CARLETON C PACKET 13th Annual Elvis Aaron Presley Memorial (?) Academic Quiz Tournament, Feb. 5-6, 1999 TOSSUPS 1. In 1987, on her 80th birthday, her country honored her with a series of 49 commemorative stamps depicting her most popular fictional characters. The best known of these characters was created in 1941, to entertain her 7 year old daughter Karin, who had pneumonia. It was Karin who supplied the character's name, Miss Laangstrump, in Swedish. For 10 points--name the creator of the free-spirited dynamo known in English as Pippi Longstocking. answer: Astrid (Ericcson) _Lindgren_ 2. It is a 1909 sculpture that stands atop a tomb in Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris. It is also a 1908 painting housed in Vienna, featuring colored rectangles studding a great swirl of gold. It is also a marble group executed in the late 19th century, contrasting the texture of the unhewn rock with the softness of the two bodies. For 10 points--what title is shared by these works of art by Constantin Brancusi, Gustav Klimt, and Auguste Rodin? answer: The _Kiss_ 3. This product was introduced to stores in 1946 by its Berlin, New Hampshire inventor, who had previously used the same process to make gas mask parts during World War II. Sales were sluggish until the company began the direct selling system by which representatives known as hostesses demonstrate these wares at social gatherings. In 1997, one of their "parties" started every two seconds somewhere in the world. For 10 points--name this brand specializing in premium plastic food containers. answer: _Tupperware_ 4. It is a ratio involving flow velocity, fluid density, fluid viscosity, and a linear dimension such as the diameter of a pipe. This dimensionless number is used in fluid dynamics to determine the type of flow through a pipe, such that laminar flow usually occurs if it is less than 2000, and turbulent flow is established if it is greater than 3000. For 10 points--give the name for this number abbreviated Re and having nothing to do with aluminum foil. answer: _Reynolds_ Number 5. Blackmailed by longtime mistress Carrie Phillips, who had once been his wife's best friend, his supporters collected $20,000 to buy her off and send her abroad until after the election. A secret fund to buy the silence of other mistresses was later kept by Jess Smith, the companion of Attorney General Harry Daugherty. This adulterous president also fathered an illegitimate child by a lover 31 years his junior, Nan Britton. For 10 points--name this unfaithful husband to Florence Kling DeWolfe. answer: Warren Gamaliel _Harding_ 6. She is discussed in Shaw's ~Back to Methuselah~, appears in the Walpurgis Night section of Goethe's ~Faust~, and is portrayed by Victor Hugo as Satan's eldest daughter. The name appears only once in the Bible, in Isaiah, where it is translated as "screech-owl." Talmudic tradition and Jewish folklore make her a nocturnal succubus and symbol of sensual lust. For 10 points--name this female demon described in early Hebrew texts as the first wife of Adam. answer: _Lilith_ 7. Sir Humphrey Davy was born in this town, at the head of Mount's Bay. The chief port of embarkation for the Isles of Scilly, it is situated about 10 miles south of St. Ives and 10 miles northeast of Lands End. For 10 points--name this Cornish town subject until the 18th century to recurring pirate raids, a fact reflected in a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. answer: _Penzance_ 8. The several types of this disease are caused by tiny parasitic mites that burrow into skin, hair follicles, or sweat glands, leading to skin irritation and loss of fur. The sarcoptic variety is also known as scabies. Treatment consists of repeatedly dipping or spraying the infected animal with insecticides. For 10 points-- identify this contagious skin disease of animals, perhaps particularly associated with "mutts" and "alley cats." answer: _mange_ 9. In the 1940s he transferred from St. Olaf College to Harvard, and began writing poetry to impress a woman. In the 1960s he was co-chairman of the organization American Poets Against the Vietnam War, and won a National Book Award for his volume ~The Light Around the Body~. But in the 1990s he reached a new level of fame outside poetry, becoming identified with the