Berry - Toss-Ups

MLK Weekend Tournament - January 15-16, 1994

1. Born in 1911 to a St Louis candy manufacturer, this man went on to graduate from Yale University and began a career in acting in 1938.  Although he hosted such classic television as the PBS series "Mystery," this man is best known for his villainous portrayal of wicked men in such cult classics as "The Raven" and "House of Wax."  Unfortunately, the younger generation is more familiar with him because he did the ghostly voice at the end of Michael Jackson's "Thriller." FTP, name this recently deceased actor.

Answer:  Vincent Price

2. Born in 1577, this man studied in Italy between 1600 and 1608 before returning to his native Antwerp to begin a career as an artist.  In addition to his painting, he served as a diplomat for the Netherlands' Archduchess Isabella for 14 years.  The love of painting returned to the countryside, however, in 1635.  FTP, name this artist, known for the likes of Garden of Love , The Raising of the Cross , and Descent from the Cross .

Answer:  Peter Paul Rubens

3. Realizing that thousands of returning GI's would be desperate for housing, this New York family began a model community on Long Island offering new houses for only $7990.  Between 1947 and 1951, the family built over 17000 houses and today the town is named for these building geniuses.  FTP, name this entrepreneurial family.

Answer:  The Levitt family

4. Many teams have won the college football national championship with one loss, as the Florida State Seminoles did this past season.  Only once in history, however, has a national champion lost its bowl game at the end of the season and still won the national crown.  It occurred in 1951, when the Associated Press named its national champion before the bowl games were played.  FTP, name the Atlantic Coast Conference team, who won the national title weeks before losing to the Tennessee Volunteers in the Sugar Bowl and whose mascot is a close relative of the turtle.

Answer:  University of Maryland Terrapins

5.  This author is ranked among the greatest of all time, yet, one of his best-known and most popular novels was turned down 23 times, including once by Faber and Faber editor T.S. Eliot, before finally being accepted.  The title of his last novel was to be The Last Man in Europe , but his friends persuaded him to pick a random year and use it as the title.  FTP, name the man, author of Animal Farm and 1984 .

Answer:  George Orwell or Eric Blair

6. Annie Ellsworth is not a name that will go down in history as that of a great person, but to her belongs the origin of one of the most remembered phrases of all time.  The daughter of the commissioner of patents, Annie was with her father in Washington, D.C. in 1844 when a young man was demonstrating his invention to Congress.  When asked what should be sent along the line to Baltimore, what, FTP, did Miss Ellsworth reply to Samuel F.B. Morse?

Answer:   "What hath God wrought?"

7.  This man, an avid yachtsman, hated the fact that the United States held the America's Cup and that his native England couldn't wrest it away, so he took to the seas to defend his country's sailing prowess and secure the Cup.  He failed in five different tries to win the Cup, but did scare the Americans in 1920, when his boat, Shamrock IV had the American yacht Resolute tied going into the fifth and final race.  These were the only two races he ever won in America's Cup competition, however.  Despite his hatred for the Yanks, he did market his specially-blended tea in the US and added to an already considerable fortune.  FTP, name this man, whose tea still bears his likeness and that of a yacht on his tea packages.

Answer:  Sir Thomas Lipton

8. The formula for this chemical is F-sub 2-C = C-F-sub 2 and its full name is polytetrafluoroethylene.  Its more popular name has been used to describe the 40th president of the United States and a New York mobster and its most widely known use is as a low-friction frying pan coating.  FTP, name this low-friction, insulating chemical.

Answer:   Teflon

9. You are Imogen, princess of Britain, and your stepmother wants you to marry her clod of a son, Cloten.  What's worse, before your ordeal is over, you'll be seduced by a cut-rate Iago-type, run into two long-lost brothers, see the god Jupiter, and mistake the headless body of Cloten for your real husband, Posthumus.  FTP, if that were your name and all these things happened to you, in what Shakespearean play, which shares its name with your father, would you be starring?

