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QuESADILLA 1

Deathtongue
Jeremy Horwitz, Stan Karas, Jesse Molesworth, and David Taylor

Tossups:

(Science - JH)

1. Tossup: Defined in FIPS 46 and FIPS 46-1, this system was developed
at IBM in the mid-'70s by beefing up their LUCIFER system.  Able to
operate in four modes -- ECB, CBC, CFB, and OFB -- this cryptosystem
uses a 56-bit key to operate on 64-bit blocks of data.  Only
highly-modified forms are used today, since the original can be broken
in a matter of hours with cheap supercomputers.  FTP, what is this
encryption standard, due to be replaced next year by AES?

Answer: _DES_ (accept "_Data_Encryption_Standard_")


(Literature - JM)

2. Tossup: The actors best known for playing this role were Charles
Macklin and Edmund Kean.  This character's servant Launcelot Gobbo
deserts him, as does his daughter Jessica, who marries Lorenzo.
Though he asks, "If you prick us, do we not bleed?" he is better known
for demanding a "pound of flesh."  FTP, name this title character of
"The Merchant of Venice."

Answer: _Shylock_ (accept "merchant of Venice" before it is mentioned)


(Geography - JM)

3. Tossup: The Treaty of Vienna made it a Grand Duchy under Dutch
rule; however this link to the Netherlands ended with the accession of
Grand Duke Adolphe of Naussau- Weilburg.  The European Court of
Justice and the European Parliament secretariat are situated in this
country, whose head of state since 1964 has been Grand Duke Jean.
FTP, name this small country situated in the river Moselle.

Answer: _Luxembourg_


(Geography OR Social Science - DT)

4. Tossup: He divided the progress of mankind into three historical
stages -- theological, metaphysical, and positive.  An early social
scientist, he assumed that human behavior must assume laws as strict
as Newton's laws of physics, the discovery of which would eradicate
moral evils.  Among those who felt his influence were J. S. Mill,
Huxley, and Eliot.  FTP, name this French philosopher/mathematician
and creator of positivism.

Answer: (Isidore-)Auguste(-Marie-François-Xavier) _Comte_


(Fine Arts - JH)

5. Tossup: This Italian word is the root for the English words
"scrimmage" and "skirmish."  The word also appears in a song by Queen
as a character that is asked to do the Fandango.  As a noun, it refers
to a lazy, swaggering coward since it is the namesake of, FTP, what
boastful coward from the Italian commedia dell'arte [pr.: koh-
MAY-dee-uh dell AHR-tay]?

Answer: _scaramouch(e)_ (accept Italian "_scaramuccia_")


(History - DT)

6. Tossup: He was tied with Richard Nixon at 43% in a Harris poll of
presidential candidates in 1970.  It was all downhill from there --
among other campaign lowlights was a rumor that he was addicted to the
drug Ibogaine, started in a "Rolling Stone" article by Hunter
S. Thompson.  FTP, name this failed Presidential candidate, the "man
from Maine," best known for crying in a New Hampshire snowstorm about
charges that his wife drank, smoked, and cursed in an 'unladylike'
way."

Answer: Ed(mund Sixtus) _Muskie_


(History - DT)

7. Tossup: He was a steelworker in Iran, served in the merchant
marine, then went to NYU on a football scholarship.  He had early
success as a painter, with paintings hanging in the Brooklyn Museum
and the Met.  He moved on to acting, joining the Actors Studio in the
1950's, where he changed his name from John Ryan to something more
dramatic.  FTP, name this multifarious man, best known for tracking
down criminals as Hawaii police detective Steve McGarrett.

Answer: Jack _Lord_ (prompt on an early "John (Joseph Patrick) _Ryan_")


(Literature - JM)

8. Tossup: They sleep in a gymnasium, shop at the All Flesh, and use
butter to soften their skin.  They are neither Marthas nor Unwomen nor
Econowives.  Living in the Republic of Gilead, their names are all
prefixed by the word "of."  Their habit is a red flowing dress with a
white winged hood.  FTP, name these breeding women, one of which
recounts her "tale" in a 1986 novel by Margaret Atwood.

Answer: _Handmaid_s


(Pop Culture - JH)

9. Tossup: Someone is working too hard for minimum wage.  You need a
bigger TV.  Justice is being perverted.  Oysters are being robbed of
their sole possession.  It's nicer in Cabo.  Ed's got his hands full.
Mike's planning a solo album.  FTP, when are all these things
happening, according to a 1991 video by Van Halen?

