Wahoo War of the Minds

Round Eighteen


1.  It is set at a boarding-house by the sea which belongs to a deck-chair
attendant and his wife Meg.  The only boarder is Stanley, who claims that
he was a concert pianist, and who is frightened when two new boarders,
McCann and Goldberg, arrive.  FTP,=20
name this play, which ends with the newcomers taking Stanley away after he
becomes hysterical during a game of blind-man=D5s buff during the title
event, a 1957 work that was the first success of Harold Pinter.

Answer: The Birthday Party

2.  To provide Rome a harbor for Egyptian grain, he built the Portus
Romanus near Ostia, and it took eleven years to finish his project of draining
the Fucine Lake.  The first emperor proclaimed by the army, his most
important military feat, aided by Aulu
s Plautius and Vespasian, was the permanent occupation of England,
accomplished with the defeat of Caractacus.  FTP, identify this Roman emperor, the
brother of Germanicus who succeeded Caligula and whose reign was followed
by that of Nero.

Answer: Claudius

3.  He developed a method using 2,4-dinitrofluorobenzene, the reagent
named for him, to label an amino acid at the free amino end of a protein.  In
1977, he succeeded in describing the base sequence of Phi X 174, a virus,
and went on to sequence mitochond
rial DNA and the Epstein-Barr virus.  FTP, name this British biochemist,
who won a Nobel Prize for his work on nucleic acids 22 years after winning
the prize for his description of insulin, the first winner of two Nobels for
chemistry.

Answer: Frederick Sanger

4.  Emigrating to the United States in 1803 to avoid conscription into
Napoleon's army, this illegitimate son of a chambermaid and a French sea
captain was born in Haiti and in his youth received instruction in drawing from
Jacques Louis David.  His son J
ohn finished The Viviparious Quadrupeds of America after he went blind in
1846.  FTP, name this writer who had to go to England to find a publisher
for his masterpiece Birds of America.

Answer: John James Audubon

5.  In Lolita, it is the name that Humbert Humbert gives his car, and the
name was adopted by Oscar Wilde, a descendant of the novel's author, after
he was released from prison.  He makes a deal with Satan for long life, but
can transfer the debt if he ca
n find someone else to take it up; however, no-one, from a lunatic to a
victim of the Inquisition, will agree to do so.  FTP, identify this doomed
figure, the title wanderer of an 1820 Gothic novel by Charles Maturin.

Answer: Melmoth the Wanderer


6.  If a laboratory using delicate equipment is located next door to a
factory that creates vibrations that alter the readings on the instruments,
the negative externality is caused by the fact that the two parties are
engaged in incompatible activities.=20
 The solution depends on the party that can avoid the problem at a lesser
cost, and, if the bargaining costs are small enough, the two parties will
agree on the solution regardless of who is assigned property rights.  FTP,
name this economic theorem, form
ulated by the winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Economics.

Answer: the Coase theorem

7.  He left retirement to chair a peace convention in Washington in 1861,
also serving briefly in the Confederate Congress prior to his death. 
Entering Congress in 1816 as a Jeffersonian Democrat, he served two years as
governor of Virginia before enteri
ng the senate, where he remained for nine years before resigning rather
than support the resolution that would expunge Jackson's censure from the
record.  FTP, name this politician, nominated vice-president on the Whig
ticket in 1840, who became President
 in April 1841 on the death of William Henry Harrison.

Answer: John Tyler

9.  He revised the number of lanthanides to 32, stated the number of
elements in the early periods, and, in 1897, proposed the importance of atomic
number instead of atomic weight.  Spending his entire career as professor of
physics at Lund, he introduced
 the idea of wave numbers, and his work on atomic emission spectra led to
his generalization of Balmer's equation.  FTP, identify this Swedish
scientist, whose formula for frequencies of lines in the spectrum of hydrogen
depends on the constant named afte
r him.

Answer: Johannes Rydberg

10.  In Acts, he is described as a villager in Samaria who was converted
by Philip.  He was condemned after he approached Peter and John in an
attempt to acquire the ability to perform miracles and confer the Holy Spirit. 
FTP, identify this magician, who
 was worshipped along with his wife Helena, and whose name has been given
to the practice of buying and selling religious offices.