Answer:   Cymbeline

10. She was said to have secretly married Cardinal Mazarin, the chief minister of her son, but only after her husband, who had been king of France, had died.  She had been princess of Spain and Austria and was picked to marry the king to cement an alliance between France and the Hapsburgs.  Her husband ignored her, took four years to consummate the marriage and produced no children with her for twenty.  FTP, name this unfortunate queen of France, wife of Louis XIII and mother of Louis XIV, who often disputed with her husband's chief minister, Cardinal Richelieu.

Answer:   Anne of Austria

11. In prehistoric times the area was a marshland and fossil remains of early mammals are found in the rock. It takes in an arid region of laryered sedimentary rock severely eroded into a fantastic landscape of ridges, canyons, gullies, spires and pinnacles.  For 10 points, identify this region of southwestern South Dakota that was established as a national monument in 1929 and a national park in 1978.

Answer: the Badlands

12. "The Honeymooners" and "Gunsmoke" premiered, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opened, Charlie Parker, James Dean, and Albert Einstein all died and Nikita Kruschev became the secretary of the Soviet communist party in, FTP, what year?

Answer:   1955

13. Born around 480 B.C., this playwright was the first to seriously take shots at the gods, the established order and the Athenian practice of power-tripping.  Unfortunately for him, his audience didn't appreciate neurotic heroes and he managed to win only five first prizes at the Dionysian festivals, where his equally famous predecessors won at least twenty times each.  FTP, name this author, the last of the three great Greek tragedians and author of Trojan Women and Medea .

Answer:   Euripides

14. Talk about your multiple personalities!!!  In Russian science, this radioactive element, with a half-life of 0.15 seconds, was known until recently as kurchatovium.  As was the fashion of the times, the element was given a different name by its American creators, who called it rutherfordium.  FTP, by what uniform name do we now know element number 104?

Answer:   Unnilquadium

15. Although he stands only 5'7" tall, this actor is considered to be in the same league as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone in the action movie industry.  Ironically, his first big role, as the alien in "Predator," hid the rugged good looks for which he would become known. FTP, name the actor, who portrayed martial arts champion Frank Dux in the movie "Bloodsport."

Answer:  Jean-Claude Van Damme

16. Born in Venice in 1725, this man led such an extravagant life that his name became synonymous with the word "libertine."  He was expelled from seminary for scandalous conduct and condemned in Venice for practicing magic.  He escaped to Paris, where he met and became friends with Voltaire and lived out his last days as a librarian under the assumed name Jean Jacques Chevalier.  FTP, name this man, whose memoirs made him famous and whose name is now synonymous with any overly romantic male.

Answer:  Giovanni Giacomo Casanova

17. Born in 1837 in Nizhny-Novgorod, he helped found the Free School of Music in St Petersburg and in 1869 became director of the Imperial Chapel and Imperial Music Society.  At the age of 18, he met Mikhail Glinka and with four other nationally conscious composers formed in 1861 the group known as The Five.  For 10 points, identify this Russian composer whose compositions include the symphonic poems "Tamara" and "Russia" and the fantasia for orchestra and piano, "Islamey".

Answer: Mily Alekseyevich Balakirev

18. "Tolerable," "the flesh is very hard," and "they have greasy stomachs" are a few of the comments that Portuguese explorers left with us concerning the palatability of this bird.  They would be the only ones who would know, as they caused the extinction of this obese, flightless bird of Mauritius, which knew nothing about self-defense against man and was, therefore, an easy target.  FTP, name this fowl, often associated with ineptness, of which only a head, foot, and random bones still exist.

Answer:   Dodo

19. This man took his first and middle names, latinized them, reversed them, and came up with his pen name.  He based his most famous works on the daughter of Christ Church College, to whom his friend John Ruskin also gave drawing lessons.  When Queen Victoria requested to read the work he published after his most famous, he sent her a copy of his work on mathematics, which made since, for he was a mathematician by trade.  FTP, name this author and admirer of Alice Liddell, who wrote Through the Looking Glass .

Answer:  Lewis Carroll  or Charles Lutwidge Dodson

20. He believed that the true purpose of law and education was to make sufficiently strong inducements for the individual to subordinate his own happiness to that of the community.  This viewpoint was set on in detail in his 1789, Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation - in which he stated that nature had placed mankind under two sovereign masters "pain and pleasure".  For 10 points, identify this thinker and founder of the Utilitarian school of thought.

