Questions by OU III-The Eye of Braxus Tossups 1. He was a teetotaler who ate only uncooked fruits and vegetables. He was a devout Socialist but decided to run for governor of California in 1934. He surprised many by winning the Democratic nomination, causing him to be demonized by opponents, who searched through his books to find information against him. FTP name this author and would-be politician who wrote The Jungle. Upton Sinclair 2. This body of water was "discovered" by James Cook in 1770. Lying on the east coast of Australia, the bay was the planned site of a British penal colony before the colony was moved to Sydney Harbor. About five miles in width, the bay was named for the unusual plant life growing on its shores. FTP name this bay, located five miles south of Sydney and formed by the mouths of the Cook's and George's rivers. Botany Bay 3. A Jewish kid from Waukegan, Illinois, he began his long career as a small-time vaudeville violinist. He first aired his own radio show on the NBC-Blue Network in 1932. It grew to be the biggest success in radio comedy, establishing his fictional reputation as a mediocre musician and the stingiest man alive, and endured long enough to make the transition to television. FTP what entertainer was bom Benjamin Kubelsky in 1894 and died 80 years later at the age of 39? Jack Benny 4. He began life in 1808 as son of the current king of Holland, but was educated in Italy, Germany and Switzerland. On the death of the duke of Reichstadt in 1832 he devoted himself to winning back his native country, succeeding 16 years later. His regime was repressive, and his attempts to make a New World empire failed miserably, but the peasants loved him--possibly because of the memory of his uncle. FTP name this sponsor of Maximilian's attempted conquest of Mexico, who lost power after the Franco-Prussian War. Napoleon III 5. Born in Eisenach, Germany in 1685, his parents died while he was age 9. He went to live with his brother until 1700 as he learned the fundamentals of keyboard. During his lifetime, he was renowned as an organist but was not widely recognized as a composer until nearly a century after his death. In all he fathered twenty children, of whom 3 became well-known composers. FTP name this composer of the Well-Tempered Clavier and the Brandenburg Concertos. Johann Sebastian Bach (prompt on "Bach") 6. He was orphaned at the age of 8 and was raised by Benedictine monks, who fortunately recognized his brilliance. He was among the scholars Napoleon took to Egypt, but while there he contracted the disease which finally killed him in 1830. He produced a seminal work on the theory of heat conduction in which he introduced the diffusion equation for the movement of heat in a body. It was this work which led him to the discovery that any mathematical function can be modeled as a sum of sine and cosine functions. FTP name this rival of Laplace and Poisson. Jean Fourier 7. It begins in the highlands of southern Guinea and ends in a delta at the Gulf of Guinea. It drains about 580,000 square miles of land. It runs approximately 2,600 miles and the Kainji Dam in Nigeria is located along it. FTP name this third longest river of Africa. Niger River 8. He has been called the Balzac of his country, but it is doubtful that Balzac would approve of the stream-of-consciousness approach he began using in his later writings. His lesser-known works include Love in the Rain; There Only Remains One Hour; and Children of Gebelawi. His Nobel Prize came in 1988, more than thirty years after he began his famous trilogy by writing Sugar Street. FTP name this Arab author, whose Palace Walk and Palace of Desire make up the Cairo Trilogy. Naguib Mahfouz 9. This organization was founded by King Edward III in 1348, first admitting only 25 members. It underwent a revamping in 1831 as membership was extended to the Prince of Wales, descendants of King George 1, and some foreign rulers. Appearing on the emblem of the organization is a French phrase, translated as "Dishonored be he who thinks evil of it." The organization is sometimes referred to as "The Order of St. George." FTP name this highest and oldest order of British knighthood. Order of the Garter 10. This painter's works show the influence of the School of Utrecht and of Carel Fabritius, who died in his home in the painter's home city in 1654. He is most famous for his observations of how light blurs the outlines of figures and of the use of colors to suggest the textures and appearances of objects. His paintings mainly depict women in tranquil activities but he also produced two famous landscapes: The Little Street and View of Delft. FTP name this Dutch master. Jan Vermeer 11. Discovered in 1848 by William Lassell, it is unique among satellites in that it orbits its planet in retrograde motion. It is the only object in the solar system known to have active geologic features besides Earth and Io. It has an atmosphere of nitrogen and methane and a surface temperature of 37 degrees Kelvin. FTP name this cold moon of Neptune that shares its