Maryland: "Pinky" - Toss-Ups
MLK Weekend Tournament - January 15-16, 1994
T-1. Besides penning their magnum opera, the two are famous for systemizing the study of philology. While the younger preferred literary criticism, the elder proved his scholarly inclinations by becoming the first to try to attempt to explain the consonantal differences between Greek and Latin words and their cognates in the Germanic languages. Their collaborative effort to produce the definitive German dictionary which began in 1852 is a work still in progress. FTP, identify the common surname of these brothers who are famous for their 1812 Children's and Household Tales.
Answer: Jacob Ludwig Carl and Wilhelm Carl GRIMM
T-2. A contemporary of David and the only artist of the age who may unreservedly be called a genius, he abandoned the Rococo aesthetic for a neo-Baroque style based on Velazquez and Rembrandt. A deliberate echo of The Maids of Honor, his Family of Charles IV unmasks the bloated king, the grotesquely vulgar queen, and the frightened children with shocking candor. The Third of May, a scathing condemnation of the savagery of Napoleon's occupying forces, reveals his sympathy towards the Enlightenment spirit of the Revolution and liberty. FTP identify this Spanish artist whose disillusionment with the repressive government of his native country led to his voluntary exile.
Answer: Francisco GOYA
T-3. In the Talmud, he appears as the destroyer of Sennacherib's armies and as the man who showed Joseph the way. In the Koran, he was the spirit of truth who revealed the sacred laws to Muhammed. The Bible reports that it was he who announced to Zacharias the future birth of John the Baptist and was the angel of the annunciation who appeared to the Virgin Mary. FTP identify this angel of revelations who is the herald in Judaeo-Christian myth.
Answer: GABRIEL
T-4. One of the greatest generals of all time, he saved Protestantism in Germany and won the battle of Lutzen against Wallenstein in the Thirty Years' War though he was mortally wounded. The death of this "Lion of the North" in 1632 left Sweden under a regency with his daughter Christina the nominal queen. FTP identify this Swedish ruler.
Answer: GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS or GUSTAVUS II
T-5. Her husband, the marquis of Saluzzo, chooses her from among the peasantry and decides to test her fidelity. First he pretends that their two children are dead by his own hand; then he feigns boredom and pretends he has married his own daughter. Though she is turned out of the house, she remains faithful to her husband and is eventually restored to her home and children having won the love and admiration of her husband and his people. FTP identify this female Job, the heroine of the final tale of Boccaccio's Decameron.
Answer: Patient GRISELDA
T-6. They are found in the halo of the Milky Way and are concentrated in a roughly spherical distribution about the galaxy's center. Because they do not possess the gas and dust necessary for star formation, the stars they contain are typically rather old. FTP identify the astronomical term for these groups of stars bound together by gravity.
Answer: GLOBULAR CLUSTERS
T-7. To the Indians, he was known as Goylathlay--"The One Who Yawns." After Mexicans killed his wife, children, and mother, he began his raids. In 1883 he surrendered to General George Crook, but left his reservation, and surrendered again in 1886 to General Nels A. Miles. FTP, name this leader of the Chiricahua Apaches, whose Mexican name translates to Jerome.
Answer: GERONIMO
T-8. Though he wrote many choral works, dances, songs, and sonatas for various musical instruments, his fame largely rests on his works for the piano which include Lyric Pieces and the popular Piano Concerto in A minor. Written as incidental music at the bequest of countryman Henrik Ibsen, his Peer Gynt Suite employs the subtle and delicate harmonies that is his trademark. FTP identify this Norwegian composer whose rhythmic and melodic works capture the spirit of his homeland.
Answer: Edvard Hagerup GRIEG
T-9. "An' for all 'is dirty 'ide / 'E was white, clear white, inside.... /You're a better man than I...." So goes a frequently repeated refrain of one of the Barrack-Room Ballads. FQTP, identify the title character of this Kipling poem written in praise of a water-carrier.