Answer: Jeremy Bentham

21. Fascinated with automobiles from an early age, this man came into his own when he assumed control of Maxwell Motors after being freed from his position as vice-president of Buick.   Within the span of a decade, the entrepreneur would acquire Dodge and Plymouth.  FTP, name this creator of the smallest of the "Big Three" U.S. automakers, which bears his name.

Answer:  Walter P. Chrysler

22. Born the son of an illiterate Ukrainian peasant, this man taught himself filmmaking.  He had a predilection for folkways and his movies had less to do with montage than horses that talk, military heroes that roll their eyes, and animals who could smell the revolutionary spirit.  In his masterpiece, "Earth," his shot of a group of peasants urinating in a tractor's radiator to keep it from over-heating confirms his idea of the simple ingenuity of plain country folk.  FTP, name this man, who stands with Eisenstein and Pudovkin as one of the Big Three of Soviet silent films.

Answer:  Aleksandr Dovzhenko

23. Most of us have heard of the Coriolis Effect, which explains what causes water and air masses to rotate the way the do in the northern and southern hemispheres.  There is a lesser known and more controversial version of this effect in rivers.  According to this law, which was named for its discoverer, rivers in the northern hemisphere are more eroded on the right-hand side when looking downstream and rivers in the southern hemisphere are more eroded on the left-hand side.  FTP, name the law, which applies regardless of the direction of the flow of the river.

Answer:   Baer's Law

24. Claiming that date rape is a hysteria fomented by "rape-crisis feminists" and that the ever broadening definition of date rape has resulted in furthering the idea that women are helpless, this 25-year old Harvard graduate has shaken up the current ideas about rape with a book that claims that women can take care of themselves.  FTP, name this woman, who publicly opposed the Antioch College policy of "ask before each step," and whose book is entitled The Morning After .

Answer:  Katie Roiphe

25. No one has really heard from her for 30 years, but her popularity has been building again for the last decade.  This 1950s pin-up queen has been a favorite subject of comic books, posters and trading cards since Dave Stevens re-introduced her in The Rocketeer comic book in 1984.  FTP, name this pop idol, who Robin Leech recently enticed out of seclusion for an interview.

Answer:  Bettie Page

26.  long time supporter of civil rights for blacks, this historian briefly worked to free Angelo Herndon, who had been arrested in Atlanta.  He continued to strive for equality for blacks and integrated the Southern Historical Society in 1949 while president of that group.  Yet, it was the success of the Brown case in 1954, a case in which he had done historical research for Thurgood Marshall, that inspired this man's best-known, and still talked about, book.  FTP, name the man, author of The Strange Career of Jim Crow .

Answer:  C. Vann Woodward

27. With the recent incident involving skater Nancy Kerrigan and an unknown assailant being shown all over the news, many are remembering the attempt on Monica Seles at the German Open last year.  Unlike Kerrigan's assailant, the man who attacked Seles was captured, only to be released later by a German judge who believed that he was not trying to kill Seles, only injure her.  FTP, tell me the name of the unemployed lathe worker, who for many weeks was known only as "Guenther P."?

Answer:  Guenter Parche

Th28. is singer wore plaid long before grunge came into fashion.  He was fusing country and rock music 20 years before Travis Tritt and Garth Brooks and his 11 minute version of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" has outsold anything that the Grateful Dead have ever produced.  Today, he is remembered mostly as being the lead man for Creedence Clearwater Revival.  FTP, name him.

Answer:  John Fogarty

29. Most people do not know this man by his real name even though, like Harriet Tubman, he helped hundreds of slaves escape the south through the Underground Railroad.  After he himself escaped slavery in Maryland, he fled to Canada, became a Methodist minister, opened a sawmill and began putting up escaped slaves in his home.  He wrote an autobiography in 1849, but most of us know him from a character in a Harriet Beecher Stowe novel based on his life.  FTP, name this man, known to us as Uncle Tom.

