Philly Experiment III: No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service Preliminary Round 12 Packet by: 3.5 Guys Who Couldn't Think of a Cool Name TOSS-UPS 1. According to his wife Cathy, he doesn't wear underwear, which may have made things embarassing when, while coaching the Montana Golden Nuggets, his pants split. Like Phil Jackson, he once coached theAlbany Potroons. FTP name this coach who finally snapped his team's choker label and faced off against Jackson in this year's NBA finals. George KARL 2. Hans, Rudi and Kurt killed themselves. Margaret helped Freud escape from the Third Reich. Paul lost his right arm, which inspired Maurice Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand of Paul. The father Karl was a Bohemian steel magnate. FTP give the family name, most famous for the youngest son and philosopher, Ludwig. WITTGENSTEIN 3. Born in Liege, Belgium he has lived though out France, Switzerland, and the U.S. His prolific output includes over three hundred novels, as well as numerous autobiographical works and diaries. Some of his works include _The Stain on the Snow_ and _Teddy Bear_. FTP name this long lived creator of the world famous sleuth Inspector Maigret (ma- GRAY). Georges SIMENON 4. Yankee Doodle, Gergana, Black Jack, Tiny, April 1st, Bad Boy, Burger, Beast, Jerusalem, Ping-Pong, Cascade, and Anthrax are a few of these which were invented and written about by a Mr. Cohen. FTP name these segmented things, originally called worms, whose more famous examples include Stoned, Stealth, Monkey, AOL Gold, P-K-ZIP 3.0, and Michelangelo. computer VIRUSES 5. The names the same. The country where people wear shoes on their ears and hamburgers eat people, according to Lisa Simpson. The name of the "student" who beat Dennis from Head of the Class into college. Or the company which developed the US highway numbering system in 1917. FTP name this cartographic company, famous for its road atlases. RAND McNALLY 6. A Spanish misson, Espiritu Santo, was founded here in 1749, but it did not become famous until 1836, when Colonel James Fannin and his 342 man garrison surrendered their fort to Santa Anna and then were slaughtered. Along with "Remember theAlamo", the army of Texas shouted to remember this battle, at which Col. James Fannin and his 342 man garrison surrendered their fort to Santa Anna, and then were slaughtered. FTP name this Texas city of 2,000, about 120 miles southeast of San Antonio. GOLIAD 7. This structure is filled with membrane systems called thylakoids, often arranged into stacks. The interior of the thylakoids contains a hydrogen ion reservoir for chemiosmotic ATP synthesis. Outside lies the stroma, a solution holding enzymes, ribosomes, and DNA. FTP name this cellular structure, which harnesses light energy. CHLOROPLAST 8. He represented Connecticut in the Constitutional Congress and the Constitutional Convention. He played a leading part in the adoption of the Connecticut Compromise and became one of his states first two senators. FTP name this Hartford lawyer who served as Chief Justice from 1796 to 1800. Oliver ELLSWORTH 9. Dante's Inferno, Milton's Paradise Lost, Shakespeare's The Tempest, Ovid's Metamorphoses, St. Augustine's Confesions, Marvell's To His Coy Mistress, Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield, Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, Hesse's Blick ins Chaos, Webster's The White Devil, and The Upanishads. These are some of the many influences for a poem whose dominant imagery is drawn from Jesse Weston's _From Ritual to Romance_. FTP, name this 1922 five-part poem by T.S. Eliot. The WASTE LAND 10. _Charcarodon carcharias_can survive brain damage better than any almost any other animal, and it never gets sick due to its mysterious antibodies. It is also one of only a few animals to be completely immune to cancer. In its normal environment it has no natural enemies. Despite its reputation, it kills fewer people than bees and only a third as many as lightning. FTP, name this animal, a member of the class Chondrichthyes, which has received a bad rap since a 1975 movie. GREAT WHITE SHARK 11. There are two possible origins for this word. The first involves two German words, one meaning to break wind or knock plus another meaning goblin, which together describe the village idiot, but that really doesn't have anything to do with what the word decribes. The more romantic origin involves underfed French soldiers who often complained that there was always bread for Napoleon's horse, Nicoll, yet never enough for them. FTP name this word which refers to a coarse rye bread. PUMPERNICKEL (Note: Pumpern + Nickel or Pain (Bread) Pour (for) Nicoll.) 