Answer: "GUNGA DIN"
T-10. On his statue on the Janiculum overlooking Rome is engraved his famous cry Roma o Morte. A naturalized American who worked for a time as a candlemaker on Staten Island, he led two failed expeditions to liberate Rome and fought on behalf of the French Republic in the Franco-Prussian War shortly before he died. He is better known for his conquest of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. FTP identify this Italian patriot and ardent republican who was the leader of the Red Shirts.
Answer: Giuseppe GARIBALDI
T-11. Born in 1839, he became the first graduate student to get a doctorate from Yale in engineering. Though he spent his entire life in New Haven, his pioneering research in thermodynamics profoundly influenced the work of Boltzmann, Carnot, and Clausius. A quantity named in his honor is defined as the change in enthalpy minus temperature times the change in entropy. FTP name this brilliant American theoretician.
Answer: Josiah Willard GIBBS
T-12. The daughter of the king of the Parpaillos and the wife of Gradgousier, in the eleventh month of her pregnancy she goes into labor as a result of eating too much tripe. FTP, who, in Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, delivers Gargantua through her left ear after taking an astringent?
Answer: GARGAMELLE
T-13. The name's the same. The middle name of Union General George Meade; the last name of the British general, nicknamed "Chinese," who was massacred with his command by the forces of the Mahdi in the 1885 siege of Khartoum. FQTP what is this name shared by these two generals?
Answer: GORDON
T-14. In Greek myth, her lover Acis is crushed by a rock thrown by his jealous rival for her affections. Her subsequent escape from this adversary, the cyclops Polyphemus is depicted in a famous painting by Raphael that bears her name. FTP name this Nereid whose tale is the subject of a Handel opera.
Answer: GALATEA
T-15. A mixture of autobiography, history, and analysis, this famous three volume polemic offers an inexorably grim picture of life within the Soviet Union. The discovery of this brutal attack on Stalinism, Leninism, and the whole process of substituting Western secularism for Russian mysticism led to the author's permitting its Paris publication and eventually led to his loss of citizenship and expulsion from the Soviet Union. FTP identify the literary investigation of the network of Soviet prison camps as they existed between 1918 and 1956 that helped Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn win the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Answer: The GULAG ARCHIPELAGO
T-16. Largely due to his librettist Raniero de'Calzabigi, he abandoned conventional virtuosity in favor of dramatic truth and a moving simplicity of expression. His reliance on the vocal talents of his performers and the integration of the chorus and ballet, major features of French opera, into his works helped precipitate a famous feud with the followers of Niccolo Piccini in Paris. Famous reform operas from his late period include Alceste, Paride e Elena, Iphigenie en Aulide, and Iphigenie en Tauride. FTP, name this Austrian composer whose greatest legacy was the creation of a new style of Italian opera with the 1762 production of Orfeo.
Answer: Christoph Willibald GLUCK
T-17. Marked by sensational public repentance and conversion, it catalyzed missionary activity and an interest in humanitarian causes like the abolition of slavery. Begun by Edwards' sermons, its success was largely due to the English evangelist Whitefield. The movement collapsed some twenty years after it began under the weight of a bitter schism between the Calvinists and the liberals. FTP identify this revivalist movement that democratized American religious practices and crystallized feeling against the Anglican Church.
Answer: The GREAT AWAKENING
T-18. It simply states: "Every odd number greater than seven is the sum of three odd primes and every even number greater than four is the sum of two odd primes." Yet it is one of the famous unsolved puzzles of number theory. FQTP identify what is the name given to this assertion whose fame rivals that of Fermat's Last Theorem?
Answer: GOLDBACH Conjecture
T-19. An act or decree of the governing body of an English university; a ceremonious title for addressing nobility; a favor or kindness; an easy elegance in form or manner; divine influence; the undeserved mercy of God; a short prayer before or after a meal. FTP these are all dictionary definitions of what common word?
Answer: GRACE
T-20. In 1401, he competed with Filippo Brunelleschi for the right to design the north doors of the Baptistery of San Giovanni in Florence. Winning the commission the next year, his two decades of labor may be considered a turning point in the transition from the style of the International Gothic to the style of the Early Renaissance. The teacher of Donatello, he won the right to design the east doors as well. So beautiful were these doors, they were soon dubbed the Gates of Paradise. FTP identify this sculptor who helped pioneer the introduction of linear perspective in his works.
