From imorgan@umr.edu Tue Sep 17 10:53:42 1996 Received: from umr.edu (hermes.cc.umr.edu [131.151.1.68]) via ESMTP by hermes.cc.umr.edu (8.7.5/L.4.15) id KAA02087; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 10:49:04 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [131.151.6.163] (imorgan.math.umr.edu [131.151.6.163]) via ESMTP by hermes.cc.umr.edu (8.7.5/R.4.17) id KAA02079; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 10:49:02 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 10:50:14 -0600 To: cbowl@umr.edu X-UIDL: 842978901.000 From: Ilene Morgan Subject: Penn Hired Gun Status: RO Penn Hired Gun tossups, written by Pat Matthews & Jason Arvey - written for NLIT 1. In this play, the title character gives Andrea Sarti a secret book to smuggle to Holland, but refuses to be called a hero because he recanted his scientific beliefs. FTP, name this Bertolt Brecht play about a suppressed Italian scientist. ANSWER: The Life of GALILEO 2. If you put the stress on the second syllable, it means to hypnotize. If you put the stress on the first syllable, it means the portal through which one goes into a building. FTP, what is this two-syllable word? ANSWER: ENTRANCE 3. He assailed the GM Corvair, and Life magazine once called him "the champion we never knew we needed against an enemy we never knew was there. FTP, name this author of Unsafe at Any Speed, a leading consumer advocate. ANSWER: Ralph NADER 4. Krogstad blackmails Nora over a fraudulent loan, and as the danger passes Nora's husband Torvald is exposed as a hypocrite. Disillusioned, Nora abandons Torvald and her children. Thus is the plot in, FTP, what play by Henrik Ibsen. ANSWER: A DOLL'S HOUSE or A DOLL HOUSE or ET DUKKEHJEM 5. The US team, led by Buddy Marucci and Tiger Woods, lost this event in 1995 at Royal Porthcawl for just the fourth time. FTP, name this biannual contest between teams of amateur golfers from the British Isles and the US. ANSWER: WALKER CUP 6. His nephew Arthur had the more senior claim, but this British king seized the throne and had Arthur murdered in France. FTP, name this king, the youngest son of Henry II, who in 1215 signed the Magna Carta. ANSWER: JOHN 7. This painting was rejected by the 1863 Salon show, partly because of its controversial grouping of clothed men and a naked woman. FTP, name this Edouard Manet work, which shows this figures having a picnic. ANSWER: LUNCHEON ON THE GRASS or Le DEJEUNER SUR L'HERBE 8. Populated mainly by Ibo tribes, this region tried to become independent under Colonel Ojukwu, but was suppressed in a bloody civil war from 1967-70. FTP, name this African region, now a province of Nigeria. ANSWER: BIAFRA 9. Its protagonist Telly only seduces virgins, and his gang steals, does drugs, and beats up a skateboarder. All of which made Disney Studios rather skittish. Thus is the plot of, FTP, what 1995 film directed by Larry Clark. ANSWER: KIDS 10. A son of Shiva, this Hindu god is revered as the remover of obstacles, and was the scribe who wrote Vyasa's dictation of the Mahabharata. FTP, name this elephant-headed god, idols of whom drank milk in an alleged 1995 miracle. ANSWER: GANESHA or GANAPATI 11. Her short story collection Everything That Rises Must Converge was published posthumously in 1965. FTP, name this Southern writer, influenced by Roman Catholicism, author of The Violent Bear it Away and Wise Blood. ANSWER: Mary Flannery O'CONNOR 12. You would need seven colors to paint a map on this solid. And it is homotopic to a figure-8. It's also the shape that the board of Pac-Man would need to be played on. FTP, what is this shape, more commonly referred to as a doughnut? ANSWER: TORUS 13. "Act only on that maxim whereby you can at the same time will it to become a universal law" is this two-word term's basic formulation. FTP, name this term describing the moral law in Kant's Critique of Practical Reason. ANSWER: CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE 14. Matters settled there include the border of Poland, partition of Germany, and Russia's agreement to declare war on Japan. FTP, name this World War II conference, held in 1945 in a resort town on the Crimea. ANSWER: YALTA 15. Its cylindrical wing rises from Lake Erie, and a white tower and glass, triangular facade form its multi-level lobbies. FTP, name this recently- opened building, designed by I. M. Pei, a Cleveland shrine to popular music. ANSWER: the ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME and Museum 16. A partly muscular, partly glandular sex organ, it partially encircles the urethra. FTP, name this organ, which secretes an alkaline component of semen, and which accounts for a large proportion of cancer in males. ANSWER: PROSTATE gland 17. His Russian talk show was canceled in September, 1995 to make way for campaign-related broadcasting. FTP, name this repatriated Russian dissident, who was exiled in 1974 after writing the first volume of The Gulag Archipelago. ANSWER: Alexander SOLZHENITSYN 18. Rising in the Continental Divide, it flows through Utah and Arizona, forming parts of borders between Arizona, Nevada, California, and