Wahoo War of the Minds 1997

Round Fifteen


1.  The first volume begins in the 1880s when a solicitor buys land at
Robin Hill to build a house for his family.  His wife Irene falls in love with
the architect, Bosinney, but returns to her husband after Bosinney is run
over and killed, only to have a
n affair with her husband=D5s cousin, Jolyon, who she divorces her husband
to marry.  The last book ends with Irene and her son, Jon, going to
America, leaving Soames behind in England.  FTP, identify this sequence of
novels, including Awakening, To Let, In
 Chancery, and The Man of Property, written by John Galsworthy.

Answer: the Forsyte Saga

2.  His son Martin was also an astronomer who did pioneering work on the
range of stellar masses.  At the age of 16, he published a paper on binary
orbits, and went on to made advances in photographic methods. FTP, name this
German scientist, who proposed
 the first solutions to the partial differential equations of the general
theory of relativity in papers written while he served on the Russian front
in 1916, and who is best known for theorizing that a star contracting
under gravity will reach a limit be
yond which nothing can escape, a radius beneath which stars become black
holes.

Answer: Karl Schwarzchild

3.  The British negotiator, Lord Grenville, granted compensation for
damage done by British ships, and in return secured payment of debts owed
English merchants and most-favored nation trading status.  The American secured
British evacuation of forts and=20
fur posts on the northern U.S. border.  Arbitration would settle boundary
disputes, and no mention of impressment was included in the provisions,
FTP, of what 1794 treaty?

Answer: Jay's Treaty

4.  He returned to Jerusalem after reaching Perga with Barnabas and Paul
on their first mission, though he went on to evangelize Cyprus with
Barnabas.  He was known as the "interpreter of Peter" since he was Peter's disciple
in Rome, where he wrote betwee
n the years 60 and 70.  FTP, name this patron saint of Venice, the first
of the Gospel writers.

Answer: Mark

5.  He started out as a government engineer working on bridges and roads,
but retired from his position in 1892 to devote himself to writing.  He
believed that science could only tell us about artificial nature, not "natural
nature," and that man's proble
ms in modern times resulted from his viewing every problem as solvable by
technological means.  FTP, name this French thinker, who created the myth
of the general strike in his Reflections on Violence, a founder of
syndicalism.

Answer: Georges Sorel

6.  In 1851, he made an agreement with E. P. Christy to put Christy's name
on his Ethiopian Melodies.  Born near Pittsburgh, he had no formal
training, but composed his first work, Sadly to Mine Heart Appearing, at the age
of 13.  FTP, name this composer,
 best known for Songs of the Sable Harmonists, including Uncle Ned, Old
Folks at Home, Camptown Races, and Oh! Susannah.

Answer: Stephen Foster

7.  After the main character is disinherited by her aunt, she takes a job
as a milliner and dies from a sedative overdose.  At the age of 29, she
sets out to find a husband, but loses out on Percy Gryce when she goes out
with Lawrence Selden instead of ac
companying Percy to church.  FTP, identify this 1905 novel, the story of
Lily Bart=D5s tragic social life, written by Edith Wharton.

Answer: The House of Mirth

8.  His namesake father was the United States=D5 World War I era
ambassador to Turkey.  He himself was born in New York City, educated at Cornell,
and publisher from 1922 to 1933 of the monthly periodical American
Agriculturalist.  In 1945, his book Germany
 Is Our Problem, a tract advocating reduction of the German economy to
that of a completely agricultural state, was published.  FTP, name this man
who served for 11 years as FDR's Secretary of the Treasury.

Answer: Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

9.  Languages spoken there include Maithir and Bhojpuri, and minority
ethnic groups include the Bihari, Tamang, Tharu, and Newar.  The only
officially Hindu state in the world, it is a constitutional monarchy, ruled by
Birenda Bir Bikram Shah Deva and a b
icameral parliament.  FTP, name this kingdom of 20 million, whose cities
include Patan, Dhankuta, Silgarhi, and Katmandu.

Answer: Nepal

10.  He retired after the failure of Pertharite, although he returned to
the theater with Oedipe in 1659.  A translator of The Imitation of Christ
into French verse, he first gained success with Melite, but failed with
comedies like Clitandre before writi
ng his first tragedy, Medea.  FTP, name this author of Cinna, Horace,
Polyeucte, and Le Cid.

Answer: Pierre Corneille

11.  After his death in 1778, his collections were purchased by Sir James
Smith, who brought then to London and founded the society named for him. 
He began his studies at the University of Lund, but dropped out after his
father was unable to continue sup
porting him, returning to study at Uppsala when a benefactor helped him
out=2E  FTP, name this scientist, who proposed that plants have sexual
characteristics, which led to his division of flowering plants into classes and
to his classification of plants ac
cording to his system of binomial nomenclature.

