Tossups by Eric Hillemann 1. Act One begins and ends with the same character saying the same one-word line: "Jesus." Act Two begins with Nick saying "I . . . guess . . . she's all right. She . . . really shouldn't drink." Act Three begins: "Hey, hey. . . . Where is everybody . . . ?" These acts are titled "Fun and Games," "Walpurgisnacht," and "The Exorcism." It's title question is finally answered by Martha, saying "I . . . am . . . George . . . I . . . am." For 10 points--name this play by Edward Albee. answer: _Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?_ 2. Among his last words are supposed to have been "Qualis artifex pereo," or roughly: "What an artist the world is losing in me." The occasion for this parting reflection was his suicide, prompted by the revolt of his Praetorian Guard in AD 68. For 10 points--name this wannabe artist, poet, and Olympic charioteer, the successor to Claudius as Roman Emperor. answer: _Nero_ Claudius Caesar (or _L_ucius Domitius _Ahenobarbus_) 3. Chopin described her voice as "surrounded not only by an ordinary halo, but by a kind of northern lights." She was guaranteed an extraordinary $1000 per performance during her sensational American tour of 1851-52 by promoter P. T. Barnum. For 10 points--name this soprano, famed as the "Swedish nightingale." answer: Jenny _Lind_ 4. He broke into the majors in 1959, going 4 for 4 against Robin Roberts, and proceeding to bat .354 and win the Rookie of the Year award. Ten years later he was an MVP, batting .320 and leading the league with 44 home runs and 126 RBI. His 18 career grand slams is the National League record. For 10 points--name this first baseman known as "Stretch," who played most of his career for the San Francisco Giants. answer: Willie (Lee) _McCovey_ 5. Rousseau, in his ~Emile~, says that this book, above all others, furnishes the happiest treatise on natural education. The character Gabriel Betteredge, in ~The Moonstone~, says that he has found it his friend in need in all the necessities of this mortal life. The book so praised, published in London in 1719, concerns the life and "strange surprising adventures" of a mariner of York. For 10 points--what fiction was based on the factual adventures of Scottish mariner Alexander Selkirk? answer: The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of _Robinson Crusoe_ of York, Mariner 6. During his first year in the White House he proposed an anti-lynching bill and an interracial commission on race relations, and told a segregated crowd in Alabama that democracy would be a sham so long as black Americans were excluded as "full participants in the benefits and duties of American citizenship." Shortly before his death in office he attacked the "hatred, prejudice and violence" of the Ku Klux Klan. For 10 points--name this U.S. President whose relatively progressive racial stance was not hinted at in the slogan "Back to Normalcy." answer: Warren Gamaliel _Harding_ 7. It is connected to the Kattegat by the Oresund, and the Great and Little Belts. Its islands include Bornholm, Saaremaa, Gotland, and Zealand, and it is fed by rivers such as the Angerman, Niemen, and Western Dvina. For 10 points--name this sea whose indentations include the gulfs of Bothnia, Finland, and Riga. answer: _Baltic_ Sea 8. In dress he somewhat aped the attire associated with the name of Charles II, having heard it said in some earlier period of his career that he bore a strange resemblance to the ill-fated Stuarts; and in his mouth he had a holder of his own contrivance which enabled him to smoke two cigars at once. But undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw." For 10 points--this is the description provided what villainous pirate by author J. M. Barrie? answer: Captain James _Hook_ 9. Director of the psychology laboratory at the Sorbonne from 1894, in collaboration with Thiodore Simon he authored the book ~Mentally Defective Children~, and devised the series of tests with which his name is most associated. For 10 points--name this psychologist whose tests, with revisions such as the Kuhlmann, Herring, and Stanford, were innovations in the testing of human intelligence. answer: Alfred _Binet_ 10. Its last full line of dialogue is "Oh, good, for a moment there I thought we were in trouble." It opens with a silent film portrayal of a train robbery. Directed by George Roy Hill, with music by Burt Bacharach, its cast includes Katharine