "new vulgarians" and the "new sign painters." FTP, what art movement has as its sources billboards, comics, and cowboy movies? Answer: _POP_ Art TOSSUP 22 Stripping Jim Bakker of his ministerial credentials because of his moral improprieties comes close to a heresy which argues that the validity of sacraments depends on the morality of the priest. FTP, what such heresy was bitterly attacked by Augustine? Answer: _DONATISM_ TOSSUP 23 This actor was one of the only Waponi Woo to have a line in "Joe vs. the Volcano," and was Michelle Pfeiffer's homosexual confidante in Frankie and Johnny, but he is best known for his role as a drag queen in the '90s version of La Cage Aux Folles. FTP, who costars with Robin Williams in "The Birdcage"? Answer: Nathan _LANE_ TOSSUP 24 "Philosophia Biou Kubernates {BI-you Ku-ber-NATE-ays}" is literally the philosophy of life of the helmsman, but we know it better by its initials. FTP, what honor society restricts its membership to college students with a grade point average at or above 3.8? Answer: _PHI BETA KAPPA_ TOSSUP 25 According to his father, he was born on October 8, on the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Noted for his early love of dinosaurs and a later love for Nintendo games, he is greatly embarassed by his father. FTP, give the first and last name of this son of a humor writer. Answer: _ROB_ert _BARRY_ (prompt on "Barry" and do NOT accept "Dave Barry") [In "Dave Barry Slept Here", every date Barry mentions is October 8]