Answer: Carl Linneaus (accept Carl von Linn=8E)=20

12.  After he led a failed rebellion in Strasbourg in 1836, he was
deported to the United States.  Returning to France, he was sentenced to life in
prison for starting a rebellion in Boulogne, but escaped after five years. 
FTP, identify this man, who ret
urned to France in 1848 to be elected president, and who went on to spend
19 years as emperor.

Answer: Napoleon III or Louis Napoleon

13.  Squarks, selectrons, photinos and gluinos are some of the particles
which appear in string theories possessing this property, as introduced in
1976 by the French physicist Joel Scherk.  Bosons are imagined to have
counterparts with half-integer spin,
 and fermions to have counterparts with integer spin, yielding a
fundamental symmetry between the two.  FTP, name this property sometimes referred to
by the acronym SUSY.

Answer: Supersymmetry (accept superstring theory on early buzz)

14.  Swinburne thought that he was the =D2greatest song-writer ever born
of English race.=D3  After serving as an apprentice to his uncle, a
goldsmith, he went to London, becoming a friend of Ben Jonson and chaplain to
Buckingham.  FTP, name this poet, whose=20
religious verse is collected in Noble Numbers and whose Hesperides
contains =D2Oberon=D5s Feast,=D3 =D2The Lily in a Crystal,=D3 and =D2To the
Virgins, to make much of time.=D3

Answer: Robert Herrick

15.  After the rules of Al-Muizz and Al-Aziz, it reached its height under
Al-Hakim, who was known as the Mad Caliph.  After his death in 1021, Syria
was lost under Az-Zahir, and North Africa threw off their rule during the
58 year reign of Al-Mustansir. =20
FTP, identify this Moslem dynasty, which ruled until Saladin established
the Ayyubid line, which began in 968 when the capital moved to Cairo, which
claimed descent from Ali and the daughter of Mohammed.

Answer: the Fatimid dynasty

16.  She introduced the Demeter cult to Egypt, and was herself identified
with Isis because of the devotion she showed in searching for her son,
Epaphus.  After Zeus killed the Curetes, she found her son, and went on to
marry Telegonus, becoming an ancest
or of Perseus and Hercules.  FTP, identify this daughter of Inachus and
priestess of Hera who was supervised by Argus until Hermes killed him, a
woman who slept with Zeus and was turned into a cow.

Answer: Io

17.  His lesser artistic achievements include a treatise on aesthetics,
The Analysis of Beauty, and paintings like Pool of Bethesda and Sigismunda. 
Although he was influenced by the French Rococo, he was strongly
anti-French, and was arrested as a spy in
 1748 for drawing the fortifications of Calais.  FTP, name this English
artist, who got a copyright act passed in 1735 to protect engravings like his
Marriage a la Mode, Harlot's Progress, and Rake's Progress from pirating.

Answer: William Hogarth

18.  Abundant in tide pools and coral reefs, they are also common in soil
down to a depth of a meter or more, and are often among the first
colonizers of bare rock.  Grown in rice paddies in Southeast Asia in lieu of
fertilizer, they are technically class
ified as bacteria, but their popular name derives from the color produced
by chlorophyll and phycobilin, a blue pigment.  Evolving some three billion
years ago, FTP, what organisms profoundly altered earth=D5s atmosphere by
liberating oxygen in the first wa
ter-based photosynthetic reactions?

Answer: cyanobacteria or blue-green algae

19.  Born in 1954, he studied at the University of Minnesota before
starting a career in music.  A former member of the Greek national swim team, he
has toured with the band Chameleon, and released his first solo album,
Optimystique, in 1986.  FTP, identi
fy this New Age star, who has had a long term relationship with Linda
Evans and whose first name is Chrysomallis.

Answer: Yanni


20.  He was born Emmanuele Conegliano, but converted from Judaism to Roman
Catholicism, and became a professor of rhetoric at Treviso.  He sold boots
in London before coming to America in 1805, where he worked as a grocer
before becoming professor of Ital
ian literature at Columbia.  FTP, name this poet, who worked for the
Vienna Court Opera in the 1780s, writing the libretti for Cosi fan tutte, Don
Giovanni, and The Marriage of Figaro.