men's movement. For 10 points--name this Minnesotan author of ~Iron John~. answer: Robert _Bly_ 10. His teacher, Girolamo Fabrici, discovered valves along the veins of the legs which were assumed to prevent blood from flowing downward. Taking Fabrici's lead, he went on to experiment with animals, tying off a vein or an artery and noting that blood flowed away from the heart in arteries and back to the heart in veins. For 10 points--name this English physician, who in 1628 published his findings in ~An Anatomical Disquisition of the Movement of the Heart and the Circulation of the Blood~. answer: William _Harvey_ 11. In 1997, he bowed out to Pete Sampras in the quarterfinals at Wimbledon, his last appearance at the All England Club. His tennis achievements are only marred by the fact that he never won a clay-court event, although he did capture a gold medal on the red stuff at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 playing doubles with Michael Stich (STEEK). For 10 points--name this tennis great, who, as a 17-year-old in 1985, became the youngest player, the first unseeded player, and the first German, to win the Men's Singles title at Wimbledon. answer: Boris _Becker_ 12. In 1879, orthobenzoyl sulfimide was but one of a great many compounds synthesized by the American chemist Ira Remsen and student Constantine Fahlberg. However, when Fahlberg accidentally happened to put his fingers to his mouth without knowing that a few grains of the new compound had adhered to them, he was astonished by an intensely sweet taste. For 10 points--identify this first commercial sugar substitute, the name of which comes from a Latin word for "sweet." answer: _saccharin_ 13. In 1966 he began work in a tractor factory, which would seem an odd career choice for a 62 year old former deputy premier, but it wasn't a choice--he had been purged, after being attacked as the "Number Two Capitalist Roader" in China. Rehabilitated in 1973, then purged again in 1976, he returned as deputy premier and secretary general in 1977. For 10 points--name this former paramount leader of China, who died in 1997. answer: _Deng_ Xiaoping 14. Itself the title of a 1912 book by philosopher G. E. Moore, this word is the blank in such titles as Simone de Beauvoir's ~The [BLANK] of Ambiguity~, and Kai Neilsen's ~[BLANK] Without God~, and it appears in the subtitle of Erich Fromm's classic ~Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of [BLANK]~. For 10 points-- what branch of philosophical inquiry is also named in the title of Spinoza's 1677 posthumous masterpiece and Aristotle's "Nichomachean" work? answer: _Ethics_ 15. His pupils included Glazunov and Stravinsky, while his own mentor was Balakirev. His reputation as a nationalist composer is justified by operas such as ~The Snow Maiden~, ~The Maid of Pskov~, and ~Sadko~, but the best known of his orchestral works evokes not Russia but Arabia. For 10 points--name this member of the Five and composer of ~Scheherezade~. answer: Nicolai Andreyevich _Rimsky-Korsakov_ 16. He was elected president last December 5, defeating Tom Leedham of Portland, Oregon in a mail-in election. He will serve the three years remaining in the five year term for which he had run in 1996, when he was defeated by his now-expelled predecessor, Ron Carey. For 10 points--name this new president of the Teamsters union, whose father had held the same post from 1957 to 1971, before vanishing in 1975. answer: James P. _Hoffa_ 17. It is a town on the Tallapoosa River, near Dadeville in east central Alabama. On March 27, 1814 it was the site of a battle in which 21 year old Sam Houston served with militia that crushed an opposing force led by chief William Weatherford. For 10 points--name this location of a victory over Creek warriors won by Major General Andrew Jackson. answer: _Horseshoe Bend_ 18. This pop music group's ~Greatest Hits~ album includes such tracks as "Doesn't Somebody Want To Be Wanted," "I'll Meet You Halfway," and "Point Me in the Direction of Albuquerque." Their #1 hit, selling four million copies, was one of the biggest sellers of 1971. For 10 points--name this ersatz band loosely modeled on the real- life group The Cowsills, whose biggest hits were their theme song, "Come On, Get Happy," and "I Think I Love You." answer: The _Partridge