N.C. State - Toss-Ups
MLK Weekend Tournament - January 15-16, 1994
(1) In 486, he defeated a Roman army in Gaul. He then went on to defeat the Alamanni, the Visigoths, and the Burgundians. By 507 he controlled Gaul, western Germany, and the Low Countries. He became the first Frankish king to convert to the Roman Catholic Church. FTP name this Merovingian ruler.
Answer: Clovis
(2) He is believed to have written about 90 plays, but only 19 now survive. Born on Salamis, he was a student of Anaxagorus and a close friend of Socrates. His plays include Medea, The Trojan Women, Electra and Andromache. FTP name this 5th century B.C. playwright.
Answer: Euripides
(3) He was not the first to notice the small mound called Hissarlik near the Dardanelles, but he was the first to dig there in 1870. He found several cities built on top of each other. Near the bottom he discovered an ancient city with massive walls and treasure of gold and silver. Today, scholars believe that one of the later cities was Homer's Troy. FTP name this German archaelogist.
Answer: Heinrich Schliemann
(4) Born in Shreveport in 1934, his first nane is Henry Lavan. He began to play the piano at the age of 3 and went on to study at Juilliard. In 1958, he gained worldwide fame by winning the International Tchaikovsy Piano Competition. FTP name this concert pianist best known for his performance of the works of the Romantics.
Answer: Van Cliburn
(5) His Opticks explained why bodies appear to be colored and laid down the foundation for the science of spectrum analysis. He also constructed a reflecting telescope and through it saw the moons of Jupiter. However, he is best known for a 1687 work dealing with motion and gravity. FTP name this Cambridge professor.
Answer: Sir Isaac Newton
(6) Ferdinand Magellan was the first European to arrive here in 1521. It was a Spanish possession until 1898, when it was ceded to the US. Japan attacked this island just hours after Pearl Harbor. FTP name this US possession in the Mariana Islands.
Answer: Guam
(7) Though he probably wrote about a dozen plays, he is known for just two. Both deal with the common Elizabethan theme of revenge. They are known for physical horror and poetic dialogue considered second only to Shakespeare. FTP name this author of The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi.
Answer: John Webster
(8) He was probably born in Antioch to non-Jewish parents. Scholars believe that he was already a Christian when he met the Apostle Paul and went on two missionary journeys with him. He probably kept a diary of these trips. He is generally considered the author of the 3rd and 5th books of the New Testament. FTP name this "beloved Physician".
Answer: Luke
(9) He was born in Suffolk in 1727. He showed an early talent for painting and in 1759 he moved to Bath where he began selling his portraits. In 1768 he became a founding member of the Royal Academy. His portraits included George III and the royal family, Edmund Burke, William Pitt, Benjamin Franklin, Richard Sheridan, and Sarah Siddons. FTP name this painter of The Blue Boy.
Answer: Thomas Gainsborough
(10) Apprenticed first to a bookbinder, he became an assistant to Sir Humphrey Davy in 1813. He discovered a mathematical relationship between electricity and the valence of an element. He had earlier discovered the principle of electromagnetic induction. FTP name this man for whom the unit of electrical capacitance is named.
Answer: Michael Faraday
(11) Tradition credits its founding to Dido of Tyre in 814 B.C. Archaelogists have found remains that date to about 750 B.C. Around 600 B.C. it became independent and began to dominate the western Phoenician terrritories. In the 3rd century B.C. expansion into Sicily brought the city into conflict with Rome. FTP name this city, home to St. Augustine and Hannibal.
Answer: Carthage
(12) A Sportsman's Sketches (1852) was his first book to be published. Other works include Rudin (1856), Virgin Soil (1877), and A Nest of Gentlefolk (1859). His character of Bazarov created a controversy because of the advocacy of Nihilism. FTP name this author of Fathers and Sons .
Answer: Ivan Turgenev
(13) Many scholars consider his verse drama Hernani (1830) the beginning of the French Romantic movement. From then until 1843 he wrote constantly, but stopped when he became involved in politics. In 1852 he went into voluntary exile to protest the dictatorship of Napoleon III. He did not return to France until 1870. He is known for poetry, novels, and plays but chiefly for two epic novels, one set in the 14th century. FTP name this author of The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Answer: Victor Hugo
(14) She received a master's degree from Johns Hopkins in 1932 and took a job with the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Her 1951 work The Sea Around Us described the biology, chemistry, geography, and history of the sea. But she is much better known for a 1962 work that led to the banning of DDT. FTP name this author of The Silent Spring .
