From cahille@slkc.uswest.net Fri Jan 30 19:45:43 1998
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 15:00:55 -0700
From: Earl Cahill <cahille@slkc.uswest.net>
To: Trivia Club <trivia@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu>
Subject: Bryce Avery Packet

Question Set for BYU Perpetual Motion, February 1998
Set #1 of 2 written by Bryce Avery, 1986 BYU team captain

TOSSUPS

1.  Take two wires of different metals, join them at both ends, and
measure the voltage created between the ends when one end is hotter than
the other.  Congratulations!  You've just built - for 10 points - what
common temperature-measuring instrument whose types include J, K, R and
S?

Answer:   THERMOCOUPLE

2.  Near the end of Homer's "The Odyssey", Odysseus arrives home in
disguise.  For 10 points, name his dog who recognizes him under the
disguise, wags his tail, and then falls over dead.
Answer:  ARGOS (do not accept "Argo")

3.  He became an arms dealer in Africa after he quit literature, where
he lost a leg before returning to his native France.  For 10 points,
name this poet whose 1873 collection was only published after his death
because he never paid the printer, the work being "A Season in Hell."
Answer:  Arthur RIMBAUD

4.  The Biblical works of this court painter to King Philip IV include
"Joseph's Bloody Coat Brought to Jacob" and "The Supper at Emmaus"
(a-MAY-us).  For 10 points, identify this 17th-century Spanish artist
most famous for his portrait of Pope Innocent X.
Answer:   Diego VELAZQUEZ (va-LOSS-kez)

5.  It begins the first name of humorist Mr. Perelman, who wrote the
Marx Brothers movie "Horse Feathers" and of author Ms. Hinton who wrote
"The Outsiders" and "That was Then, This is Now".  For 10 points, give
this letter of the alphabet used in math for Laplace (la-PLOSS)
Transforms and in thermodynamics to mean "entropy".
Answer:  S

6.  Its southeastern counties include Isle of Wight and Lancaster.  Its
southwestern counties include Patrick and Henry.  For 10 points, name
this state whose northern counties include Arlington and Fairfax.
Answer:  VIRGINIA

7.  It is represented by the Greek letter "eta" (the English "n" with an
extra-long tail) and is measured in "poise", where one poise equals one
dyne second per square centimeter.  For 10 points, give this physical
quantity used to describe the amount of internal friction within a
fluid, especially motor oil.
Answer:  VISCOSITY (vis-COSS-a-tee)

8.  If Newt Gingrich is elected President in the year 2000, he'll be
only the second man to make it by serving as Speaker of the House
first.  For 10 points, name the Tennesseean who served as Speaker from
1835 to 1839 and later succeeded John Tyler as the nation's Chief
Executive.
Answer:  James POLK

9.  He asked about his wife Sophia on his deathbed but had no desire to
see her, preferring to see his secretary Vladimir Chertkov and his
daughters Alexandra and Tatyana instead.  For 10 points, name this
Russian author who died in 1910, just days after corresponding with the
English translator of his work "Resurrection."
Answer:  Leo TOLSTOY

10. Within 9 months of Stalin's death in 1953, this colleague of Stalin
was removed from the Soviet encyclopedia and executed on Khrushchev's
orders:  a proper end for a man who ordered the executions of so many
others.  For 10 points, name this infamous chief of the USSR's secret
police.
Answer:  Lavrentii BERIA

11.  She tears a page in her teacher's anatomy book when she's caught
looking at one of its naked figures.  But a boy in the class jumps up at
the last moment and volunteers to be whipped in her place.  For 10
points, name this fictional girl who later gets lost in a cave with Tom
Sawyer.
Answer:  Becky THATCHER

12.  Its first unit had to be hauled 30 miles by oxcart to the nearest
airfield.  It could fly nearly 2,000 miles without refueling but was
still vulnerable to the vertical power dives and hard right turns of
Allied pilots.  For 10 points, name this Japanese aircraft of World War
Two.
Answer:  ZERO

13.  It lost its charter between 1879 and 1893 because of its numerous
epidemics of yellow fever. For 10 points, identify this Southern city
that is home to the National Civil Rights Museum, college football's
Liberty Bowl, Beale
Street and pro football's Oilers.
Answer:   MEMPHIS

14.  This country began as a haven for freed and runaway slaves was the
1820 destination of more than 80 free blacks who left the United
States.  For 10 points, name this African country that finally became
independent from Britain in 1961, neighbor of Liberia and whose capital
is Freetown.
Answer:  SIERRA LEONE

15.  James Caulfield described him as a "turtle-eating Alderman with a
broad Scottish accent."  William Smellie said the best way of
understanding his arguments is to "catch him by the nose."  For 10
points, name this philosopher who died in 1776 at age 65 after writing
"Essays on Suicide and Immortality" also author of "Dialogues Concerning
Natural Religion" and "Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding."
Answer:  David HUME