Answer: _Right_Now_


(Social Science - DT)

10. Tossup: This neurological disorder is believed to be caused by an
abnormal metabolism of the neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin.
Symptoms include involuntary, rapid, sudden movements, called tics.
One of these tics, coprolalia, actually only occurs in less than 30%
of the sufferers of this disease.  FTP, name this disorder, first
described over a hundred years ago by a French neurologist George
Gilles de la Tourette [pronounced: too-RET].

Answer: _Tourette's_Syndrome_ (accept "_Tourette_'s" until his name is
mentioned)


(General Knowledge/Current Events - DT)

11. Tossup: Ronnie Hawkins was acting as his own lawyer during a
sentencing hearing in a Los Angeles county courtroom June 30 on a
charge of stealing $260 worth of aspirin.  Angered by his repeated
interruptions, Judge Joan Comparet-Cassani ordered him restrained in a
novel way.  FTP, name this method of restraint, subject of a lawsuit
by the ACLU, which involves delivering an eight-second, 50,000-volt
shock above the left kidney.

Answer: _stun_belt_ (prompt on "_stun_ gun," or "_stun_ <anything>")


(Religion/Mythology/Philosophy - JM)

12. Tossup: In the field of linguistics, he distinguished between
index, icon, sign, and symbol.  In logic, he invented a method of
truth tables.  In science, he studied under J.  L. R. Agassiz, took
Harvard's first advanced degree in chemistry, and served at the U.S.
Coast and Geodetic Survey.  FTP, name this philosopher whose article
"How to Make Our Ideas Clear" made the first statement of pragmatism.

Answer: Charles (Santiago) Sanders _Peirce_ (pronounced: PURSE)


(Science - JH)

13. Tossup: Either Linnaeus or Daniel Ekstrom turned it around to its
present-day orientation.  Ekstrom manufactured most of the scientific
instruments for Linnaeus and this device's namesake, so he was in the
position to swap 0 and 100.  The device's creator, a Swedish
astronomer, was inspired to create when he planted a precursor to this
device -- a creation of Reaumur -- in the snow, and noticed the same
readings in Uppsala as in Torne.  FTP, name this common device, which
differs from its predecessors by necessarily having 0.01 represent the
triple point of water.

Answer: _Celsius_ thermometer (accept "_Celsius_scale_;" prompt on
"_thermometer_")


(Science - JH)

14. Tossup: Biologists recently discovered that males of this species
sometimes beat their young to death so females will mate more
frequently.  These mammals communicate with each other using whistles
and clicks and live for around fifty years.  Named for their
distinctive rostrum, these cetaceans sleep one brain hemisphere at a
time.  FTP, name this most-studied species of dolphin.

Answer: _Bottlenose_dolphins_ (accept "_T_ursiops _Truncatus_")


(Literature - JM)

15. Tossup: Angel Schunard is a cross-dressing street musician.  Tom
Collins teaches computer-age philosophy at NYU.  Roger Davis is a rock
'n roll musician with AIDS.  And Mark Cohen is a Jewish filmmaker.
These are the central characters in this 1996 Pulitzer Prize winning
drama, honoring its source with the interspersed "Muzetta's Waltz" and
its keynote "La Vie Boheme."  FTP, name this musical written by
Jonathan Larson.

Answer: "_Rent_"


(History - JH)

16. Tossup: Born with the first name of Hiram, his family called him
by his middle name, which he took as his first upon entering West
Point.  This president hated profanity simply because it wasted time.
At the end of his military career, he planned on teaching mathematics,
but settled instead for the U. S. presidency.  FTP, name this
president who took his mother's middle name upon joining West Point,
since it gave him patriotic initials.

Answer: Ulysses S(impson) _Grant_


(Fine Arts - JH)

17. Tossup: First opened in 1932, it primarily featured movie and
stage entertainment for its 6000-person audiences.  In 1979, it took
on a new format: live stage spectaculars, concerts, and television
events.  Since the beginning, however, it has been the home to the
world's biggest live event -- over one million patrons attend "The
Christmas Spectacular."  FTP, what is this hall in Rockefeller Center,
home to the world- famous Rockettes?