12. Five years before Duchamp's painting, he made a similar gesture by placing a postage stamp, a thermometer, and newspaper clippings around a crossed out Mona Lisa. But he is more well known for his compositions of overlapping colored forms that have no trace of subject. Later he was to take this concept to its ultimate with "White Square on White", from which he could go no further. FTP name this Russian, the founder of Suprematism. Kasimir MALEVICH 13. In some examples, it consists of the diagonally symmetric bi-matrix with entries, 5,5; 10,0; 0,10; and 1,1. It is easy to see that the second row dominates the first row and the second column dominates the first column, which means that 1,1 is a saddle point for the given payoff matrix. That in essence is the mathematical description of a problem which explains how two people can make the right choice yet end up with the wrong outcome. FTP name this famous game theory problem, also the title of a recent mathematical biography. PRISONER'S DILEMMA 14. In architecture, this word can refer to a any building which is not classified as a decorated shed. In sports it can describe a type of football pass. It can refer to a type of amphibious military truck used in World War II, and in card games it refers to deliberately losing a trick by underplaying. In Zoology, it refers to any avian member of family Anatidae. More common uses of the word include avoiding a question or lowering oneself to avoid being hit by something. FTP name this word which usually describes a swimming bird. DUCK 15. Making loud noises, bringing spiders inside, sitting between two fires, killing all swallows, washing with goat urine, and applying pigeon entrails to the forehead were all "antidotes" against it. Despite these medical breakthroughs, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Hans Holbein the Younger and Titian all died from it. FTP name this disease which inspired a popular children's song. BLACK PLAGUE, Bubonic plague, black death etc. 16. When the king told this artist that he thought his master work was both aweful and artificial, he took it as a compliment since, in the early 1700's, aweful meant awe- inspiring and artifical meant full of art. A professor of Astronomy at Oxford, his plan was utilized by Charles II to rebuild after the Great London Fire. FTP name this architect, whose most famous buildings are churches and cathedrals, including St. Pauls. Christopher WREN 17. Its title was mistranslated into English when the hard sign at the end of the third word, which should have been translated "world," was mistaken for a soft sign. Nonetheless the incorrect title sounded pretty good and is used today. This novel, written at the author's country estate Yasnaya Polyana, portrays characters at every social level from Napoleon to the peasant Platon Karatayev. FTP name this novel, originally titled Voina i Mir by its author Leo Tolstoy. WAR AND PEACE 18. A House in the Hills, The Ref, and Three Days of the Condor all contain what seem to be totally illogical plot sequences dreamed up only by Hollywood's fascination with sex and violence. However the odd condition described in these movies was first documented in the case of a bank employee in 1973. FTP name this psychological condition in which a hostage develops an attraction to their captors, named for the city in which it was first observed. STOCKHOLM SYNDROME 19. They recently played in a small club in Woodstock, NY under the name Third Ball, and their loyal fans are lucky this band allows people to bring recording equipment into concerts and then distribute the tapes. Among their hits are Runaway Jim, Bathtub