Wahoo War of the Minds 1997

Round Ten


1.  It begins with a prayer to Venus, who the poet asks to befriend him as
he writes the work for Memmius.  Book One establishes that things cannot
be reduced to nothingness, while later books show that all things in the
universe, including the soul, are=20
mortal.  FTP, name this Epicurean epic, written near the end of the Roman
Republic by Titus Lucretius Carus.

Answer: On the Nature of Things (accept De rerum natura)=20

2.  He was victorious over Tippoo Sahib as governor-general of India from
1786 to 1793, and was reappointed to the post in 1804, although he died a
year later.  Negotiator of the peace of Amiens, he put down the Irish
rebellion of 1798 as lord-lieutenant,
 though he is better known for his military failures.  FTP, name this
English soldier, who defeated Gates at Camden and went on to success at
Guildford before he was besieged and forced to surrender at Yorktown.

Answer: Charles Cornwallis

3.  It functions as a light receptor in many lower vertebrates, often with
nervous connections to the eye, and has been suggested as an evolutionary
forerunner to the modern eye. Also known as the epiphysis cerebri, it
develops from the roof of the dience
phalon, shrinking and calcifying with age. It is believed to play a role
in sexual maturation, secreting the hormone melatonin, but is no longer seen
as =D2the seat of the soul=D3.  FTP, what is this gland whose name derives
from its pine-cone shape?

Answer: pineal gland

4.  Although her followers claimed that her 1944 death was the result of a
heart attack, it has been argued that she died of an overdose of
barbiturates.  After her first husband, a Pentecostal missionary, died in China in
1910, she returned to America an
d began her religious career.  FTP, identify this woman, who preached from
the Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, founder of the Foursquare Gospel
Movement.

Answer: Aimee Semple McPherson

5.  Located on the Tigris River, it now exists as two tells, Kuyunjik
(koo-YOON-jik) and Nebiyunus (NEH-bih-YOO-nus).  Rebuilt by Tiglath-pileser,
Sennacherib made it his capital, and Ashurbanipal expanded it in the fifth
century B.C.  FTP, identify this=20
city, the legendary site of Jonah's tomb, the final capital of the
Assyrian empire which Genesis states was founded by Nimrod.

Answer : Nineveh

6.  His collaboration with Stefan Zweig on The Silent Woman drew criticism
from the Nazis, and he was forced to resign as president of the
Reichsmusikkammer.  Assistant conductor to von Bulow at Meiningen, he was invited by
Cosima Wagner to conduct at Bay
reuth in 1891, and his first opera, Guntram, was produced three years
later=2E  FTP, name this composer, who collaborated with Hugo von Hoffmanstael
on Ariadne of Naxos and Der Rosenkavalier, best known for tone poems like
Also sprach Zarathustra.

Answer: Richard Strauss

7.  It reversed the court's ruling in 1942's Betts v. Brady, and it was
made to apply to all cases that could lead to imprisonment in 1972's
Argensinger v. Hamlin.  The court ruled that the Sixth Amendment guaranteed
qualified representation as essential=20
for fairness, and a retrial was ordered.  FTP, identify this Supreme Court
decision of 1963, which required states to provide public defenders in
felony cases.

Answer: Gideon v. Wainwright

8.  As an adjective, it describes hypotheses concerning the precise shape
of the Earth and the significance thereof.  As a noun, it can refer to a
curve with the greatest lapse of proper time between two events in
space-time, such as would be described by
 a freely falling body.  Generally, they are the curves of minimal path
length in a certain metric space, such as a great circle on a sphere.  FTP,
what is this term which Buckminster Fuller used to describe his domes?

Answer: geodesic

9.  It focuses on 13 characters, whose lives before entering the military
are described in flashbacks.  The author=D5s cynicism is expressed in the
clash between Lieutenant Hearn, a wealthy liberal, and General Cummings, a
fascist who believes that soldiers
 must be mere automatons.  FTP, identify this 1948 novel, set on a Pacific
island during World War II, and written by Norman Mailer.

Answer: The Naked and the Dead

10.  After completing his four years at UCLA, he was drafted by the Los
Angeles Rams.  He had a solid career, but blossomed into a star after his
1992 free agent move to Pittsburgh, becoming one of the leaders on their Super
Bowl team.  When the Steelers=20
did not want him back, he changed teams again over the last off season. 
FTP, name this linebacker who led the NFL in sacks for the Carolina Panthers
this year.