Ross, as Etta Place. For 10 points--name this 1969 "buddy" film featuring the song "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head," and starring Robert Redford and Paul Newman. answer: _Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid_ 11. Based on a British design by Hubert Scott-Paine, those predominant in the Pacific were built by the Elco yacht division of the Electric Boat Company in Bayonne, New Jersey. They were 80 feet long, with three 1,250-horsepower Packard V-12 engines, and were designed to skim across the top of the water like a speedboat. For 10 points--name these World War II-era naval craft, one of which was commanded by John F. Kennedy. answer: _PT_ Boats or _Patrol Torpedo_ Boats (or _MTB_s, or _Motor Torpedo_ Boats) 12. "Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, / Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon, / I heard a Negro play. / Down on Lenox Avenue the other night / By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light / He did a lazy sway. . . . / He did a lazy sway. . . . / To the tune o' those Weary Blues." For 10 points--what poet of "The Weary Blues" also produced such other volumes as ~Fields of Wonder~, ~Shakespeare in Harlem~, and ~Montage of a Dream Deferred~? answer: (James Mercer) Langston _Hughes_ (accept the _Weary Blues_ before that title is given) 13. In August 1998 this 82 year-old was ordered by presiding magistrate Victor Lugaju to pay a fine of $1,600 or serve a year in prison after being found guilty of contempt for refusing to testify before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission about his knowledge of bombings, murders, and other atrocities carried out by government security forces targeting anti-apartheid activists in the 1980s. For 10 points--name this man who stepped down in 1989 as president of South Africa. answer: P(ieter) W(illem) _Botha_ 14. The Merriam-Webster ~Encyclopedia of Literature~ calls him "the original superfluous man . . . a disillusioned aristocrat who is drawn into tragic situations through his inability or unwillingness to take positive action to prevent them." His tragedy is that when Tatyana loves him, he rejects her; later, when he loves Tatyana, she rejects him to remain faithful to her marriage vows. For 10 points--name this title protagonist of a Pushkin novel and Tchaikovsky opera. answer: Eugene (or Yevgeny) _Onegin_ 15. His election as president in 1940 followed several years where he had already been de facto ruler as chief of staff of the army. In 1933, as an army sergeant, he had helped to overthrow the government of Gerardo Machado. The repression and notorious corruption of his second term as president, beginning in 1952, led to an uprising that culminated in his flight to the Dominican Republic on New Year's Day 1959. For 10 points--who was this dictator ousted from Cuba by Fidel Castro? answer: Fulgencio _Batista_ y Zaldivar 16. He is the subject of a 1996 documentary film, ~The Line King~. The Army once funded a $60,000 experiment in training bomber pilots to spot camouflaged targets by having them scan rapidly flashing slides of his drawings, trying to spot the hidden "Ninas." For 10 points--name this longtime caricaturist of theater personalities for ~The New Yorker~. answer: Al _Hirschfeld_ 17. Between 1878 and 1890 he worked his way up from shop-floor worker to chief engineer at the Midvale Steel Works, but his main career began after he became a management consultant, a job he helped invent. Aiming at greater prosperity for both employer and employee, his method was to increase efficiency through systematic study of how work was done. For 10 points--name this Philadelphia-born theorist of, and evangelist for, the principles and methods of scientific management. answer: Frederick Winslow _Taylor_ 18. They are either eight or nine in number, depending on whether verses 10 and 11 of the 5th chapter of Matthew are counted as one or two. They come at the commencement of the Sermon on the Mount. For 10 points--what Latin-derived name is usually given to these utterings which begin with "Blessed are the poor in spirit"? answer: _Beatitudes_ 19. This animal's many appearances in folklore include those of Kilkenny in Ireland, who devour one another after arguing fiercely. In mythology, they are sacred to Freya, whose chariot is drawn by them. It is also the form taken by the Egyptian goddess Bast. For 10 points--name