Harvard Scorpion-Tossups ed. Matt Carter and East Conn questions by M. Kobersy, B. Morelli, M. Warburton, R. Malhotra, and M. Carter TOSSUP 1 Abducens (AB-DOO-CHINZ), trigeminal, optic, oculomotor and vagus. FTP, in the human body these are all names for what type of nerves? Answer: _CRANIAL_ Nerves TOSSUP 2 Illuminating the struggle of turn-of-the-century women to shake loose traditional sex-roles, this story details a woman s growing insanity brought about by her husband s cure for her desire to write. The main character becomes convinced that there is a woman trapped in the wall of her bedroom, a woman she can see creeping by night, trying to escape. FTP, identify this story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. ANSWER: The _YELLOW WALLPAPER_ TOSSUP 3 An avid golfer, he had squirrels banned from the White House grounds because they were ruining the putting green he had installed there. Before becoming the president of the United States, he served as president of Columbia University. FTP, name this man who left his position at Columbia in 1951 to serve as supreme commander of the newly assembled NATO forces, and ran for the presidency a year later. ANSWER: Dwight David _EISENHOWER_ TOSSUP 4 For 10 points, identify the musical work. When somebody buzzes in, the tape will be stopped. [=== PLAY TAPE ===] Answer: The _MOLDAU_ (or _VLTAVA_) by Bedrich Smetana Prompt on "Ma _VLAST_" or "My _COUNTRY_" [To the audio operator: Remember to play the rest of the audio selection now if the question was interrupted early.] TOSSUP 5 He was one of the first real stars of the Fox Network, a player on the popular series _21 Jump Street_. Since leaving television he has created a substantial body of movie work, most notably with his performances in _Ed Wood_, _What's Eating Gilbert Grape?_, _Edward Scissorhands_, _Bennie and Joon_, Nick of Time, and _Don Juan DeMarco_. FTP, name this actor. ANSWER: Johnny _DEPP_ TOSSUP 6 Nazism nationalism extended into the arts, particularly into the realm of music. FTP, name the President of the State Music Council from 1933-35, who composed the fanfare for the 1936 Olympic Games and was official conductor of the Nazi party. ANSWER: _RICHARD STRAUSS_ (Prompt on Strauss) TOSSUP 7 Combining ideas from two branches of physics, Tomonaga, Schwinger and Feynman netted themselves the 1965 Nobel Prize. FTP, name their theory, a new explanation of the electromagnetic force. ANSWER: _Quantum Electrodynamics_ or _QED_ TOSSUP 8 His "Sex and Longing," starring Sigourney Weaver, just opened on Broadway. In his most famous play, an accountant named George Spelvin finds himself on the stage of a play that may be "Hamlet," or, then again, Beckett's "Checkmate." What follows is the kind of satiric wit that has earned the author comparisons with Oscar Wilde. FTP, who wrote "The Actor's Nightmare"? ANSWER: Christopher _Durang_ TOSSUP 9 Especially remembered for reading the comic strips from out-of-town newspapers over the radio during a newspaper strike, this "Little Flower" also battled city corruption and began a great number of construction projects. FTP, identify this beloved mayor of New York during the 1930s and 1940s and subject of a broadway musical. ANSWER: Fiorello _LaGuardia_ TOSSUP 10 A son of Zeus, he was one of the few mortals who was invited to share the food of the gods. Unfortunately, he was a bit too giving when it came to offering them food: he served the dismembered body of his own son, Pelops. FTP, name this father of Niobe and ancestor of the house of Atreus who was punished for his sins by being punished with eternal hunger and thirst. ANSWER: _Tantalus_ TOSSUP 11 Though he played in the 1984 All-Star Game, he is always remembered for a single bad play two years later. Which first baseman, FTP, let a ball slip through his legs that cost the Boston Red Sox Game 6 of the 1996 World Series? ANSWER: Bill _Buckner_ TOSSUP 12 His recent death has put him back in the news, but many Republicans had already begun to draw