16.  Its first official governor was John Haynes in 1639.  Other
governors during the pre-Revolutionary War period included
Gurdon Saltenstall, Joseph Talcott, and Robert Treat.  For 10 points,
name this state governed between 1659 and 1676 by John Winthrop.
Answer:  CONNECTICUT

17.  Show pigs get this chemical to develop a high lean-to-fat ratio.
The velociraptors in the novel "Jurassic Park" lacked it, which caused
them upon escape to eat lots of chicken.   For 10 points, name this
essential amino acid that is now thought, in high doses, to help control
human genital herpes.
Answer:  LYSINE (LY-seen)

18.  This man with the two middle names "Horace Greeley" represented
Germany at the 1929 Paris conference on World War I reparations and is
credited with stabilizing the country's currency during the Weimar
(VY-mar) period.  For 10 points, name this financier later acquitted at
Nuremberg for his actions as Hitler's economic minister and president of
the Reichsbank (RYKES-bonk).
Answer:  Hjalmar SCHACHT

19.  Ruth Atkins is loved by two Mayo brothers.  The one planning to go
to sea stays home and marries Ruth, while the other one, planning to
stay on the family farm, ends up going to sea.  All three characters
wind up deeply unhappy and Ruth's husband ends up dead.  This is the
plot -- for 10 points -- of which 1920 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by
Eugene O'Neill?
Answer:  "BEYOND THE HORIZON"

20.  Organic chemists use it to mean "a chemical where all carbon atoms
are attached to no more than two other carbon atoms."  Inorganic
chemists use it as one measure of the strength of a solution.  In linear
algebra it describes a matrix where the hermetian of the matrix and the
matrix commute.  FTP, identify this six letter word also used to mean
"Gaussian" or "perpendicular to."
Answer:  NORMAL

21.  Her Oscar came in 1957 for Best Actress in "The Three Faces of
Eve."  For a very quick 10 points, name this actress who may be better
known today as "Paul Newman's wife."
Answer:  Joanne WOODWARD

22.  He is quoted as saying, "I only met [William Butler Yeats] casually
and didn't particularly like him."  In 1939, he came to New York City
for a visit,  two days before Yeats' death.  For 10 points, name this
British poet who wrote the elegy "In Memory of W.B. Yeats.".
Answer:  W.H. AUDEN

23.  This German went to Russia as an indigo trader, married a Russian
woman, and gave his daughters Russian names.  Then he got a divorce,
later went to Greece, and died there in 1890.  For 10 points, name this
famed archaeologist with a hero's memorial in Athens.
Answer:  Heinrich SCHLIEMANN

24.  In honor of the 50th anniversary of his joining the big leagues,
baseball's acting commissioner Bud Selig announced during the 1997
season that his uniform number 42 will no longer be issued to new
players.  For 10 points, name this Brooklyn Dodger star and integrator
of baseball.
Answer:  Jackie ROBINSON

25.  It is so often used in business that some Hewlett-Packard
calculators do not even give a key to its "common" counterpart.  For 10
points, identify this mathematical function beloved by first-year
calculus students because it's the only one that equals its own
derivative.
Answer:  NATURAL LOGARITHM (accept "natural log" or "ex")

BYU Perpetual Motion 1998
Bryce Avery's Set #1 Boni

1.  For 15 points each, name these men on the 1997 Teamsters Union list
of least valuable corporate directors, none of whom work for UPS:
A.  He replaced Caspar Weinburger as Ronald Reagan's Secretary of
Defense.
Answer:  Frank CARLUCCI (car-LOO-chee)
B.  He replaced James Baker as George Bush's Secretary of State.
Answer:  Lawrence EAGLEBERGER

2.  During 1997, Mario Lemieux became the 9th man in the NHL Hall of
Fame who didn't wait the normal minimum of three years.  For 10 points
each, name these others who didn't have to wait, either:
A.  In 1945, soon after a teammate gave him his nickname, this Montreal
Canadian scored 50 goals in 50 games.
Answer:  Maurice "Rocket" RICHARD (ree-SHARD)
B.  During 1997, he became the first to play in six different decades by
skating one shift with a Detroit minor-league team.
Answer:  Gordie HOWE
C.  He was the only defenseman ever to lead the NHL in scoring.
Answer:  Bobby ORR

