Toss - Ups 1. An abscess in his body caused him to explode in church driving people away from his funeral. Buried at St. Stephen's church this monarch was buried in France though he was King of England FTP name this bastard who became king after the Battle of Hastings. ans: William I accept William the Bastard or William the Conquerer 2. Barbara Streisand, Steven Speilberg, Reverend Schuller, Richard Dreyfuss, Candice Bergen and several others all have shared a bed. This bedroom has figured prominently in the news dealing with campaign donations and turning the White House as Motel 1600, FTP name this bedroom or the President for which it was named. ans: Lincoln 3. The first version was written 1424 by Christian Chartier, the translation into English was mistakenly attributed to Chaucer. A later version of this poetic work had a profound influence on the Pre-Raphaelite FTP name this poem whose most version was written by Keats. ans: La Belle Dame Sans Merci 4. This law was developed in 1887 by the United States government to break native American tribes with the granting of land to individuals within the tribe. It was incumbent upon the land owner to not sell the land for 25 years and would receive American citizenship. FTP name this law ans: the Dawes Act 5. The monk Gaunelon was the earliest critics of this argument for the existence of God which originated with St. Anselm. This argument peaked with Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, FTP name this philosophical argument that states that God exists because you have conceived of a perfect being from your imperfect self. ans: Ontological argument 6. This major school of psychology was developed independently of the Viennese circle that surrounded Freud. Concerned with the cause and effect of environment and behavior to each other this school of psychology began with the experiments of Pavlov FTP name this school associated with the work of B.F. Skinner ans: Behaviouralism 7. This Flint, Michigan film maker is well known for his unusual sense of humor since it incorporates a great deal of truth. Gaining notoriety with his documentary, Roger and Me, and later on for his TV show, TV Nation, a heartachingly underrated show of genius FTP who is the man who brought Johns for Justice into American living rooms? ans: Michael Moore 8. He became Patriarch of Constantinople in 428, but his doctrines were condemned at the Council of Ephesus three years later. FTP, name this clergyman whose name is associated with the heresy which is associated today with the Assyrian Church of the East. Answer: Nestorius 9. His family converted to the Prussian state church prior to his birth, in Trier, in 1818. He studied at the Universities of Bonn and Berlin. FTP, name this author of "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon" Ans: Marx 10. Marilyn Monroe's reputation as a difficult actress to work with arose with a vengeance during the filming of this most critically acclaimed movie of her career. During one scene where all she had to was search through a desk saying, "Where's the bourbon?", she flubbed her line so many times that the director, Billy Wilder, put a slip of paper in the desk drawer with the line written on it. After she became confused about which drawer to open, Wilder had slips of paper put in ALL of the drawers, and they finally got the scene done after almost 50 takes. FTP, name this movie which inspired co-star Tony Curtis to claim that filming love scenes with Monroe was "like kissing Hitler." ans: SOME LIKE IT HOT 11. This mathematical term is used in many different areas of geometry, topology, and analysis. Formally speaking, given two curves with domain X and range Y, it denotes a continuous function from the Cartesian product of X with the unit interval into Y. Informally, it represents a way of continuously deforming one curve into another, such as the stretching of a circle into an ellipse. FTP, name this term. ans: Homotopy 12. His powerful serve-and-volley style had many tennis insiders hailing him as a future Wimbledon champion, but nobody expected him to break into the spotlight at the U.S. Open, which he won at age 19 by beating Andre Agassi in the finals back in 1990. It took him a little while longer to duplicate that success, but the insiders turned out to be right about where his greatest triumphs would occur. FTP, name this player who won three consecutive Wimbledons from 1993-1995. ans: Pete SAMPRAS 13. In this Edgar Allan Poe work the narrator, Montresor, claims that he cannot forgive the thousand injuries inflicted upon him by Fotunato. Montresor appeals to this man's vanity with regards to wine-tasting and eventually lures him to his death in a cellar. FTP, name this work which was ironically unfortunate to it's victim. ans: The Cask of Amontillado 14. Pencils and paper ready. An ordinary pool rack holds 15 