Answer: Simon Magus

11.  He personally subdued the rising of the north, ravaging a strip from
York to Durham, and consolidated his power by the reduction of Hereward's
last stand on the Isle of Ely.  Requiring all vassals to take the Oath of
Salisbury, making them directly r
esponsible to the crown, he replaced Archbishop Stigand with Lanfranc, who
enforced celibacy and instituted monastic reforms.  FTP, identify this
English ruler, who instituted the Domesday survey and began Norman rule of
England with his victory at the Ba
ttle of Hastings.

Answer: William I or William the Conqueror

12.  The son of a weaver, he decided to compose operas when he first heard
Rossini at the Naples Conservatory.  He wrote his first opera, Enrico di
Borgogna, while serving in the army, and went on to success with 1822's
Zoraide di Granata, which led to hi
s exemption from military service.  FTP, name this composer, who spent
three years in a mental institution prior to his death at the age of 51, best
known for Don Pasquale, Anna Bolena, Lucia di Lammermoor, and The Elixir of
Love.

Answer: Gaetano Donizetti

13.  After the main character flirts with Robert Lebrun, she begins to
question her social role as a good wife and mother, as represented by her
friend Adele Ratignolle.  She has an affair, but realizes after having a child
that lovers cannot make her hap
py, and returns to Grand Isle to drown herself.  FTP, identify this story
of Edna Pontellier, a novel by Kate Chopin.

Answer: The Awakening

14.  It is separated from the island to the south by the Strait of
Bonifacio.  Featuring the cities of Rogliano, Ajaccio (ah-jack-see-oh), Bastia,
and Porto-Vecchio, the Ligurian Sea lies to the north and the Tyrrhenian Sea
lies to the east.  FTP, name th
is Mediterranean island, owned by France, which is best known as the
homeland of Napoleon.

Answer: Corsica

15.  In addition to founding the science of seismology, John Michell may
have been the first to construct one of these devices.  Charles Coulomb also
built one, and used it to measure the force between electric charges. 
Later, Henry Cavendish, who inheri
ted Michell's apparatus, refined it and used it to measure the
gravitational constant.  FTP, what are these instruments, also used by Baron Eotvos to
prove the equivalence of inertial and gravitational mass, consisting of
two small masses, balanced on a l
ight rod and suspended by a thin, twisting fiber?
=20
Answer: torsional balances

16.  In 1799, Amasa Delano lands his ship on a barren island off the coast
of Chile, where he meets the title character, the sickly commander of a
Spanish ship.  The man tells him of his journey past Cape Horn, and his men
attack Delano, though both capta
ins escape.  FTP, name this short story, which ends with Babo=D5s
execution in Lima and the death of the title character, one of the Piazza Tales of
Herman Melville.

Answer: Benito Cereno

17.  After studying at Southeastern State University, she made her debut
in 1976 with "I Don't Want to Be a One Night Stand."  Winner of the 1987
Grammy for Best Country Female Vocalist, she also won in 1986 for "Whoever's
In New England" and in 1993 for=20
her collaboration with Linda Davis, "Does He Love You."  FTP, identify
this woman, who appeared in the movie Tremors, best known for "Is There Life
Out There" and for being the "Queen of Country Music."

Answer: Reba McEntire


19.  In Book V of The Fairie Queene, the name is given to a young
attendant on Sir Artegal.  The named is shared by two figures in Greek myth, one of
whom was the inventor of the saw, also known as Perdix, who was thrown
into the sea by Daedalus out of je
alousy.  FTP, give this name, which was given to a giant who bled to death
after Medea magically removed the nail which closed his only vein, the
brass guardian of Crete.

Answer: Talus

20.  Born in 1871 in Grazzano Monferrato, he served in World War I and
rose swiftly through the military ranks.  By 1935, he was commander-in-chief
of the Italian army and advanced to chief of the Italian general staff
during the Second World War.  FTP, n
ame the man Victor Emmanuel III called upon to head the government in the
wake of Mussolini's resignation, best known as the signer of the agreement
by which Italy surrendered to the United Nations.