name with a Greek God. Triton 12. According to Norman Mailer, this demonstrative man "had a charisma that must have come out of an immaculate conception between Fidel Castro and Groucho Marx." He studied graduate psychology at Berkeley, where he attended protests against the House Un-American Activities committee. He later became a full-time protester, an outspoken disrupter with guerrilla demonstration tactics. FTP name the hippie activist, author of Reason and Revolution, who held an organizing role in the 1968 war protest that led to the Chicago Seven trial. Abbie Hoffman 13. He was a noted playwright in his day, penning such works as The Welsh Opera--a stinging attack on Sir Robert Walpole--and the mock-epic Tom Thumb the Great. He is more famous for his novels, however, including Jonathan Wild (another attack on Walpole), and a satire of Richardson's Pamela. His best known work is his account of the foundling boy raised by Squire Allworthy. FTP name the author of Tom Jones. Henry Fielding 14. Sufferers of this disorder often develop puffy skin in the face and an enlarged tongue. Children may have excessive hair on their heads at birth but most of it falls out shortly thereafter. FTP name this growth disorder which occurs from the inadequate production of thyroxine. Cretinism 15. They're about 4 feet long, 18 inches wide, and 8 inches high. They weigh about 50 pounds and have been clocked at over 75 miles per hour. Their name is a French word synonymous with an Olympic event. FTP name this type of small sled with wooden or plastic runners and steel blades. Luge 16. His given name was Sinibaldo Fieschi. He was elected pope in 1243 and spent most of his papacy concerned with disputes with Holy Roman Emperor Frederick 11. His fear of being seized by Frederick's troops caused him to flee France in 1244. He triumphantly returned to Italy in 125 1. FTP name this pope who died in 1254. Innocent IV 17. "She had a heart -how shall I say? too soon made glad, too easily impressed; she liked whate'er she looked on, and her looks went everywhere...My favor at her breast, the dropping of the daylight in the West, the bough of cherries some officious fool broke in the orchard for her...all and each would draw from her alike the approving speech, or blush, at least." FTP identify the Robert Browning poem, which has a title explains to whom these lines refer. My Last Duchess 18. This landlocked Asian nation is more than ninety percent mountainous and contains Communism Peak and the Pamir range. The Amu Darya river begins in this nation of extreme climates. Its national capital is in the southwestern portion of the country. FTP name this nation bounded by China, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgystan, with a capital at Dushambe. Tajikstan 19. He was brought to trial for having violated the Butler Act. His attorney did not deny the charges, choosing instead to contest the Act's constitutionality. He was convicted and fined one hundred dollars, although the Tennessee State Supreme Court later overturned the verdict. FTP name this high-school biology teacher whose case was dramatized in the play Inherit the Wind. John T. Scopes 20. The first one was made by Elizabeth Gregory, the mother of a New England ship captain, although her son took the credit for giving them their distinct shape. The New Yorker said they floated "dreamily through a grease canal in a glass enclosed machine, walk dreamily up a moving ramp and tumble dreamily into an outgoing basket". FTP name this confection produced by the Ring King, Jr., enshrined in the Smithsonian in 1997. Doughnut 21. "History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican government." FTP name this 1797 speech, which is more famous for warning against the formation of political parties. Washington's Farewell Address 22. As a Jew, he was isolated from the German-speaking community, and as a German speaker he was isolated from the Czech community of Prague. This isolation contributed to his depression, which in turn hampered his social relationships, including that with his fiance Felice Braun. His pain clearly comes through in his writings, such as his stories The Judgment and In the Penal Colony, as well as his three unfinished novels--Amerika; The Castle; and The Trial. FTP name this author of The Hunger Artist and The Metamorphosis. Franz Kafka 23. The government of this tiny country is headed by an emir, but recently a council of thirty ministers was installed with limited power to question his decisions. It uses 43 percent of its GNP to fund defense, and has excellent relations with its neighbors. FTP name this Mideastern country which was once controlled by Bahrain, and has its capital city and main port at Doha. Qatar 24. It emphasized supremacy of the individual and progressive faith in the reformability of mankind. Subscribers included Hoffmann, Eichmann, Heine, and Goethe. FTP name this literary movement emphasizing feeling over form. Romanticism 25. This body of water covers 143,250 square miles, with its northern shore 92 feet below sea level, making it the lowest point in Europe. It is fed by the Volga and bordered on the south by the Elburz Mountains. FTP name this European/Asian body of water often called a sea, though actually by definition it is a lake. Caspian Sea Bonuses. 