Family_ or The _Partridges_ 19. Navigation on this river is limited by shoals, waterfalls such as Aughrabies, a sandbar at its mouth, and flow so irregular that in very dry years it fails altogether to reach the Atlantic after passing through the southern Kalahari and Namib deserts. For 10 points--name this principal river of South Africa, whose chief tributary is the Vaal, and which separates Cape Province from its namesake "Free State." answer: _Orange_ River 20. Some years after serving as a translator in diplomatic service, she came to the United States as a foreign exchange student, hooked up again with the former ambassador, and started describing herself as his "business associate/love slave." Sharing her name with the principal consumable product of ~Apis mellifera~--for 10 points--who is this "Buck Wild" Chinese woman regularly appearing in ~Doonesbury~? answer: _Honey_ Huan 21. Its basic form is that of a triptych, but each of the three units contains four separate panels, and the wings are painted on both sides, making for 20 component parts. An inscription on the frame tells us that it was begun by one brother, but completed by the other in 1432. Nearly life-sized nudes of Adam and Eve dominate the two wings. For 10 points--name this monument of the Flemish renaissance, an altarpiece by Hubert and Jan van Eyck. answer: the _Ghent Altarpiece_ 22. Two newly-elected Democratic congressmen are first cousins, with politics already in their blood. Thomas, winning a race in New Mexico, is the son of a former Secretary of the Interior. Mark, elected from Colorado, is the son of a former Arizona Congressman and onetime presidential aspirant, who passed away in December. For 10 points--in what family do Thomas and Mark succeed Stewart and Morris as "the next generation"? answer: _Udall_ 23. A poem prefacing his 1990 fantasy novel is an acrostic for the name of his son, Zafar. His 1980 masterpiece is also dedicated to Zafar "who," reads the dedication, "was born in the afternoon." This is unlike that novel's protagonist, Saleem Sinai, born on the stroke of midnight. For 10 points--identify this proud father and author of ~Haroun and the Sea of Stories~ and ~Midnight's Children~. answer: Salman _Rushdie_ 24. The subject of a 1990 biography by Abraham Hirsch and Neil De Marchi, he co- authored a 1963 history with Anna J. Schwartz, and collaborated with his wife Rose on 1981's ~Free to Choose~. An informal advisor to Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan, from 1966 to 1984 he wrote a regular column for ~Newsweek~. For 10 points--name this leader of the monetarist school of Economics, and winner of a 1976 Nobel prize. answer: Milton _Friedman_ 25. Their rule ended with the death of Henry III. It began when the grandson of Philip III ascended the throne as Philip VI, following the death of Charles IV in 1328. For 10 points--name this royal house of France during the Hundred Years War, the successors to the Capetians. answer: House of _Valois_ 26. It was the surname of Francisco Jim‚nez, confessor to Queen Isabella of Spain, and compiler of the six-volume ~Complutensian Polyglot Bible~, as well as the surname of Sandra, a writer best-known for her 1984 work ~The House on Mango Street~. For 10 points--what name is also shared with Henry, the former mayor of San Antonio and President Clinton's first Secretary of Housing and Urban Development? answer: _Cisneros_ CARLETON C PACKET 13th Annual Elvis Aaron Presley Memorial (?) Academic Quiz Tournament, Feb. 5-6, 1999 BONUSES (All are worth 30 points) 1. The moderator will give the team a handout containing a small crossword puzzle, with six clues. You will be given 45 seconds to solve as much of the puzzle as you can, and will score 5 points for each of the six words correctly filled in. [Give handout to team, and start timing] answer: 1. Across = DENCH; 4. Across = NASTY; 5. Across = BRYAN 2. Down = DENEB; 2. Down = NASBY; 3. Down = HAYDN 2. For 10 points each--answer these questions about the West Indies: A. Such islands as St. Kitts and Nevis, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Montserrat, and the Virgin Islands are conventionally part of what northern group within the Lesser Antilles? answer: _Leeward_ Islands B. Which French overseas department with capital at Fort-de-France