CHICAGO SCOTTISH TUs (Andrew, Mike, Bryan, Ryan)


1. Public outrage, especially from newspaper editors and public
speakers, was widespread over this set of laws, passed by the Adams
administration in 1798.  They led to the passage of two sets of
resolutions by Virginia and Kentucky, written by James Madison and
Thomas Jefferson respectively.  For 10 points, name this set of laws,
which dealt mainly with the treatment of foreign citizens within the
United States.

Answer: _Alien and Sedition_ Acts


2. He won the Greensboro Open in 1938, and did so again seven more
times, becoming the only man to win a single PGA event eight
times. His last win in this event was in 1965, making him, at age 52,
the oldest regular PGA tour winner in history. Supposedly he never had
a golf lesson, but that didn't stop him from winning more
championships than anyone else in the history of golf.  For 10 points,
name this Virginian golfer, known for his straw hat.

Answer: Sam _Snead_


3. Based upon ideas taken from Marvin Minsky's "Society of the Mind"
and developed by the MIT Media Lab, this cross between performance
art, music, CPU-enhanced "hyper-instruments" and public participation
premiered in 1996 at the Lincoln Center and has since toured all over
the world. Participants submit music, sounds and images which are
combined into a rough aria by composer Tod Machover (MACK-over) and
then manipulated during performance by participants via the internet
and at theaters and concert halls all over the world.  For 10 points,
name this geekified intersection of art, libretto, and technology.

Answer: _Brain Opera_


4. After visiting Italy, she published _The Miracles of Antichrist_, a
socialist novel set in Sicily.  The author of _Tales of a Manor_,
_Marbacka_, and _Anna Svard_, her first novel was set in Varmland and
told the story of twelve knights led by a renegade priest, Gosta
Berling.  For 10 points, identify this author of _The Ring of the
Lowenskolds_ and _Jerusalem_, who won the 1909 Nobel Prize for
Literature, becoming the first woman and first Swede to do so.

Answer: Selma _Lagerlof_


5. Consisting of the Ralik to the west and the Ratak to the east, it
includes Wojte, Ailuk, Utirik, Rongelap, Arno, Kwajalein, and
Eniwetok. These are all atolls in, for 10 points, what Pacific
Republic which also includes Bikini Atoll, and whose capital is at
Majuro?

Answer: _Marshall_ Islands


6. Due to the extremely low binding energy of its nucleus, the only
known source of this atom is from big bang nucleosynthesis, where one
of this atomic species is produced for every hundred thousand hydrogen
atoms.  Most of what was produced was then consumed by stars during
their collapse towards normal hydrogen burning, leaving only trace
amounts in interstellar clouds where it can be easily identified due
to isotopic shift in its spectrum.  For 10 points, name this isotope
of hydrogen with an extra neutron.

Answer: _deuterium_


7. Most of the remains of this early hominid are skull fragments,
although indirect evidence suggests that it may have been bipedal and
stood approximately 4 feet tall.  Fossils found nearby suggest that it
may have been a forest dweller and cast doubt on the notions of
bipedalism leading to life on the savannah for early hominids.  Its
teeth are intermediate between those of earlier apes and
Australopithecus afarensis, placing it out of the same genus upon its
announcement by White et al. and Wood in 1994.  For 10 points, name
this earliest known hominid species, dated at 4.4 million years old.

Answer: _Ardipithecus Ramidus_


8. He died after drinking strychnine-laced whiskey in a juke joint in
1938, but not before he had used his odd falsetto singing style and
incredible skill with a slide guitar to popularize a new, more
rhythmic style of blues.  Though he only ever set foot in a recording
studio twice, his songs, such as "Me and the Devil Blues" and
"Hellhound on my Trail" have been re-recorded by musicians from Muddy
Waters to Led Zeppelin.  For 10 points, name this Mississippi
bluesman, known as the King of the Delta Blues.