Answer: _Radio_City_ Music Hall


(Sports - DT)

18. Tossup: He was an All-State high school catcher in Portland,
Oregon.  His quick progress up the Atlanta Braves' minor league was
halted by a baffling block about throwing to second base.  Converted
to an outfielder, he became an All-Star in 1980 and where he would
eventually win five Golden Gloves.  FTP, name this devout Mormon and
winner of back-to-back National League MVP awards in 1982 and 1983.

Answer: Dale _Murphy_


(Religion/Mythology/Philosophy - JM)

19. Tossup: This man is known chiefly for his ingratitude and for
refusing to grant the rewards he had promised: to Apollo for pasturing
his flocks on Mount Ida, to Posiedon for building the walls of Troy,
and to Heracles for rescuing his daughter Hesione from the sea-monster
sent by Poseidon.  Consequently, Heracles slew him and all his sons
but Priam in revenge.  FTP, name this Trojan king.

Answer: _Laomedon_ (pronounced: Lay-AH-med-on)


(General Knowledge/Current Events - DT)

20. Tossup: Among the guests at his recent wedding to Graca Machel
were pop stars Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson.  It's his third
marriage, the second for the bride, the widow of Mozambican President
Samora Machel.  Chris Rock uses him as evidence of how difficult
marriage is, as "he could survive thirty years as a political
prisoner, but couldn't last more than a couple years married."  FTP,
name this outgoing South African President.

Answer: _N_elson _Mandela_


(Science - JH)

21. Tossup: This New College Oxford student of George Airy put his
degree in chemistry and mathematics to good use: he got a job, as a
chemist, at the Guinness brewery.  While there, he invented a test to
handle quality control in brewing, which is why we remember him
today. FTP, name this famous statistician, inventor of the t-test
whose earliest papers appeared under the pseudonym "Student."

Answer: William (Sealey) _Gosset_


(History - DT)

22. Tossup: As a young warrior and later chief of the northern Sioux,
he advocated firm resistance to white encroachment and settlement.  In
1868, he made peace with the U.S. Army in exchange for a reservation,
a deal that fell through with the influx of gold prospectors in the
1870s.  This led him to join with the Cheyenne and Arapaho in a
renewed campaign of resistance that ended with surrender in Canada.
At the end of his life, forced to raise money, he posed for postcards
and traveled with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.  FTP, name this chief
of the Sioux best known for a military victory in that resistance, in
Little Bighorn, Montana.

Answer: _Sitting_Bull_


(Pop Culture OR Sports - JM)

23. Tossup: In a moment of irony, his teammates played his favorite
song, "I Will Survive," after he was sent off against Saudi Arabia.
The son of Algerian immigrants, he honed his skills in the La
Castellane section of Marseilles.  He has played professionally for
Cannes, Girondins Bordeaux, and now Juventus.  FTP, name the midfield
maestro of the French soccer team, who scored twice in the World Cup
final.

Answer: Zinedine _Zidane_


(Literature - JM)

24. Tossup: The epilogue is a marriage song on the occasion of the
wedding of the poet's sister Cecilia to Edward Lushingham.  Divided
into 132 sections, the poem commemorates the death of a young poet and
critic who died at Vienna aged 22.  From this poem comes the cliche
"'Tis better to have lost at love than never to have loved at all."
FTP, name this elegy to A. H. Hallam written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Answer: "_In_Memoriam_"



Bonuses: 

(Pop Culture - JH)

1. Bonus: Hello, Nasty!  Time to reminisce about the Beastie Boys.
Not too far - just back to four years ago.  Remember the "Sabotage"
video?  Remember each of the B-Boys pretending to be actors in a '70s
cop show?  FFPE, and a bonus five for all correct, name each of the
five actors they played or the characters played by those pseudo-
actors.  Feel free to mix and match by naming some pseudo-actors and
some characters.

Answer:
Fred _Kelly_ as _Bunny_ (accept Kelly or Bunny, etc.);
Vic _Colfari_ as _Bobby_, the Rookie (accept The _Rookie_);
Alesandro _Alegre_ as The _Chief_;
Sir Stewart _Wallace_ as himself;
Nathan _Wind_ as _Cochise_


(Literature - JM)

2. Bonus: FTPE, identify these literary works featuring characters
named Septimus.

A) (10) The Reverend Septimus Harding features in this series of six
novels, one of which is The Warden.

