1994 Heinrich Bowl

Question Packet 5

1. He spent a lifetime at the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, writing poetry on nights and weekends.  Called by Frost, "A bric-a-brac poet," he believed that poetry was "the supreme fiction."  For 10 points, identify this author of The Idea of Order at Key West, Anecdote of the Jar, and The Emperor of Ice Cream.

Answer: Wallace Stevens

2. Elector of Hanover since 1698, he had commanded the Imperial forces in the Marlborough wars.  He divorced his wife and cousin, the Princess Dorothea of Zell, imprisoning her in the castle of Ahlde, where she died in 1726.  For 10 points, identify this great-grandson of James I of England, proclaimed King on the death of Queen Anne.

Answer: George I

3. Found in high levels in Agent Organge, this compound is a highly toxic contaminant of the chlorphenoxy group of herbicides whose level is currently regualted at .1 parts per million or less.  Less toxic in human than in animals, it causes a severe form of skin eruption (cloracne) and damage to fetuses.  For 10 points, identify this chemical with a full name which is abbreviated TCDD.

Answer: dioxin

4. His first two plays, The Rock Garden and Cowboys, premiered at the Theater Genesis in October 1964 and favorably reveiwed by The Village Voice.  After moving to London, he had several successes including The Tooth of Crime.  For 10 points, identify this playwright best known for his trio of plays on family discord, True West, Curse of the Starving Class, and Buried Child.

Answer: Sam Shepard

5. Born in Salt Lake City, at 15 he began work as a miner, and in 1900 he became secretary-treasurer of the Western Federation of Miners.  He was later forced out of the Socialist Party for his militancy, convicted of sedition during WWI, and escaped to the Soviet Union.  For 10 points, identify this labor leader who helped to organize the Industrial Workers of the World in 1905.

Answer: William Dudley (Big Bill) Haywood

6. This tennis player was forced to retire at age 20 because of a serious injury suffered in a horseback riding accident, whereupon she embarked on a successful coaching career before her death of cancer at the age of 35.  However, she is remembered as one of the finest women to play the game.  For 10 points, identify this woman who in 1953 became the first female to win tennis's Grand Slam.

Answer: Maureen "Little Mo" Connolly

7. Some of this play's best scenes are the title character's wooing of the Lady Anne and the downfall of the Duke of Buckingham, one of his early supporters.  For 10 points, identify this Shakespearean play, set directly after the three parts to Henry VI, which features the lines "A Horse! A Horse! My kingdom for a horse!"

Answer: Richard III

8. The least massive is the proton, into which others decay.  For 10 points, identify this collective term for heavy matter particles which experience strong interactions and are composed of three quarks.  

Answer: baryons

9. This man made 83 pen illustrations of In Praise of Folly, a Last Supper, and Flagellation before being accepted in the Painter's Guild at Basel.  Dead Christ and Madonna of the Burgomaster Meyer are among the other paintings he completed before he died of the plague at age 46 in London.  For 10 points, identify this artist and creator of Dance of Death and The Ambassadors.

Answer: Hans Holbein , the Younger

10. Also known as kyphosis, this condition may result from tuberculosis, ankylosing spondylitis, vertebral collapse, or spinal tumors.  It is the deformity of the spine causing bent posture and abnormal bony prominences.  For 10 points, identify this condition prominent in works by Victor Hugo.

Answer: hunchback

11. It was through the patronage of Brahms that this man composed one of his best known works, Slavonic Dances.  However, he was in the US as director of the National Conservatory when his greatest work was produced, one in which the idiom of the Negro folk melody is suggested.  For 10 points, identify this composer of the New World Symphony.

Answer: Antonin Dvorak

12. A Dalmatian of humble birth, born with the name Diocles, he rose through the ranks of the army to become the greatest of the soldier emperors of the third century.  For 10 points, identify this Roman emperor who saw the answer to the Empire's problems in a division of power at the top and in 286 split the empire with his loyal friend Maximian.

Answer: Diocletian

13. A specific infection in which the bacteria lodge usually in the throat but occasionally in wounds on the skin, it can lead to death through obstruction of the respiratory passages as well as heart failure and nerve damage due to toxins secreted by the bacteria.  For 10 points, identify this deadly disease which has had a dramatic drop in incidence since the advent of immunization and the Schick test.

Answer: diphtheria

14. Two of the most important events in her life were being selected by a panel headed by Cheryl Tiegs, Dan Jansen, and Michael Feinstein, and her diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus shot which left her with only 5 percent hearing in one ear.  For 10 points, identify this former Miss Alabama who was recently crowned Miss America.

Answer: Heather Whitestone

15. This economist argued that government should not break up monopolies, that, in fact, a monopoly was likely to call into existence the very forces of competition that would replace it. For 10 points, identify this 20th century Austrian-American economist famous for this theory of the "process of creative destruction."

Answer: Joseph Schumpeter

16. It contains characters such as King Arthur, Queen Elizabeth, Venus, the angel Gabriel, Adam and Eve, and Despair, and its two main themes are medieval chivalry and Protestant Christianity. The author planned to have 12 books, each celebrating a different knightly virtue, but only finished 6.  For 10 points, identify this English epic centered on the Red Cross Knight.