balls arranged in a triangular pattern with five balls to a side. If Satan played pool, however, he'd undoubtedly use 666 balls. By a curious coincidence, 666 balls can be fit into a triangular rack. FTP, how many balls to a side would such a rack have? Hint: it's a square number. You have ten seconds. ans: 36 15. The name's the same. In mathematics, the nickname of the largest finite simple sporadic group. In cinema, with the word "the", the title of a Robert Benigni film. In literature, again with the word "the", the title of a Stephen Crane short story. In music, the name of a guitar-heavy REM album. Boston has a green one, and Sesame Street has one that is voracious for cookies. FTP, name the common seven-letter word. ans: (The) MONSTER 16. In the town of Milan (MY-len), Indiana, there's a restaurant called "Bobby Plump's Last Shot". The aforementioned Mr. Plump has organized a group opposed to a recent proposal to replace Indiana's single-tiered high school basketball tournament with a multi-tiered one. This proposal would rule out miracles like the one that occurred when tiny Milan High upset powerful Muncie Central in the 1954 high school championship game -- a game that was decided on Bobby Plump's last shot. Like most sports miracles, this story was turned into a movie. FTP, name the well-known 80's film starring Gene Hackman. ans: HOOSIERS 17. While her father's skeleton was recently identified via DNA evidence, hers was not positively identified, giving romantics reason to hope that a jewel-encrusted corset might have deflected the bullets intended for her. Nonetheless, it still seems likely that, like the rest of her family, she was shot in a Yekaterinburg basement at the hands of the Bolsheviks. FTP, name this princess, soon to be the subject of a Disney animated movie. ans: ANASTASIA Romanov 18. Published in 1939 this book's dual plot involved convicts escaping from prison in 1927 in Mississippi and the affair between Harry Wilbourne and the married Charlotte Rittenmeyer. At the end of the book one convict is recaptured while the other turns himself in while Harry gets charged for Charlotte's murder after he botches an abortion on her FTP name this book by William Faulkner. ans: Wild Palms 19. Name the year in which all the following events occurred: South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem was assassinated; the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that all criminal defendants must have counsel in the Gideon v. Wainwright decision; Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale led the L.A. Dodgers to victory in the World Series over the New York Yankees; and Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique helped to ignite the women's movement. Ans: 1963 20. It denotes itself as "Not America's Favorite paper" and continuously mocks itself in its ads portraying people saying such things as, "It's so nice that homosexuals, Jews and terrorists have a newspaper to read." FTP name this New York based newspaper. ans: The Village Voice 21. a medium sized province, it contains two percent of the world's population although most of it's people live in rural areas. During World War II the Chinese capital lay in this province, at Chungking. FTP name this region best known today for its spicy cuisine. ans: Szechuan 22. This man's father once told him, "I'm glad you're a boy because if you were a girl you'd always be in the family way". A not unwarranted analysis of this American President who is still ranked as one of the worst Presidents of the history of the nation. Rumors at the time of his death had his wife poisoning him. Name this President FTP of the Tea Pot dome Scandal. ans: Warren G. Harding 23. The Spanish attempted a settlement here in 1586, but constant Indian attacks reduced the settler to eating snakes, rats, their shoes and dead companions. In 1580, the Spanish tried again and this time successfully established the place which they named, "Our Lady Holy Mary of the Good Air". FTP, name this city of 11 million whose residents call themselves portenos, and which lies on the Rio De La Plata. ans: Buenos Aires 24. Of Love, Of Friendship, Of Truth, Of Faction, Of Honor and Reputation, Of Discourse, Of Beauty, Of Deformity FTP, what are these works written by Sir Frances Bacon, inventor of the expository kind? ans: Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral 25. Many famous Shakespearean quotes are spoken by characters who would be almost completely forgettable if not for their one or two lines in the spotlight. Aside from "To be or not to be," possibly the most famous quote from Hamlet is "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark". FTP, name the guard who utters this line, but be careful: if you don't remember, he might be forced to get medieval on your you-know-what. ans: MARCELLUS 26. Of all the defendants at the