Answer: Lorenzo GHIBERTI
T-21. A practicing lawyer, he became one of the most successful mystery writers in America. Though he wrote well over a hundred novels under a variety of pseudonyms, he is best known for his attorney sleuths. FTP identify the creator of district attorney Douglas Selby and the inimitable Perry Mason.
Answer: Erle Stanley GARDNER
T-22. Based on the gaps in his original periodic table, Mendeleev predicted that there would be an element with atomic weight 68 somewhere between zinc and arsenic. A few years after he made his prediction, his hypothesis was validated by the discovery of an element of atomic weight 69.7. With a melting point between normal room temperature and body temperature, this element--like aluminum--prefers to form three covalent bonds. FTP identify this element that borders zinc, indium, germanium, and aluminum and has atomic number 31.
Answer: GALLIUM
T-23. In his first government, he passed a Land Act to protect Irish tenants, set up a national education system for England, and established the secret ballot for parliamentary elections. During his second term, he passed the Reform Act of 1884. FTP name this 4 term Liberal Prime Minister who was an eminent statesman of Queen Victoria's reign.
Answer: William Ewart GLADSTONE
T-24. In Greek myth, theyowned only one eye and one tooth among them which they shared in turn. Robbing them of these precious belongings, Perseus forced them to show him the way to the Gorgons and to give him their winged sandals, magic wallet, and cap of invisibility. FTP, what is the collective name of Enyo, Pephredo, and Deino? Answer: GRAEAE
T-25. Born in the Ukraine, his first attempt at literature, a short poem called "Italia," was mildly successful encouraging him to pen other poetic works. Shortly after establishing a life-long friendship with Pushkin, he began to publish his masterpieces. FTP identify this Russian novelist, playwright, and short story writer whose unparalleled imagination, stylistic richness, and command of the Russian language are seen in such works as Taras Bulba, The Inspector General, and Dead Souls.
Answer: Nikolay Vasilyevich GOGOL
T-26. A Benedictine monk elected Pope in 590, he established the temporal power of the papacy, reformed monastic discipline, and sent Augustine with forty monks to England. Honored with the adjective "Great", he is traditionally credited with editing a collection of ritual plain songs still in use by the Catholic Church. FTP who was this Pope who was canonized because of his piety?
Answer: GREGORY I
T-27. One of the greatest military figures of classical antiquity, he commanded the Roman legions in Germany. Following his success in the German campaigns from AD 11-16, he was recalled to Rome before he had a chance to fully subdue the whole region between the Rhine and the Elbe. His uncle and adopted father, the emperor Tiberius, poisoned him upon his return. FTP identify this man who fathered nine children including the infamous Caligula and Agrippina, the mother of Nero.
Answer: GERMANICUS Caesar
T-28. This was the name of Sigurd's wife in the Volsunga Saga though she was better known as Kriemhild in the Nibelungenlied and Gutrune in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. Also the name of the heroine of the Icelandic Laxdale Saga, this daughter of Queen Grimhild was a selfish, independent woman successively wedded to Thorwald, Thord, and Bolli, though she was in love with Kjartan, whose death she caused. It is also the name of one of two leading female characters in Lawrence's Women in Love who is said to have been based on Katherine Mansfield. FTP, identify this often used literary identity that lends its name to a famous German epic poem written by an unknown Austrian.
Answer: GUDRUN
Maryland: "Pinky" - Bonuses
MLK Weekend Tournament - January 15-16, 1994
B-1. [30] Identify these mathematicians important in the development of abstract algebra for 10 points each.
a. Anticipating his death in a duel, he summarized his discoveries in group theory in a letter to a friend.
Answer: Evariste GALOIS
b. Dying of tuberculosis at the age of 25, this Norwegian mathematician studied groups in which commutativity was preserved. Answer: Niels Henrik ABEL
c. World chess champion for 27 years until 1921, his work concerning the theory of prime ideals was enlarged upon by Noether. With Noether's, his name adorns a famous theorem. Answer: Emanuel LASKER
B-2. [30] For five points each, given a Shakespearean line identify the play it comes from.
a. "He jests at scars that never felt a wound." Answer: ROMEO AND JULIET
b. "We are such stuff as dreams are made on." Answer: The TEMPEST
c. "He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed." Answer: OTHELLO
d. "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by the sun of York."