3.  For 10 points each, name these U.S. Presidents from the contents of
their libraries:
A.  His library near Fremont, Ohio also contains some papers of two
contemporaries, author William Dean Howells and cartoonist Thomas Nast.
Answer: Rutherford B. HAYES
B.  This president's library also contains the papers of Sumner Welles,
who spent four years as his Assistant Secretary of State and six more as
his Under Secretary of State.
Answer:  Franklin ROOSEVELT (1st initial required)
Accept:  FDR
C.  Many of his library's items were saved by his personal secretary Ann
Whitman and used to write his memoirs "The White House Years" at his
farm near Gettysburg.
Answer: Dwight D. EISENHOWER

4.  Beryl is a colorless mineral that becomes more valuable when it
contains traces of other chemical elements.  For 10 points each,
identify the name given to beryl when it is:
A.  Blue because of iron in a +2 oxidation state.
Answer:  AQUAMARINE
B.  Pink.
Answer:  MORGANITE
C.  Green because of chromium in a +3 oxidation state.
Answer:  EMERALD

5.  During 1997, his first major painting "Home Sweet Home" was sold to
the National Gallery of Art for more than two million dollars.
A.  For 15 points, name this American painter who died in 1910 and was
most famous for his seascapes.
Answer:  Winslow HOMER
B.  For 15 points, name the American whose poem "Home Sweet Home"
includes the words "'Mid pleasures and palaces, Though we may roam, Be
it ever so humble, There's no place like home."
Answer:  John Howard PAYNE

6.  For 10 points each, name the three "Leatherstocking Tales" of James
Fenimore Cooper that have two-word titles where the first word is "The"
and the second word starts with the letter P.
Answers:  THE PATHFINDER, THE PIONEERS, THE PRAIRIE

7.  For 5 points each and a 5-point bonus for all, name the states where
sections of these rivers have been designated by the National Park
Service as "wild" or "scenic":
A.  Buffalo
Answer:  ARKANSAS
B.  Loxahatchee
Answer:  FLORIDA
C.  Pere Marquette
Answer:  MICHIGAN
D.  Great Egg Harbor
Answer:  NEW JERSEY
E.  Bluestone
Answer:  WEST VIRGINIA

8.  At the end of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice", three of the five
Bennet daughters are married.  For 10 points each, give the married name
of each sister:
A.  Elizabeth
Answer:  Darcy
B.  Jane
Answer:  Bingley
C.  Lydia
Answer:  Wickham

9.  Name the country, 30-20-10.
A.  During the 1970's, when the country was run by the Colorado (or
"Red") Party, it had the world's highest ratio of political prisoners to
total population.
B.  In 1930, a hundred years after it formed its first constitution, it
hosted the first World Cup soccer tournament and ended up winning the
event.
C.  Its military history includes wars with Brazil and Argentina, its
only two neighbors.  It's capital is at Montevideo.
Answer:  URUGUAY

10.  Thalassemia (tha-la-SEE-mee-uh)  is a rare inherited disease whose
best current method of treatment is monthly blood transfusions.  For 15
points each:
A.   Give the other name for the disease which comes from the doctor who
first described it in 1925.
Answer:  COOLEY'S ANEMIA
B.  This is designed to remove iron from the body that builds up with
repeated transfusions.  For fifteen points name this eight letter word.
Answer:  chelator

11.  For 10 points each, answer these questions about the 1997 Tony
Awards:
A.  Name the creator of "Driving Miss Daisy" who was nominated for "The
Last Night of Ballyhoo", a play set in Atlanta during the final night of
the Jewish social season.
Answer: Alfred UHRY
B.  Name the traveling companion of Cacambo who was the subject of a
Sondheim musical that was revived during 1997.
Answer:  "CANDIDE"
C.  Name the actress who played Velma Kelly in the nominated musical
"Chicago" but is more famous for her TV role as Frasier Crane's ex-wife
Lilith.
Answer:  Bebe NEUWIRTH

12.  In 1914, the British government appointed Viscount Bryce to head a
committee investigating German atrocities at the outbreak of World War
I.

For 10 points each:
A.  Name the British Prime Minister who gave Bryce his appointment.
Answer:  Herbert ASQUITH
B.  Name the country where the outrages described in the Bryce Report
took place.
Answer:  BELGIUM
C.  Name the nation whose war crimes were also reported by Bryce after
its forces killed hundreds of thousands of Christian Armenians in 1916.
Answer:  TURKEY

13.  The Reynolds number is a dimensionless quantity used to determine
the quality of fluid flow.  For 15 points each:
A.  Give the term describing relatively quiet flow when the Reynolds
number is less than 2,000.
Answer:  LAMINAR (LAM-a-ner)
B.  Give the term describing relatively violent flow when the Reynolds
number is greater than 4,000.
Answer:  TURBULENT

14.  The soon-to-be-published book "Coined by Shakespeare" contains many
of the Bard's additions to the English language.  For 10 points each,
name the Shakespeare play where:
A.  Cloten calls Guiderius a "rustic 'mountaineer'" but loses his head
in the ensuing fight.
Answer:  CYMBELINE
B.  The murder of Duncan is termed an "assassination."
Answer:  MACBETH
C.  The title character tells his mother Volumnia, "I go alone, like to
a 'lonely' dragon."
Answer:  CORIOLANUS