these proverbially mysterious animals reputed to live many lives. answer: _cat_(s) 20. Nearly all of the 1700 or so species comprising some 120 genera are native to the Americas, where--contrary to what many assume--they range from Canada to the tropics. The fleshy green stems of these succulents perform the functions of leaves, which are typically absent or nearly so. For 10 points--name this family of plants often characterized by largy showy flowers, and which may grow as tall as 70 feet in the variety called saguaro. answer: _cactus_ or _cacti_ or _Cactaceae_ 21. Called the "soroban" in Japan, by the end of World War II its use was part of the curriculum of fourth and upper grades, and skilled users could earn licenses acknowledging their proficiency. Ancient Romans, needing to simplify arithmetic with Roman numerals, employed a bronze tablet variety with grooves rather than wires. For 10 points--what is this computing instrument typically using beads as counters? answer: _abacus_ 22. Arched, blocky, dome, pinnacled, valley, and weathered are terms used in their classification. The northern variety tend to be irregularly shaped and peaked, while southern ones are tabular. In the Northern Hemisphere most of the 16,000 or so that are annually calved originate in Greenland. One of the converging twain in a Thomas Hardy poem was--for 10 points--what type of object fatal to the ~Titanic~? answer: _iceberg_(s) 23. At the age of 13, he was the youngest Eagle Scout in the U.S. A bit older, he married a certain Miss Hilliard, who had been the vocalist for a band he led. Together, they were regulars on ~The Red Skelton Show~ on radio, and later, on television from 1952 to 1966, his family became one of America's best known. For 10 points--name this famed pater familias, the father of David and Ricky, and husband of Harriet. answer: Oswald George "Ozzie" _Nelson_ 24. It is a white, crystalline monocyclic, saturated, secondary terpene alcohol with antiseptic properties. Because it imparts cooling and tingling sensations, it is widely used in skin fresheners and after-shave lotions. It may be prepared synthetically from coal tar, but is more commonly derived from peppermint oil. For 10 points--name this minty substance used to freshen some cigarettes. answer: _menthol_ 25. Long before coming to the throne he lived for more than 20 years with his actress-mistress, Mrs. Jordan. As king, his ministers included Earl Grey, Viscount Melbourne, and Sir Robert Peel. The great political event of his seven-year reign was passage of the Reform Act of 1832. For 10 points--name this British monarch succeeded by his niece, Victoria. answer: _William IV_ 26. Unlike the Cockcroft-Walton accelerator whose high voltage is produced by charging a bank of capacitors in parallel, and then connecting them in series, this type of electrostatic particle accelerator achieves high voltage via a continuously recharging moving belt to deliver charge to a terminal consisting of a hollow metal sphere. For 10 points--this tool invented in the 1930s bears the name of what American physicist whose given names were Robert Jemison? answer: _Van de Graaf_ accelerator (or generator) Bonuses by Eric Hillemann 1. In 1998 Helmut Kohl's long run as Chancellor of the German Federal Republic came to an end. For 10 points each-- A. Who was Kohl's predecessor as West German Chancellor, who succeeded Willy Brandt in 1974? answer: Helmut _Schmidt_ B. Who was the first West German Chancellor, holding office from 1949 to 1963? answer: Konrad _Adenauer_ C. Name either of the two Chancellors serving in the 1960s between Adenauer and Brandt. answer: Ludwig _Erhard_ or Kurt Georg _Kiesinger_ 2. Identify the following things having to do with blood, for 10 points each: A. The red blood cell protein responsible for oxygen transport from the lungs to other body tissues. answer: _hemoglobin_ B. The fluid remaining after blood has clotted, and the clot is removed; it differs from plasma in its lack of fibrinogen. answer: _serum_ C. Granular leukocytes, or white blood cells, come in three varieties--basophil, eosinophil, and--this type of "phil," which constitute the vast majority. answer: _neutrophil_ 3. Greta Garbo, playing the ballerina Grusinskaya, returns to her room despondent from a performance, and picks up a bottle of poison. At that moment Baron von Gaigern, who is in the room to steal, reveals himself, and when Grusinskaya asks "Who are you?" he replies, "Someone who loves you." For 10 points each-give Garbo's five word response, the 1932 film based on a Vicki Baum play in which this scene occurs, and the actor playing von Gaigern, known as "The Great Profile." answer: _I want to be alone_, _Grand Hotel_, _J_ohn _Barrymore_ 4. 