Answer: Rachel Carson
(15) In 1904, Alfonso VI granted Porto and Coimbra to Henry of Burgundy and made him a count. In 1143, Henry's son Alfonso declared himself a king. In 1385 the House of Aviz came into power. King John I made an alliance with England, the oldest existing alliance in Europe. FTP name this independent nation of western Europe.
Answer: Portugal
(16) His first works were Leaf Storm (1955) and No One Writes To The Colonel (1958). Later works include The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) and One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) which brought him international fame. FTP name this Colombian winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Answer: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(17) He was an eye specialist and neurologist in Vienna before becoming a psychiatrist. He worked with Freud before establishing child guidance clinics in Vienna in 1919. He termed his school of thought "individual psychology". FTP name this man whose beliefs stressed the inferiority complex.
Answer: Alfred Adler
(18) After winning the Rome prize in 1884, he established himself in Paris as a composer and critic. He wrote three Nocturnes and an orchestral work based on a symbolist poem. In 1902 he sparked controversy with his opera Pelleas et Melisande . FTP name this composer of Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun.
Answer: Claude Debussy
(19) It is made by adding sulfuric acid to potassium dichromate to produce a red crystal. The crystals are highly reactive and poisonous and may cause severe burns. It is used industrially to provide a shiny protective finish for metals such as car bumpers. FTP name this acid with the formula CrO 3 .
Answer: Chromic Acid (accept chromium trioxide)
(20) This province consists of an island and part of the mainland. It was explored by John Cabot in 1497 and is generally considered the oldest British colony in North America. In 1941 Roosevelt and Churchill signed the Atlantic Charter off its coast. FTP name this Canadian province whose capital is St. John's.
Answer: Newfoundland
(21) In 1802 he published his experiments dealing with the effects of temperature on gas, findings that are expressed as Charles's Law. He also came up with the law of combining volumes. FTP name this French chemist who isolated boron and discovered cyanogen.
Answer: Joseph Gay-Lussac
(22) He wrote about 70 operas during his lifetime and became known for his ability to compose in a short time period. Some of his works include La Favorita (1840), Roberto Deveraux (1837), Don Pasquale (1843), The Daughter of the Regiment (1840) and Anna Bolena (1830). FTP name this composer of Lucia di Lammermoor and The Elixir of Love.
Answer: Gaetano Donizetti
(23) Some of his works include Passacaglia (1908) and Five Movements for String Quartet (1909). Most of his works were chorals such as First Cantata (1939). FTP name this pupil of Arnold Shoenberg.
Answer: Anton Webern
N.C. State - Bonuses
MLK Weekend Tournament - January 15-16, 1994
[30 pts] (1) Given a crusader, name the crusade he participated in, 5 pts each.
(a) Godfrey de Bouillon First
(b) Baldwin of Flanders Fourth
(c) Louis VII of France Second
(d) Emperor Frederick II Sixth
(e) Louis IX of France (2 answers) Seventh and Eighth
[30 pts] (2) 30-20-10 Identify this actress from her films.
(30) A Woman of Affairs (1928)
(20) Queen Christina (1933)
(10) Grand Hotel (1932)
Answer: Greta Garbo
[30 pts] (3) 30-20-10 Identify this person.
(30) Living in the 12th century B.C. she was the wife of Lapidoth.
(20) Judges chap. 5 contains her song.
10) Along with Barak, she led the Israelis to a victory over the Canaanites.
Answer: Deborah
[30 pts] (4) 30-20-10 Identify this English poet.
(30) A descendent of Sir Thomas More, he converted to the Church of England and became an Anglican priest in 1615.
(20) In 1621 he became Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral.
(10) His works include "The Canonization" and "The Flea".
Answer: John Donne
[30 pts] (5) He led the last French charge at Waterloo and was afterward tried for treason. He had served with distinction in all of Napoleon's campaigns, and remained with the army during the retreat from Moscow. Napoleon made him a marshal and gave him the title Duke of Elchingen. For 15 pts name this man who was shot on Dec. 7, 1815, but was rumored to have escaped to America.