Answer: Robert _Johnson_


9. He was recalled to Africa to defeat Syphax's revolt, but returned
to Spain after suppresing it, and during a battle in the Baetis valley
killed Gnaeus Scipio.  Following his defeat at Baecula, he went to
Italy in 207, but was defeated and killed by Gaius Cornelius Nero and
Marcus Livius Salinator at Metaurus River, after which his head was
cut off and catapulted into his brother's camp.  For 10 points,
identify this general, the second son of Hamilcar Barca and the
younger brother of Hannibal.

Answer: _Hasdrubal_ Barca


9. The Delians believed that two of them, Hyperoche and Laodice, had
visited Delos in the past, and legend had it that two others, Pagasus
and Agyieus, founded the oracle at Delphi.  It was also believed that
they sent Ilithyia to help Leto give birth to Apollo, who was said to
spend the winter with them.  For 10 points, identify this people,
whose life span was 1,000 years, and who lived in a land of peace
beyond the north wind, whose name was later applied by the Greeks to
any people of the north.

Answer: _Hyperborean_s


10. Meg Kasdan, Jon Kasdan, Jamie Gillis, JoBeth Williams, Meg Tilly,
Mary Kay Place, William Hurt, and Kevin Kline were all in, for 10
points, what seminal film of the 80s, rumored to include Kevin Costner
as a corpse, which also starred Jeff Goldblum, Tom Berenger, and Glenn
Close?

Answer: The _Big Chill_


11. This Spanish conquistador, born in 1519, ran away to sea at the
age of 14 and rose rapidly in the ranks.  Phillip II made him captain
of the Indies fleet, and in 1565 granted him 11 ships and 2,000 men to
found a new colony in Florida.  Finding a colony of French Protestants
that had settled nearby the year before, he ordered the massacre of
their camp.  He later returned to Spain, and in his absence the French
revenged the massacre and hanged his entire Spanish garrison.  For 10
points, name this Spaniard, the founder of the city of St. Augustine
in 1565.

Answer: Pedro Menendez de _Aviles_


12. Unable to afford the cost of an apprenticeship to a printer, this
English poet's father sent him to work for an engraver.  He showed an
aptitude for poetry from a very young age, but it was at the age of 26
that he published _Poetical Sketches_ in 1783.  He combined his
engraving knowledge with his creative efforts to produce the
brilliantly illustrated volume _Songs of Innocence_, followed years
later by _Songs of Experience_.  For 10 points, name this English
poet, the author of such works as "The Lamb" and "The Tiger".

Answer: William _Blake_


13. Concerned with the "modern survivals of prowess" in everything
from sport to business, this man tried to apply evolutionary theories
to almost every aspect of economic theory, maintaining that
competitive forces make all markets evolve continually. Though he
coined the phrase "pecuniary emulation," which became widely known in
economic circles, for 10 points what man is better known for his
economic study "The Theory of the Leisure Class," as well as for the
phrase "conspicuous consumption?"

Answer: Thorstein _Veblen_


14. He was born after the death of his father, leaving his mother
Maria Cristina to serve as regent.  The husband of Princess Eugenia of
Battenburg, his reign saw the passage of the Padlock Law, which led to
the assassination of the Liberal premier Canalejas, and the military
coup of Primo de Rivera, who acted on his behalf after he had left for
France.  For 10 points, name this monarch, who left his country
without abdicating in April 1931, after which a new constitution was
adopted by Spain.

Answer: _Alfonso XIII_


15. Before the days of practical numerical simulations, this technique
was invaluable for areas like electrostatics and fluid mechanics for
finding the solutions to difficult boundary value problems by making
use of solutions for simpler geometries.  Based upon work by Riemann,
common applications of the theory include the bilinear,
Schwartz-Christoffel and Joukowsky transformations, dealing with
planar, rectilinear and branch-line planar geometries, respectively.
For 10 points, name this staple of complex analysis courses
everywhere.

Answer: _conformal mapping_


16. At Levadhia, one belonged to Trophonius. At Oropius, one belonged
to Amphiaraus. At Epidaurus, on belonged to Asclepius, and at
Branchidae, Patara, Claros, Corope, Ptoon, Tegyra, Thebes, and Delos,
there were, for 10 points, what sites dedicated to Apollo, the most
famous of which was at Delphi?