Answer: "Chronicles of _Barsetshire_" (by Anthony Trollope)

B) (10) A shell-shocked veteran named Septimus Warren commits suicide
in this novel.

Answer: "_Mrs._Dalloway_" (by Virginia Woolf)

C) (10) At Sidley Park manor, Tomasina Coverley is tutored by Septimus
Hodge in this recent play by Tom Stoppard.

Answer: "_Arcadia_"


(History - DT)

3. Bonus: Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky.  For the stated number of
points, name the president, given the paramour.

A) (5) Judith Exner

Answer: John F(itzgerald) _Kennedy_

B) (10) Lucy Mercer

Answer: Franklin D(elano) _Roosevelt_

C) (15) Nan Britton

Answer: Warren G(amaliel) _Harding_


(Religion/Mythology/Philosophy - JM)

4. Bonus: FTPE, identify these sons of Margawse and King Lot of Orkney
-- the younger brothers of Gawain.

A) (10) The second eldest is this co-conspirator with Mordred, who
raises the alarm when Launcelot visits Guinevere in her chambers.

Answer: _Aggravaine_

B) (10) The youngest is this knight, who serves as a scullion under
the name "Beaumains" for twelve months.  He rescues the lady Liones
from Sir Ironside of Castle Perilous.

Answer: _Gareth_

C) (10) The second youngest is this knight -- known chiefly for being
the second youngest.

Answer: _Gaheris_


(General Knowledge/Current Events - DT)

5. Bonus: Here's a bonus that will reward you for knowledge about our
drug-dealing, loan-defaulting backwater neighbor to the south, Mexico.
For the stated number of points, name the candidate for the year 2000
presidential election.

A) (5) The current president of Mexico and a member of the PRI, the
ruling party of Mexico for the last 70 years.

Answer: Ernesto _Zedillo_

B) (10) Currently the Governor of Guanajato, he is already trying to
be the candidate for PAN, campaigning in Mexico and travelling to
Philadelphia and Dallas to seek votes.

Answer: Vicente Fox _Quesada_

C) (15) Currently the mayor of Mexico City, this potential PRD
candidate traveled to Chicago on the 5th of May to seek support from
the hundreds of thousands of Mexican voters there.

Answer: Cuauhtemoc _Cardenas_


(Science - JH)

6. Bonus: Given a short description, name the organic molecule, FTPE.

A) (10) Its chemical formula is C6H5CH3.  One of its uses is as an
antiknock agent for gasoline.

Answer: _toluene_ (prompt on "_methylbenzene_," "_phenylmethane_," or
"_toluol_")

B) (10) Its chemical formula is C14H10 -- essentially three connected
benzene rings.  It is obtained primarily from coal-tar distillation.

Answer: _anthracene_

C) (10) Its chemical formula is (CH3)2CO.  Its primary uses are as a
solvent and in organic synthesis; it can be found in abnormal
quantities in diabetic urine.

Answer: _acetone_ (prompt on "_dimethyl_ketone_," "_methyl_ketone_," or
"_2-propanone_")


(Literature - JM)

7. Bonus: FTPE, identify these American Civil War poets given their poems.

A) (10) "The Marshes of Glynn" and "The Song of the Chattahochee"
Answer: Sidney _Lanier_

B) (10) "The Cotton Boll" and "Ethnogenesis"
Answer: Henry _Timrod_

C) (10) "Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War"
Answer: Herman _Melville_


(Literature - JM)

8. Bonus: FTPE, identify these characters in Beowulf.

A) (10) This king of the Danes is plagued by the monster Grendel and
invites the young Beowulf to Heorot Hall.

Answer: _Hrothgar_

B) (10) This warrior insults Beowulf at the great feast, but later
lends Beowulf a sword to pursue Grendel's mother.

Answer: _Unferth_

C) (10) When King Beowulf fights the dragon, all of his lily-livered
subjects desert him save for this young warrior.

Answer: _Wiglaf_


(Science - DT)

9. Bonus: Grab a pencil and paper.  River drainage patterns follow one
of six classifications -- dendritic, parallel, trellis, rectangular,
radial, or annular.  Given a description, name the drainage
classification, FTPE.