Answer: King RICHARD III
e. "As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport"
Answer: KING LEAR
f. "Cry `Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war." Answer: JULIUS CAESAR
B-3. [30] For the stated number of points, identify the German World War I figure from a brief description.
5: Ace who was known for his Fokker triplane and his nickname "The Red Baron."
Answer: Manfred von RICHTHOFEN
10: General who defeated Russia at Tannenberg in 1914, and who became the Supreme German Commander in 1916. He later became President of the Weimar Republic from 1925 to 1933.
Answer: Paul von HINDENBURG
15: General, who served with Hindenburg in the East, and planned Germany's final offensive of the war. He later participated in Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch.
Answer: Erich LUDENDORFF
B-4. [30] For five points each identify the composers of these works of classical music.
a. "Harmonious Blacksmith", "Royal Fireworks Music" Answer: George Friedric HANDEL
b. "Creatures of Prometheus", "Missa Solemnis" Answer: Ludwig van BEETHOVEN
c. "Hungarian Dances", "Academic Festival Overture" Answer: Johannes BRAHMS
d. "Daphnis and Chloe", "Bolero" Answer: Maurice Joseph RAVEL
e. "Le Coq d'Or", "Scheherazade" Answer: Nikolay RIMSKY-KORSAKOFF
f. "Songs of a Wayfarer", "Das Lied von der Erde" Answer: Gustav MAHLER
B-5. [30] For five points each identify each person in these pairs from Greek mythology.
a. 5 pts each: They were the brothers of Helen of Troy. Answer: CASTOR and POLLUX (acc. POLYDEUCES)
b. 10 pts eac: The only people spared in the great deluge. Answer: DEUCALION and PYRRHA
B-6. [25] Given two countries, provide the river that runs along their common border for five points each.
a. Zambia and Zimbabwe ZAMBEZI
b. Bulgaria and Romania DANUBE
c. Laos and Thailand MEKONG
d. Paraguay and Brazil PARANA
e. France and Germany RHINE
f. Gambia and Senegal SENEGAL
B-7. [30] Given the formula for a chemical compound, provide its name for five points each.
a. HClO HYDROGEN HYPOCHLORITE
b. FeCl3 FERRIC CHLORIDE or IRON(III) CHLORIDE
c. NaMnO4 SODIUM PERMANGANATE
d. NH4CN AMMONIUM CYANIDE
e. CaCr2O7 CALCIUM DICHROMATE
f. BaC2O4 BARIUM OXALATE
B-8. [30] Let's see how much you know about the Roman literature of the Silver Age.
a. A fragmentary manuscript in prose and verse that is the hallmark of Mineppean satire, it is regarded by some as the first novel. In this parody of Homer's Odyssey, the protagonist Eumolpus is a rogue who is haunted by the wrath of Priapus, the Roman god of fertility.
Answer: The SATYRICON by Petronius
b. A picaresque novel, the narrator Lucius induces a maid to steal a potion from a sorceress that will turn him into an owl. She steals the wrong potion, and he turns into an ass. In this disappointing form he wanders throughout Greece passing through the hands of a series of owners who mistreat him. He is eventually restored to his natural form by Isis.
Answer: The GOLDEN ASS by Lucius Apuelius
c. The tutor of Nero, he was implicated in a conspiracy to assassinate the emperor and was forced to commit suicide. As a Roman philosopher second only to Cicero, he was a stoic. Eight tragedies are ascribed to him including: Hercules, Medea, Agamemnon, Oedipus, and Thyestes. His essay Apolocolocyntosis condemns the reign of Claudius.
Answer: Lucius Annaeus SENECA
B-9. [30-20-10-5] Name the year.
30: Sinclair Lewis publishes Main Street and Agatha Christie writes her first mystery.
