1998 Terrapin Invitational
Round 8
Tossups by Chicago B (Alice Chou)

1. By the terms of the armistice signed when Paris capitulated to Prussian troops, a Royalist National Assembly
was elected. Radical republicans who considered Bismarck’s terms humiliating established the Central
Committee of the National Guard and set March 26 as the date for the election of a municipal council which
became known by this name. Its members, 20,000 of whom were killed during Bloody Week, were mostly
followers of Louis Blanqui, a revolutionary being held prisoner by Adolphe Thiers. FTP name this proletarian
dictatorship which controlled Paris from March 18th to May 28th, 1871.
Answer:  Paris Commune

2. About 2000 texts survive in full, many of which were written by Zeami and his father Kan'ami; about 230 remain in the modern repertoire. Its name means “talent” or “skill”, and the five types of it are the god play, the present-day or madwoman play, the wig play, the fighting play, and the final or demon play.  It developed from ancient forms of dance-drama festival drama at shrines and temples and was continually refined up to the years of the Tokugawa period.  FTP, name this form of Japanese drama.
Answer:  Noh drama

3. A sample of a compound is bombarded with high-energy electrons, usually around 70 electron volts.  This causes the release of an electron to form a radical cation, which is then passes between two positively charged plates and enters an evacuated tube.  Neutral and negatively charged fragments are excluded, but the positively charged ones proceed between a ring magnet which deflects them at an angle relative to their weight. Ions with a common weight pass through a collection slot in, FTP, what kind of instrument that allows scientists to determine the weight of an unknown chemical compound?
Answer:  mass spectrometer

4. This city was first settled in 1482 by members of the Ga tribe.  Later its location became the site for three fortified European trading posts on the coast of West Africa.  The modern city was planned in the 1920s, and its population grew rapidly in the first half of the twentieth century.  It is connected by direct rail to the country's second largest
city, Kumasi, and is seventeen miles away from the port city of Tema; Kokota International Airport is located there.  FTP, name this city located on the Gulf of Guinea, the capital of the former British Gold Coast Colony and the current capital of Ghana.
Answer:  Accra

5. He was present in Guatemala in 1954 when the Arhentz regime was overthrown, and spent part of 1965-66 in Congo organizing the Patrice Lumumba Battalion.  In between, he was president of the National Bank of Cuba and minister of industry.  He is most famous for his involvement in the Cuban revolution and for his death in Bolivia in 1967.  FTP, name this anti-imperialist and communist.
Answer:  Che Guevara

6. His story “Lamb to the Slaughter,” about a woman who kills her husband with a frozen leg of lamb and then feeds the evidence to the police, was made into an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.  His first book, The Gremlins, was later made into a movie, and he also wrote the scripts for You Only Live Twice and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.  His novel My Uncle Oswald tells the story of a man who uses a time machine and a pretty girl to collect the
sperm of famous men, and his children's stories are only slightly less shocking.  FTP, name this Welsh-born author of Dirty Beasts, Revolting Rhymes, The Witches, and James and the Giant Peach.
Answer:  Roald Dahl

7. This medical condition is most prevalent in adolescent males, and usually begins at puberty.  Serious cases require the attention of a physician, but medications commonly used to treat it contain vitamin A, sulfur-resorcinol, or benzoyl peroxide.  It is caused by adult levels of androgenic hormones and results it changes to the size of the skin glands and the amount of oil that they produce.  Free fatty acids are released into tissues, often resulting in the formation of whiteheads and blackheads.  FTP, name this condition, against which you might use "Stridex."
Answer:  Acne

8. He served as US ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1961-1963, and served a large number of other posts in Eastern Europe from 1925 to 1953.  He accompanied the first US ambassador sent to Moscow, and later occupied the post himself. Using his own name, he won both the Pulitzer Prize in history and the National Book Award in 1956 for volume 1 of his work Soviet-American Relations, entitled Russia Leaves the War; nine years earlier he wrote an article in "Foreign Affairs" and signed it 'X'.  FTP, name this expert on Russia, who coined and expounded his theory of containment.
Answer:  George Kennan

9. This small village is located about 45 miles from Paris on the right bank of the River Seine.  When an artist spotted it out of a train window in 1883, it was launched from obscurity into a popular tourist attraction. The artist bought property there in 1890 and planted a garden with a Japanese bridge and ponds filled with water lilies which he began painting in 1906.  FTP, what is this village, which served as an inspiration for many of the later works of Claude Monet?
Answer:  Giverny