Answer:  Josiah Henson

30.  According to the Bible, when Jesus Christ had been on the cross for several hours, he called for something to quench his thirst.  That something was a vinegar and water mixture that only slaves, soldiers, and plebeians drank, since they could not afford wine.  FTP, name this mixture, which contained more water than vinegar so that it might be more palatable.

Answer:   Posca

Berry - Bonuses

MLK Weekend Tournament - January 15-16, 1994

1. New York state has been the birthplace of eight vice-presidents, more than any other state.  For five points each, name any six of these men, three of which went on to be President.

Answer:  Daniel Tompkins , George Clinton , Martin Van Buren

     Millard Fillmore , Schuyler Colfax , William Wheeler

           Theodore Roosevelt , and James Schoolcraft Sherman

     (NOTE:  Do not accept Nelson Rockefeller, who was born                Maine.)

2. Here's a question for fans of excessively violent, blood-drenched westerns dedicated to the films of Sam Peckinpah.  FTP each, name the following films.

a.  William Holden is being chased by his old buddy Robert        Ryan and everybody dies in the end.

        Answer:   "Wild Bunch"

b.  In this weird flick, Warren Oates is a piano player who       has to deliver a severed head to a Mexican bandit.

   Answer:   "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia"

c.  Kris Krisofferson and James Cobulen play the title            characters and Bob Dylan plays a knife-throwing outlaw, who remains nameless.

   Answer:   "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid"

3. Every college bowl round needs to have one "fun with the periodic table" bonus, so, here it is.  I'll read a list of elements and you tell me which is not in the same family as the others, five points each.

a.  lithium, potassium, strontium, and cesium

Answer:   strontium

b.  oxygen, selenium, sulfur, phosphorus

Answer:   phosphorus

c.  iron, ruthenium, osmium, and tungsten

Answer:   tungsten

d.  gold, silver, copper, zinc

Answer:   zinc

e.  zinc, cadmium, mercury, and aluminum

Answer:   aluminum

4. (30 points) 30-20-10 Identify this author.

1. Though he was not a native of France, he wrote most of his works in French and spent most of his life in Paris.  He is chiefly remembered for his playsm most of which were produced at the Theatre de l'oeuvre, the home of symbolist drama.

2. His other works include La Mort and La Vie des abeilles and Pelleas et Melisandre.

3. He was a Belgian author, the winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Answer: Maurice Maeterlinck

5. Given a brief description, identify the following figures from Christian religion.

a. The high priest of Jerusalem during the reign of Tiberius, this man presided over Jesus' hearing before the Sanhedrin.

Answer:  Joseph Caiaphas

b. The Christian elected to replace Judas among the Twelve.

Answer:   Matthias

c. A Roman official, this man had the Gospel of Luke and Book of Acts addressed to him.  Otherwise unknown, he may have later become a Christian.

Answer:   Theophilus

6. After this question, you may never write a "Star Trek" bonus or toss-up again.  That's right, this one is meant to be tough, so, for the designated number of points, answer the following "Trek" questions.

.  The letters "N.C.C." are well-known to "Trek" followers,      but, for 5 each, for what three words do the letters stand?

   Answer:   Naval Construction Contract

b.  For another ten, how many times did Jim Kirk have to take the no-win Kobiyashi Maru test?

   Answer:   3

7. Although their movement never gained much strength in the United States, anarchists have made a small but significant impact on the nation.  FTP each, answer the following questions related to anarchists in the US.

a.  Name the anarchist paper that helped to antagonize the    Haymarket protest in 1886, two of whose editors were hanged in connection with the bombing.

   Answer:  The Alarm

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b.  On September 6, 1901, President William McKinley was    assassinated by this anarchist.

   Answer:  Leon Czolgosz

c.  The target of an assassin in 1920, this attorney              general's assailant, believed to have been an anarchist,      accidentally blew himself up before reaching his              target.  He was the man behind the "Red Scare."

   Answer:  A. Mitchell Palmer

8. One of the landmarks of 20th-century poetry is T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land."  As part of the apparatus of the poem, Eliot gave titles to five sections to reflect the socio-mythic elements in the poem.  For five each, name those five titles.