Answer: Michel Ney
For an additional 15 points, the August 1-2, 1798 battle in which the English navy defeated the French navy off the coast of Africa.
Answer: Battle of Abukir Bay or Battle of the Nile
[30 pts] (6) 30-20-10 Identify this artist.
(30) He led the Pont-Aven school in the late 19th century.
(20) He died in 1903 in the Marquesas Islands.
(10) He painted The Yellow Christ
Answer: Paul Gauguin
[30 pts] (7) 30-15 Identify this person.
(30) In 1924 he proposed that electrons may have characteristics of both particles and waves.
(15) He won the 1929 Nobel prize in physics.
Answer: Louis De Broglie
[30 pts] (8) 30-20-10 Identify this character.
(30) Dorothy L. Sayers, Thomas Mann, and Paul Valery have used this character in works.
(20) He probably lived in the early 16th century in Germany.
(10) Goethe and Marlowe wrote the most famous works about this man.
Answer: Faust or Faustus
[30 pts] (9) Identify these members of the Chamberlain family of Great Britain for the stated number of points.
(a) For 5 pts, he was prime minister from 1937 to 1940.
Answer: Neville
(b) For 10 pts, he helped negotiate the Locarno treaty and shared the 1925 Nobel Peace prize.
Answer: Austen
(c) For 15 pts, the father of Neville and Austen, he served in Parliament and was colonial secretary from 1895 to 1903.
Answer: Joseph
[30 pts] (10) 10 pts each, given a painting, identify the artist.
(a) Agrarian Leader Zapata Diego Rivera
(b) Old ST. Lazare Station, Paris Claude Monet
(c) The Gulf Stream Winslow Homer
[30 pts] (11) 30-20-10 Identify this scientist from works.
(30) Ever Since Darwin (1977)
(20) The Panda's Thumb (1980)
(10) Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes (19830
Answer: Stephen J. Gould
(12) Given a work of literature, name the American author, 10 pts each.
(a) Tar Baby Toni Morrison
(b) The Zoo Story Edward Albee
(c) The Moviegoer Walker Percy
[25 pts] (13) For 5 pts each, given the African nation, name its capital.
(a) Benin Porto-Novo
(b) Gabon Libreville
(c) Lesotho Maseru
(d) Togo Lome
(e) Zaire Kinshasa
(f) Rwanda Kigali
[30 pts] (14) 10 pts each, given a painting name the author.
(a) Jewish wedding in Morocco Eugene Delacroix
(b) Burning of the Houses of Parliament Joseph Turner
(c) The Oath of the Horatii Jacques Louis David
[30 pts] (15) 30-20-10 Identify this scientist.
(30) He created plutonium in 1940.
(20) He helped discover 7 other radioactive elements.
(10) he won the 1951 Nobel Chemistry prize.
Answer: Glenn Seaborg
[30 pts] (16) 10 pts each, given a work of French literature, Identify the author.
(a) Heptameron Marguerite of Navarre
(b) Phedre (1677) Jean Racine
(c) The Barber of Seville Pierre de Beaumarchais or Caron
[30 points] For 10 points each, give the number of hydrogens in the following IUPAC named organic compounds.
1. 2-butene Answer: 8
2. methyl ethyl ketone Answer: 7
3. 2,3 penta-diol Answer: 12
[30 pts] (18) For 10 pts each, identify these people with the last name of Johnson.
(a) He wrote The Autobiography of An Ex-Colored Man
James Weldon Johnson
(b) He married Claudia Taylor in 1934.
Lyndon Baines Johnson
(c) He won 416 games for the Washington Senators.
Walter Johnson
[30 pts] (19) For 10 pts each, given an ethnic or aboriginal group, identify the area or country it is most associated with.
(a) Tagalog Phillipines
(b) Boer South Africa
(c) Ashanti Ghana
[30 pts] (20) Given a work of Russian literature, name the author, for 10 pts each.
(a) Eugene Onegin Alexander Pushkin
(b) A Hero of Our Time Mikhail Lermentov
(c) The Inspector-General Nikolai Gogol