major Nuremberg trial who were sentenced to death, he was the first one who was hanged in the execution chamber. FTP, name this German foreign minister who negotiated the Non-Aggression Pact with Vyacheslav Molotov of the Soviet Union. ans: Joachim von RIBBENTROP 27. After an unsuccessful experiment that he tried before his class one day in 1819, this physicist made a slight adjustment in his demonstration and found that an electric current passing parallel to a compass needle would induce the needle to swing 90 degrees. FTP, name the Danish scientist who had just discovered the fundamental connection between electricity and magnetism. ans: Hans Christian OERSTED 28. At the age of 14, while working at her father's store, this woman sold art supplies to Vincent Van Gogh. At the age of 90, she agreed to sell her house to a lawyer for a low price, but with the proviso that she would get to live in it free until her death. That was in 1965. Thirty years later, the lawyer died, but she was still going strong. FTP, name this Frenchwoman, who at 122 is likely the oldest person on the planet. ans: Jeanne CALMENT Bonii 1. 30-20-10 Name this disease. 30 - Dr. Zachary Cope in 1964 determined that Jane Austen died of this disease after careful reading of her diary entries detailing her physical decline. 20 - It can be triggered by an emotional crisis. A progressive atrophy of the adrenal cortex this disease causes weakness, weight loss, severe gastrointestinal pain and an overproduction of melanin in the victims' face as it progresses. 10 - This disease received public fame as being the disease suffered by President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. ans: Addison's 2. 30-20-10 Name this person. 30 - In his private journals he stated that he had relations with 200 prostitutes but it was an affair with his half sister, Augusta Leigh, that caught the public's attention 20 - He died in 1823 due to malarial relapse and his doctor's bleeding of him in excess of three pints 10 - Refused burial at Westminister Abbey he is buried at Hucknall Torkand. A less glorious ending for the author of Childe Harolde's Pilgrimage ans: Lord Byron 3. Given the definition of a musical term give the Italian term. FTP a) Italian for 'harp' - a broken chord in which the notes are played in succession. ans: arpeggio b) Literally 'from the head' an indication that a previously played section of music is to be repeated ans: de capo c) Describes a smooth performance without accentuated notes, Italian for 'bound together'. ans: legato 4. 30-20-10 Name this book of the Bible. 30 - It begins with the line, "Oh you cows of Bashun" 20 - This prophetic book takes place in the time during the reigns of Kings Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah of Judah. It is focused in its criticism of political and religious hypocrisy that is plaguing Judean society and crushing the average person into poverty 10 - Contemporaneous with the book of Isaiah it is written by a minor prophet which nothing of a personal nature is known about except that he was from Moresheth or Moresheth-Gath and his name means "one who is like Yahweh" ans: Micah 5. 30 pt. bonus. Given the description name the part of the atmosphere described. 10 pts each. a) 12 miles thick at the equator and 5 miles thick at the poles. Weather and clouds form here and more than half of the atmosphere's gases, water vapor, and dust particles are in the first 4 miles. Troposphere. b) Ranges 150 miles or more over the Earth's surface. The ionosphere composes this larger atmospheric sphere. Thermosphere. c) The Ozone layer is found here and so are icy winds. Stretching to 30 miles in the sky the air is uaually dry and clear. Stratosphere. 6. Ah yes, another treaty dealing with the Arctic. Something old something new. For an easy five points each and 35 pts. total. can you name the 7 nations that compose the Arctic Council and have renewed negotiations for the exploration and development of Antarctica? a) Denmark b) Finland c) Canada d) Iceland e) Norway f) Sweden g) Russia 7. You know the portrait, but what about the embellishment on the back? for 30 pts., 5 pts each, can you name what is pictured on the back of these denominations in US currency without going into your wallet? a) 2$ => Signers of the Declaration of Independence b) 5$ => Lincoln Memorial c) $10 => US Treasury d) $20 => White House e) $50 => US Capitol f) $100 => Independence Hall 8. FTP name the amino acid given the description. a) this is the smallest amino acid with the substitute group being hydrogen the letter is g ans: glysine b) This amino acid contains a phenyl group and a benzene ring with a hydroxyl group at the para position and it's letter symbol is the letter "y" ans: tyrasine c) this 21st amino acid is the only amino acid without a unique codone genetic and incorporates selenium in its make up