Answer: Lorenzo Da Ponte




Boni:

1.  For the stated number of points, identify the following associated
with Prague.
1.  5 points:  He was the Czechoslovakian leader during 1968's Prague
Spring.
Answer: Alexander Dubcek
2.  10 points:  The 1866 Treaty of Prague ended what European conflict?
Answer: Austro-Prussian War or Seven Weeks War
3.  15 points:  The Praguerie was a 1440 revolt by French nobles against
this king.  The French dauphin became the figurehead of the revolt, and
later succeeded the revolted-against King as Louis XI.
Answer: Charles VII

2.  You may want to have pencil and paper ready as you answer the
following questions FTP each.=20
1.  The quiz-bowl club at East Podunk University has seven members, and
just enough money to enter one four-member team at Wahoo War.  How many
different team compositions are possible?
Answer: 35 (=3D7 choose 4)
2.  For good luck, the EPU team decides to play each game sitting in the
same order from right to left.  How many orders do they have to choose from?
Answer: 24 (=3D4 factorial)
3.  After a loss, the team decides to rearrange their seating order so
that no one is sitting in the same seat in the new arrangement as he or she
was in the old.  Is the number of ways they can do this equal to 1, 3, 9, 20,
or 45?
Answer: 9

3.  Identify the following concerning a Russian novel FTP each.
1.  Set during the reign of Nicholas I, this 1840 novel tells the story of
an army officer in the Caucasus who has an affair with a native, falls in
with smugglers, and kills another officer in a duel.
Answer: A Hero of Our Time or Geroy nashego vremeni
2.  Name the author of A Hero of Our Time.
Answer: Mikhail Lermontov
3.  Name the hero of A Hero of Our Time.
Answer: Grigory Aleksandrovich Pechorin

4.  Given facts about team records in the NCAA men's basketball
championship, name the team on a 10-5 basis.
1.  10 points:  They lost the championship to Wyoming in 1943, though they
are better known for two championship losses in the 1980s.
5 points:  Those losses came to North Carolina and Villanova.
Answer: Georgetown
2.  10 points:  They won three titles in four years by defeating Baylor,
Oklahoma State, and Kansas State.
5 points:  More recently, they won by beating Syracuse.
Answer: Kentucky
3.  10 points:  They lost the title game to Kentucky and Louisville, and
were the first team beaten by UCLA en route to its dynasty of the 60s and
70s=2E
5 points:  After losing to UNLV in 1989, they came back to win consecutive
titles.
Answer: Duke

5.  FTP each, answer these questions about crystal structure.
1.  A dimensionless number which depends only on the structure, it is a
constant of proportionality between the lattice energy of an ionic crystal to
the separation of atoms in the lattice.
Answer: Madelung constant
2.  In any real crystal, a small fraction of lattice sites remain
unoccupied by atoms.  This name is given to such vacancies, after a German
solid-state physicist who is also the namesake of a type of diode.
Answer: Schottky defects
3.  If an ionic crystal is irradiated, some atoms may lose an electron. 
The resulting ion escapes from the crystal, but the electron migrates to an
Schottky defect, where it is held electrostatically.  What name, derived
from the German for "color center
", is given to these defects which impart
color to ionic crystals?
Answer: F-center (from "Farben-Zentrum")

6.  Answer these questions about Eastern Christianity FTP each.
1.  In 863 he and his brother Cyril were sent by Emperor Michael III to
convert the Slavs.
Answer: Methodius
2.  Cyril and Methodius translated scripture into this alphabet.
Answer: Glagolitic
3.  In the 10th century the Glagolitic alphabet was replaced in Slavic
texts by this alphabet based on the Greek one.
Answer: Cyrillic

7.  Identify the following plays by Arthur Miller FTP each.
1.  This 1964 work was controversial because the character of Maggie was
allegedly modeled on Miller's wife, Marilyn Monroe.
Answer: After the Fall
2.  Miller gained his first success with his 1947 play, which looked at
the effects of World War II.
Answer: All My Sons
3.  Characters in this 1953 play include Mary Warren and Giles Corey.
Answer: The Crucible

8.  Name the terms from Hinduism FTP each.
1.  The term for devotion to a god.
Answer: bhakti
2.  Word designating salvation, release, or emancipation.
Answer: moksha
3.  The cycle of birth, death, and rebirth.
Answer: samsara

9.  Identify the following Supreme Court decisions from the first decade
of this century FTP each.
1.  This Insular Case upheld De Lima v. Bidwell and asserted the principle
that "the Constitution follows the flag."  It was subsequently reversed by
Downes v. Bidwell.
Answer: Dooley v. United States
2.  This decision ruled unconstitutional a state law limiting maximum
working hours for bakers.
Answer: Lochner v. New York
3.  This decision ruled constitutional a state law limiting the maximum
number of hours a woman could work.
Answer: Muller v. Oregon

11.  Identify the following science terms that begin with the letter "L"
FTP each.
1.  Examples of this are oil cavities in citrus tree leaves.  It is the
disruption of plant cells to form a cavity in which secretions accumulate.
Answer: lysigeny
2.  Found in tears and saliva, it disrupts the polysaccharides in
bacterial cell walls, making them easier to destroy.
Answer: lysozyme
3.  It is the general term for anything that has an affinity for a
solvent.  If the solvent happens to be water, the more specific term "hydrophilic"
is used.
Answer: lyophilic