Mexico. FTP, name this river, which empties in the Gulf of California and carved the Grand Canyon. ANSWER: COLORADO River 19. After leaving West Point, he went to Paris and then London, where he painted most of his famous "nocturnes", such as Old Battersea Bridge. FTP, name this artist of Arrangement in Gray and Black, Portrait of the Artist's Mother. ANSWER: James McNeil WHISTLER 20. Members of this sect, such as Lucretia Mott and Alice Paul, led the women's suffrage movement. FTP, name this Christian group, in whose services members speak "as the spirit moves them", devoted to modesty, simplicity, and pacifism. ANSWER: Religious Society of FRIENDS or QUAKERs 22. Produced by the decay of pions, it has a spin of one-half, and a mass of 106 mega electron volts. FTP, name this fundamental particle, a lepton which behaves like a "heavy" electron. ANSWER: MUONs 23. A former Nebraska star, he scored three touchdowns in Super Bowl XIX. FTP, name this running back, the first to both rush and receive for 1000 yards in a single season, a former star for the San Francisco 49ers. ANSWER: Roger CRAIG 24. Equal to the ratio of the electromotive force produced to the rate of change of the current, it is a measure of a coil's ability to produce a voltage in another coil or in itself. FTP, name this physical quantity, whose unit is the henry. ANSWER: INDUCTANCE 25. It is a lyric poem which unites personal emotion and general meditation. FTP, name this poetic form, which when combined with "on Indolence", "on Melancholy", "to Psyche", and "on a Grecian Urn" name some poems by Keats. ANSWER: ODEs 26. Born Rafael Sebastian Guillen Vicente, he was the son of a furniture salesman and was a sociology professor. FTP, name the sobriquet this man adopted in 1994 as the leader of a guerilla movement in Mexico's Chiapas (Chee-AH-Pas) state. ANSWER: SUBCOMMANDER MARCOS 27. The Dutch founded a colony on this island in 1626, but were displaced by the British in 1664. FTP, name this island, first acquired by Peter Minuit, bounded to the West by the Hudson River and to the South by New York Bay. ANSWER: MANHATTAN Island 28. In 1994, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco announced plans for Eclipse, a new brand of smokeless cigarettes. The Eclipse is similar to, FTP, what failed Reynolds brand, withdrawn in 1989 after test consumers complained it tasted like excrement. ANSWER: PREMIEREs Penn Hired Gun boni, written by Pat Matthews & Jason Arvey - written for NLIT 1.(30) In 1995, Russian authorities decided to re-inter the bodies of Czar Nicholas II and family in St. Petersburg. For fifteen points each, name the St. Petersburg fort containing the Romanov family crypt, and the Ural Mountains town near the execution and original burial site of the last czar. ANSWER: Fort of Saints PETER AND PAUL, YEKATERINBURG 2. (30) For 5 points each, place the following stars in order of decreasing apparent brightness: Aldebaran, Antares, Betelguese, Rigel, Sirius, Vega. Answer: SIRIUS, VEGA, RIGEL, BETELGUESE, ALDEBARAN, ANTARES 3. (20) In one of the better trades in history, the Boston Celtics sent the rights to Joe Barry Carroll to the Golden State Warriors for a center and the rights to a forward. FTP each, name these two players, who figured prominently with Larry Bird on the dominant Celtics teams of the 1980's. ANSWER: Robert PARRISH, Kevin MCHALE 4. (25) Its name comes from the Latin for "seventy", and by tradition was compiled by six members of each tribe of Israel. For twenty-5 points, name this Greek translation of the Old Testament, the Orthodox churches' standard version. ANSWER: SEPTUAGINT 5. (25) Formerly called Belau, it's capital is Koror, and it's flag is a yellow circle on a blue field. For twenty-five points, name this island nation which became the most recent American Pacific Trust Territory to gain independence. Answer: PALAU 6. (20) She established schools in Salzburg, Vienna, and Berlin. She borrowed from Greek notions of beauty and harmony, but also incorporated everyday movements, such as skipping and walking in her work. For twenty points, name this American dancer and choreographer, killed in a 1927 car accident. ANSWER: Isadora (or Angela) DUNCAN 7. (30) FTP each, name the following Germanic chieftains: a. in 476, he captured Rome, ending the West Roman Empire A: ODOACER b. in 489, this Ostrogoth king defeated Odoacer A: THEODORIC c. Visigoth king who made the first barbarian sack of Rome A: ALARIC 8. (25) In 1950, MacArthur stunned North Korean forces by staging an amphibious attack on this port in 1950. FTP, name this city, about 20 miles from Seoul. ANSWER: INCHON For fifteen points, name the river forming the border between China and North Korea, which Chinese forces crossed in November 1950 to enter the war. ANSWER: YALU River 9. (25) His The Fair Miller-Maid was a cycle of twenty lieder, or art songs, and other lieder of his set poems by Goethe, Heine, and Schiller to music. For fifteen points, name this Vienna composer. ANSWER: Franz SCHUBERT FTP, name the Schubert composition that figures prominently in a 1990 play by Ariel