Answer: Kevin Greene

11.  It was known to Europeans by its current French name until Joseph
Priestly renamed it in 1770.  The all-trans geometry is called gutta-percha,
and the more common all-cis yields the material ebonite when heated with
certain additives.  The most commo
n synthetic substitute is a copolymer of butadiene with styrene, but a
=D2synthetic natural=D3 variety, all-cis polyisoprene, is also produced.  FTP,
what is this elastomer, first made useful with Charles Goodyear=D5s
discovery of vulcanization?

Answer: rubber

12.  After marrying Margaret Burr, the illegitimate daughter of the Duke
of Beaufort, he left London and settled in Ipswich as a portrait painter.  A
founding member of the Royal Academy, he retired from it in 1784,
dissatisfied with the place given to hi
s The King=D5s Daughters.  FTP, name this painter of Cattle Crossing a
Bridge, The Harvest Wagon, Mrs. Siddons, and Blue Boy.

Answer: Thomas Gainsborough


13.  At the end of the play, Vivie rejects both of her suitors and decides
to continue to do actuarial work with her friend Honoria.  Written in
1893, the Examiner of Plays would not allow it to be acted, and its first
public performance did not come unti
l 1925.  FTP, identify this play, which hinges on the conflict between
Vivie and her mother, who runs a chain of brothels in European capitals,
written by George Bernard Shaw.

Answer: Mrs. Warren=D5s Profession

14.  After his wife died in 1832, Liebig invited him to Giessen to study
almonds, a collaboration which resulted in the discovery of the benzoyl
group=2E  Although he was the first scientist to make aluminum, calcium
carbide, and crystalline silicon, he is=20
best known for his discovery of the cyanates.  FTP, name this German
chemist, who showed in 1828 that heated ammonium cyanate produced urea.

Answer: Friedrich Wohler

15.  He also worked at Orchomenos, Tiryns, and Ithaca, though he is best
known for his first work at Hissarlik.  With the assistance of Wilhelm
Dorpfeld, he went to Turkey at the age of 49, and discovered nine superimposed
sites there between 1871 and 189
0.  FTP, name this German businessman and amateur archaeologist, best
known for his excavations of Mycenae at Troy.

Answer: Heinrich Schliemann

16.  He started out in a grist-mill, earning the nickname =D2mill-boy of
the Slashes=D3 before going on to become assistant clerk to the chancery
court of Virginia.  Elected to Congress in 1811, he would serve as secretary
of state before entering the Senate=20
in 1831.  FTP, name this man, an unsuccessful candidate for President in
1832 and 1844 who was known as the =D2great pacificator=D3 for his role in
creating the Missouri Compromise as a representative from Kentucky.

Answer: Henry Clay

18.  The son of Halfdan the Black, king of Vestfold, he gained power after
his victory at the battle of Hafursfjord.  A strict authoritarian, his
rule saw most of the aristocracy leave the country, and he led several raids
on Scotland.  FTP, name this man
, nicknamed =D2fair-hair,=D3 who abdicated in favor of his son, Eric
Blood-Axe, in 942, after ruling for 50 years as the first king of all Norway.

Answer: Harald I (accept Harald Fair-Hair on early buzz)


19.  Depressed by attacks on his work by the logical positivists, he
committed suicide while taking a holiday on the Adriatic in 1906.  His first
work was an extension of the kinetic theory, as he developed the law of
equipartition of particle energy betw
een degrees of freedom.  FTP, name this Austrian physicist, whose equation
states that the entropy of a system is related to the number of
microstates in which it can be made, and who shares his name with Maxwell on an
energy distribution and with Stefan=20
on a law of black body radiation.

Answer: Ludwig Boltzmann

20.  He began writing as a collaborator with Rowley and Dekker on The
Witch of Edmonton, and continued to work with Dekker on The Welsh Ambassador
and The Sun=D5s Darling.  Although he wrote two comedies, he is better known
for morbid tragedies, such as The
 Lover=D5s Melancholy and Love=D5s Sacrifice, noted for its villain,
D=D5Avalos.  FTP, identify this playwright, best known for The Broken Heart,
Perkin Warbeck, and the tale of Giovanni=D5s incestuous love for Annabella,
=D4Tis Pity She=D5s A Whore.