30-20-10. Name the U.S. President. A. Nicknamed "the Dude President," he was considered one of the finest fishermen of his day, and was the first president to have a personal valet. B. His father was a co-founder of the New York Antislavery Society, and as a young lawyer he himself won a landmark case leading to desegregation of public transport in New York City. C. An associate of Republican Stalwart Roscoe Conkling, his nomination as vice president was a move to placate party conservatives; he became president the following year. answer: Chester Alan _Arthur_ 5. For 10 points each--identify the 20th century psychologist or psychiatrist who wrote each of the following works: A. ~Psychological Types~ (1921) and ~Psychology and Alchemy~ (1944) answer: Carl Gustav _Jung_ B. ~Black Skin, White Masks~ (1952) and ~The Wretched of the Earth~ (1964) answer: Frantz _Fanon_ C. ~The Art of Loving~ (1956) and ~To Have or to Be~ (1976) answer: Erich _Fromm_ 6. Name the astronomical constellation from its designated beta-star, for 10 points, or from its alpha, for 5. A. 10: Albireo 5: Deneb answer: _Cygnus_ or The _Swan_ B. 10: Denebola 5: Regulus answer: _Leo_ or The _Lion_ C. 10: Kochab 5: Polaris answer: _Ursa Minor_ or _Little Bear_ or _Little Dipper_ 7. For the stated number of points--name the college football teams which had these players win Heisman trophies in consecutive seasons: A. For 5 points--1974, Archie Griffin; 1975, Archie Griffin answer: The _Ohio State_ University B. For 10 points--1945, Doc Blanchard; 1946, Glenn Davis answer: _Army_ C. For 15 points--1936, Larry Kelley; 1937, Clint Frank answer: _Yale_ 8. For the stated number of points--identify the physicist from a brief description. A. For 5 points--English physicist. His theory of negative-energy holes predicted the existence of the positron. Nobel prize, 1933. answer: Paul Adrien Maurice _Dirac_ B. For 10 points--19th century French physicist. Accurately determined the velocity of light. Determined experimentally the rotation of the earth. answer: Jean Bernard Lion _Foucault_ C. For 15 points--German-born American physicist. Developed the molecular beam method and used it to prove directly the existence of the magnetic moment of stars and nuclei and to measure their magnitude. Nobel Prize, 1943. answer: Otto _Stern_ 9. For 10 points apiece--name the literary works inspiring these musical compositions: A. An 1839 symphony by Berlioz; an 1864 opera by Gounod; a 1935 ballet by Prokofiev; and an 1869-70 "Fantasy Overture" by Tchaikovsky. answer: Shakespeare's _Romeo and Juliet_ B. An 1840 overture by Wagner; an 1857 symphony by Liszt; an 1859 opera by Gounod. answer: Goethe's _Faust_ C. A 1998 opera by Andre Previn, his first. answer: Tennessee Williams' A _Streetcar Named Desire_ 10. 30-20-10. Identify the poem from lines. A. It begins, "When Love with unconfined wings / Hovers within my gates" . . . B. It ends, "Angels alone that soar above / Enjoy such liberty." C. It includes, "Stone walls do not a prison make, / Nor iron bars a cage." answer: _To Althea, from Prison_ [by Richard Lovelace] 11. Identify these connected persons from Greek mythology, for 10 points each: A. He accompanied his close friend Pirithous, king of the Lapiths, to Hades, from where the two intended to carry off Persephone, but were instead stuck fast in the Chairs of Forgetfulness. answer: _Theseus_ B. This son of Theseus resisted the improper advances of his stepmother, Phaedra, who then brought about his death by falsely accusing him of trying to seduce her. answer: _Hippolytus_ C. Phaedra was the younger sister of this woman, who had fled Crete with Theseus only to be abandoned on the island of Naxos. answer: _Ariadne_ 12. Name these state capitals, for 10 points each-- A. Capital of the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, it is an industrial center on the Neckar river whose products include wine, automobiles, and pianos. answer: _Stuttgart_ B. Capital of the state of Jalisco, this center for glassware and pottery is Mexico's second-largest city. answer: _Guadalajara_ C. Capital of the state of Madhya Pradesh, since