Deep Bench 2001 
Tossups 3 Berkeley (David Fuller + Arikkat Arun Unnikrishnan+Rachel Kramer Bussel ), edited by David Levinson, Jadepearl Anderson

SCIENCE - BIOLOGY 

1. This word has many meanings, among them: as a verb, to remove roots or  stumps from, break up the surface by digging, to bring to light by tedious effort, to provide with food, to lead a laborious, plodding life. As a noun, it can describe a soft, thick wormlike larva of an insect, a dull, unattractive person, a person of slovenly appearance, or a root in the ground. FTP Name this 4 letter word that is synonymous with toil and drudge.

Answer:	Grub

HISTORY - EUROPEAN

2. In 1777, Charles Theodore, the Duke of Bavaria, in a secret treaty with Joseph II, the Holy Roman Emperor, ceded lower Bavaria to Austria. The Bavarian heir apparent, advised by Frederick II of Prussia, protested the transfer, resulting in this war. War is perhaps too strong a word, since the there were no significant engagements. It ended with Austria's renunciation of all but a small portion of lower Bavaria. FTP, name this 1778-79 Austrian-Prussian conflict.
Answer:	War of the Bavarian Succession

SOC. SCIENCE - SOCIOLOGY/ARCHEOLOGY/ANTHROPOLOGY/PSYCHOLOGY/LINGUISTICS

3. This organization, founded in 1912 by Henrietta Szold, is the largest  volunteer organization in the U.S., with 1500 chapters and 385,000 members.  Its original purpose was to foster Zionist ideals through education in America and to begin public health and nursing training in Palestine.  Among other accomplishments, it has set up hospitals and trade schools for girls and boys in Israel, and is the largest supporter of the Jewish National Fund.  FTP Name this organization, which took its name from the Hebrew name for Queen Esther, which also means myrtle.
Answer:	Hadassah

LITERATURE - AMERICAN 

4. In Love and Trouble, Living By the Word, You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down, In Search of our Mothers' Gardens, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Meridian, The Temple of My Familiar, and Possessing the Secret of Joy. For 10 points -- name the Pulitzer Prize winner author of  The Color Purple.
Answer:	Alice Walker

SCIENCE - GEOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ENVIRONMENT/ASTRONOMY 

5. Named by plantation owners who hoped to recreate the Confederacy here (**), this deepest lake in North America, is 300 miles long, 12 to 68 miles wide, and drains West through the MacKenzie River. Gold is mined at the territorial capital of Yellowknife in the north, and some lead and zinc on the southern shore. FTP, name this second-largest lake in Canada, in the Mackenzie District of the NorthWest territories.
Answer:	Great Slave Lake

HISTORY - ANCIENT 

6. He was born about 82 BCE into a distinguished family of Rome. He served as cavalry commander with Gabinus and as governor in Syria before becoming a commander with Julius Caesar. In 44 BCE he was consul and after Caesar was slain, he was in control of the government. He quarreled Cicero's senatorial faction as well as with Octavian, and was defeated at Mutina in 43 BCE. He then united his armies with Lepidus, in Gaul, and Octavian. FTP, Who with Octavian and Lepidus marched on Rome and forced themselves into power? 
Answer:	Marc Antony

LITERATURE - ENGLISH LANGUAGE (non- US)

7. Computer projections suggest this plan would result in a yearly production of approximately 0.97 million children for food in about twenty years, but that  the average, population would suffer in comparison to the breeders, and the country's population would still grow very quickly. It is  Subtitled "for Preventing the Children of the Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to Their Public",  For 10 points -- name this  ironic solution to the poverty in Ireland penned by Jonathan Swift. 

Answer:	A Modest Proposal

HUMANITIES - FILM/VIDEO/STAGE 

8. In 1831, he published the Herald of Freedom and Gospel and Witness and was fined $100 and spent 60 days in jail for libel.  He ran for Congress in 1867 and lost, and was elected Mayor of Bridgeport in 1875.  Outside of his political career, he became proprietor of the American Museum in1841 and opened the Philadelphia Museum in 1849.  FTP Name this man, best known for  his circus  tours with Tom Thumb  and exotic animals, rather than his politics. 