A) (10) Dipping or folded sedimentary, volcanic, or low-grade
meta-sedimentary rocks

Answer: _trellis_

B) (10) Volcanoes, domes, and residual erosion features

Answer: _radial_

C) (10) Strucutal domes and basins, diatremes, and possibly stocks

Answer: _annular_


(Geography - JM)

10. Bonus: FTPE, identify these tourist sites that you could visit in
Venice.

A) (10) The body of Venice's patron saint, represented by a winged
lion, is held within this Byzantine basilica.

Answer: Basilica di _San_Marco_ (accept "_St._Mark's_" or equivalents)

B) (10) Giovanni Casanova reputedly walked through this passageway
between the Ducal Palace and the prison.

Answer: _Bridge_of_Sighs_ (accept "_Ponte_de_Sospiri_")

C) (10) With a name meaning "House of Gold," this palace is known for
its magnificent Gothic facade as well as housing Mantegna's
"St. Sebastian."

Answer: _Ca'_d'Oro_ (accept "_Casa d'Oro_") 


(Social Science - JH)

11. Bonus: Given the year and reason for the prize, name the Economics
Nobel Laureates FTPE.

A) (10) 1984, "for having made fundamental contributions to the
development of systems of national accounts and hence greatly improved
the basis for empirical economic analysis."  Hint: he shares his full
name with Judith Tupper's second husband on "Dream On."  

Answer: Sir _R_ichard _Stone_

B) (10) 1978, "for his pioneering research into the decision-making
process within economic organizations."

Answer: Herb(ert) A(lexander) _Simon_

C) (10) For your final ten points, name any of the three winners of
the 1994 prize, winners "for their pioneering analysis of equilibria
in the theory of non-cooperative games."

Answer: John C. _Harsanyi_, John F(orbes) _Nash_, Reinhard _Selten_


(Sports - DT)

12. Bonus: The USFL.  The less said, the better.  FFPE, and a
five-point bonus for all correct, given the city, name the USFL team.

A) (5) Orlando
Answer: _Renegades_

B) (5) Boston
Answer: _Breakers_

C) (5) Jacksonville
Answer: _Bulls_

D) (5) Denver
Answer: _Gold_

E) (5) Houston
Answer: _Gamblers_


(History - JH)

13. Bonus: Given two Chinese dynasties, give the one that came between
them, FTPE.

A) (10) Xia (pronounced SHEE-uh) and Zhou (pronounced CHOW)
Answer: _Shang_

B) (10) Sung and Ming
Answer: _Yuan_

C) (10) Qin (pronounced CHIN) and the Three Kingdoms
Answer: _Han_


(Science - JH)

14. Bonus: FTPE, name in what human organ you find the following
features.

A) (10) the Islets of Langerhans
Answer: _pancreas_

B) (10) Bowman's capsule and the loop of Henle
Answer: _kidney_

C) (10) alveoli
Answer: _lungs_


(Fine Arts - JH)

15. Bonus: Given a short list of works appearing there, name the
museum, FTPE.

A) (10) Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" and "Allegory of Spring" appear
in the Botticelli room off the first corridor, while Raphael's
"Madonna of the Goldfinch" can be found down the third corridor.

Answer: Galleria degli _Uffizi_

B) (10) This museum is a great place to find stuff heisted from the
Parthenon, as well as The Rosetta Stone.

Answer: _British_Museum_

C) (10) Lastly, where would you go to crave your urge to see Picasso's
"Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," van Gogh's "The Starry Night," and still
have time to catch a little Mondrian and Klimt?

Answer: The _Museum_of_Modern_Art_ (accept "_MoMA_")


(Geography OR Social Science - DT)

16. Bonus: Everyone knows mount Fuji, but what about the rest of the
Japanese Mountains?  FTPE, name any three out of the next five highest
Japanese mountains.  

Answer: _Kita-dake_, _Okuhotaka-dake_, _Ai-no-take_, _Yari-ga-take_,
_Arakawa-dake_


(History - DT)

17. Bonus: Roman Emperors -- you know them, you've heard a million
questions about them.  Here's one more.  Given his two predecessors,
name the emperor, FTPE.  For instance, if I said "Titus, Dominitian,"
you'd say "Nerva."

A) (10) Nerva, Trajan

Answer: _Hadrian_

B) (10) Caligula, Claudius

Answer: _Nero_ Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus (accept
"_Lucius_Domitius_Ahenobarbus_")

C) (10) Otho, Vitellius

Answer: Titus Flavius Sabinus _Vespasian_us


(Science - JH)

18. Bonus: I hope there's a mathematician on your team.  Time to break
out the spheres and play everybody's favorite game: "Properties of Set
Theory!"  Give the common names of the following statements that are
all equivalent, under ZF, to saying that every vector space has a
basis.