10. Hostilities began at noon on April 24th, when Tom Clarke led almost 2000 men to take over a post office and
other public buildings. The suspension of the recently enacted Home Rule Bill had stimulated the growth of the
Citizen Army, an illegal group organized by Jim Larkin and James Connolly, and thirteen others including Patrick Pearse were sentenced to death and executed after its failure, while Sir Roger Casement was convicted of treason and became the last prisoner killed in the Tower of London, and Eamon de Valera’s death sentence was commuted. FTP name this 1916 Irish rebellion, named for the holiday on which it occurred.
Answer:  Easter Rising (or Rebellion)

11. The daughter of an astrologer, at the age of 15 she married Etienne Castel; when he died ten years later, leaving her with three children and little income, she turned to writing to make her living.  Among her protectors were the duc de Berry and Henry of Lancaster, and she was commissioned by Philip the Brave to write an official biography of Charles V.  Her first writings were poems mostly on the subject of her dead husband, while her first prose writing formed an important part of the debate on the Romance of the Rose.  FTP, name this author of The Book of the City of Ladies, who came to France from Italy in 1370.
Answer:  Christine de Pisan

12. This construct from physics inspired Claude Shannon to posit his formulation that all transmissions of information require a physical channel. Leo Szilard suggested that it would have to process information in order to make decisions, and in 1950, Leon Brillouin showed that the entropy expended in choosing between the molecules of gas would expend more energy than would be created. It sits between two gas chambers of equal temperature and pressure separated by a small hole, allowing only fast gas particles to move in one direction and slow gas particles to move in another, thus creating a difference of pressure between the two chambers. FTP, which creation of James Clerk Maxwell would not have been able to solve the perpetual motion problem?
Answer:  Maxwell's demon

13. Its author's academic writing during his tenure as a professor of history at the University of Jena provided much of the material for this play.  A three-part historical drama, it consists of a one-act prelude relating the title hero's rise to power and two five-act tragedies written in blank verse, which reveal the hero's treasonous plot, the subsequent desertion of his troops, and his eventual assassination.  First performed in 1798-99, the play portrays the title hero as a man of great courage, but so power-mad that he believes himself above good and evil.  FTP, name this Schiller play about the life of a certain general of the Thirty Years War.
Answer:  Wallenstein

14. This writer was born to a wealthy German family in 1864 and was greatly influenced in his early years by the Puritan philosophies held by his mother.  After receiving a professorship at Freiburg in 1894, he wrote theses addressing agrarian problems and boasted the obsolescence of the ruling Junker aristocracy. He was institutionalized between 1898 and 1903, but his later works were considered his best, including those dealing with the effects of Calvinistic theology on the German economy.  FTP, name this philosopher best known for The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.   
Answer:  Max Weber 

15. After receiving his doctorate from the University of Marburg in 1901, he traveled to Montreal to study radioactivity.  During the First World War he worked in the chemical warfare industry, but later renewed his studies of nuclear physics after the War at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, where he learned of Enrico Fermi's bombardment of the uranium atom with subatomic particles.  FTP, name this man, winner of the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, who would later win the Enrico Fermi award in 1966 with his colleagues Fritz Strassman and Lise Meitner    
Answer:  Otto Hahn

16. Called the Pennsylvania Fiscal Agency until it was purchased in 1864, it was renamed after a French investment
bank established under Napoleon III.  Its dividends to stockholders increased by 500 percent in one year when it
overestimated construction costs by 50 million dollars; Republican vice-presidential candidate Henry Wilson,
House speaker James G. Blaine, Representative James A. Garfield, and Vice President Schuyler Colfax were
among those implicated in 1872 when the New York Sun published a list of congressmen owning its stock
along with incriminating letters written by Oakes Ames. FTP, name this scandal, associated with both Union
Pacific and the Grant Administration.
Answer: Credit Mobilier

17. In 1968, this man reached for a fan with defective wiring while stepping out of a shower in Bangkok and was instantly electrocuted. He translated the all the works of 12th century monastic masters from Latin, and published over 50 volumes, starting with an immensely popular work that the New York Times had refused to put on its best-seller list because it was a religious work. FTP, who is this man who joined the Trappist order at Our Lady of Gethsemane Abbey in Kentucky, the author of the 1946 autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain?
Answer: Thomas Merton