Answer:	P(hineas) T(aylor) Barnum

MISCELLANEOUS - SPORTS/GAMES 

9. Born in Port Arthur Texas, June 16,1914, this all-American Athelete won the 1932 Track and Field Tournament. At the 1932 Olympics, two golds were awarded this athelete who soon became amateur golfing champ. FTP Who is this sports babe, about whom Susan Clark starred in the biopic?

Answer:	Mldred Ella Didrekson "Babe" Zaharias

HUMANITIES - MYTHOLOGY/BIBLES 

	10. The daughter of Cepheus, King of Ethiopia, and of Cassiope, she was said to be more beautiful than the Nereids. Poseidon was upset at this, and so she was chained to a rock as a sacrifice to a monster. For 10 points name this princess rescued by Perseus.

Answer:  Andromeda

MISCELLANEOUS - CURRENT EVENTS 

11. Now an industrial center,  Sikhs settled the area in 1765. When the British occupied the Punjab in 1849, it became a major military outpost, today it remains the Headquarters of the Pakistani army. FTP, name this Northeastern Pakistani city, interim capital from 1959-1970.

Answer:	Rawalpindi

MISCELLANEOUS - GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 

12. A museum devoted to these objects is located south of Los Banos California.  The first featured Hopalong Cassidy, and ironically the last starred Rambo. Because of their use as a weapon they were banned, beginning in Florida.  By 1986, every company stopped making them out of metal, though there has been a limited resurgence since 1998.  For 10 points, name this product whose manufacturers included Aladdin, American Can, Cheinco, Geuder, Paesche, and Frey, General Steel Ware, Heekin Can, and King Seeley Thermos (America Thermos).

Answer:  Lunch Box

LITERATURE - EUROPEAN

13. This architect is afraid of being edged out by the upcoming generation, as he had done to the previous generation. He meets Hilda, a member of the younger generation, and she provides him with the purpose he lacks. She convinces his to do the impossible, to climb, in spite of vertigo, to the top of the high spire on his new house, and then to build "the loveliest thing in the world" , a castle in the air. He reaches the top and falls and dies. FTP What is this Ibsen play about Solness? 

Answer:	The Master Builder

MISCELLANEOUS - FRINGE CULTURE 

14. Some have implicated Hugh Hefner in the death of this woman.  A Vancouver native, she did her first Playboy layout in August 1979 at the urging of her husband, Paul Snider.  She went on to act in the movies Galaxina and They All Laughed, and was Playboy Playmate of the Year in 1980.  She was not able to enjoy her fame, however, because she was killed by Snider in August of 1980.  FTP Name this woman, about whom Peter Bogdanovich wrote The Killing of the Unicorn, and whose life is the focus of the film "Star 80", starring Mariel Hemingway and Eric Roberts.

Answer:  Dorothy Stratten

SOC. SCIENCE - ECONOMY/BUSINESS 

15. After graduating from Case Western, this Canadian native taught chemistry and toxicology at a Cleveland hospital college and invented a process to extract bromine from brine through electrolysis.  He started his own company in 1897, which first manufactured chlorine and caustic soda.  In the early 20th century, it manufactured chloroform and expanded during WWI to produce mustard gas and other war chemicals.  FTP Name this chemist and businessman, whose company , which promises "living improved daily", has gone on to be a leader in industrial and pharmaceutical chemicals, dyes, insecticides, and solvents.

Answer:	Herbert Henry Dow

SCIENCE - ENGINEERING/TECHNOLOGY/MATH/COMPUTER SCIENCE 

16. His supporters claim he invented radio. Educated at Graz Austria and the University of Prague, the idea with which he was to revolutionize the world came to him in a park in Budapest. The image was that of an iron rotor spinning in a mechanical field which itself was rotating, the rotation being caused by two out-of-phase alternating currents. It was the principle of the synchrous motor and of the induction motor. FTP Who for George Westinghouse developed the AC power generation and transmission system which doomed Edison's and General Electric's DC power system? 

Answer:	Nikola Tesla

LITERATURE - NON-EUROPEAN 

17. Born in the same year as Octavian, he died 7 years after the first Roman emperor. This Greek studied and traveled widely and wrote 47 books of historical sketches, quoted by later authorities but almost all lost. For 10 points -- whose  Geographia, based on his observations and on works of predecessors, includes  8 books on Europe, 6 on Asia, and 1 on Africa. 