A) (5) The most commonly utilized equivalent, it states that for every
set X there is a function f with domain X\Ĝ [read: "X minus the
empty set"] so that f(x) is an element of x.

Answer: _Axiom_of_Choice_

B) (10) Although not the first man to prove it, this statement's
namesake was the first to publish it in English.  What's the common
name by which we know the statement: every nonempty partially-ordered
set P in which each chain has an upper bound in P has a maximal
element?

Answer: _Zorn_'s Lemma

C) (15) Lastly, proved by the actual originator of Stone-Cech
[pronounced: CHECK] compactification, it states that the product of
compact spaces is compact in the product topology.

Answer: _Tychonoff_'s Theorem


(History - DT)

19. Bonus: Everyone's favorite black helicopter flight club, the
United Nations, has had 7 Secretaries-General, each from a different
country.  Given the country of origin and the years of his term, name
the secretary.

A) (10) Sweden, 1953-1961

Answer: Dag (Hjalmar Agne Carl) _Hammarskjold_

B) (10) Austria, 1972-1982

Answer: Kurt _Waldheim_

C) (10) Burma, 1961-1971

Answer: U _Thant_


(Religion/Mythology/Philosophy - JM)

20. Bonus: FTPE, identify these early Christian councils.

A) (10) Held in 325, it declared Aryanism heretical.

Answer: Council of _Nicaea_

B) (10) Held in 431, it declared Nestorianism heretical. 

Answer: Council of _Ephesus_

C) (10) Held in 451, it declared Monophysite Doctrine heretical.

Answer: Council of _Chalcedon_


(Fine Arts - JH)

21. Bonus: Name the artist from works on a 10-5 basis.

A) (10) The 1480's shuttered triptych "The Haywain"

(5) The c.1504 shuttered triptych "The Garden of Earthy Delights"

Answer: Heironymus _Bosch_

B) (10) The 1907 and 1912 stone statues both entitled "The Kiss"

(5) The 1919 bronze statue "Bird in Space"

Answer: Constantin _Brancusi_

C) (10) A series of 1890 paintings called "The Channel at Gravelines"
and a painting of his mistress entitled "Young Woman Holding a Powder
Puff"

(5) The 1880's painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande
Jatte"

Answer: Georges _Seurat_


(Pop Culture OR Sports - JM)

22. Bonus: Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese have had quite a film
partnership.  F5PE, given the character played by De Niro, name the
Scorsese film.

A) (5) Sam "Ace" Rothstein

Answer: "_Casino_"

B) (5) Jimmy "The Gent" Conway

Answer: "_GoodFellas_"

C) (5) Max Cady

Answer: "_Cape_Fear_"

D) (5) Travis Bickle

Answer: "_Taxi_Driver_"

E) (5) Rupert Pupkin

Answer: "_The_King_of_Comedy_"

F) (5) Johnny Boy

Answer: "_Mean_Streets_"


(Literature - JM)

23. Bonus: F15PE, identify these literary indictments of
totalitarianism from a short description.  If you need the name of the
author, you will receive five points.

A) (15) Nicholas Rubashov, ex-Commissar of the People, is imprisoned on
false charges.

(5) Arthur Koestler

Answer: "_Darkness_at_Noon_"

B) (15) Innokenty Vologin, a member of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, is imprisoned in a sharashka.

(5) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Answer: "The _First_Circle_"


(General Knowledge/Current Events - DT)

24. Bonus: Turnover in the staff at the "Boston Globe" has increased
of late, with not one, but two columnists being forced to resign for
plagiarism.  For 15 points each,

A) (15) Name the popular "Globe" columnist who was forced to resign
four months ago after admitting that she had fabricated characters in
four recent columns.  A check of her columns dating to 1995 showed
that forty-eight included names of people whose existence could not be
verified.

Answer: Patricia _Smith_

B) (15) This prominent "Globe" columnist was forced out after
similarities between a recent column and George Carlin's
"Braindroppings" were discovered.  His claim that he hadn't read the
book was refuted with videotape from a local TV station in which he
claimed "Braindroppings" "had a yuck on every page."

Answer: Mike _Barnicle_