December 1984 it has been most famous as the site of a chemical disaster. answer: _Bhopal_ 13. For 10 points each--name these French revolutionaries who did not survive the revolution. A. A principal spokesman for the Third Estate in the States-General of 1789, his moderation caused him to be criticized by the Jacobins, but he died a natural death. His body was removed from the Pantheon after his secret dealings with the royal court were revealed. answer: Honore Gabriel Riquetti _Mirabeau_ (or comte de _Riqueti_) B. A leader of the Paris commune, and founder with Pierre Chaumette of the cult of the worship of reason, this journalist and other extremist followers were guillotined in 1794. answer: Jacques Rene _Hebert_ C. This Parisian lawyer became minister of justice under the republic, and dominated the first Committee of Public Safety. He and many of his "Indulgents," or moderates, were also guillotined in 1794. answer: Georges Jacques _Danton_ 14. Given the date, location, and a recent quote about anger, for 15 points each--name the speaker. A. July 29, 1998, at the National Bar Association Convention in Memphis: "I have come here today not in anger or to anger, though my mere presence has been sufficient, obviously, to anger some. Nor have I come to defend my views, but rather to assert my right to think for myself, to refuse to have my ideas assigned to me as though I was an intellectual slave [. . . ] I come to state that I'm a man, free to think for myself and do as I please." answer: Clarence _Thomas_ B. September 3, 1998, on the floor of the U.S. Senate: "I was personally angry because President Clinton had by his disgraceful behavior jeopardized his Administration's historic record of accomplishment, much of which grew out of the principles and programs that he and I [. . .] had worked on together in the New Democratic movement. [. . .] The implications for our country are so serious that I feel a responsibility to my consitutuents in Connecticut, as well as to my conscience, to voice my concerns . . . " answer: Joseph _Lieberman_ 15. Identify these persons or movements within 20th century theology, for 10 points each: A. This Swiss theologian and author of ~Church Dogmatics~ was at the core of movements known as crisis theology or dialectical theology, and Protestant neo-orthodoxy. answer: Karl _Barth_ B. Focused on freeing the poor from all forms of oppression, this radical Roman Catholic theology published a manifesto of sorts following a 1968 conference of Latin American bishops; its seminal text was published by Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutierrez. answer: _Liberation_ theology C. In the 1960s the media trumpeted Thomas J. J. Altizer, William Hamilton, Paul Van Buren, and others as representative of this attention-grabbing movement aimed at preserving Christian ethics without reliance upon an actively engaged diety. answer: _Death of God_ theology (or _God is Dead_ movement) or _Christian Atheism_ 16. There have been lots named John, James, or William, but some U.S. Supreme Court justices have had more distinctive first names. For 5 points each, and a 10 point bonus for all four--give the surname of the only justices named: A. Bushrod answer: _Washington_ B. Lucius answer: _Lamar_ C. Pierce answer: _Butler_ D. Sherman answer: _Minton_ 17. Iceland is often said to be the world's most literate society. In honor of that distinction, let's test your knowledge of the great figures of Icelandic literature. For 10 points each-- A. Identify the Icelandic chieftain and historian whose authorship of the ~Prose Edda~, as well as the great saga ~Heimskringla~, made him the leading figure in medieval Norse literature. answer: _Snorri_ Sturluson, or Sturleson (prompt if only "Sturluson" is answered) B. Name the only Icelander to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, author of the 1930s epic novels ~Salka Valka~, ~Independent People~, and ~World Light~. answer: Halldsr _Laxness_ (pen name; also accept Halldsr _Gudjsnsson_) C. Name the modern novelist whose first work, translated into English as ~Guest the One-Eyed~, was the first Icelandic work to be turned into a feature film, and whose masterpiece was the five volume autobiographical novel ~The Church on the Mountain~, translated into English in two volumes as ~Ships in the Sky~, and ~The Night and the Dream~. answer: Gunnar _Gunnarson_ 18. One date you never want to forget is