IBA Toss-Up Set 2

1. This man served as Republican governor of New York from 1907 until 1910, when William Howard Taft appointed him associate justice of the Supreme Court.  FTP, identify this man who resigned from the Court in 1916 to become the Republican Party candidate for president but lost by a narrow margin to Woodrow Wilson.

Answer: Charles Evans Hughes

2. She was born in 1860, married a Virginia farmer at age 27, and returned to her home state to live in 1905.  Discovered by Louis Calder, her works include The Quilting Bee and Taking in the Laundry.  FTP, identify this American primitive painter born Anna Mary Robertson.

Answer: Grandma Moses

3. It is found only in vertebrates, and disorders of it include multiple sclerosis.  FTP, identify this specialized layer of membranes, up to a hundred membranes thick, formed by the Schwann cells of the peripheral nervous system, which coats the larger axons of the nervous system.

Answer: myelin sheath

4. It tells the story of an American volunteer who is sent to join a guerrilla band whose mission is to blow up a bridge, and who in the course of three days comes to doubt the enterprise, falls passionately in love with Maria.  He finally blows up the bridge but dies in carrying out the order.  FTP, identify this Hemingway novel featuring the character Robert Jordan which is set in the Spanish Civil War.

Answer: For Whom the Bell Tolls

5. Pencil and paper may be necessary.  What is the area of the triangle whose defined by the points (-3,0), (0,7), and (9,0)?

Answer: 42

6. This man changed his name and emigrated to America to avoid a trial springing from his improper handling of a ship's mutiny. FTP, identify this Scottish-born American naval hero who commanded the Bonhomme Richard to victory over the Serapis in the Revolutionary War.

Answer: John Paul Jones

7. This man has written numerous essays and memoirs, including The Scotch and A Life in Our Times, as well as Ambassador's Journal, which details his years as ambassador to India in the Kennedy Administration.  FTP, identify this economist, author of The Affluent Society.

Answer: John Kenneth Galbraith

8. In 1933, this man became the first man to prepare heavy water. He also suggested that covalent bonding consisted of the sharing of valence-electron pairs.  FTP, identify this American chemist whose theory of acids and bases involved seeing acids as substances that are able to accept electron pairs from bases.

Answer: Gilbert Newton Lewis

9. He studied medicine briefly in Paris, then returned home, where he met his future wife, Nora Barnacle, on June 16, 1904--the date on which he later set the events of his novel, Ulysses.  FTP, identify this 20th century Irish writer of Finnegan's Wake.

Answer: James Joyce

10. Examples of this type of statue include the Athena Parthenos on the Acropolis, the Great Buddha at Kamakura, Japan, the Statue of Liberty, and the Christ of the Andes.  FTP, identify this name given in antiquity to a statue of very great size, the most famous of which was at Rhodes.

Answer: colossus

11. He killed his half-brother Ammon to avenge the rape of his sister, and was eventually pardoned by his father the king.  FTP, identify this son of King David who led an unsuccessful rebellion against him.

Answer: Absalom

12. In 1841 this man was awarded the Copley Medal for his work on electricity, particularly for his publication in 1827 of a law which states that the current in a metal conductor is proportional to the potential difference applied across its ends and is inversely proportional to the resistance of the conductor. FTP, identify this German physicist for lent his name to the SI unit of electrical resistance.

Answer: Georg Ohm

13. It is located just south of the Equator at the foot of the Pichincha volcano at an altitude of 9,350 ft, and the city was seized from the Incas by a Spanish conquistador in 1534.  FTP, identify this capital of Ecuador.

Answer: Quito

14. After about 1913, he turned to smaller forms, trios, quartets, etcetera - and began to revive or recreate classical forms. Examples include his Lament on the death of Couperin and his opera "The Child and the Magic Spells".  For 10 points, identify this composer, linked with Debussy whose other works include Mirrors, The Spanish Hour, and Bolero.

Answer: Maurice Ravel

15. Although doubt persists as to whether or not this man actually existed, it is said that he saved his town of Uri from the Austrians with his archery skills.  FTP, identify this legendary Swiss hero who is famous for the story of his shooting an apple from his son's head.

Answer: William Tell

16. This novel includes characters such as Guy Pollock, the learned lawyer who has been entrapped by the "village virus," and Erik Valborg, a kindred spirit who runs off with the protagonist to Washington in a vain attempt to start a new life.  FTP, identify this Sinclair Lewis novel featuring the characters of Will and Carol Kennicott.

Answer: Main Street