Answer: The Faerie Queen

17. It has a minimum depth of 41 feet, a minimum width of 300 feet, and a highest elevation above sea level of 85 feet.  Construction began in 1904, and on Aug. 15, 1914 it was open to commercial navigation.  For 10 points, identify this canal that bisects the continents of N and S America.

Answer: Panama Canal

18. They include a Manual for Discipline for the ascetic community, associated with the Essenes, and two copies of the book of Isaiah, alomst 1,000 years older than any Hebrew Biblical manuscript previously known.   For 10 points, identify this archaeological find discovered in 1947 in Qumran.

Answer: Dead Sea Scrolls

19. This man became head of a new political party in 1947, the Rally for the French People Party, but dissolved it in 1953 and retired.  Five years later, during the political crisis created by the civil war in Algeria, he became premier with the power to rule by decree for 6 months.  A new constitution was drawn up to strengthen the presidency, and in 1959 he became the first president of France's Fifth Republic.  For 10 points, identify this man who pulled France out of NATO.

Answer: Charles De Gaulle

20. The site of frequent storms and shipwrecks, it is known as the "Graveyard of the Atlantic."  For 10 points, identify this promontory on an island of North Carolina, part of one of the longest stretches of undeveloped coastline on the US Atlantic coast.

Answer: Cape Hatteras

1994 Heinrich Bowl

Question Packet 5

1. Chris Berman has become famous for his witty "Bermanism" nicknames over the last couple of years.  For instance, pitcher Bert Blyleven is known as Bert "be home" Blyleven.  Given a person from US history and a clue to another person, give the historical character the correct Berman nickname using the character's middle name, e.g. if the character was Herbert Hoover and the clue given pointed to William Clark, you would have to know that Hoover's middle name is Clark to give the correct answer of Herbert "William" Clark Hoover (3 parts, 10 pts. each):

A. character - Ulysses Grant; clues- former football star presently in a little legal trouble.

       Answer: Ulysses "O.J." Simpson Grant

B. character - John Calhoun; clue - American writer famous for his 1932 novel Tobacco Road

       Answer: John "Erskine" Caldwell Calhoun

C. character - William McGuffey; clue - famous Harvard doctor andaccomplished poet known for "Old Ironsides" and "The Chambered Nautilus"

       Answer: William "Oliver Wendell" Holmes McGuffey

2. Identify these leading figures of the American Revolution from brief descriptions for ten points each.

1. This Boston merchant was president of the Continental Congress from 1775 to 1777.

Answer: John Hancock

2. This man was a founding member of the Sons of Liberty and the most influential member of the lower House of the Massachusetts legislature from 1765 to 1774.

Answer: Samuel Adams

3. The author of the quote, "Caesar had his Brutus, Charles I had his Cromwell, and George III may profit from their example".

Answer: Patrick Henry

3. Identify the following art terms for 10 points each.

1. From the Italian for "bright and dark," it refers to the technique of painting three-dimensional figures and space through the distribution of light and shadow.

Answer: chiaroscuro

2. From the Italian for "smoke", it is used to describe the blending of tones or colors so subtly they melt into one another without perceptible transitions.

Answer: sfumato

3. From the Italian for "set against," it is applied in sculpture to poses in ehich one part of a figure twists or turns away from another part.

Answer: contrapposto

4. Identify the following Asian physicists for ten points each.

1. This Japanese physicist predicted the existence of the meson.

Answer: Hideki Yukawa

2. This Indian physicist is best known for the effect named for him in which light scatters at right angles to a beam of electromagnetic radiation.

Answer: Chandresekhara Raman

3. This Pakistan-born astrophysicist is best known for his theoretical studies of the structure and evolution of stars.

Answer: Subrahmanyan Chandresekhar

5. Identify the islands that appear on a list of the 10 largest in the world for the stated number of points

1. For 5 points each,  name any one of the three islands in the list belonging to Canada.

Answer: Ellesmere, Victoria, and Baffin islands

2. For 5 points, identify the Japanese island that is number 7 on the list.

Answer: Honshu

3. For 5 points, what is the 4th largest in the list?

Answer: Madagascar

4. For 5 points, what is the only island in the list on which you would find portions of three different nations?

Answer: Borneo

6. For 5 points each, give the author and title of the 20th century American novel that opens with these lines.

1. "It was Wang Lung's marriage day".

Answer: The Good Earth , Pearl Buck

2. "Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton."

Answer: The Sun Also Rises , Ernest Hemingway

3. "In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together."

Answer: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter , Carson McCullers

7. Identify the following about the myth of Hercules for the stated number of points.

1. For five points, identify the brother of Hercules whom he saved when Hera sent venomous serpents to dispatch Hercules.

Answer: Iphicles

2. For ten points, identify the king for whom Hercules performed the twelve labors.

Answer: Eurystheus

3. For fifteen points, identify Hercules' second wife who accidentally killed him when she had him wear a cloak dipped in a poison she thought to be a love potion.