Answer: Pietro Badoglio



Boni:

2.  Evaluate the following integrals, FTP each.
1.  The integral from -1 to 1 of x cubed dx.
Answer: 0
2. The integral from 0 to x of cosine t dt.
Answer: Sine x
3. The integral from 0 to x of sine t dt.
Answer: 1 - cosine x

3.  Identify the following things from the 1850s, FTP each.
1.  Nine southern states attended this convention in 1850, which demanded
the extension of the 36-30 line.
Answer: the Nashville convention
2.  The opening of this canal between Lake Superior and Lake Huron in 1855
enabled the growth of the steel industry by providing cheap transportation
of iron ore.
Answer: the Soo canal
3.  John Brown staged this massacre on May 24, 1856, in retaliation for an
attack on Lawrence by pro slavery forces.
Answer: Pottawatomie Creek

4.  Identify the German poets on a 10-5 basis.
1.  10 points:  His affair with Susette Gontard, a married woman that he
addressed as Diotina in his verse, drove him mad in 1803.
5 points:  He wrote one novel, Hyperion, but is better known for lyrics
like "Bread and Wine" and "The Rhine."
Answer: Friedrich Holderlin
2.  10 points:  His lesser known works include Atta Troll, a narrative
poem about the death of a trained bear, and The Situation in France, written
while he was living in Paris in the 1830s.
5 points:  This Jewish journalist and poet is best known for his Travel
Sketches and Book of Songs.
Answer: Heinrich Heine
3.  10 points:  A secretary to Rodin, he wrote a novel, The Notebooks of
Malte Laurids Brigge.
5 points:  This poet is better remembered for his Sonnets to Orpheus and
the Duino Elegies.
Answer: Rainier Maria Rilke

5.  Identify the following treaties that followed the War of the Spanish
Succession, for the stated number of points.
1.  5 points:  By the terms of this 1713 treaty, Philip was recognized as
the Spanish king on condition that the French and Spanish crowns never
unite=2E
Answer: Utrecht
2.  10 points:  This 1714 treaty ended the war with Austria, as Spain gave
up her holdings in Flanders, Italy, and Luxembourg.
Answer: Rastatt
3.  15 points:  By the terms of this 1720 agreement, Austria promised the
rule of Parma, Piacenza and Tuscany to Charles, Philip's son by Elizabeth
Farnese.
Answer: the treaty of the Hague

6.  Happy Days had a baby, and they named it "Joanie Loves Chachi."  The
Brady Bunch has had a few babies too.  Name each of the following FTP each.
1.  This TV movie reunited eight of the nine original cast members.  The
tense climax came when the power of the Bradys=D5 caroling freed architect
Mike from the wreckage of a collapsed building.=20
Answer: A Very Brady Christmas
2.  This cartoon, a Filmation production, focused on the Brady children. =20
Answer: The Brady Kids
3.  This series of the early 1980's, which only lasted two and a half
months, reunited four members of the original cast and focused on the Brady
girls' simultaneous weddings.  =20
Answer: The Brady Brides

7.  FTP each, name these scientists who worked with crystal structure.
1.  He formulated the relationship "n lambda equals two d sine theta"
between the spacing of atomic planes in a crystal and the angles of incidence
at which the crystal most intensely reflects electromagnetic radiation,
sharing the Nobel Prize in physics=20
with his father.
Answer: Sir William Lawrence Bragg
2.  This French physicist carried out mathematical studies of crystal
lattices, enumerating the fourteen possible space groups of symmetry
operations.  The fundamental model of a crystal lattice is named for him.
Answer: Auguste Bravais
3.  A versatile physicist who also shared the 1952 Nobel Prize for the
development of nuclear magnetic resonance, his work on the quantum mechanics
of crystals showed that an electron wave function in a crystal can be
written as the product of a plane wav
e and a function with the periodicity of the Bravais lattice.
Answer: Felix Bloch

8.  Identify the "P" initialed artists FTP each.
1.  This action painter gave up brushes in 1947, stating that he "could
control the flow of paint" himself.
Answer: Jackson Pollock
2.  This Vermont born sculptor became famous with his 1835 bust of Andrew
Jackson, using the money to go to Italy and create works like Fisher Boy
and Greek Slave.
Answer: Hiram Powers
3.  This painter of Charge to Saint Peter and Crucifixion with Saints
studied with Leonardo and taught Raphael.
Answer: Perugino

9.  Name the monks FTP each.
1.  This Egyptian hermit, born in 250, is usually considered to be the
first monk.
Answer: St. Anthony
2.  This fourth century monk established a monastery at Caesarea and wrote
a rule that has become standard for Eastern monks.
Answer: St. Basil
3.  This monk founded a monastery at Monte Cassino in 529 and established
an order that bears his name.
Answer: St. Benedict