18. Near the end of the novel, Mrs. Bread tells the protagonist that the Marquise caused the death of her husband by withholding his medicine. Valentin had told him that he could use this information to blackmail the family into renewing his engagement with the Marquise's daughter, Claire de Cintre (san-TRAY), which had been broken because the Bellegardes could not sacrifice their aristocratic family pride even for great wealth.  Eventually Claire goes into a convent in, FTP, what Henry James novel, which contrasts the ways of Europeans and the innocence of Christopher Newman?
Answer:  The American

19. Along this hormone’s other functions is to stimulate some biennials to flower during the first year of growth, and to stimulate fruit-set in some species. Derived from the same biosynthetic pathway as vertebrate steroid hormones, they were first described in 1926 by Kurosawa, who discovered a fungus in rice plants that caused “foolish-seedling disease.” FTP, what is this class of hormones which stimulate rapid stem elongation in dwarf plants while having much less effect on normally tall plants?
Answer: gibberellins

20. To help formulate his philosophy of music, this composer created an alter ego, Monsieur Croche, with whom he would carry on imaginary dialogues about musical innovation.  Constantly seeking new ways to break the rules of harmony in Western music, he experimented with a 21-tone scale system and went back to the early modes of medieval music for some of his pieces.  His piano works include Evening in Granada and Suite bergamasque, which contains the familiar Clair de lune. FTP, who is this composer of the Children’s Corner suite, Images, and La mer?
Answer: Claude Debussy

21. She lives for several years in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago as Lester Kane's mistress, but he leaves her in order to receive his inheritance and marry the widow Letty Pace.  Her daughter Vesta dies of typhoid, just as Vesta's father Senator George Brander had, inopportunely leaving this title character pregnant, poor, and cast out by her family.  FTP, name this title heroine who sacrifices all for her family in a novel by Theodore Dreiser.
Answer:  Jennie Gerhardt

This arthropod has remained unchanged by evolution for the past 200 million years.  Its legs are used both for walking and chewing its food. In mating season, thousands of them will group and embark along a mass migration on the beach, a common occurence in Delaware Bay. FTP, what is this animal, which is not really a crab at all?
	Answer:  horseshoe crab

This country first became independent of Chinese rule in 939 AD, and again in 1428 AD.  In 1757 it was divided into two parts, but in 1802 was reunited by Nguyen Ahn, who became emperor Gia Long.  French imperialism took control in 1883 and communists declared independance in 1945.  FTP, name this country which was again split from 1954 to 1976.
	Answer:  Vietnam

These annelid worms of the class Hirudinea have 34 body segments and are hermaphroditic.  The drug hirudin is extracted from the species Hirudo medicinalis.  FTP, what are these worms who have a sucker on both the anterior and posterior ends?
	Answer:  leeches

This game originated in France in about the 15th century.  Points are awarded for points, sequences, and sets.  At the beginning of the game, a player can score 10 points for a "carte blanche", a hand with no face cards.  FTP, what is this card game using a 32-card deck?
	Answer:  piquet

1998 Terrapin Invitational
Round 8
Bonuses by Chicago B

1. Name the theologian 30-20-10.
1. In 1115 under the counsel of Stephen Harding, he was directed to establish a monastery on the borders of Burgundy and Champagne.
2. Though he did not support the notion of immaculate conception, he would become a powerful member of the cult
of the Virgin.  He published a classic treatise on Mariology known as "Praises of the Virgin Mother".
3. This "mellifluous doctor" reformed the Cistercian order and used his favorable position within the church to raise opposition to dialectical scholasticism and the teachings of Peter Abelard.
Answer:  Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

2. Answer these questions about a 19th-century novel for the stated number of points.
5:  The title of this Stendhal novel is somewhat ambiguous, but apparently refers to the conflicting choice the hero must make between the army and the church.
Answer:  The Red and the Black or Le Rouge et le Noir
10:  Name the protagonist of The Red and the Black, an ambitious and somewhat bumbling hypocrite.
Answer:  Julien Sorel
15:  Julien Sorel almost succeeds in his quest for success when he knocks up the daughter of the man he works for.  Name her.
Answer:  Mathilde de la Mole (prompt on "Mole")

