Technophobia 3 UCLA Tossups 1. When his lady love married another in his absence, he set out to kill her, her husband, and her mother, but stopped to eat in Nice, tried to kill himself, calmed down, and wrote an overture. Some years earlier, in 1827, he had fallen in love with the English actress Harriet Smithson, but realized his pursuit was worthless and wrote a symphony in which she figured as a witch. For ten points, name this French composer of 'The Childhood of Christ,' 'Benvenuto Cellini,' and 'Symphonie Fantastique. Answer: (Louis) Hector _Berlioz_ 2. He co-wrote the Cream song "Badge," and the song's title originates from his misreading of the word "bridge." He also wrote and sang a song for "Time Bandits," a film of which he was a producer. One song which he may not have written is "My Sweet Lord," over which he was sued for copyright infringement. For ten points, name this musician who wrote such classic tunes as "Taxman," "Something," and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" while he was a member of the Beatles. Answer: George _Harrison_ 3. Several famous writers have killed themselves, but this one waited until he was in his 70s. His novels concern the conflict between tradition and modernization in his native country. "Beauty and Sadness" centers around the lingering memory of a love affair. "The Sound of the Mountain" centers around a businessman's confrontation of his imminent death. In "The Master of Go," the aging master symbolizes the old order and its collapse after World War II. For ten points, name this novelist who also wrote "Snow Country" and "Thousand Cranes." Answer: Yasunari _Kawabata_ 4. His story illustrates the theme of total dependence on God: at divine command, he reduced his army from 32,000 to 300 before attacking the enemy. The leader of central highland tribes, he defeated the Midianite raiders. Because of his success, the tribe of Ephraim was jealous of his tribe of Manasseh. He was offered the position of king, which he refused, although his son Abimelech later tried to adopt the position. For ten points, name this man, also known as Jerubbaal, one of the chief characters in the book of Judges. Answer: _Gideon_ (accept Jerubbaal on an early buzz) 5. In 1979 he drowned at a Brazilian beach. It took six years and an international team of forensic scientists to conclude his identity. He had been living in South America for over 30 years, mostly in Argentina and Paraguay, and he had fled Europe after WWII as a war criminal. For ten points, name this infamous figure who selected 400,000 people for death and grotesque experimentation when he served as chief physician at Auschwitz. Answer: Josef _Mengele_ 6. Its tallest building is the 728-foot Bank One Tower, and its mayor is Stephen Goldsmith. Its metropolitan area is only the 31st-biggest in America, but it is America's 12th-biggest city. This discrepancy results from a 1969 deal in which the city swallowed the surrouding Marion County suburbs while Richard Lugar was mayor. For ten points, name this state capital, whose only world-famous landmark is its speedway. Answer: _Indianapolis_ 7. They can lead to changes in pulse rate, blood pressure, electrical skin resistance, gastric function, penis engorgement, and skin conditions, and can cause side effects like itching, diarrhea and nausea. Nevertheless, nearly all of medicine was once based on them, and American doctors frequently made use of them as late as the 1940s. Studies show that they still have a wide range of effectiveness as antidepressants, substitutes for arthroscopic knee surgery, pain relievers, baldness remedies, and can even restore sexual arousal in non-orgasmic women. Why they work is unknown, but may be answered by a new field of cognitive neuropsychology called expectancy theory. For ten points name these treatments, whose name is Latin for "I shall please." Answer: _placebo_s 8. She appears in the novel "The Voyage Out," but she is far better known as a title character. Her daughter is Elizabeth, her childhood friend Sally Seton, and her husband is Richard, a member of Parliament. A 1925 novel tells of a single day in her life, culminating in a party interrupted by news of the suicide of Septimus Warren Smith. For ten points, name this character, who regrets that her name "Clarissa" is hardly used, a creation of Virginia Woolf. Answer: Missus Clarissa _Dalloway_ 9. Two of the less famous of these islands are Formentera and Cabrera, and towns found on the group include Manacor and Mahon. They are mostly located between the 39th and 40th degrees north latitude and the 2nd and 4th degrees east longitude. For ten points, name this group, including Menorca, Mallorca, and Ibiza, a Spanish province in the western Mediterranean. Answer: The _Balearic_ Islands 10. Twenty-one of these have been created by their namesake law. The first was Arthur Christy, for Hamilton Jordan. Others were for Raymond Donovan, Theodore Olson, Alexis