From kathycox@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu Fri Jan 24 17:45:45 1997 Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 16:08:25 -0500 (EST) From: Katherine Cox To: Trivia Club Subject: Swarthmore toss-ups edited LIT 1. Discharged from the merchant marine as a "schizoid personality", this writer travelled his own route. While his first novel, _The Town and the City_, was fairly uncontroversial, later works stressed restless alienation and the search for spiritual enlightenment, or dharma, through debauchery. FTP, name this beatnik and author of _Satori in Paris_, _Big Sur_, and _The Dharma Bums_. Answer: Allen _GINSBERG_ 2. In this early chanson de geste, Ganelon, a treacherous French nobleman, plots with the Moors to destroy a pesky paladin. The entire Moorish army sweeps upon the French rearguard and slaughters it to a man. The title refers to the horn call of the hero, who honorably refuses to summon assistance until his dying breath. FTP, name this medieval French tale. Answer: _THE SONG OF ROLAND_ 3. He falsely claimed to have killed the rebel leader Hotspur, but is better known for frequenting the Boar's Head Tavern with his drunken friends. He was portrayed by Shakespeare as a good friend of Prince Hal until his young friend became king and rejected him. FTP, name this cowardly and drunk Shakespearean character, popular despite his faults. Sir John _FALSTAFF_ 4. This play tells the story of the Ranevsky family and its declining fortunes. Even when the family nears bankruptcy, it rejects the advice of the businessman Lopakhin to build houses on the family's favorite parcel of land. FTP, name this Chekhov play, which ends with the sound of a chopping axe as Lopakhin's plan is finally carried out. _THE CHERRY ORCHARD_ History 1. Warning: Two answers required. In 1827, these two dwellers in an Edinburgh lodging house began their storied criminal career with the death of another lodger, whose body netted them 7 pounds. Later bodies, sold to doctors and medical students for medical research, netted from 8 to 14 pounds. FTP, name this duo of murderers in the name of science. Answer: William _BURKE_ and William _HARE_ 2. Considered a golden age of Chinese civilization, this dynasty saw the expansion of the empire and the birth of Ch'an Buddhism. Expanded contact with the outside world brought Islam, Nestorian Christianity, and Zoroastrianism into China. FTP, name this dynasty, weakened by the An Lu-Shan rebellion, which was preceded by the Sui and succeeded by the Sung. Answer: _T'ANG_ 3. He was censured by the Massachusetts legislature for a Senate resolution seen as overly conciliatory after the civil war, despite his reputation as a Radical Republican; a year before, he had lost the chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for opposing Grant's proposed annexation of Santo Domingo. FTP, name this MA senator beaten with a cane by Preston Brooks in 1856. Charles _SUMNER_ 4. It began when a newspaper printed an ad entitled "Heed their Rising Voices" asking for donations to help Martin Luther King and giving examples of racism in, among other places, Montgomery, Ala.; a Mongtomery city comissioner sued for libel, and his case went to the Supreme Court. FTP, name this landmark 1964 case dealing with press freedom. _NEW YORK TIMES v. SULLIVAN_ Current events 1. The son-in-law of former Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, he served as chief of staff in the second Reagan administration, preceded Bob Dole as Senate Majority leader, and preceded Al Gore in the Senate. FTP, name this former senator, who recently married Nancy Kassebaum. Howard _BAKER_ 2. Double negatives are allowed, "th"'s are replaced by "d"'s at the start of words, many verbs aren't conjugated, and the word "be" is frequently used under its rules. First named in 1973, it leapt to prominence after a recent decision by the Oakland School Bd.; FTP, give the name given to Black English by some who consider it a language. _EBONICS_ 3. Science Minister Binyamin Begin resigned to protest the withdrawal of troops from this city, despite the presence of 450 Jewish settlers. Many Israelis opposed the transfer of this city, said to be the burial site of the patriarchs, to the Palestinians. FTP, name this West Bank city of 100,000 residents. _HEBRON_ Religion/Myth/Philosophy 1. In Greece, he was venerated as the protector of shepherds, fishermen, and farmers, because of his abilities to make game and flocks plentiful. Later on, he was invoked as the chief deity of lasciviousness and obscenity. FTP, name this God of the phallus. Answer: _PRIAPUS_ 2. In this work, the author attempts to find universal rules