12.  Identify the Americans from their nicknames for ten points.  If you
need an additional clue, you will only receive 5 points.
1.  10 points:  The Cast-Iron Man
5 points:  Vice-President to John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, he
authored the South Carolina exposition, which advocated the doctrine of
nullification.
Answer: John Calhoun
2.  10 points:  Ol' Snappin Turtle
5 points:  He was the victorious Union general at the Battle of
Gettysburg.
Answer: George Meade
3.  10 points:  The Superb
5 points:  He earned the moniker for his able direction of Union troops in
the Civil War, and in 1880 polled just 7,018 popular votes fewer than
James Garfield.
Answer: Winfield Scott Hancock

13.  Identify the following pertaining to the First Crusade for the stated
number of points.
1.  5 points: What Pope called the Crusade?
Answer: Urban II
2.  10 points: At what 1095 Council did Urban II call the Crusade?
Answer: Clermont
3.  15 points: Appeals for aid by what Byzantine emperor alarmed by the
Seljuk Turks' conquests in the region moved Urban to call the Crusade?
Answer: Alexius I or Alexius Comnenus

14.  FTP each, answer the following about muscle tissue in vertebrates.
1.  Muscle filaments come in two varieties, the thin, which consist of two
strands of a certain type of molecule coiled together, and the thick,
which are staggered arrays of another type of molecule.  For five points
apiece, name these two proteins respo
nsible for contractile properties of
animal cells.
Answer: actin and myosin
2.  Skeletal muscle is also called striated muscle because the regular
arrangement of the myofilaments creates a repeating pattern of light and dark
bands, punctuated by dark stripes called the Z lines.  FTP, what is the
basic functional unit of muscle wh
ose boundaries are defined by the Z lines?
Answer: sarcomere
3.  The area near the edge of the sarcomere contains only thin filaments,
and is the part of the sarcomere which changes length during muscle
contraction.  FTP, what is this "band"?
Answer: the I band

15.  Identify the "C" initialed English poets on a 10-5 basis.
1.  10 points:  His lesser known works include The Revenge, a burlesque,
and Apostate Will, a satire.
5 points:  Prior to his suicide at the age of 17, he gained fame for poems
he claimed were written by Thomas Rowley, a fifteenth century monk.
Answer: Thomas Chatterton
2.  10 points:  His lesser known works include The Newspaper and The
Parish Register.
5 points:  He is best known for The Borough, a series of tales that
includes "Peter Grimes," and The Village.
Answer: George Crabbe
3.  10 points:  His lesser known works include "The Progress of Error" and
The Diverting History of John Gilpin.
5 points:  This often insane eighteenth century poet is best known for The
Task.
Answer: William Cowper

16.  Identify the following Australian political leaders FTP each.
1.  Governor of the colony from 1806 to 1808, he was removed from office
by the Rum Rebellion, but is better known as the ill-fated captain of the
H.M=2ES. Bounty.
Answer: William Bligh
2.  The leading figure in Australia's federation movement, he served as
the nation's first prime minister from 1901 to 1903.
Answer: Edmund Barton
3.  Organizer of the Liberal party as a successor to the United Australia
party, he was prime minister from 1939 to 1941 and again from 1949 to 1966,
when he retired after having served the longest unbroken term as prime
minister in the nation's history.
Answer: Robert Menzies

17.  Identify the following things from economics, FTP each.
1.  This curve shows possible combinations of rates of inflation and
unemployment.
Answer: Phillips curve
2.  It states that people supply resources to the market because they want
to buy something, meaning that quantity supplied creates quantity
demanded.
Answer: Say's law
3.  This type of curve shows all the efficient combinations of two
resources, like labor and capital, which produce a given amount of output.
Answer: isoquant

18.  Name the art terms, FTP each.
1. A two-paneled hinged altarpiece.
Answer: diptych
2. A full-size prepatory drawing for a painting.
Answer: cartoon
3. Oil paint applied thickly.
Answer: impasto

19.  Name these Wonders of the Modern World, as determined by the editors
of Readers Digest, for the stated number of points.
1.  15 points: This city was begun around 300 BC and rediscovered in
Guatemala in 1848.
Answer: Tikal
2.  5 points: This temple complex is the only such wonder in Cambodia.
Answer: Angkor
3.  10 points: This French cathedral, begun in 1194 and consecrated in
1260, is known for its stained-glass windows, many of which are a distinct
shade of blue.
Answer: Chartres (SHARTR) Cathedral

20.  Identify the following concerning Don Quixote, for the stated number
of points.
1.  5 points:  What province does Don Quixote come from?
Answer: La Mancha
2.  10 points:  This skinny nag is Don Quixote's horse.
Answer: Rocinante
3.  15 points:  After this knight beats Don Quixote in a duel, he returns
to La Mancha and gives up chivalry.
Answer: the Knight of the White Moon