Answer:   Strabo

HISTORY - AMERICAN

18. Shortly after American entered World War II, Congress enacted a law  authorizing the president, by executive order, to create military areas from which residents might be restricted in order to maintain national security.   These restrictions led to the eventual forced removal, to relocation camps, of all persons of Japanese descent.  This man, a U.S. citizen, was arrested and convicted for not reporting to an assembly center in May 1942 .  FTP Name the plaintiff of a case in which the Supreme Court, ruled that the exclusion was justified by the presence of an unknown number of disloyal citizens of Japanese origin.  

Answer:   Fred Korematsu (accept Korematsu v. United States on an early buzz)

SCIENCE - CHEMISTRY/ PHYSICS 

19. This has been called the best known view of Quantum Mechanics. Postulated by Niels Bohr, it denies the existance of any world independent of what can be measured and maintains nothing meaningful can be said about it. FTP What is this Interpretation bearing the name of the city where Bohr studied? 

Answer:	The Copenhagen Interpretation

SOC. SCIENCE - GEOGRAPHY/DEMOGRAPHY 

20.  It is one of the most inhospitable areas on earth, with sand-laden winds that sting through layers of clothing,  120 degree temperatures, and flat landscape broken only occasionally by dried river beds.  It supports a largely nomadic population with rainfall averaging 3 inches a year in a territory the size of Colorado. The Spanish called it Rio de Oro or “River of Gold”, though it has neither. Other than a brief period of glory as the headquarters of the Almoravids, it has remained a backwater until the 1960’s, when it became a source of hot political debate among the Spanish, three regional powers and native insurgents.  For 10 points, name this area which has been a bone of contention between Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria and the Polisario since Spain left in 1976.

Answer:	Western (Spanish) Sahara

EXTRAS

"All causes, social and natural, combine to make it unlikely that women should be collectively rebellious to the power of men. They are so far in a position different from all other subject classes, that their masters require something more from them than actual service. Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments."  These words were written in The Subjection of Women, by this 19th century philosopher, who was arrested in 1823 for distributing birth control literature,.  Name this thinker, who also wrote Utilitarianism, Considerations on Representative Government, Principles of Political Economy, and On Liberty.
Answer:	John Stuart Mill

HISTORY - WORLD 

In 802 this Byzantine Empress was deposed by conspiracy of patricians whom she had rewarded during a five year reign.  FTP Who began her reign by blinding and deposing her son Constantine VI? 
Answer:	Irene

SOC. SCIENCE - POLITICAL SCIENCE /LAW / GOVERNMENT

Doe v. Bolton was largely ignored when decided on January 22, 1973.   A companion case, however, was also decided that day on the same issue.  Name this case that overshadowed Doe v. Bolton when the Supreme Court ruled in favor of legalizing abortion..

Answer:	Roe v. Wade

HUMANITIES - MUSIC/DANCE 

Now part of Geffen Records, this 10-year-old company is known for its rap artists, such as  2Pac, but also has on its roster, Nine Inch Nails, Primus, and No Doubt.  FTP What is this music label, which has been at the forefront of the controversy over gangsta rap?

Answer:	Interscope

SOC. SCIENCE - GEOGRAPHY/DEMOGRAPHY 

President Hoover authorized its designation as a National Park in 1931, but it did not officially become one until 1980. A vast wilderness area, the park preserves volcanic features resulting from the 1912 eruption of Novarupta volcano, which caused the collapse of the mountain after which this park is named. For many years hot gases rose from the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, but the area is no longer very active. FTP, name this 3.7 million acre National Park in Southwest Alaska.

Answer:	Katmai National Park

HUMANITIES - ART/ARCHITECTURE 

 The Studio, Woman With a Fan, Cavalier with Pipe, Girl Before a Mirror, The Pipes of Pan, Still Life with Chair Caning, Nude in an Armchair, Bachanal with Minotaur, and  Yo El Rey  were all painted by -- FTP what  cubist artist who died in 1973, who is better known as the painter of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.

Answer:	Pablo Picasso

HUMANITIES - PHILOSOPHY/THEOLOGY/EDUCATION

Born in 1893, he was the author of the 1930 book The Myth of the 20th Century, which supplied Hitler with the spurious philosophical and scientific basis for the Nazi racist doctrines. As minister to the occupied Eastern European countries after 1941, he was responsible for the Nazi atrocities there. FTP name this Nazi leader hanged in 1946 as a war criminal. 

Answer:	Alfred Rosenberg