20: Sacco and Vanzetti first arrested for murder of a paymaster and guard at Massachusetts shoe factory; Knut Hamsun and Walther Nernst win Nobel Prizes in literature and chemistry respectively.
10: The League of Nations holds its first meeting in Geneva; the 19th Amendment giving women's suffrage is ratified.
5: Warren G. Harding beats James Cox in the Presidential election.
Answer: 1920
B-10. [30] Given the nineteenth century painting, identify its artist for five points each.
a. The Haywain (1821) Answer: John CONSTABLE
b. The Polar Sea (1824) Answer: Caspar David FRIEDRICH
c. The Slave Ship (1840) Answer: Joseph Mallord William TURNER
d. Fur Traders Descending the Missouri (1845) Answer: George Caleb BINGHAM
e. The Fifer (1866) Answer: Edouard MANET
f. Impression: Sunrise (1874) Answer: Claude MONET
B-11. [30] Given some famous lines identify the poet FTP. If you need the name of the poem, you are awarded five points.
a. 10: "Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on."
5: "Ode on a Grecian Urn" Answer: John KEATS
b. 10: "This is the forest primeval."
5: "Evangeline" Answer: Henry Wadsworth LONGFELLOW
c. 10: "Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife /Their sober wishes nver learned to stray."
5: "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" Answer: Thomas GRAY
B-12. [30] For 10 points each identify these heroes of the Round Table.
a. It is he who sits on the Siege Perilous, a vacant chair predestined for the noblest of the knights who achieve the Holy Grail.
Answer: GALAHAD
b. A knight whose prowess is second only to Launcelot, he loves the wife of King Mark.
Answer: TRISTRAM or TRISTAN
c. The old brother of Gareth, he twice challenges Launcelot in single combat at the siege of Benwick and is fatally wounded by the great knight who unwittingly fought him.
Answer: GAWAIN
B-13. [30] Sitting on the hill on a cushion of weeds as he contemplated the icosahedral symmetry of the ball-and-stick model of the Buckyball in front of him, Isaac listened to the melodious strains of Dvorak's "New World Symphony."
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a boy 250 meters away launch a toy rocket at a 45 degree angle off the ground. Little did he know that the rocket contained a homemade conventional warhead. A quick glance at his chronometer revealed that it was 5:00 pm exactly. Unable to focus on his chemical meditations, Isaac picked up his much worn copy of Dichtung and Wharheit to which was appended the treatise Zur Farbenlehre. Assuming that the acceleration due to gravity in Isaac's immediate area is 10 meters per second squared, for 20 points how many seconds did Isaac have to live? Leave your answer in terms of radicals if necessary. You have 45 seconds.
Answer: SQUARE ROOT OF 2 seconds
The English title of the autobiography Isaac was reading is Poetry and Truth.
The scientific treatise appended to it translates as On the Theory of Colors.
FTP identify the author.
Answer: Johann Wolfgang von GOETHE
B-14. [30] Many Presidents are well-known for the people they put in their cabinets. FTP each I'll give you some cabinet members, and you give me the President.
a. Andrew W. Mellon, Charles Evans Hughes, Albert B. Fall
Answer: Warren G. HARDING
b. Simon Cameron, Gideon Welles, Montgomery Blair
Answer: Abraham LINCOLN
c. Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, Douglas Dillon
Answer: John F. KENNEDY
B-15. [30] For the stated number of points identify the philosophical school.
5: Coined by T.H. Huxley, the term refers to those who accept the assertion that one cannot know whether God exists.
Answer: AGNOSTICISM
10: The denial of all reality or all objective growth of truth; extreme skepticism. The term was coined by Ivan Turgenev in Fathers and Sons.
Answer: NIHILISM
15: The belief that physical substances do not exist. Everything is either mind or spirit. This view was held by Bishop Berkeley.
Answer: IDEALISM or IMMATERIALISM
B-16. [30] Death is a prevalent theme in literature. Identify these works with the word "death" in the title for ten points each.
a. Based on the life of French cleric Jean Baptiste Lamy, it describes missionary efforts in the southwest United States. The protagonists Jean Latour and Joseph Vaillant prevail over all adversities to build a cathedral in the wilderness.