3. FTP each, answer these questions about the Congress of Vienna and its aftermath.
1. This treaty followed Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo; France's borders were restored to those of 1790, and a 700 million franc indemnity was levied
Answer:  Second Treaty of Paris
2. In the years after the Congress of Vienna, this term referred to the general belief in a political and territorial status quo, and the right of powerful countries to interfere to stabilize smaller ones.
Answer:  Concert of Europe
3. At this 1818 Congress, it was decided that France had been sufficiently punished, and was allowed to join the Quadruple Alliance.
Answer:  Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle

4. Identify this stuff you might see in a desert.
1. Found in major deserts such as those of Saudi Arabia, these fields of dunes can cover as much as 500,000 square kilometers. They share their name with the cgs unit of work.
Answer: ergs
2. The products of limited sand supply and unidirectional winds, these are crescent-shaped dunes that can coalesce to form irregular ridges whose long directions lie transverse to the wind direction.
Answer: barchan
3. These are lakes which accumulate in arid mountain valleys or basins. The products of dissolved weathering are precipitated upon evaporation, making them good sources for evaporite minerals like borax.
Answer: playa lakes

5. This bonus is devoted to the life and work of the great twentieth century Spanish poet and dramatist, Federico Garcia Lorca.  For ten points each:
1.  His collection of eighteen ballads, Romancero gitano, is devoted to what people of his native Andalusia?
Answer:  Romani or Gypsies
2.  From 1929-30 Garcia Lorca lived in what city, where he would write poems that were later published in a posthumous collection?
Answer:  New York City
3.  This 1933 tragedy of rural life, a true of story of jealousy and death among the peasants of Andalusia, features a woman who runs away with a previous lover only to be murdered by her husband.
Answer:  Blood Wedding

6. Identify these American social scientists from clues FTP each.
1. Her later works include Male and Female, and Culture and Commitment, but she is best known for her classic study of adolescent girls in Coming of Age in Samoa.
Answer: Margaret Mead
2. Along with coining the term “ethnocentrism,” this professor at Yale divided cultural norms into three categories: laws, mores (MOR-ayz), and Folkways, which is the title of his 1906 book on the subject.
Answer: William Graham Sumner
3. This 19th century ethnologist undertook investigations of the cultures of North American Indians in works like The League of the Iroquois, and Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines. His best-known work, however, is the 1877 Ancient Society, a treatise on the origins and evolution of the institutions of government and property.
Answer: Lewis Henry Morgan

7. For the stated number of points, answer questions about the reign of Philip II of Spain.
5. On July 21, 1588, this fleet entered the English Channel towards Dunkirk.  They fled seven days later after sustaining heavy casualties.
Answer:  Spanish Armada
10. In October 1571, Philip II's half-brother Don Juan of Austria defeated a Turkish naval force near Corinth at what battle, the last major Spanish naval victory?
Answer:  Lepanto
15. Spanish rule in this nation was plagued by revolt from 1567 until its formal independence in 1648.  The southern, Catholic provinces were considerably less violent than the Calvinist north, which in 1579 formed the Union of Utrecht.
Answer:  Netherlands

8. Answer these questions about the Moon’s orbit FTP each.
1. Also called a lunar month, this is the time it takes the Moon to complete one cycle of phases, and it measured with respect to the sun.
Answer: synodic month
2. This is the line formed by the intersection of the plane of Earth’s orbit and the plane of the Moon’s orbit.
Answer: line of nodes
3. This is the term for the gradual westward movement of the line of nodes due to the Sun’s gravitational pull.
Answer: regression

9. Name these George Eliot heroines from a brief description for 10 points each or for 5 if you need the title of the work she appears in.
1. 10. She is an intelligent woman, but makes a serious error in judgement when she marries Edward Casaubon, a pompous fraud many years her senior.  In the end she finds happiness with her cousin Will Ladislaw.
      5. Middlemarch
Answer:  Dorothea Brooke
2. 10. She feels a deep sympathy with the deformed Philip Wakem, but is forced by her family to give up his friendship.  Her reputation is ruined when she goes boating with her cousin's fiancée Stephen Guest, but eventually she is reconciled with her brother.
      5. The Mill on the Floss
Answer:  Maggie Tulliver
3. 10. Her feelings of superiority are crushed when she marries the cold, controlling Henleigh Grandcourt.  After the death of Grandcourt, she finds herself drawn to the title character, but he marries Mirah Cohen and moves to Palestine.
      5. Daniel Deronda
Answer:  Gwendolyn Harleth