Answer: John Ford




Boni:

1.  Identify the novels by George Eliot from characters on a 10-5 basis.
1.  10 points:  Mirah Cohen and Henleigh Grandcourt
5 points:  Gwendolyn Harleth
Answer: Daniel Deronda
2.  10 points:  Nancy Lammeter and Dunstan Cass
5 points:  Eppie
Answer: Silas Marner
3.  10 points:  Fred Vincy and Doctor Lydgate
5 points:  Dorothea Brooke
Answer: Middlemarch

2.  FTP each, identify these laws of physics.
1.  The change in internal energy of a system equals the difference of
heat added to, and work done by, the system.
Answer: the First Law of Thermodynamics
2.  The electromotive force induced in a conducting loop is equal in
magnitude to the time rate of change of the magnetic flux through the loop.
Answer: Faraday=D5s Law
3.  The product of the index of refraction with the sine of the angle of
incidence is constant across an optical boundary.
Answer: Snell=D5s Law

3.  Given a series, name the series its pilot episode aired on, FTP each.
1. The Jeffersons
Answer: All in the Family
2. The Andy Griffith Show
Answer: The Danny Thomas Show (accept Make Room for Daddy)
3. Happy Days
Answer: Love, American Style

4.  Answer these questions about the Byzantine empire for the stated
number of points.
1. 5 points:  This former actress was Justinian's wife and adviser.
Answer: Theodora
2. 15 points:  This uprising in Constantinople in 532 almost cost
Justinian his life and throne.
Answer: Nika rebellion
3. 10 points:  In 533 this general defeated the Vandals in North Africa
before beginning his campaigns in Italy.
Answer: Belisarius

5.  Identify the following nineteenth century paintings from descriptions
on a 10-5 basis.  You'll only receive 5 points if you need the name of the
artist.
1.  10 points:  In the foreground, two woman are fully bent over, while a
third is partially stooped.  Two enormous haystacks stand in the background
on the left.
5 points:  Jean Millet
Answer: The Gleaners
2.  10 points:  There are two men with their backs to the viewer.  The one
on the left holds a basket and has a torn shirt, while the one on the
right is lowering a hammer.
5 points:  Gustave Courbet
Answer: The Stonebreakers
3.  10 points:  The light is provided by a large cube lying on the ground
in the middle.  It spotlights a man in a white shirt with his hands
outstretched on the left.
5 points:  Francisco Goya
Answer: The Shootings of May Third, 1808 (accept the Third of May, 1808)

6.  While time traveling in Chaucer's day, you have the urge to run a
chemistry experiment, but the supply shop uses strange names.  Given the
alchemical name, identify the modern chemical you would be getting, for five
points each and with a bonus five f
or all correct.
1.  Quicklime                                =20
Answer: Calcium (oxide)
2.  Ratsbane                                 =20
Answer: Arsenic (trioxide)
3.  Vitriol                                      =20
Answer: Sulfuric acid
4.  Aqua ardens                             =20
Answer: Alcohol
5.  Litharge                                  =20
Answer: Lead (oxide)

8.  Answer the following about the Opium Wars of the 19th Century for the
stated number of points.
1.  5 points:  This 1842 treaty ended the First Opium War.
Answer: Nanking
2.  10 points:  The First Opium War began with Chinese seizure of
British-owned opium in this city.
Answer: Canton
3.  15 points:  The Second Opium War began in 1856 with the Chinese
decision to board this English ship.
Answer: H.M.S. Arrow

9.  Name the Egyptian deities FTP each.
1.  This jackal-headed god of embalming supervised the weighing of souls
at the final judgment.
Answer: Anubis
2.  This sky goddess was the mother of Isis and Osiris.
Answer: Nut
3.  This falcon-headed god was the son of Isis and Osiris.
Answer: Horus

10.  Name the World War I poets for the stated number of points.
1.  5 points:  This author of "Trees" was killed in France in 1918.
Answer: Joyce Kilmer
2.  10 points:  This author of 1914 and Other Poems died in 1915 of
infection following a mosquito bite.
Answer: Rupert Brooke
3.  15 points:  This author of Counter-Attack and Other Poems was wounded
twice but survived the war.
Answer: Siegfried Sassoon