is part of the Windward Islands? answer: _Martinique_ C. Which largest island of the Netherlands Antilles might you also associate with an orange peel liqueur? answer: _Cura‡ao_ (editor: put a cedilla on the small "c") 3. For the stated number of points--identify the following concerning volcanoes elsewhere in our solar system: A. For 5 points--name the largest volcano on Mars, probably the largest in the solar system. answer: _Olympus Mons_ B. For 10 points--this is the only one of the four Galilean satellites of Jupiter to have active volcanoes. answer: _Io_ C. For 15 points--this "ridge" names the principal area of Martian volcanic activity. answer: _Tharsis_ ridge 4. For 5 points each, and a bonus 10 for all correct--complete the titles of these Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries by Dorothy Sayers: A. Gaudy [blank] answer: _Night_ B. Murder Must [blank] answer: _Advertise_ C. The Nine [blank] answer: _Tailors_ D. Busman's [blank] answer: _Honeymoon_ 5. For 10 points each--identify these one-word terms you might find in a law dictionary: A. Meaning "to be informed of" in Latin, it is the writ by which a superior court reviewing a case on appeal commands transfer of the case record. answer: _certiorari_ B. This may be defined as the process in which money or goods in the hands of a third person, which are due to a defendant, are attached by a plaintiff. answer: _garnish_ment (accept other forms of the word "garnish," such as "garnishing") C. This names the process of selecting and swearing in a jury. answer: _impanel_ment (accept other forms of the word "impanel," such as "impaneling") 6. For 5 points each--what nicknames are conventionally given in English to the following symphonies? 5 point bonus for all correct. A. Prokofiev's First answer: _Classical_ B. Mahler's Second answer: _Resurrection_ C. Beethoven's Third answer: _Eroica_ or _Heroic_ D. Schubert's Fourth answer: _Tragic_ E. Mendelssohn's Fifth answer: _Reformation_ 7. On a 10-5 basis--10 points for one quote and 5 points if you need a second--name the Shakespearean play in which the quote appears. A. For 10--"Nay, do not pause; for I did kill King Henry, / But 'twas thy beauty that provok‚d me. (add an accent to the "e" in provoked) For 5--"Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this sun of York." answer: _Richard III_ B. For 10--"You have witchcraft in your lips, Kate: there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council" For 5--"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more." answer: _Henry V_ C. For 10--"For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground, / And tell sad stories of the death of kings." For 5--"This happy breed of men, this little world, / This precious stone set in the silver sea." answer: _Richard II_ 8. 1998's Nobel Peace Prize honored efforts to end sectarian violence in Northern Ireland. For 10 points each-- A. Name the two recipients, one the Catholic leader of the Social Democratic and Labor Party, and the other the Protestant leader of the Ulster Unionist Party. answer: John _Hume_ and David _Trimble_ B. In praising the awards in October, President Clinton said, "I believe there are others, too, who deserve credit for their indispensable roles, beginning with" . . . what current leader of Sinn Fein (Shin Fayn)? answer: Gerry _Adams_ 9. For 10 points each--name the silent film, given its year of release and a summary of its significance. A. 1919--In this forerunner of the horror genre, German director Robert Wiene channeled the expressionist movement to tell the tale-within-a-tale of a patient in a mental hospital. answer: The _Cabinet of Dr. Caligari_ (Das _Kabinett des Doktor Caligari_); accept _Cabinet of Caligari_ B. 1922--In one of the first documentaries ever made, American director Robert J. Flaherty followed an Eskimo family across the shores of Hudson Bay. answer: _Nanook of the North_ C. 1926--German director Fritz Lang generated the science fiction film with his story of a city built on two levels: One for the Thinkers, with skyscrapers, hanging gardens, and air taxies; and the other--subterranean and prisonlike--for the Workers who keep the aboveground society going. answer: _Metropolis_ 10. Jesse Ventura wasn't the only new state governor sworn into office in January. For 