Answer: DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather
b. Gustav von Aschenbach becomes aware of decadent potentialities in himself and succumbs to a consuming love for a frail but beautiful Polish boy. He dies in a cholera epidemic.
Answer: DEATH IN VENICE by Thomas Mann
c. An ordinary man who has never bothered to ponder the spiritual is dying of cancer. He eventually accepts death as the natural order of things in this short story that recalls the death of the author's character Prince Andrey Bolkonsky.
Answer: "The DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH" by Leo Tolstoy
B-17. [30] Identify the physics Nobelist given his award citation for the stated number of points.
5: For discovery of the wave character of electrons. Prince Louis
Answer: Victor DE BROGLIE
10: For development of the cyclotron.
Answer: Ernest Orlando LAWRENCE
15: For discovery of the quantized Hall effect.
Answer: Klaus von KLITZING
B-18. [30] How well do you know events in the Second World War? For five points each put these events in chronological order: Doolittle's Raid on Japan, British warships Prince of Wales and Repulse sunk off Malayan coast, American forces land on Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands, Nazis invade Hungary, and Paris is liberated.
Answer: PRINCE OF WALES & REPULSE (12/10/41), DOOLITTLE (4/18/42), TARAWA (11/20/43), HUNGARY (3/20/44), PARIS (8/25/44) (accept equivalents)
B-19. [30-20-10] Identify the artist.
30: The son of the artist Iacopo and the brother of painter Gentile, he was deeply influenced by the work of Andrea Mantegna during his early years in Padua. In the new medium of oil painting, he moved away from Mantegna's severity toward a great richness and mellowness of color.
20: His devoutly religious Madonnas and serene altarpieces reveal a deep appreciation of landscape and of the effect of light and color on atmosphere. His work also integrate the Early Renaissance's development of linear perspective.
10: His interest in light and color, in the hands of his two greatest pupils Giorgione and Titian, became the glory of the Venetian school of painting. His own work includes The Feast of the Gods, The Ecstasy of St. Francis, and The San Giobbe Altarpiece.
Answer: Giovanni BELLINI
B-20. [30] Given the science fiction work name its author for five points each.
a. The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula LE GUIN
b. Star Maker Olaf STAPLEDON
c. Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C. CLARKE
d. The Tales of Alvin Maker Orson Scott CARD
e. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Phillip K. DICK
f. Stations of the Tide Michael SWANWICK
B-21. [30] Given the army rank provide the corresponding naval rank for five points each.
a. Private 1st Class SEAMAN
b. 2nd Lieutenant ENSIGN
c. Captain LIEUTENANT
d. Major LIEUTENANT COMMANDER
e. Colonel CAPTAIN
f. General of the Army ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET
B-22. [30] FTP each identify these books from their subtitles.
a. "The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death"
Answer: SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
b. "A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth"
Answer: OF TIME AND THE RIVER by Thomas Wolfe
c. "The Contemplative Man's Recreation"
Answer: The COMPLEAT ANGLER by Izaak Walton
B-23. [30] Identify these terms from freshman biology FTP each.
a. The portion of the vertebrate hindbrain that connects to the spinal cord and is responsible for controlling the autonomous nervous system.
Answer: MEDULLA OBLONGATA
b. It connects the two hemispheres of the cerebrum.
Answer: CORPUS CALLOSUM
c. It's the major integrating region for emotional response in the brain.
Answer: HYPOTHALAMUS
B-24. [30] Many people know Spanish explorers by their achievements. For five points each, and a five point bonus, I'll give you the achievement, and you give me the man who did it.
a. Conquered Mexico Hernando CORTEZ
b. First to see the Pacific Vasco Nunez de BALBOA
c. Discovered the mouth of the Mississippi Hernando DE SOTO
d. Explored the Texas Panhandle, Oklahoma, Kansas, and the Grand Canyon Francisco Vasquez CORONADO
e. Conquered Ecuador and Peru Francisco PIZARRO
B-25. [25] For five points each, which five presidents are buried in New York?
Answer: Martin VAN BUREN, Millard FILLMORE, Chester Alan ARTHUR, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN Delano ROOSEVELT