Wahoo War of the Minds 1997

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1.  During the German occupation he worked in a stone quarry, an experience he would later recount in his poetry.  Influenced by Scheler and the phenomenologists, his main philosophical work was 1969's The Acting Person, but he is better known for religio
us writings.  FTP, name this theologian, who became a cardinal in 1967, eleven years before he left the archbishopric of Krakow to become Pope.

Answer: John Paul II or Karol Wojtyla

2.  His record as the only cadet in West Point history never to earn a demerit still stands.  In 1857, he served in San Antonio under General David Twigg, who was in charge of battling Comanches.  Opting for the Confederacy, this man suffered a defeat at 
Rich Mountain early in the war.  Frustrated, he transferred to Charleston, where he was in charge on constructing coastal defenses in the Carolinas in 1861, and later became Jefferson Davis’s personal assistant.  FTP, name this man, later to gain fame lea
ding the Army of Northern Virginia.

Answer: Robert Edward Lee

3.  In 1809, he took a seat in the House of Lords, two years after the publication of his first work, Hours of Idleness.  Author of The Bride of Abydos, Lara, Marino Faliero, and The Siege of Corinth, he died at the battle of Missalonghi, after which his 
body was shipped from Greece to his baronial seat at Newstead Abbey.  FTP, identify this English romantic poet, best known for The Prisoner of Chillon, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and Don Juan (JOO-an).

Answer: George Gordon or Lord Byron

4.  His friend Cycnus came to Eridanus to mourn for him and was turned into a swan.  Buried by his sisters, the Heliades, he was set in the heavens as Auriga, the charioteer.  FTP, name this son of Clymene and Helius, struck down by Zeus when he could not
 control the horses of the sun.

Answer: Phaethon

5.  When he was born, the forceps cut into a facial nerve, partially paralyzing him, and he suffered from rickets as a child.  Kicked out of 14 schools in 11 years, he worked as a bookstore detective, zoo attendant, and teacher at the American School of S
witzerland before appearing in a soft core porn film, A Party at Kitty and Stud's, in 1971.  FTP, identify this actor, who had roles in Bananas and Lords of Flatbush, but who is better known for Over the Top, Tango and Cash, and Rocky.

Answer: Sylvester Stallone

6.  He worked as a landscape painter in Philadelphia before going to London in 1786 to study under Benjamin West.  In 1794, he got a British patent for a double-inclined plane that would make locks obsolete, and he invented a mill for polishing marble.  F
TP, name this American inventor, who worked in Paris on a submarine torpedo boat before returning to New York, where, in 1807, he launched the Clermont, the first successful steamboat.

Answer: Robert Fulton

7.  It ends when Marie Tovesky’s husband comes upon her in the fields with Emil and shoots the two lovers.  When Carl Linstrum hears of this, he returns to the Nebraska Divide and marries Alexandra Bergson.  FTP, identify this 1913 novel, whose title was 
taken from a Whitman poem by Willa Cather.

Answer: O Pioneers!

8.  A measure of this type has weight 1.  A function of this type maps a collection of sets to the closed interval zero-one.  This term can also modify conditional and density function.  FTP, name this branch of mathematics which includes the laws of larg
e numbers, and is in some sense the converse of
statistics.

Answer: probability

9.  This man was the first in America to open and own a brewery.  Upon his arrival in America, he was granted a colony “as long as a man can travel by foot in three days”, after which he sent his champion distance runner, who ran about 150 miles.  Besides
 being a colonial governor, he is well known for his books, such as No Cross, No Crown, and his Puritanical leanings, for which he was jailed in the Tower of London.  FTP, name this founder of the City of Brotherly Love.

Answer: William Penn 

10.  The son of a painter and a pianist, this man entered the conservatory in 1835 and studied under the Bohemian composer Anton Reicha.  He was influenced by Palestrina and wrote many sacred and choral works, such as Mass for St. Cecilia’s Day and the we
ll known Ave Maria.  FTP, name this French composer, who is best known for writing operas like Le Medecin Malgre Lui, Romeo and Juliet, and Faust.

Answer: Charles Gounod

Boni:

1.  FTP each, name these dinosaurs.
1. The first known skull of this most primitive dinosaur was unearthed in 1993 by University of Chicago archaeologist Paul Sereno, who gave it its name, which means “dawn thief”.
Answer: Eoraptor lunensis
2. A theropod dinosaur that flourished in western North America during the Early Cretaceous Period, this was a fast, agile predator with a large brain.  Twice the size of its late relative the velociraptor,  it also walked and ran on two legs, and attacke
d with large sickle-like talons on the second toe of each foot. 
Answer: Deinonychus
3. A skeleton of this dinosaur was unearthed in 1874 and mistakenly classified as a new species called “brontosaur”, a confusion which took decades to resolve.  This late Jurassic monster weighed as much as 30 tons, with a long neck tapering to a slender,
 elongated skull containing peglike teeth.
Answer: Apatosaurus 

2.  After the death of Muhammad in 632, a succession of caliphs became the standard-bearers of Islam at it expanded in the Middle East.  
1.  For five points each, give the names of the first four caliphs who ruled after Muhammad.
Answers: Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, Ali
2.  For a final ten points, give the collective name of these first four caliphs.
Answer: the Righteously Guided Caliphs

3.  Name the meson given its quark configuration FTP each.
1. up, anti-up
Answer: Pi 0 or Pi naught (Prompt on Pion)
2. charm, anti-charm
Answer: J-Psi
3. strange, anti-down
Answer: K 0 or K naught

4.  Answer these questions about the Canadian Supreme Court FTP each.
1.  Judges must retire at this age.
Answer: 75
2.  By law 3 justices must be from this province.
Answer: Quebec
3.  This is the term used for associate judges.
Answer: puisne judges

5.  Given a pen name of Edward Stratemeyer, name the protagonists of the books written under that name FTP each.
1.  Laura Lee Hope
Answer: Bobbsey Twins
2.  Victor Appleton
Answer: Tom Swift
3.  Carolyn Keene
Answer: Nancy Drew

6.  Identify the country, 30-20-10.
1. Its longest river is the Vardar.
2. Its eastern border is with Bulgaria.  The Vardar runs into its southern neighbor.
3. Its capital is Skopje.

Answer: Macedonia

7.  Name the composers from works on a 10-5 basis.
1.  10 points:  Alceste and Paride e Elena
5 points: Orfeo
Answer: Christoph Gluck
2.  10 points: Bastien und Bastienne and The Feigned Simpleton
5 points: “Jupiter” Symphony
Answer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
3.  10 points: the St. Paul and Elijah oratorios
5 points:  Italian Symphony
Answer: Felix Mendelssohn

8.  In 1957 a Special Select Committee chose 5 famous members for the U.S. Senate Hall of Fame.  For five points each and a 5 point bonus for all correct, name those Senators.
Answers: Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John Calhoun, Robert La Follette, Robert Taft

9.  Identify the languages from which the following words are borrowed, for the stated number of points.
1. 5 points: arcade, concerto, replica
Answer: Italian
2. 15 points: caviar, coffee, tulip
Answer: Turkish
3. 10 points: brandy, landscape, schooner
Answer: Dutch

10.  Give the sums of the following series, FTP each.
1. The sum from n=0 to infinity of 1 over 2 to the n
Answer: 2
2. The sum from n=0 to infinity of 1 over n factorial
Answer: e
3. The sum from n=1 to infinity of 1 over n
Answer: infinity