11.  Answer the following about nearby stars, FTP each.
1.  What is the closest star other than the sun?
Answer: Proxima Centauri or Centauri C
2.  What type of star is Proxima Centauri?
Answer: red dwarf
3.  To what spectral class does Proxima Centauri belong?
Answer: M (accept M5)

12.  Name the battles from World War II FTP each.
1.  The remaining US troops in the Philippines surrounded on this
heavily-fortified island in 1942.
Answer: Corregidor
2.  U.S. forces prevented the Japanese from landing at Port Moresby in
this May 1942 battle.
Answer: Coral Sea
3.  In August 1942 U.S. forces landed on this and 2 other Solomon Islands,
beginning the U.S. counterattack.
Answer: Guadalcanal

13.  Identify the twentieth century composers from works on a 10-5 basis.
1.  10 points:  The Song of the Forests and The Nose
5 points:  Lady Macbeth of Mtensk=20
Answer: Dmitri Shostakovitch
2.  10 points:  Tapiola and Kullervo
5 points:  Finlandia
Answer: Jean Sibelius
3.  10 points:  Uirapuru and Mandu Carara
5 points:  Bachianas Brasileiras
Answer: Heitor Villa-Lobos

14.  Identify the following concerning a classic American novel, for the
stated number of points.
1.  10 points:  Subtitled "A Horseman of the Plains," this 1902 work, set
in the Wyoming cattle country during the 1870s, builds toward the wedding
of Molly Wood and the title character.
Answer: The Virginian
2.  5 points:  Name the author of The Virginian.
Answer: Owen Wister
3.  15 points:  When this man accuses the Virginian of cheating at poker,
he replies "When you call me that, smile!"  Later, the Virginian kills him
in one of the first show down duels in literature.
Answer: Trampas

16.  FTP each, identify these explosive substances.
1.  Mixtures of this substance with fuel oil are used as high explosives,
as are water gels combining it with TNT.  Transportation of large
quantities has been regulated since 1947, when a French freighter carrying it as
fertilizer exploded in Galveston B
ay, Texas, killing 600.
Answer: ammonium nitrate
2.  This fluffy, white, highly flammable material, made by treating cotton
with nitric acid, is the main ingredient of modern gunpowder.
Answer: guncotton or nitrocellulose or cellulose nitrate
3.  Discovered by Hans Henning of Germany in 1899, but not used until
World War II, it was called hexogen by the Germans and T4 by the Italians. 
Today it is mixed with various stabilizers to produce the deadly plastic
explosive C4.
Answer: RDX or cyclonite

17.  Identify the following works by Albert Camus, FTP each.
1.  In this short novel, a former lawyer from Paris meets a man in a bar
in Amsterdam, and explains why he works as a judge.
Answer: The Fall or La Chute
2.  In this 1942 essay, Camus used a figure from Greek myth to explain his
belief that life is possible, even though man must live without hope.
Answer: The Myth of Sisyphus
3.  This lengthy essay of 1951 makes the distinction between political
revolution, which Camus believed useless, and the philosophical independence
needed to face an absurd universe.
Answer: The Rebel or L'Homme r=8Evolt=8E

18.  Name the 2-term vice-president who served under the following
presidents, FTP each.
1.  James Monroe
Answer: Daniel Tompkins
2.  Woodrow Wilson
Answer: Thomas Marshall
3.  Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Answer: John Nance Garner

19.  Identify the device, 30-20-10.
1.  Two common varieties are laser, with a polished face transverse to the
depletion zone, and Zener, which operates by quantum tunneling.
2.  Represented in circuit diagrams by a triangle with a bar crossing one
vertex, they are used as rectifiers and in regulated power supplies.=20
3.  The older, evacuated glass tube variety has been largely replaced by
solid state kind, a junction between p-type and n-type semiconductor
materials.
Answer: diode

20.  Given a river, name the state where it has its source, FTP each.
1.  Susquehanna
Answer: New York
2.  Rio Grande
Answer: Colorado
3.  Wabash
Answer: Indiana