5 points each--name the state now led by: A. Democrat Jim Hodges answer: _South Carolina_ B. Republican Robert Taft II answer: _Ohio_ C. Democrat Roy Barnes answer: _Georgia_ D. Republican Bill Owens answer: _Colorado_ E. Democrat Gray Davis answer: _California_ F. Republican Jeb Bush answer: _Florida_ 11. Consider the chloroplast. For 10 points each-- A. Name the watery, protein-rich fluid contained in the chloroplast. answer: _stroma_ B. Name the small structure composed of membranes that resembles a stack of coins, many of which are found in the stroma. answer: _granum_ (plural, _grana_) C. What is the name given to each membrane in the granum? answer: _thylakoid_ 12. For 10 points each--identify the following art history terms, all of which are derived from Italian. A. Meaning "little boy," this figure was originally derived from personifications of Eros in Greek and Roman art, but came to apply to any naked child in a painting. answer: _putto_ (plural, _putti_) B. Derived from the word for "repentance," it refers to the evidence that an artist changed his mind, or made a mistake, and tried to conceal it by painting over it. answer: _pentimento_ C. From the word for "smoke," it describes a method of fusing areas of color or tone to create a soft, hazy, or atmospheric effect. answer: _sfumato_ 13. For 10 points each--identify these literary suicides: A. Best known for ~Homage to Mistress Bradstreet~ and ~77 Dream Songs~, this Pulitzer Prize-winning poet jumped to his death from a bridge over the Mississippi River in 1972. answer: John _Berryman_ B. Though awarded a Pulitzer Prize for ~Live or Die~ and enjoying recognition for ~The Death Notebooks~ and ~To Bedlam and Part Way Back~, her life was clouded with mental illness and hospitalization, culminating in her suicide at age 46 in 1974. answer: Anne _Sexton_ C. This native of New Orleans didn't win his Pulitzer Prize until 11 years after his 1969 suicide, when his novel ~A Confederacy of Dunces~ was finally published. answer: John Kennedy _Toole_ (do not accept _O'Toole_) 14. Stanley Kubrick's soon to be released film ~Eyes Wide Shut~, based on a novel by Arthur Schnitzler, continues a Kubrick tradition of films adapted from novels. For 10 points each--given the novelist, the year of the film, and a few words of description, name the work. A. Humphrey Cobb, 1957: Antiwar drama set in World War I answer: _Paths of Glory_ B. Howard Fast, 1960: Slave revolt answer: _Spartacus_ C. William Makepeace Thackeray, 1975: life of an 18th-century Irish rogue-hero answer: _Barry Lyndon_ 15. For 10 points each--identify the following people from Greek history: A. This was the last king of Lydia, noted for his great wealth--and for his bad judgment in attacking Persia. answer: _Croesus_ B. This was the runner who ran the 20-some miles from Marathon to Athens to bring news of the great Greek victory--then collapsed and died. answer: _Pheidippides_ C. This was the Spartan king who died defending the pass at Thermopylae against an overwhelming army of Persians. answer: _Leonidas_ 16. In ~Alice in Wonderland~, when the Mock Turtle describes his education, all of the courses mentioned are puns. For instance, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division become Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. For 10 points each--give the Mock Turtle's versions of the following: A. Reading and Writing answer: _Reeling and Writhing_ B. Latin and Greek answer: _Laughing and Grief_ C. Drawing, Sketching, and Painting in Oils answer: _Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils_ 17. Answer the following related chemistry questions, for 10 points each: A. What term may be defined as a number measuring the relative strength with which the atoms of an element attract valence electrons in a chemical bond? answer: _electronegativity_ B. An element's electronegativity number is conventionally based on an arbitrary scale from zero to--what number? answer: _four_ C. Which element is the most electronegative? answer: _flourine_ or _F_ (electrognegativity of 4.0) 18. For 10 points each--identify the historians. A. In his best known work, ~The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy~, this Swiss historian argued that Italy's city-state, rather than its feudalism, fostered the