ans: selenocystiene 9. FTP name the opera from character names given. a) leonora, don carlo, alvaro and preziosilla - ans: The Force of Destiny (La Forza del Destino) b) Marcello, Rodolfo, Mimi, Musetta ans: La Boheme c) Micaela, Frasquita, Mercedes, Zuniga, Morales, Don Jose ans: Carmen 10. Identify the following "operations" from World War II FTP each: (a) The most famous operation of them all, it happened on June 6, 1944 at Normandy. ans: Overlord (b) Had Germany ever actually gotten around to invading England, the operation would have been known by this term. ans: Sea Lion (c) This historical figure from the time of the Crusades had his name used as the code name for Germany's invasion of Russia. ans: Barbarossa 11. For fiteen points each, identify the programming term from C++ from the given clues: (a) Data members of a class can be public, private, or of this type, which allows the data to be accessed by classes that inherit from the parent class. ans: Protected (b) One possible use of this kind of object is to define a function that will accept arguments of any type, as opposed to the one type stated in the definition of a regular function. ans: Template 12. Identify the following composers famous for their movie scores FTP each. (a) He scored many of the great films of the 1940s, most notably "Citizen Kane," but he achieved his greatest fame with his soundtracks for the movies of Alfred Hitchcock. He's responsible for the legendary violin shrieks heard during the shower scene of "Psycho." Bernard HERRMAN (b) He has done soundtracks for movies ranging from "The Man Who Would be King" to "The Tin Drum" to "Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome," but he is best known for his work on the films of David Lean, such as "A Passage to India," "Doctor Zhivago," and, most notably, "Lawrence of Arabia." Maurice JARRE (c) You can hear his work in films as diverse as "Midnight Cowboy" and "Dances With Wolves," but his greatest success has undoubtedly resulted from his ten James Bond soundtracks which include "Goldfinger," "On Her Majesty's Secret Service," and "A View to a Kill." John BARRY 13. Answer the following abstract algebra-related questions FTP each: (a) Consider the symmetric group on three letters. How many distinct cosets does the subgroup of three elements have? TWO (b) Consider any additive cyclic group G of finite order n. What is the name of the function that, when evaluated at n, gives the order of the subgroup of multiplicative units of G? EULER PHI function (c) For any prime number p, the Euler phi function evaluated at p returns p-1, so for a group containing p elements, the order of its multiplicative group of units is p-1. This means that for any element x of this multplicative group, x raised to the power of p-1 is congruent to 1 mod p. This leads to the statement of what basic theorem of number theory? FERMAT'S LITTLE theorem 14. Answer the following questions about the NCAA basketball tournament FTP each. (a) Some people say that the record for most points in a Division I championship game belongs to Bill Walton, but that's not true if you take the women's game into account. This woman scored an amazing 47 points in the 1993 championship game to lead her Texas Tech squad over Ohio State. She played on the U.S. Olympic Team in Atlanta, and Nike made her the first female basketball player to have a shoe named after her. Sheryl SWOOPES (b) He's the last player to be named MVP of the Final Four without playing for the championship team. Name this MVP of the 1983 tournament who eventually achieved championship glory in the NBA, albeit not until 11 years later. Hakeem OLAJUWON (c) This college basketball legend didn't do much in his NBA career, but he had his greatest moments of glory in the NCAA tournaments of 1970 and '71. Name this Notre Dame guard who scored over 45 points in five different tournament games, over 50 points in three of those games, and an all-time tournament record 61 points in a first round win over Ohio in 1970. Austin CARR 15. 1. Given the ironic last words, name the man, for the stated number of points. a. (5) "Nineteen whiskeys; I think that's a record", said this poet, who certainly did not go gentle into that good night. Dylan THOMAS b. (10) As he was lying on his deathbed, a nurse announced that he was feeling better. This playwright, in typically perverse fashion, muttered "On the contrary", and died later that day without uttering another word. Henrik IBSEN c. (15) At the 1864 Battle of Spotsylvania, this well-loved Union general was warned about Confederate snipers. His last words were "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..." John SEDGWICK 16. 30-20-10. Name the figure from Greek mythology. 