Answer: Dejanara

8. Identify the following Chinese dynasties from a brief description for ten points each.

1. The last indigenous dynasty, it was replaced by the Manchu dynasty after peasant rebels had sacked Beijing and driven the last emperor to suicide.

Answer: Ming dynasty

2. During the reign of this dynasty, Buddhism was introduced to China, and trade routes with Europe were developed via the Middle East.

Answer: Han dynasty

3. Lasting from 618-907, this dynasty saw the golden age of Chinese poetry.

Answer: Tang dynasty

9. Identify the following metaphysical poets from a brief description for ten points each.

1. Twicknam Garden and The Anniversaries are among the lesser known works of this poet often considered to be the leader of this group.

Answer: John Donne

2. The Temple, The Collar, and The Sacrifice are among the poems, all of which are religious in subject material, of this poet.

Answer: George Herbert

3. Wishes to his Supposed Mistress and The Flaming Heart are among the poems of this Catholic poet who spent most of his life in exile on the continent.

Answer: Richard Crashaw

10. Give the major operatic composer who worked with the following librettists.

1. Lorenzo da Ponte Answer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

2. Arrigo Boito      Answer: Giuseppe Verdi

3. Hugo von Hoffmannsthal Answer: Richard Strauss

11. Answer the following questions about the Protestant Reformation for the stated number of points.

1. For ten points, what were the followers of English clergyman John Wycliffe called?

Answer: Lollards or Poor Priests

2. For five points, on the church in what city did Martin Luther post his 95 Theses?

Answer: Wittenburg

3. For five points, in what year did Luther post the 95 Theses?

Answer: 1517

4. For ten points, what Pope excommunicated Martin Luther in 1521?

Answer: Leo X

12. For 10 points each, identify the book of the Bible from which the following quotations are taken.

1. The dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.

Answer: Judges

2. For the wages of sin is death.

Answer: Romans

3. And the greatest of these is love.

Answer: I Corinthians

13. Answer the following questions about plants for 10 points each.

1. This term is applied to the loss of water by diffusion from the surface of land plants.

Answer: transpiration

2. It is a tissue composed of living thin-walled cells in the xylem which are round ended and almost as broad as they are long.

Answer: parenchyma

3. Formed of two types of cells, stone cells and fibre cells, it consists of thick-walled cells that provide mechanical support.

Answer: sclerenchyma

14. Identify the following Scandanavian writers from works for ten points each.

1. the plays, Married, Comrades, and The Creditors, as well as the satirical novel, The Red Room

Answer: August Strindberg

2. the novel, The Burning Bush, and the multi-volume work, Kristin Lavransdatter.

Answer: Sigrid Undset

3. the novels, Smilla's Sense of Snow and Borderliners

Answer: Peter Hoeg

15. Give the Latin name of the constellations whose name translates as the following in English for 5 pts. each.

1. Eagle Answer: Aquila

2. Swan Answer: Cygnus

3. Fishes Answer: Pisces

4. Dragon Answer: Draco

5. Serpent Bearer Answer: Ophiucus

6. Crown Answer: Crown

16. Identify the American authors of the following short stories or short novels for 5 points each.

1. Pale Horse, Pale Rider Answer: Katherine Anne Porter

2. The Kugelmass Episode Answer: Woody Allen

3. Death of a Travelling Salesman Answer: Eudora Welty

4. Barn Burning Answer: William Faulkner

5. Seymour: An Introduction Answer: J. D. Salinger

6. To Build a Fire Answer: Jack London

17. Give the IUPAC name for the following organic compounds. 10 points each.

1 CH3-CH2-CH2-CH3 Answer: butane

2. CH3CH2OH Answer: ethanol or ethyl alcohol

3. CHCCH3 Answer: butyne

18. Identify the following leaders in South American politics for ten points each.

1. He became president of Argentina in 1946, was deposed and exiled in 1955, and returned in triumph in 1973 after an electoral victory.

Answer: Juan Peron

2. After many unsuccessful election campaigns, he finally won the 1970 presidential election of Chile as leader of the left-wing Unidad Popular coalition.

Answer: Salvador Allende

3. A career army officer, this man overthrew Allende's government, and in 1980, he enacted a constitution giving himself an eight-year presidential term.

Answer: Augusto Pinochet

19. Identify the authors of the following works of political theory for 5 points each.

1. The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism

Answer: George Bernard Shaw

2. The Social Contract

Answer: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

3. The Spirit of the Laws

Answer: Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron Montesquieu

4. Reflections on the Revolution in France

Answer: Edmund Burke

5. The Declaration of the Rights of Women

Answer: Mary Wollstonecraft

6. De Jure belli et pacis

Answer: Hugo Grotius

20.  Identify the following writer from works on a 30-20-10 basis.

1. The Arrow of Gold, Romance, and The Mirror of the Sea

2. The Shadow-Line, Almayer's Folly, and Youth

3. Typhoon, The Secret Sharer, and Nostromo

Answer: Joseph Conrad