1. Identify the poem from lines, 30-20-10. (30) "How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unbumish'd, not to shine in use! " (20) "The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world." (10) "That which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." Ulysses by Tennyson 2. FTPE given a European war, name the treaty which ended it. a. The War of the League of Augsburg Ryswick b. The War of the Spanish Succession Utrecht c. The Franco-Prussian War Frankfort 3. Everyone knows women can talk, but some are also able to write philosophy. FTPE identify these female philosophers from descriptions. a. This philosopher and political theorist had an on-again, off-again relationship with Martin Heidegger and wrote Life of the Mind and Origins. Hannah Arendt b. She began her career as a wardrobe girl and extra at RKO pictures. She attempted throughout her life to live up to the philosophy she displayed in Anthem and Atlas Shrugged. Ayn Rand c. She had a lifelong relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre and wrote of her existentialist ideas in The Ethics of Ambiguity. Simone de Beauvoir 4. Jonathan Taylor Thomas is leaving Home Improvement, but we don't care. Haha-ha! So answer these questions about real home improvement shows FTPE. a. It stars Dean Johnson and a number of female companions, most notably Joanne Liebler. It usually teaches homeowners how to be their own contractors on building projects large and small. Home Time b. Norm Abram teaches you to build furniture using a vast array of fabulously expensive power tools. Every show reminds you to wear safety glasses and to order the measured "drawring" of that week's project. New Yankee Workshop c. This show is the original PBS home improvement show, which now features Norm Abram and Steve Thomas, with a host of contractors, remodeling homes. This Old House 5. Identify the short stories from descriptions for the stated number of points. a. (5) In this best-known of Eudora Welty's short stories, an old Negro woman talks to herself as she walks an old trail to town to buy medicine. A Worn Path b. (10) This characteristically fantastical Gabriel Garcia Marquez work focuses on a couple who find an angel lying in the mud by their house and hold him captive in their chicken coop. A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings c. (15) A short story in two parts, this piece by Nadine Gordimer explores the doomed nature of two sets of interracial lovers under South Africa's pervasive apartheid. Town and Country Lovers 6. The High Renaissance is overrated. Identify this artist who did not paint the Sistine Chapel or sculpt anything, 30-20-10. (30) Madonna of the Pesaro Family; Three Ages of Man (20) Man with the Glove; Christ Crowned with Thomas (10) Rape of Europa; Venus of Urbano Titian 7. FTPE identify the following historical figures that Stephen's tenth grade World History teacher (who was really a basketball coach) didn't have a prayer of pronouncing correctly. a. Also known as Nan-ner, this man was the first to wear the Egyptian double crown after he united the Upper and Lower Kingdoms. Menes (Coach McConnick called him means) b. He held political sway in Athens after the expulsion of Aristides until he was ostracized in 471 B.C., but is most famous for winning the battle of Salamis. Themistocles (a.k.a. "thee-miss-TOAK-uls") c. Grandfather of Asoka, this Indian led a revolt to seize Magadha and expanded his control until he ruled most of the subcontinent. After becoming the first king of the Maurya dynasty, he abdicated, became a monk, and starved himself to death. Chandragupta Maurya (we can't tell you how it was pronounced, since Stephen still goes into hysterics when he thinks about it.) 8. Name the constellation on a 10-5 basis: a. (10) It's known as the Northern Cross, contains Albiero, and the North American and Pelican Nebulae. (5) Its common name is the Swan. Cygnus b. (10) It's shaped like an inverted Y, and contains the Beehive and Zeta Cancri- a five star system. (5) 2000 years ago, the sun was in it during the summer solstice, leading to the name of the tropic at 23.5 degrees north latitude. Cancer c. (10) This constellation is between Hercules and Cygnus and contains the fifth brightest star in the sky. (5) That star, Vega, will be the celestial north pole in about 12000 years due to the Earth's precession. Lyra 9. Identify the following about a work by Goethe for the stated number of points. a. (5) Name the book written by Goethe about a young man's unrequited love and eventual suicide, written in 1774. The Sorrows of Young Werther b. (10) Name the Greek poet, thought to be a woman by Samuel Butler, that Werther often reads. Homer c. (15) Name the author to which Werther changes. A mythical Scottish poet, his "works" were really just