Gin, Divided Sky, Lawn Boy, and Bouncing Around the Room. FTP, name this band whose members include Page McConnell and Trey Anastasio. PHISH 20. Named for an aviation checkpoint between Tampa and New Orleans, he began his remarkable streak with an October 1994 win in New York, continued it at such events as the Pimlico Special and the Breeders Cup Classic, and then took his act overseas with a dramatic victory at the Dubai World Cup. FTP name this famous racehorse which has now won 16 straight races. CIGAR 21. In 1532 he joined Francisco Pizarro in his conquet of Peru. After his return to Spain, he was appointed governor of Cuba by the Spanish crown and given permission to go on a treasure hunting expedition in Florida. For 10 points, identify this man who in 1541 reached the Mississippi River. Hernando DESOTO BONUSES 1. Since letters in science usually stand for an array of values we will ask them the other way around. Given a few scientific physical properties, name the common Greek letter which is used to represent all of them, ten points each. 10) Rate of entropy production, normal stress, Stephan- Boltzmann constant, (lower-case) SIGMA (s) 10) Fluid density, resitivity, radius of curvature, critical density of the universe. (lower case) RHO (r) 10) Coefficient of performance of a refrigerator, Thermal volume expansion coefficient, adiabatic compressibility, a high speed electron. (uppercase) BETA(b) 2. List memorizers rejoice. In art many different works sometimes have the same title making list memorizing difficult. So I'll give you a couple of artists and you give the common title. Note, some titles are the English translations. 10) Hieronymous Bosch, John Constable. The HAYWAIN (note The Haywagon, although one translation of Bosch's title, was not done by Constable) 10) Sandro Botticelli, Albrecht Durer The ADORATION OF THE MAGI 10) Eugene Delacroix, Peter Paul Ruebens The LION HUNT 3. For the stated number of points, name the composers of the following fiery pieces of music. 5) Magic Firemusic Richard WAGNER 5) Symphony 3. The Fiery Angel Sergei PROKOFIEV 10) The Ritual Fire Dance of the Three Cornered Hat Manuel De FALLA 10) Fire on High Jeff LYNNE (prompt on ELO or Electric Light Orchestra.) 4. Normally a bonus asks for a list of three things but this time we're doing it backwards. I'll give you a list of three things literary and you will tell me what they are. For example if I said "Moe, Larry and Curly" you would answer "The Three Stooges". Hint: all answers contain the word "three". 10) Olga, Masha and Irinia Prozorov Chekov's (The) THREE SISTERS 10) "The Good Anna", "Melanctha", "The Gentle Lena" The three stories that make up Gertrude Stein's THREE LIVES 10) Otheris, Learoyd, and Mulvaney. The SOLDIERS THREE from Rudyard Kipling's short stories 5. Name the given law or phenomenon from optics for ten points each. 10) This law says that the tangent of the polarizing angle equals the index of refraction. BREWSTER'S Law 10) This effect describes the situation when finely powered substances such as glass or quartz are immmersed in a liquid of the same refractive index, and complete transparency can occur only with monochromatic light. CHRISTENSEN effect 10) This law states that as one approaches an absorption band from the red side the refractive index is abnormally increased, from the blue side, it is decreased. KUNDT's Law 6. Given a biography title, name the subject of the biography, ten points each. 10) The 1959 autobiography, "Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter" Simone de BEAUVOIR 10) "Talking at the Gates" by James Campbell, 1991. James BALDWIN 10) "Salem is My Dwelling Place", Edwin Haviland Miller, 1991. Nathaniel HAWTHORNE 7. Given a presidential first, name the American President. Ten points each. 10) The first born in the United States. Martin VAN BUREN (His predecesors were born in British colonies) 10) The first to visit a foreign country while in office _T_heodore ROOSEVELT 10) The first to use a telephone James GARFIELD 8. Ah, everyone's favorite, a Victorian Poet bonus. Given a short list of works name the poet, ten points each. 10) Pied Beauty, God's Grandeur, Spring and