individualism of the Renaissance spirit and of modern man. answer: Jakob Christoph _Burckhardt_ B. In his essay "The Hedgehog and the Fox," this Latvian-born English philosopher and historian of ideas separated those who believe in a single, unifying principle of reality, from those who embrace many, often contradictory, theories of being. answer: Isaiah _Berlin_ C. This Columbia professor authored two Pulitzer-Prize-winning books: ~Anti- Intellectualism in American Life~ and ~The Age of Reform~, an unsentimental analysis of populism and progressivism. answer: Richard _Hofstadter_ 19. It was one of the most memorable innings of baseball ever played: the bottom of the ninth in the 6th game of the 1986 World Series between the Red Sox and the Mets. For 10 points each-- A. Name the Sox reliever who, after replacing Calvin Schiraldi, had two strikes on Mookie Wilson when he uncorked a wild pitch all the way to the backstop, allowing Kevin Mitchell to score the tying run. answer: Bob _Stanley_ B. Two foul balls later, Mookie's grounder slipped under the glove and between the legs of what first baseman? answer: Bill _Buckner_ C. What Series MVP and former Red scored the Mets' winning run on Buckner's error? answer: Ray _Knight_ 20. For 10 points each--name these inventors whose work was important to the Industrial Revolution in Britain: A. His spinning jenny initially allowed 16 spindles of thread to be spun, but by the turn of the 19th century its capacity had been increased to as many as 120 spindles. answer: James _Hargreaves_ B. He received a 1769 patent for the water frame, which revolutionized cotton spinning. answer: Richard _Arkwright_ C. His power loom patented in 1785 made practical the weaving of wide cotton cloth. answer: Edmund _Cartwright_ 21. For 15 points each--name these American communists: A. General Secretary of the American Communist Party from 1930 to 1945, and presidential candidate in 1936 and 1940, he was expelled from the party in 1946 for favoring continued postwar cooperation between the Soviet Union and the West. answer: Earl (Russell) _Browder_ B. This former philosophy teacher at UCLA, acquitted of conspiracy, murder, and kidnapping charges in 1972, was the vice-presidential candidate of the American Communist Party in 1980. answer: Angela (Yvonne) _Davis_ 22. For 10 points each--given the work, name the architect. A. The first Egyptian royal pyramid--the step pyramid of King Zoser at Saqqara answer: _Imhotep_ B. The dome of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome answer: _Michelangelo_ Buonarroti C. The Church of the Holy Family in Barcelona answer: Antonio _Gaudˇ_ i Cornet (accent on the "i" in Gaudi) 23. For 10 points each--identify these founders of utopian communities: A. In 1825 he purchased the holdings of George Rapp's Harmony society on the Wabash River, and established a communistic colony there. answer: Robert _Owen_ B. In 1841 he was the principal founder of Brook Farm, West Roxbury, Massachusetts. answer: George _Ripley_ C. In 1848 he established a perfectionist community at Oneida, New York. answer: John Humphrey _Noyes_ 24. For 10 points each--name the mythological class of nymphs from a brief description. A. Water nymphs who could be found in brooks, springs, and fountains. answer: _Naiads_ B. Nymphs of trees, whose life was in each case bound up with that of her tree. answer: _Dryads_ or _Hamadryads_ C. Nymphs of the mountains. answer: _Oreads_ 25. Name the U.S. state capital from the name of its county, for 5 points apiece. A. Natrona answer: _Casper_, Wy. B. Cole answer: _Jefferson City_, Mo. C. Maricopa answer: _Phoenix_, Az. D. Merrimack answer: _Concord_, N.H. E. Anne Arundel answer: _Annapolis_, Md. F. Davidson answer: _Nashville_, Tn. 26. For 10 points per answer--identify the following places connected with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: A. Founder Joseph Smith was murdered by a mob in 1844. Name both the Illinois city where Smith was mayor, and the town in which he was first jailed and then murdered. answer: _Nauvoo_, _Carthage_ B. The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a separate body formed when Joseph Smith, Jr. and others rejected the leadership of Brigham Young, today has its Church headquarters in what Missouri city? answer: _Independence_