30: At the outset of the Trojan War, this man set sail with the Greeks for Troy, but his fellow warriors left him in Lemnos because of the putrescent odor of the festering wound he had. 20: A staunch friend of Heracles, this man lit Heracles' funeral pyre on Mt. Oeta when his poisoned friend begged for death. In thanks, Heracles gave him the weapons he had used to kill, among others, Geryon. 10: This man put these weapons - a bow and a collection of poisoned arrows - to use. Allowed to rejoin the Greeks at the end of the Trojan War, it was his arrow that killed Paris. PHILOCTETES 17. 30-20-10. Identify the number. 30: Its associated continued fraction is the slowest-converging among all real numbers. If F_sub_n is the nth Fibonacci number, then this number is the limit as n goes to infinity of F_sub_(n+1) divided by F_sub_n. 20: It's approximately equal to 1.618, and exactly equal to one-half times the quantity (1 plus the square root of 5). 10: Rectangles whose sides are in this ratio appear everywhere in ancient Greek architecture. FTP, name this number. ans: GOLDEN RATIO or GOLDEN MEAN or PHI 18. It's about time for a literature bonus. Today's featured author is Grahame Greene, I'm sure you all know well. FTP each name the Greene work given the description. a) An alcoholic priest flees from governmental religious persecution in the 1930's Mexico. He is caught and submits to his martyrdom. ans: The Power and the Glory b) A journalist and a naive American intelligence agent spar over the journalist's lovely, childlike Vietnamese mistress in 1950's Saigon. ans: The Quiet American c) A world famous architect ceases to care about life and pleasure, and moves anonymously to a Congolese leper colony. He throws himself into work for the lepers, and his spiritual malady heals even as he contracts leprosy and eventually dies. ans: A Burnt-Out Case 19. Name the terrorist for the stated number of points. (5) This Serbian nationalist assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914, triggering the First World War. ans: Gavrilo Princip (10) Along with Gudrun Ennslin and Ulrike Meinhof, he was one of the leaders of the Red Army Faction which carried out numerous spectacular terrorist attacks in Germany during the 1970's. He committed suicide while in prison. ans: Andreas Baader (15) A mastermind of the bomb campaign carried out by the Hamas organization, his bomb making skills won him the nickname, "the Engineer". He was killed by a booby trapped cellular phone. ans: Yahya Ayyash 20. By winning three Grammy awards this year, the Beatles nearly doubled their lifetime haul of these awards; not bad for a group that split up over a quarter century and has had one member murdered in 1980. I'm feeling nostalgic, so you'll have to answer some Beatles questions for the stated number of points. (5) Which album cover depicted all four Beatles crossing the street, mostly barefoot, and gave rise to the bizarre rumor that Paul McCartney was dead? It was the Beatles' last album designed and recorded as a group. ans: Abbey Road (10) Which rock great and friend of George Harrison performed, unaccredited, on the White Album track, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"? ans: Eric Clapton (15) Which Beatle wrote "Liverpool Oratorio"? ans: Paul McCartney 21. Put these events of the First World War in chronological order, five points for each correct, 30 points total. 1)the abdication of the Kaiser; 2) the treaty if Brest-Litovsk; 3)the armistice of the West; 4) the start of the First Battle of the Somme; 5) the sinking of the Lusitania; 6) the first American troops see combat. ans: 5,4,6,2,1,3, 22. 30-20-10. Name the fantasy series. 30: The second book in the series was made into a Disney animated film -- one of few such films to have a less-than-happy ending. 20: A quote from the first book reads as follows: "Our capabilities seldom match our aspirations, and we are often woefully unprepared. To this extent, we are all Assistant Pig-Keepers at heart." 10: The fifth and final book, "The High King", won the Newberry Award; the series was written by Lloyd Alexander. The PRYDAIN Chronicles (or Series) 24. 30-20-10 Name this artist 30) Anthony van Dyck, court painter of Charles I of England, was this painter's assistant 20) He gained entry into the highest social circles with his art and his capability of handling state secrets for such people as, the Infanta of Spain. 10) Works include, the Judgement of Paris; and the Marie Medici series. ans: Rubens 25. 30-20-10 Name this architectural style or movement. 30) Hailed as the source of modern architecture this school of architecture is considered the 'inventor' of the skyscraper. 20) Examples from this school include the Seagram Building and the Mondanock Building. 10) Members of this school include Louis Sullivan, Dankmar Adler, and Daniel Burnham. This movement came about at the turn of the century and was helped with the development of the balloon frame, and the Otis elevator ans: The Chicago School