that underlie human society, such as gregariousness, universal peace, and reproduction. It contains an analysis of three types of government, with a bias towards a constitutional monarchy for France. It influenced the U.S. Constitution and Catherine The Great's efforts to revise Russian law. FTP, name this work of Monetesquieu. Answer: Concerning _The Spirit of Laws_, or the Relationship Which Laws Must Have To The Constitution of Each Government, to Mores, Relgion, Etc. Social Science 1. A Swarthmore graduate, this social psychologist worked to describe the influence groups have on individuals. His most famous experiment involved a judgment of the lengths of lines. Six individuals, working with the experimenter, gave an answer that was obviously wrong, and most experimental subjects fell in line with the majority and gave the wrong answer. FTP, name the researcher who designed this famous experiment. Answer: Solomon _ASCH_ Misc. 1. They were cribbed from a French satire, Dialogues in Hell between Machiavelli and Napoleon. Revealed as a forgery by the London Times in 1925, they nevertheless influenced the politics of tsar Alexander II, Adolf Hitler, and Henry Ford. FTP, name this enduring anti-Semitic forgery, puportedly a document showing how a secret cabal of Jewish leaders plans to take over the world. Answer: _Protocols_ of the learned elders of _Zion_ (translations of the title vary widely) Trash: 1. Fleeing their dying homeworld, they were placed in hibernation pods as they made the long journey to Earth-3. There, they encountered Brute-Men and Robear-Burbles, as well as sadistic mutants. FTP, name these cartoon heroes, who battled Monkion, Jackle-Man and Mumm-ra, who lived in the Cat's Lair, and whose members included Snarf, Tigra, and Lion-O. Answer: _THUNDERCATS_ 2. Inhabitants include Bob the Fern and a living meteor. Scientific research gone awry produced the purple tentacle and the green tentacle. Human occupants include Dead cousin Ted, Weird Ed, nurse Edna, and, of course, Dr. Fred. FTP, name the house and you've named both the classic graphical computer game and a family channel television spinoff. Answer: _MANIAC MANSION_ Art/Music: 1. The son and brother of Connecticut governors, he performed diplomatic duties in Europe but is best known as an artist. After service in the Revolution, he studied under Benjamin West in London, returned to America, and began a series of historical paintings (including the picture of the signing of the Decl. of Independence reproduced on the $2 bill.) FTP, name this artist who painted the ceiling of the Capitaol Rotunda. John _TRUMBULL_ 2. The illegitmate son of a Georgian prince, he was trained as a scientist and composed music only as a hobby. Known to many as an absent-minded professor willing to teach medical school courses to women, he is best known for using Russian folk themes in his work and for composing the opera Prince Igor. FTP, name this composer of the Polovtsian Dances. Aleksandr _BORODIN_ Geography: 1. It flows from the Tibetan highlands to the South China Sea, touching 6 countries and forming part of the borders b/w Burma and Laos and Laos and Thailand. Phnom Penh is the largest city and the only capital located on its banks. FTP, name this longest river of Southeast Asia. The _MEKONG_ River 2. Its capital is Douglas, and it's governed by a lieutenant governor and 2 legislative houses, the Chamber and the House of Keys. Its first inhabitants were Celts, and the most commonly spoken language was a form of Gaelic until earlier this century. FTP, name this British crown possession (after whom a breed of tail-less cats is named). The Isle of _MAN_ Science: 1. The name's the same: one of the moons of Jupiter, a sea goddess who was the wife of Oceanus, and a major prehistoric sea, from which several present-day oceans are descended. FTP give the common name. _TETHYS_ 2. Environmental harm to the bald eagle by DDT is explained in part by this idea, which holds that harmful substances will grow in toxicity as they move up the food chain. FTP, name this principle. biological _MAGNIFICATION_ 3. In Heinlein's _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_, they pummeled Earth into submission. The basic idea is simple: using a series of electromagnets, accelerate a ferrous particle to extremely high speeds. FTP, what two-word phrase is applied to these devices, which have nothing to do with trains? Ans: _RAIL GUN_ 4. Resembling benzene, but less dangerous, this petroleum derivative is used in organic synthesis, as a solvent, and in anti-knock gasoline. FTP, name this liquid aromatic hydrocarbon with chemical formula C7H8, a component of TNT. Ans: _TOLUENE_