Answer: _oracles_


17. His recent announcement that he'll be teaming with Mike Allred to
do a series of Bluntman and Chronic is sure to cement his status as a
hero to fanboys everywhere.  Very fitting, then, that the man who sold
his comic book collection in order to pay for his first movie should
now own his own comic book label, Oni Press, and draw rave reviews for
his writing on Marvel's "Daredevil".  For 10 points, name this creator
of "Jay and Silent Bob" and the comic book version of his movie
"Clerks."

Answer: Kevin _Smith_


18. The word first appeared in American higher education at the
University of Kansas in 1889, though it was not until the next year
that courses in it were taught at Bryn Mawr and Colby College.  In
1892, Albion Small created the first department in it at the fledgling
University of Chicago, where Robert Park, Ernest Burgess, William
Thomas, and George Mead would teach it.  For 10 points, identify this
discipline, which was given its name by Auguste Comte.

Answer: _sociology_


19. Editor, playwright, critic, and poet, this British writer was born
in 1918 and lived the first years of her life in Africa.  After World
War II she served as secretary general of the Poetry Society, and
later took to publishing critical biographies and letter collections
of figures such as Mary Shelley and the Bronte sisters.  Early novels
such as _Ballad of Peckham Rye_ and _The Girls of Slender Means_ were
characterized by a mildly humorous fantasy, but later novels like _The
Driver's Seat_ dealt with darked tones.  For 10 points, name the
twentieth-century British author best known for 1961's _The Prime of
Miss Jean Brodie_.

Answer: Muriel Sarah _Spark_


20. Along with colleague William Ostwald, this chemist founded the
prestigious "Journal of Physical Chemistry" in 1887.  Along with
Joseph Le Bel, he deduced that the four bonds in carbon radiate toward
the corners of a tetrahedron. While at the University of Amsterdam
from 1878-1896, he published "Studies in Chemical Dynamics" describing
principles of chemical kinetics and applied the laws of thermodynamics
to chemical equilibriums.  For 10 points, what chemist received for
this work the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1901?

Answer: Jacobus Henricus _van't Hoff_


21. The source of the originally continuous spectra is a background
quasar with an emission peak at 1216 angstroms.  During the photons'
journey to observers here on Earth, the spectrum undergoes redshift
due to the cosmological expansion. This results in a very dense set of
absorption lines to the redder side of the emission peak in the
spectrum that we receive.  FTP, name this phenomena, one of the latest
tools utilized by cosmologists to determine the large-scale structure
of the universe, whose name is a combination of the first transition
of the first spectral series of hydrogen and large group of trees.

Answer: _Lyman Alpha Forest_


22. After attending the Univeristy of Minnesota, he moved to Kansas
and became a reporter and later managing editor of the _Kansas City
Call_, a newspaper serving the black community.  He continued editing
in 1931 when he moved to the NAACP to work for their official
publication, known as _The Crisis_.  Involved with that organization
through the remainder of the civil rights movement, he helped to
organize the march on Washington in 1963 and served as chairman of the
U.S. delegation to the International Conference on Human Rights in
1968.  For 10 points, name this black reformer, executive director of
the NAACP from 1955 to 1977.

Answer: Roy _Wilkins_


23. While practicing law in Philadelphia he met Elihu Smith, with whom
he founded the Society for the Attainment of Useful Knowledge.  His
first work, _Alcuin: A Dialogue_, was a Godwinist defence of the
rights of women, while his last works were popular romances, _Jane
Talbot_ and _Clara Howard_.  FTP, name this writer, whose better known
works were Gothic novels like _Arthur Mervyn_ and _Wieland_, and who
is considered America's first professional author.

Answer: Charles Brockden _Brown_



24. It is set in the Black Mesa Bar-B-Q, a gas station and restaurant
in the Arizona desert.  Jason Maple's daughter Gabby falls in love
with Alan Squier, a failed author from New England who is hitch-hiking
west, who changes his life insurance so that she becomes his heir
before convincing Duke Mantee to shoot him.  For 10 points, identify
this play, which was published in 1935 by Robert Sherwood, whose title
symbolizes the "outmoded ideas" of Western civilization.

Answer: The _Petrified Forest_