10.  FTP each, answer these questions about DNA.
1.  These rules, which provided an important clue to the structure of DNA,
state that the proportions of adenine and thymine are equal, as are the
proportions of cytosine and guanine.
Answer: Chargaff's rules
2.  The five carbons of one deoxyribose sugar of DNA are numbered, "one
prime" through "five prime."  FTP, all or nothing, which two of the five bond
to nucleotide phosphate groups under the action of DNA polymerase?
Answer: 3 prime and 5 prime
3.  Since DNA polymerase elongates strands only in the "five prime three
prime" direction, the so-called lagging strand must elongate through the
addition of these fragments, named for their Japanese discoverer.
Answer: Okazaki fragments

11.  Identify the Shakespeare plays from characters on a 10-5 basis.
1.  10 points:  Sir Oliver Mar-Text and Silvius
5 points:  Rosalind
Answer: As You Like It
2.  10 points:  Stephano and Gonzalo
5 points:  Ariel
Answer: The Tempest
3.  10 points:  Autolycus and Camillo
5 points:  Perdita
Answer: The Winter's Tale

12.  Identify the following figures who came to prominence in 1964, FTP
each.
1.  When Nyasaland became Malawi, this man became its first prime
minister.
Answer: Hastings Kamuzu Banda
2.  He became the first prime minister of the newly created state of
Zambia=2E
Answer: Kenneth Kaunda
3.  When Winston Field resigned as prime minister of Southern Rhodesia,
this finance minister succeeded him.
Answer: Ian Smith

13.  Name the Canaanite deities FTP each.
1.  The name of this Father of the Gods means simply "god."
Answer: El
2.  Wife of El, she is the mother-goddess.
Answer: Ashevah
3.  Daughter of El, she personified war.
Answer: Anat

15.  Identify the following incidents from nineteenth century British
history, for the stated number of points.
1.  5 points:  On August 16, 1819 a crowd gathered at St. Peter's Fields
in Manchester was charged by soldiers, resulting in this so-called
"massacre."
Answer: Peterloo
2.  10 points:  In 1882, Lord Cavendish, the new chief secretary of
Ireland, was murdered in broad daylight along with the permanent undersecretary
at this Dublin park.
Answer: Phoenix Park
3.  15 points:  Palmerston ordered a squadron to Piraeus and laid an
embargo on Greek shipping after this Moorish Jew, who was also a British
citizen, had his house in Athens burned by an anti-Semitic mob in 1849.
Answer: Don Pacifico

16.  Identify the musical terms, FTP each.
1.  To change the pitch of a composition without changing anything else.
Answer: transposition
2.  From the Italian for "touched," it was originally a keyboard piece
demanding great speed and delicacy. =20
Answer: toccata
3.  This is a system of writing down music to be played other than with
notes.  Instead, it uses figures, letters, or other signs.
Answer: tablature

17.  Identify the following concerning a certain island FTP each.
1.  It is separated from Flinders Island to the northeast by the Banks
Strait, while King Island and Hunter Island lie to the northwest.  Cities
include Smithson and Launceston.
Answer: Tasmania
2.  Name the capital of Tasmania.
Answer: Hobart
3.  What strait separates Tasmania from the rest of Australia?
Answer: Bass Strait

18.  Identify the following works by James Fenimore Cooper FTP each.
1.  In 1823, Cooper published two important novels.  One was the first
novel to feature Natty Bumppo, and the other was the first American sea novel.
 FTP each, name those two books.
Answer: The Pioneers and The Pilot
2.  In the 1840s, Cooper wrote this trilogy, made up of Satanstoe, The
Chainbearer, and The Redskins, set during the antirent wars.
Answer: The Littlepage Manuscripts

19.  Identify the writer, 30-20-10.
1.  Toward the end of his life, he began writing about overpopulation and
environmentalism in such books as Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins.
2.  Trained at the University of Vienna, he was the director of the Max
Planck Institute of Behavioral Physiology.  His popular works include Man
Meets Dog and King Solomon's Ring.
3.  This ethologist is best known for his work on imprinting and the book
On Aggression.
Answer: Konrad Lorenz

20.  Identify the following concerning a Socialist uprising, FTP each.
1.  This was the nickname of the extreme left wing of the German Socialist
Party, which led a number of revolts against the government in 1918 and
threatened to overturn the armistice before its leaders were murdered in the
street of Berlin.
Answer: the Spartacan or Spartacide movement
2.  The Spartacan movement got its name because "Spartacus" was the pen
name of this man, the leader of the party who was murdered in Berlin.
Answer: Karl Liebknecht
3.  Liebknecht's assistant, she was murdered alongside him, and is much
more famous than him today.
Answer: Rosa Luxemburg