April 15--IRS tax day. But other government dates are important as well. For 10 points each-- A. Pursuant to the 20th Amendment, on what date do the terms of office of members of Congress begin and end? answer: at noon on the _third day of January_ (_January 3_) B. On what date does the U.S. Supreme Court traditionally begin its new term? answer: the _first Monday in October_ C. Every four years the electoral college votes are cast on one date and counted in the presence of both Houses of Congress on another. Name either date. answer: cast: _first Monday after the second Wednesday in December_, or counted: _January 6_ 19. The 1998 Country Music Association Awards were broadcast live in late September. For 10 points each-- A. Name the show's host for the past seven years. Earlier in 1998 he won the Best Male Country Vocal Performance Grammy for "Pretty Little Adriana." answer: Vince _Gill_ B. She won the female vocalist of the year award for the second year in a row. Earlier in 1998 she won the Best Female Country Vocal Performance Grammy for the song "How Do I Live," from the film ~ConAir~. answer: Tricia _Yearwood_ C. He was named Entertainer of the Year. Earlier in 1998 he and Yearwood shared the Best Country Collaboration Grammy for "In Another's Eyes." answer: Garth _Brooks_ 20. Your bonus and welcome to it. For 10 points each-complete the titles of these James Thurber collections: A. The Owl in the [blank] answer: _Attic_ B. The Seal in the [blank] answer: _Bedroom_ C. Men, Women and [blank] answer: _Dogs_ 21. "'The time has come,' the Walrus said, / 'To talk of many things: / Of shoes--and ships--and sealing wax--" . . . and four more things, as enumerated in the poem recited by Tweedledee in ~Through the Looking Glass~. For 5 for one, 10 for two, 20 for three, or 30 for all four--complete the Walrus' list. answer: Of _cabbages_ and _kings_ (each counts as one) And _why the sea is boiling hot_ And _whether pigs have wings_ 22. For 10 points each-name the American subject of these 1998 biographies: A. ~Flawed Giant~, by Robert Dallek answer: _L_yndon Baines _Johnson_ B. ~Titan!~, by Ron Chernow answer: _J_ohn D(avison) _Rockefeller_, Sr. C. the autobiography ~24 Years of House Work . . . And the Place is Still a Mess~ answer: Pat(ricia) _Schroeder_ 23. For 10 points per trio--put these Egyptian events into chronological order, earliest to latest: A. The reigns of the pharaohs Amenhotep I, Khufu, and Tutankhamen answer: _Khufu, Amenhotep I, Tutankhamen_ B. Rule by the Achaemenids, the Hyksos, and the Ptolomies answer: _Hyksos, Achaemenids, Ptolomies_ C. Rule by the Fatamids, the Mamluks, and the Umayyids answer: _Umayyids, Fatamids, Mamluks_ 24. It is the name given the series of elements including all of the numbers in the 90s and up to 103. For 10 points per answer-- A. Name this series bearing a strong chemical resemblance to the lanthanide elements. answer: _actinide_ elements B. Which two actinide elements, located on either side of protactinium, are the only two present in nature in appreciable quantities? answer: _thorium_, _uranium_ 25. For 10 points each--name the battles, given artistic clues. A. This victory of the Florentines over the Milanese was to have been the subject of a Leonardo da Vinci mural for the Palazzo Vecchio which was never completed; his cartoon for the mural was used as the basis for a Peter Paul Rubens drawing now in the Louvre. answer: Battle of _Anghiari_ B. Paolo Uccelo's famous painting featuring in the center a turbaned swordsman on a white steed is about the only reason anyone still remembers this battle. answer: Battle of _San Romano_ C. Albrecht Altdorfer loaded his detailed 1529 panorama of this ancient clash between Alexander and Darius III with anachronisms, such as lance-bearing mounted knights in medieval armor. answer: Battle of _Issus_ 26. For 10 points each--name the mathematicians. A. This Hungarian-American is known for work on the design of high-speed electronic computers, as well as for being a founder of mathematical game theory. answer: John _Von Neumann_ B. This Italian author of ~Instituzioni Analitiche~ shared in discovering the cubic curve known as her "witch." answer: Maria Gaetana _Agnesi_ C. This French mathematician published on convergence, limits, and continuity, and defined the integral as the limit of a sum. With Gauss, he created the theory of real and complex functions. answer: Augustin Louis _Cauchy_