comparisons between his resignation from the Vice Presidency owing to problems during his tenure as Governor of Maryland and the position of President Clinton, who was also involved in questionable dealings as a governor. FTP, name this former Nixon Vice President. Answer: Spiro _AGNEW_ TOSSUP 13 "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" became the second film in Academy Award history to sweep all four major categories of Best Actor Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Picture. FTP, name the 1934 Clark Gable comedy that was the first. ANSWER: _It Happened One Night_ TOSSUP 14 Harvard lore has it that when Gertrude Stein was a student in one of his classes, he exempted her from an exam when she said that it was much too nice outside. FTP, identify the father of modern social ethics, and the author of "The Varieties of Religious Experience." ANSWER: _WILLIAM JAMES_ (Prompt on James) TOSSUP 15 He found a solution to Einstein's equation of general relativity in which, very roughly, time travel is possible. He proved that the consistency of the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis with set theory. But he is best known for his incompleteness theorem: No found system containing arithmetic can be both consistent and complete. FTP, name this mathematician. Answer: Kurt _Goedel_ TOSSUP 16 The "Idylls" of Theocritus, Calvus's "Io," and Parthenius's "Erotic Sufferings," all influenced this sequence of ten poems, whose title is simply Greek for "Selections." Church fathers hailed the fourth as an messianic text. FTP, identify the well-known set of pastoral poems by Vergil. ANSWER: _Eclogues_ or _Bucolics_ or _Eclogae_ or _Bucolica_ TOSSUP 17 Born in Amhurst, Nova Scotia, in 1821, knighted in 1879, and died in 1915, this man became Prime Minister of Canada on the first of May 1876. FTP, name this man who held the position for 69 days, making him Prime Minister for the shortest period of time in Canadian history. ANSWER: Sir Charles _Tupper_ TOSSUP 18 Martin Amis, Christopher Buckley, Roger Angell, and more recently Steve Martin and Salman Rushdie have all been the authors of the column "Shouts and Murmurs," which appears, FTP, in the back of which weekly magazine? ANSWER: _New Yorker_ TOSSUP 19 A rising star in the Republican Party, she is firmly in the Kemp-Forbes camp as an advocate of lower taxes to spur economic growth. She promised to name a rest stop on the Jersey Turnpike after Howard Stern if she won her election. In her tenure as Governor of New Jersey she has already lowered the income tax more than once. FTP, name this woman, currently the nation's only female governor. Answer: Christine Todd _WHITMAN_ TOSSUP 20 Twenty-seven hundred miles in area, this was formerly part of the North Sea. It has lent its name to a brand of canned asparagus spears. FTP, identify this drained, dike-enclosed part of northwest Holland. ANSWER: the _Zuyder Zee_ TOSSUP 21 Film historian Don Willis considers this picture the greatest horror fick ever. FTP, name the 1922 silent horror classic starring Max Shreck. ANSWER: _NOSFERATU_ TOSSUP 22 The philosopher Chuang Chuo dreamt he was a butterfly, but when he woke he didn't know if he was Chuang Chuo who had dreamt he was a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming he was Chuang Chuo. This is called the transformation of things. FTP, name the school of thought depicted, one which supposedly originated with Lao Tsu. ANSWER: _Taoism_ TOSSUP 23 TWO ANSWERS REQUIRED. In Medieval Italy, one was an aristocratic political party with sympathies for the German Emperors. The other, its bitter enemy, was a pro-papal popular party. FTP, identify these two long-struggling factions, whose names both start with the letter "G." ANSWER: _Guelphs_ and _Ghibellines_ TOSSUP 24 Traditionally comprising the military caste in their society, the tall, warlike tribe, formerly known as the Watusi, has long lorded over the more numerous Mutu of Burundi. FTP, name this people. Answer: _TUTSI_