10. Yeah boyee! It’s time for a composer chain bonus. Identify these two composers who either share a common first or last name from clues, 5 for the first composer and 10 for the second one in each chain.
15. The 19th century French composer of Spanish origin known for his Cello Concerto in D minor and the Symphonie espagnole, and the American who composed for movies like Cool Hand Luke, Enter the Dragon, and scored the TV themes for Mannix, Dr. Kildare, and Mission: Impossible.
Answer: Victor Antoine Edouard Lalo Schifrin
(5 points for Eduoard Lalo, 10 for Lalo Schifrin, 15 for both)
15. The Austrian composer of symphonies like the “Bear,” “Philosopher,” and “Farewell,” and the English composer best known for songs like “A Brown Bird Singing” and “Roses of Picardy.”
Answer: Franz Joseph Haydn Wood
(5 points for Franz Joseph Haydn, 10 for Haydn Wood, 15 for both)

11. For 15 points each, identify these incidents of apartheid-related violence in South Africa.
1. On June 16, 1976, South African police fired on a group of students protesting plans to use Afrikaans as a language of instruction in black schools.  The students were from what largest black urban area that adjoins Johannesburg to the southwest?
Answer:  Soweto
2. On March 21, 1960, 20,000 Africans gathered in this city to protest pass laws.  They began stoning police, who opened fire with submachine guns.  69 were killed, 186 wounded.  It was one of the first and most violent apartheid-related incidents of the 1960s.
Answer: Sharpeville

12. Name the influential scientist 30-20-10.
1. After assisting Robert Boyle, he moved to London in 1660 and two years later became one of the founding members of the Royal Society.  He was surveyor of London after the Great Fire.
2. He was the first to suggest that a spiral spring can be used to control the balance wheel of a clock.  The law that bears his name states that the deformation of a spring is equal to the force applied it.
3. Research into microscopy led him to formulate a theory that light was composed of waves.  He invented the compound microscope, and in his book Micrographia coined the term "cell".
Answer:  Robert Hooke

13. Name these American poets from works on a 10-5 basis.
1. 10. "Blackberrying," "Crossing the Water," "The Applicant"
      5. "Fever 103," "Tulips," "Daddy"
Answer:  Sylvia Plath
2. 10. "The Pangolin," "He 'Digesteth Hard Yron'" 
      5. "The Snail," "Granite and Steel," Tell Me, Tell Me
Answer:  Marianne Moore
3. 10. Sea Garden, HERmonione
      5. Helen in Egypt, Palimpsest, Bid Me to Live
Answer:  H.D. or Hilda Doolittle

14. Questions on Ataturk and Turkish Independence FTP each.
1.  By what name was Ataturk known before he adopted his more famous one?
Answer:  Mustafa or Kemal
2.  Ataturk made his military reputation at this 1915 battle, in which he was instrumental in repelling the
allied attack.
Answer: Gallipoli
3.  What political party did Ataturk found and lead from 1923 until his death?
Answer:  Republican People's Party or People’s Party

15. Name these genetically based syndromes for the stated number of points.  
5.  Most afflicted by this syndrome are normal, and it is usually not detected until puberty.  In it, individuals contain up to 5 X-chromosomes in addition to one Y-chromosome.
Answer:  Kleinfelter's Syndrome
10.  Marked mental retardation and physical deformation accompany this syndrome, caused by the deletion of an arm of the number 5 chromosome.  It is named for the high pitched shrieks made by affected infants.
Answer:  cri du chat or cat cry syndrome
15. This recessive x-linked disorder is also known as hereditary hyperuricemia. As well as retardation, affected males show a propensity to self mutilation by severely chewing their lips and fingertips.
Answer:  Lesch-Nyhan syndrome

16. Name the map projection from the given clues for ten points each.
1. This projection was created by a Flemish navigator in 1569 and enables lines of constant bearing to drawn between any two points. Massive spatial abnormalities mark the polar regions.
Answer:  Mercator projection
2. The Mercator projection is a type of cylindrical projection, but in this general category of projections the map is a slice of the Earth as seen from a point directly above one of the poles.  Distortion is nil around the central reference latitude, but increased toward the upper and lower edges of the map.  
Answer:  conical or Lambert projections
3. Distortion is inevitable even in the conical projection, because the grid structure is preserved.  Name the type of projection that maximizes equal area for land masses by breaking the land masses apart and assigning each a separate central meridian, resulting in a characteristic lobed appearance.
Answer:  Goode's Interrupted Homolosine   