Herman, Mike Espy, Ed Meese, Michael Deaver, Ed Meese again, HUD, Henry Cisneros, Ronald Brown, and Bruce Babbitt. Until recently, the most famous was Lawrence Walsh. Perhaps Robert Fiske would now be the most famous, if he had not been replaced. For ten points, name this position now held by Kenneth Starr. Answer: _Independent Counsel_ (prompt on "Special Prosecutor") 11. Downstream from the anode, parallel metal plates were installed in a modified Crookes tube, in which a vacuum was then created. Electric and magnetic fields then imposed by the metal plates vertically deflected the ray stream, which would be impossible for any form of electromagnetic radiation. Precise measurement of the magnitude of the cathode ray deflection permitted calculation of the charge to mass ratio of, for ten points, what "corpuscle" of electrically charged matter, as announced in 1897 by the experimenter, J.J. Thomson? Answer: J.J. Thomson's discovery of the _electron_ 12. The lowest and best possible score is 2.04. First average the two which used to be the only important ones. Then add the adjusted average of three others: the Seattle Times, New York Times, and Jeff Sagarin. Add one point for each loss. Use your opponents' record and your opponents' opponents' record to determine your relative rank in strength of schedule, divide by 25, and add. Voila; you now have this result, which determines whether or not your team will play in the Fiesta Bowl for the college football national championship. For ten points, name this all-important new ranking system, abbreviated BCS. Answer: _Bowl Championship Series_ rankings (Accept "BCS" before its given) 13. He lived from 1754 to 1825, which means he missed the Victorian Era, but surely he would have felt home in it. In an edition of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" he demonstrated the editorial techniques which made him infamous. In 1818 he published "The Family Shakespeare" in which "those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family." For ten points, name this famous prude who has lent his name to a word for such expurgation. Answer: Thomas _Bowdler_ 14. Going into Tuesday's elections, this senator was involved in one of the country's tightest races, largely because he chose to be. He voluntarily limited the amount of money he spent and asked the national Democratic Party NOT to run any ads on his behalf. His opponent, however, has received plenty of soft money from the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, run by Kentucky senator Mitch McConnell, who not coincidentally led opposition to the campaign finance reform bill jointly sponsored by John McCain and for ten points, what Wisconsin senator? Answer: Russ _Feingold_ 15. He campaigned relentlessly against metaphysical concepts in science, for example discounting the Newtonian notion of absolute space since all knowledge of motion was only possible relative to the "fixed stars." In 1911, he wondered if inertia was similarly relative and derived somehow from an interaction with everything else in the universe. In general relativity his principle implied that the space-time curvature should be determined solely by other matter in the universe, not boundary conditions, and ultimately led to Einstein's introduction of the cosmological constant. For ten points, name this Austrian physicist and philosopher, who maintained that all knowledge came from the senses, yet whose scale usually measures the velocities of things you can't hear coming. Answer: Ernst _Mach_ 16. Clarity, nothingness, India, Providence, silence, terror, disillusionment, frailty, consequence. For a quick ten points, how 'bout naming the song in which all of these words appear, the first single off of Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, by Alanis Morissette? Answer: _Thank U_ 17. Although known as a symbol of literary freedom, he was accused last year of trying to censor an unauthorized biography which relied on interviews with his first wife. His suspicion that his first wife conspired with the government was bolstered by the biography's revelation that she secretly married an employee of the agency which tried to assassinate him with a poisoned needle the year after he won the Nobel Prize. After publishing his masterpiece he was promptly exiled for 20 years, before returning in 1994 and briefly hosting a talk show in which he lectured about the immorality of modern Russia. For ten points, name this author of "The Gulag Archipelago." Answer: Alexander _Solzhenitsyn_ 18. There are actually four ways by which this duty can be fulfilled. The first, by the heart, consists in a spiritual purification of one's self by doing battle with the devil and overcoming his inducements to evil. The second, by the tongue, and the third, by the hand, are accomplished by supporting what is right and correcting what is wrong. But in the West this duty is most associated with the fourth way, by the sword, which