Dorfman, whose film version starred Glenn Close. ANSWER: DEATH AND THE MAIDEN 10. (25) Young Peter Verkhovensky attempts to start a revolutionary movement with the enigmatic Nikolai Stavrogin as its figurehead. For fifteen points, name this novel, in which Verkhovensky arranges the murder of a fellow member. ANSWER: BELY or The POSSESSED or The DEMONS or The DEVILS FTP, name the author of The Possessed. ANSWER: Fyodor DOSTOEVSKY 11. (20) He was a printer, journalist, sailor, and prospector before he was an economist. For twenty points, name this American, who denounced the taking of rents, and proposed a single tax on land in his Progress and Poverty. ANSWER: Henry GEORGE 12. (20) Clint Eastwood's best-known character is probably "Dirty Harry" Callahan, a San Francisco police inspector. For 5 points each, name the four sequels to the original 1971 film Dirty Harry. ANSWER: MAGNUM FORCE, The ENFORCER, SUDDEN IMPACT, The DEAD POOL 13. (25) Italy's Mafia dragnet pulled in a big fish in September 1995. For twenty-five points, name the Italian statesman and seven-time prime minister ordered to stand trial for Mafia-related crimes, a trial which could take two years. ANSWER: Giulio ANDREOTTI 14. (30) Some scientific units are just convenient amounts of other, more basic units. FTP each, name the following units. a. Ten to the negative ten meters. Answer: ANGSTROM b. Ten to the negative eight webers. Answer: MAXWELL c. Ten to the negative seven joules. Answer: ERG 15. (25) Born in Russia in 1886, he emigrated to the US and became a Vaudeville star. For 5 points each, name this actor and singer who starred in the first motion picture with sound, and name that film. ANSWER: Al JOLSON or Asa YOELSON, The JAZZ SINGER For 15 points, name the pop singer who starred in the 1970's remake of The Jazz Singer. ANSWER: Neil DIAMOND 16. (30) Passed in 1798, three laws enabled the Adams administration to hush dissent. FTP each, what two words popularly named these laws, the first two concerning foreign nationals, the other forbidding criticism of the government. ANSWER: ALIEN and SEDITION Acts For 5 points each, name the two statesmen whose Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions denounced the Alien and Sedition Acts. ANSWER: Thomas JEFFERSON, James MADISON 17. (20) Virgil explained the enmity between Rome and another city in the Aeneid, writing that Aeneas spurned the love of its queen. For 5 points each, name the city, a chief rival of Rome, and its ill-fated queen. ANSWER: CARTHAGE, DIDO FTP, name either author of the 1594 The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage. ANSWER: Christopher MARLOWE or Thomas NASHE 18. (30) Its protagonist is pitcher Gil Gamesh, who plays in a fictional third major league undermined by communism. For twenty points, name this 1973 book, in which Gamesh is expelled from the game for beaning an umpire. ANSWER: The GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL FTP, name the author of The Great American Novel and Portnoy's Complaint. ANSWER: Philip ROTH 30 POINT BONUS 19. (30) Time for geography strip-tease. FTP each, given the name of a disputed strip of land, name the country that technically owns it. a. Gaza Strip ANSWER: EGYPT b. Aozou Strip (OW-zoo) ANSWER: CHAD c, Caprivi Strip ANSWER: NAMIBIA 20. (30) In 1995, a report recommending sweeping changes in the NASDAQ stock market was published. The committee preparing this report was led by, FTP, what former US Senator, also known for a 1985 deficit-reduction act. ANSWER: Warren RUDMAN FTP each, name the other two Senators who with Rudman sponsored the act. ANSWER: Phil GRAMM, Ernest "Fritz" HOLLINGS 21. (20) Formed in 1961, it's an association of countries set up to help its members set social and fiscal policies conducive to high growth and financial stability. For 5 points per word, give the English name of this group, abbreviated OECD. ANSWER: ORGANIZATION for ECONOMIC COOPERATION and DEVELOPMENT 22. (30) Name the author from the clues, 30-20-10. 30) In her 1832 novel Indiana, a woman who leaves her husband for a lover. 20) Born Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin, she married Casimir Dudevant. 10) Among her many lovers was the pianist Frederic Chopin. ANSWER: George SAND (accept DUPIN or DUDEVANT on first clue) 23. (25) He studied under Andrea del Sarto, and is known for designing the Uffizi in Florence. However, he's best known for writing the Lives of the Most Eminent Italian Architects, Painters, and Sculptors, still a major source of information. For twenty-five points, name this art historian. ANSWER: Giorgio VASARI 24. (25) The Black Sox scandal was partly precipitated by the stingy ways of the Chicago White Sox's owner. FTP, name him, a former major leaguer himself. ANSWER: Charles COMISKEY For fifteen, name the banned White Sox pitcher who won 29 games in 1919. ANSWER: Eddie CICOTTE 25. (30) Given the name of a treaty, provide the war that it ended, FTP each. a. Peace of Utrecht Answer: The War of SPANISH SUCCESSION b. Treaty of San Stefano Answer: The RUSSO-TURKISH War c. Treaty of Nanking Answer: The First OPIUM War