Fall Gerard Manley HOPKINS 10) Pauline, Paracelsus, Sordello, Soliloquy in a Spanish Cloister Robert BROWNING 10) The Defense of Guenevere and other Poems, The Haystack in the Floods, The Blue Closet William MORRIS 9. Before each triple crown race a different song is sung, none of which is the Star-spangled Banner. FTP each name the songs heard before the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes. "MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME", "MARYLAND MY MARYLAND", "THE SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK" 10. Female duos have been the subject of many television series. For five points per actress name both actresses who made up the following pairs. A. Laverne and Shirley Penny MARSHALL and Cindy WILLIAMS B. Kate and Allie Susan SAINT_JAMES and Jane CURTIN C. Cagney and Lacey Sharon GLASS (or Meg FOSTER or Loretta SWIT) and Tyne DALY 11. For five points each and a bonus five for all five, name the US state from the phrase appearing on its license plate. A. The Natural State ARKANSAS B. Vacationland MAINE C. Nothing could be finer SOUTH CAROLINA D. The heart of it all OHIO E. Sportsmans paradise LOUISIANNA 12. FTP each answer the following about fin-de-sie'cle Austria. A. In early 1889, the son of Emperor Franz Josef killed his mistress, Mary Vetsera, and then himself. Who was he? Crown Prince RUDOLF Hasburg B. The estate where Crown Prince Rudolf commited suicide is also the name of the movie about him. FTP name it. MAYERLING C. Name the actor who portrayed Rudolf in Mayerling. Omar SHARIF 13. If you saw Seven you know the seven deadly sins, so we won't ask that. Instead F5P each name any 6 of the 7 gifts of the Holy Spirit according to Catholic catechism. WISDOM, FORTITUDE, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWLEDGE, COUNSEL, PIETY, FEAR OF THE LORD. 14. Given a a few characters from a Nathaniel Hawthorne work, name it FTP each. a) Miles Coverdale, Silas Foster, Zenobia, Hollinsworth The BLITHEDALE ROMANCE b) Miriam, Hilda, Kenyon, Donatello The MARBLE FAUN c) Hepaibah Pyncheon, Judge Pyncheon, Mr Holgrave, Matthew Maule. The HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES 15. Given the names of a few players for a Major League Soccer team, name the team for ten points each. 10) Mark Chung, Preki, Mo Johnston, Mike Sorber KANSAS CITY or WIZ 10) Jorge (Hor-HAY) Campos, Mauricio Cienfuegos (See-EN- fway-GOZ), Brad Wilson LOS ANGELES or GALAXY 10) Alexi Lalas, Geoff Aunger, Jim St. Andre NEW ENGLAND or REVOLUTION 16. Identify the French Dynasty or Republic governed by each of the following. F5P each plus 5 for all five. A. John the Good VALOIS B. Phillip the Fair CAPET(IAN) C. Charles the Simple CAROLINGIAN D. Sadi Carnot 3RD REPUBLIC E. Vincent Auriol 4TH REPUBLIC 17. FTP each identify the following dealing with sensation and pain. A. This sense lets one know where body parts are with respect to each other. KINESTHESIA B. This sense lets one know the posistion of the body in space and about general movements. VESTIBULAR sensse. C. Messages from the brain can block pain signals. The result is this state, the absense of pain in a normally painful environment. ANALGESIA. 18. Summer may be the time of flings, but Neil Sadaka believes love should be year round. FTP given the month provide the corresponding one-line verse from Sadaka's hit single, Calender Girl. A) March I'm gonna march you down the aisle. B) July Like a firecracker I'm aglow C) October Romeo and Juliet on Halloween 19. Identify these things from the Hobbit for ten points each. 10) This great bear of a man, or man of a bear was a surly chap who helped the heroes on their way to Mirkwood. He hated goblins, orcs and everything evil. BEORN 10) This is the name of the archer from Lake-Town who used a black arrow on the dragon Smaug. BARD 10) Bilbo takes this treasure of the dwarves away and gives it to Gandalf to force the dwarves, elves and residents of Lake Town to reach a peaceful agreement. The ARKENSTONE of Thrain 20. Given the name of a classical music virtusio give the instrument associated with him. A. Nathan Millstene VIOLIN B. Jean Pierre Rampal FLUTE C. Zamphir PAN PIPES, Pan flute