is to wage war physically against apostates and infidels. For ten points, name this Islamic duty which is often translated as "holy war." Answer: _jihad_ 19. The original idea is credited to Lefty Driesell, who instituted a mile run on the track in near-darkness in 1971. It soon expanded in scope and became so popular every October 15th that the NCAA changed their rules so it could be moved to the Saturday closest to October 15th, allowing schools to hold celebrations on Friday night. For ten points, give the name for this tradition of starting the first college basketball practice as early as possible, which shares part of its name with the nickname for the final college basketball event of the season. Answer: _Midnight Madness_ 20. The title character appears twice in the painting. In the lower center he is laid into his tomb with the miraculous assistance of Saints Stephen and Augustine. A row of uniformly dressed local nobleman look on, and above them is pictured a swirling, complex vision of heaven with Christ at the center with the title character and Virgin Mary at his feet. For ten points, identify this painting of the burial of a Toledan dignitary, a masterpiece by El Greco. Answer: The _Burial of Count Orgaz_ 21. Two answers required. When asked by a British officer under what authority they demanded his surrender, one of them roared 'In the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress!' The other added more persuasively, 'Give up your arms and you'll be treated like gentlemen." This exchange perhaps foreshadowed the rashness of the former, which led to his capture later that year in an ill-conceived attack on Montreal, and the ability of the latter to deal with the British, which was demonstrated five years later at West Point. For ten points, name these two men who in 1775 captured Fort Ticonderoga. Answer: Ethan _Allen_ and Benedict _Arnold_ 22. You can find it on Mount Lee. Each of its nine components is approximately 50 feet high, and you risk a $500 fine if you try to climb on one of them. It originally had thirteen components when it went up in 1923 as an advertisement for a real estate development. It's about twelve miles from where you are right now, and in May of 1987 it was illegally modified to read "CALTECH." For ten points name this quintessential Southern California landmark. Answer: the _Hollywood Sign_ (prompt on "Hollywood") 23. They are named after two mathematicians, and are often referred to by their two initials, although they were more or less formulated by the first of these men in 1908, with the latter adding just one key idea. Exact formulations vary, but they often include existence, regularity, infinity, union, pair, power set, the schema of comprehension, and the schema of replacement. For ten points, name this system of basic axioms for set theory, of which the axiom of choice is independent. Answer: _Zermelo-Fraenkel_ axioms (accept "ZF") 24. Two answers required: BOTH the religion AND the country. This religion was introduced to this country in 1549, and within a few decades it had over 300,000 followers. The general who unified this country in the 16th century reportedly toyed with the idea of converting to this religion, but decided against it after he learned that he would then be allowed only one wife. Instead, he banned this religion, and in 1597 horrific torture and executions of its devotees began. This religion was thereafter assumed to have been exterminated from this country, but the faith was maintained in secret by "hidden" adherents who pretended to believe in the two most common religions of this island nation, but in actuality believed the teachings of their version of this religion's sacred text, which in the "hidden" version of, for ten points, what religion in what country involves not a giant flood but a sudden tsunami? Answer: _Christianity_ in _Japan_ 25. Its regular columnists currently include Katha Pollitt, Alexander Cockburn, Patricia Williams, and Christopher Hitchens. Its editor and publisher are Katrina vanden Heuvel and Victor Navasky. It features puzzles by Frank Lewis and poems by Calvin Trillin. This political weekly magazine is unusual in that it is not printed on glossy paper. For ten points, name this magazine, established in 1865, a traditional source of progressive and left-wing opinion. Answer: The _Nation_ 26. The Gini coefficient measures the area between this curve and the 45-degree line. Percentage of households, ordered from poorest to richest, is plotted along the x-axis, and the corresponding y-value is the percentage of wealth possessed by that percentage of the population. If the curve is perfectly straight, then there is perfect income distribution. For ten points, name this curve used in economics. Answer: _Lorenz_ Curve 27. John Glenn returned to space after 36 years. For ten points, what city repeated its brilliant gesture of turning on all of its lights in his honor? Answer: _Perth_, Australia