translations by James MacPherson of his own works. Ossian 10. George Gershwin would have been one hundred years old in September, but he died when he was 39. We are poorer for having lost him. FTPE give the Ge rshwin song title from lyrics. a. There's a somebody I'm longing to see/ I hope that he/ turns out to be Someone to Watch Over Me b. Old Man Trouble, I don't mind him/ you won't find him/ 'round my door I Got Rhythm c. Each morning I get up with the sun/ start a-hoppin', never stoppin'/ I find at night no work has been done. Fascinatin' Rhythm 11. Name the World War I battle from clues FTPE. a. The Germans attacked this French city for five months in 1916, but eventually withdrew. Verdun b. The brilliant attack of General Foch at this battle forced the Germans to retreat and saved Paris in 1914, causing the end of the Schlieffen Plan. First Battle of the Marne c. This 1916 Allied attack was intended to relieve Verdun, but also ended up being a failure for the attackers. The Somme 12. Name the economics term from definition FTPE. a. Situation where one sells a product at different prices in different markets or to different customers for different prices due to reasons other than those arising from differences in costs of production, or distribution. Price Discrimination b. A rise in value or an increase in the exchange rate or value of the currency of one country in terms of the currencies of other countries. Appreciation c. Condition when one country is more efficient than another at producing all goods Absolute Advantage 13. Name the chemical element from details, 30-20-10. (30) It was discovered in 1780 by Scheele and proved to be an element by Davy in 1810. (20) In pure state, it is a yellowish-green toxic gas at room temperature. (10) This halogen has atomic number 17. Chlorine 14. Answer the following questions about the works of scientist/writer Carl Sagan for the stated number of points. a. (5) What movie starring Jodie Foster was based on a Sagan novel? Contact b. (10) Which popular public television series did Sagan narrate? Cosmos c. (15) Which 1977 Sagan book explores the evolution of the human brain? The Dragons of Eden 15. Name the city, 30-20-10. (30) This European capital city has one official language, but two official alphabets. (20) It's about ten miles east of the country's namesake river that drains into the Sava (10) It was the site of the 1984 Winter Olympics and has been racked by ethnic wars since the early 1990s. Sarajevo 16. Identify the following for the stated number of points. a. (5) Name the Spanish novel starring Rocinante and Dapple. Don Quixote de la Mancha b. (15) Name the novel by Samuel Butler, an English poet bom in 1613, that is loosely based on the narrative structure of Don Quixote and is a satire of Puritan intolerance. Hudibras c. (10) Name the most famous novel of Samuel Butler, an English novelist who was bom more than two hundred years after the previous poet. Published posthumously in 1913, it was an autobiographical family novel. The Way of all Flesh 17. Answer these questions about migratory destinations FTPE. a. Every August these critters begin to populate the forests of Sierra Chincua, having traveled up to 3000 miles south. monarch butterflies b. March finds these animals returning to locations throughout Southern California, not just Capistrano. swallows c. In late fall these mammals congregate in large numbers near Churchill, Manitoba to hunt seals. polar bears 18. His name: Francois Marie Arouet. His mission: to annoy everyone in the world. For the stated number of points: a. (10) What was the pen name of this eighteenth-century French author? Voltaire b. (5) What is Voltaire's best-known work, a 1759 complex study of good and evil? Candide c. (15) Voltaire's best-known play shared its name with an African country that recently changed its name. What was the title of this play? Zaire 19. FTPE name the lakes of the former Soviet Union. a. This lake in eastern Kazakhstan is NW of Almaty and stretches for nearly 300 miles. Lake Balkhash b. This lake on the Kazakh-Uzbek border is fed by the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers. Aral Sea c. This lake is drained by the Neva river, flowing through St. Petersburg to the Gulf of Finland to the west. Lake Ladoga 20. Identify the famous baseball players from their nicknames for the stated number of points. a. (15) the Mad Hungarian Al Hrabosky b. (10) Charley Hustle Pete Rose c. (5) the Iron Horse Lou Gehrig 21. FTPE identify the home country of the following former United Nations Secretaries General. a. Dag Hammarskjold Sweden b. Kurt Waldheim Austria c. Javier Perez de Cuellar Peru 22. F5P apiece with an extra five for correct order from lightest to heaviest, name the five chalcogens. Oxygen Sulfur Selenium Tellurium Polonium 23. F5P each, with a bonus five for all five, given the name of a President, name the state of which he was governor. a. Martin Van Buren New York b. James K. Polk Tennessee c. William McKinley Ohio d. Woodrow Wilson New Jersey e. Jimmy Carter Georgia