15.  He addressed the International Congress of Mathematicians and
outlined 23 problems he thought should be studied during the 20th
century.  For 10 points each:
A.  In what year did the speech take place?
Answer:1900
B.  Name this Prussian mathematician whose 10th problem has been proved
impossible to solve.
Answer:  David HILBERT
C.  Hilbert's 1899 book dealt with the foundations of what branch of
mathematics?
Answer:  GEOMETRY

16.  Reuven Malter is an Orthodox Jew who grows up to be a rabbi.  His
friend Danny Saunders is a Hasidic Jew who grows up to be a clinical
psychologist.
A.  For 10 points, name the author who created both characters.
Answer:  Chaim POTOK
B.  Now for 10 points each, name the two Potok novels in which both
characters appear.
Answer:  THE CHOSEN, THE PROMISE

17.  For 10 points each, answer these questions about the city of
Providence, Rhode Island:
A.  Name the religious denomination whose oldest American church is
located in Providence and dates from 1638.
Answer:  BAPTIST
B.  Name the mascot of Providence's minor-league hockey team.  A dead
cold Boston favorite.
Answer:  BRUINS
C.  Name the religious reformer generally credited with founding Rhode
Island who has a Providence park named after him.
Answer:  Roger WILLIAMS

18.  For 15 points each, name these plays by Ibsen that (almost) have a
happy ending:
A.  The title character drowns at the end of the first act, but in the
end, his parents Alfred and Rita agree to stay together instead of
splitting up.
Answer:  LITTLE EYOLF
B.  The title character here dies of a heart attack at the very end, but
his death helps bring his wife Gunhild and her twin sister Ella together
again.
Answer:  JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN

19.  A normal EKG contains heart waves referred to by the letters P, Q,
R, S, and T.
A.  For 15 points, which wave, when abnormal, is the most common sign
that you've had a heart attack?
Answer:  Q
B.  For 10 points, which wave is caused as the ventricular myocardium
returns to its resting state?
Answer:  T
C.  For 5 points, which letter refers to the highest vertical movement
on an EKG?
Answer:  R

20.  Between October 1890 and February 1891, the reigning world chess
champion and his challenger played a two-game match by correspondence.
For 15 points each:
A.  Name the world champion at the time who later lost his title to Dr.
Emanuel Lasker.
Answer:  Wilhelm STEINITZ (SHTY-nits)
B.  Name the Russian challenger who lost two matches to Steinitz
over-the-board in 1889 and 1892 but thumped him soundly in both
correspondence games.
Answer:  Mikhail CHIGORIN (chi-GO-rin)

21.  In the winter of 1077, an emperor acknowledged the pope's authority
over him by standing barefoot for three days in front of the Italian
castle where the Pope was staying until the Pope received him.  For 15
points each, name this emperor and the pope who was staying at Canossa.
Answer: HENRY IV (emperor), GREGORY VII (pope)

22.  The C.S. Lewis tale "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe" tells
the story of how 4 children met the lion and the White Witch.
A.  For 5 points each, name the two boys and two girls.
Answer:  PETER, EDMUND, LUCY, SUSAN
B.  For 10 points, name the lion.
Answer:  ASLAN

23.  Sir Joseph Banks once wrote of them, "I suppose they live entirely
upon fish, dogs, and enemies."  For 10 points each:
A.  Name this group of people indigenous to New Zealand.
Answer:  MAORI
B.  Name the treaty the Maori signed with Britain in 1840 whereby
William Hobson became their first British administrator.
Answer:  Treaty of WAITANGI (wy-TAHN-ghee)
C.  Who was the British monarch at the time of the treaty signing?
Answer:  Queen VICTORIA

24.  Genesis 29 tells the story of how Jacob got a wife.  For 10 points
each:
A.  Jacob originally served 7 years to marry the younger daughter of
which man?
Answer:  LABAN (LAY-bun)
B.  Laban, however, tricks Jacob into marrying which older daughter
first?
Answer:  LEAH
C.  This obliges Jacob to serve 7 more years before he can finally marry
which love of his life?
Answer:  RACHEL

25.  For 10 points each, answer these questions about Dvorak's
(VOR-zhox) "New World" symphony:
A.  What key was it written in?
Answer:  E MINOR (prompt if "E" is given; do not accept "E
major")
B.  Near the end of his life, Dvorak's symphonies were renumbered.
What
number was originally given to the "New World" symphony?
Answer:  5 or 5TH
C.  What is its generally recognized number now?
Answer:  9 or 9TH