17. This bonus deals with a mythical race of people from Thessaly.  For ten points each:
1.  What people were originally ants, but were turned into humans by Zeus, after Hera sent a plague to the
island of Aegina?
Answer:  Myrmidons
2.  For what ruler of Aegina did Zeus turn the ants into Myrmidons?
Answer:  Aeacus (AY-a-cus)
3.  What grandson of Aeacus led the Myrmidons as soldiers to the siege of Troy?
Answer:  Achilles

18. Answer these questions about an American political party for the stated number of points.
5.  Its formation was mitigated by the mysterious disappearance of William Morgan, who had been writing an expose.
Answer:  Anti-Masonic Party
10.  The Anti-Masons held the first-ever national political convention in Baltimore in what year?
Answer:  1831
3. For 5 points name the first Anti-Masonic candidate for president, and for 10 points name the one state that he carried in 1832.
Answer:  William Wirt, New Hampshire

19. Answer the following questions about Gothic cathedral architecture for ten points each.
1. The central part of the cathedral, it extends from the entrance to the transept, or transverse aisle.  In a basilican church with side aisles, this refers to only the central aisle.
Answer:  nave
2. At the eastern end of a properly placed Catholic cathedral, this part of the church was at the extreme end the floor, behind the main altar.  It was usually the most highly decorated part of the building.
Answer:  apse
3. This part of the cathedral was a long, narrow, enclosed porch, usually colonnaded or arcaded, crossing the entire
width of a church at its entrance.
Answer:  narthex

20. Give the terms from chemistry for 10 points based on their definition or 5 points if you need the mathematical symbol.
1. 10.  This value, a function of state, is equal to energy plus the sum of pressure and volume.  It is a measure of the energy absorbed by a system under constant pressure.
      5. It is denoted by "H"
Answer:  enthalpy
2. 10.  This is a state property that measures the degree of disorder in a system; it is determined by the number of microstates open to the molecules of the system.
      5. It is denoted by "S"
Answer:  entropy
3. 10.  This is a state function defined as enthalpy minus the sum of entropy and temperature.  A value greater than one is the thermodynamic criterion for spontaneity in a reaction.
      5. It is denoted by "G"
Answer:  Gibbs free energy      

Name these Southern writers for 10 points each.
1. The first important black American novelist, his books include The Colonel's Dream, The Marrow of Tradition and the short story collection The Conjure Woman.
Answer:  Charles Chesnutt
2. This Virginian's 18-volume Works include Figures of Earth, The Cream of the Jest, and his most famous novel, Jurgen.
Answer:  James Branch Cabell
3. His novels include John March, Southerner and The Grandissimes, and he is well known for his local-color short stories, collected in Old Creole Days.
Answer: George Washington Cable

For the stated number of points, answer these questions about the 1998 world series.
1. For 10, who managed the San Diego Padres?
Answer:  Bruce Bochy
2. For 10, which stadium was George Steinbrenner talking about when he complained that it looked "like a cow pasture"?
Answer:  Qualcomm Stadium
3.  In Game 3, neither team had a hit in the first three innings.  Who were the starting pitchers in that pitcher's duel?
Answers:  David Cone and Sterling Hitchcock

I give you a list of dinosaurs, you give me the order in which they lived from earliest to latest FFPE. The list is Triceratops, Archaeopteryx, Coelophysis, Eoraptor, Iguanodon, Compsognathus.
Answer:  Eoraptor, Coelophysis, Compsognathus, Archaeopteryx, Iguanodon, Triceratops

For some more modern history, answer these questions on nuclear containment.
1. During the SALT talks, the United States and the Soviet union tried to come to agreements on limitations for nuclear weaponry.  The result was two treaties, SALT I and SALT II.  For ten points each, name the years in which these two treaties were signed, the first by Nixon and the second by Carter.
Answers:  1972, 1979
2. One of the major components of the SALT I talk was the ABM treaty. FTP, what does ABM stand for?
Answer:  Anti-Ballistic Missile
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