Answer:   Burial of the Dead A Game of Chess Death by Water The Fire Sermon What the Thunder Said

9. How well do you know your French revolutionary calendar?  Given a literal translation of the month's name and its dates on the Gregorian calendar, name the month.

a. "hot month," July 19-Aug 17 Answer:   Thermidor

b. "windy month," Feb 19-Mar 20 Answer:   Ventose

c. "wine month," Sept 23-Oct 21 Answer:   Vendemaire

d. "flowering month," April 20-May 19 Answer:   Floreal

e. "frosty month," Nov 21-Dec 20 Answer:   Frimaire

10. Particle physics plays an important part in today's theoretical physics.  For five points each, identify the following particles as being either a lepton, a beryon, or a meson.

a.  neutron Answer:   baryon

b.  muon Answer:   lepton

c.  lambda Answer:   baryon

d.  muon neutron Answer:   lepton

e.  pion Answer:   meson

11. As the 75th anniversary of the end of World War I leaves our memories, let's test your knowledge of literary works produced by men who served in that "War to end all wars."  For five each, given a book, provide the author who fought in the war.

a.   All Quiet on the Western Front

Answer:  Erich Maria Remarque

b.   Fix Bayonets! Answer:  John W. Thomason

c.   Storm of Steel Answer:  Ernst Juenger

d.   Journey's End Answer:  R.C. Sherriff

e.   Under Fire Answer:  Henri Barbusse

f.   Farewell to Arms Answer:  Ernest Hemingway

12. Facing a nearly complete cut-off of Russian aid, the once seemingly indestructible Communist regime in North Korea seems close to crashing down.  FTP each, answer the following questions about North Korea.

a.  Name North Korea's capital, supposedly a model of    communist efficiency and success, but which is almost    totally closed down because of a lack of oil.

   Answer:   Pyong yang

b.  Name North Korea's current leader.

   Answer:   Kim Il Sung

c.  Name Kim Il Sung's hand-picked successor.

   Answer:   Kim Jong Il

13. 20th-century America has produced a multitude of talented mystery writers.  For five each, given a short list of works, name the American author.

a.   The Postman Always Rings Twice , Double Indemnity

   Answer:  James M Cain

b.   Playback , The Long Goodbye

   Answer:  Raymond Chandler

c.   The Killer Inside Me , The Grifters

   Answer:  Jim Thompson

14. Given a war, give the primary winner, five points each.

a. Six Day War Answer:   Israel

b. First Syno-Japanese War Answer:   Japan

c. Thirty Years War Answer:   France

d. Wars of the Roses Answer:   Lancasters

e. Boer War Answer:   Britain

15. Cult murders, stalkers, and serial killers have always made the news.  FTP each, given a description of a person and the infamous murders committed, name the killer.

a.  This man claimed to be the Boston Strangler, a killer who gained access to the houses of 13 women and  strangled them to death with clothing or household items.  He was charged only with robbery.

   Answer:  Albert Henry DeSalvo

b.  From October 1973 until April 1974, seven black men randomly shot and killed twelve white men and wounded six others.  The case was named for a special police radio channel, but was appropriately named, as the killings were racially motivated.

   Answer:  The Zebra Killings

c.  Between October 1975 and November 1980, Peter Sutcliffe     killed 13 women, mostly prostitutes in a town in              England.  Emulating the infamous Jack the Ripper,             Sutcliffe used knives to carve up his victims, which led the media to call him by a name similar to Jack's and which bore the town's name.  What was it?

   Answer:  The Yorkshire Ripper

16. FTP apiece, identify the following types of clergy common in English literature.

a. This name for a Protestant minister was also used to name the head of a parish, in place of rector or vicar.

Answer:   Parson

b. Poor, insecure and usually uncouth, this clergyman usually did most of the work of the parish for the church and assisted the rector, vicar, or parson.

Answer:   Curate

c. A dignified janitor, this guy took care of church property, rung the church bells, and dug the graves.  Quasimodo was one of these.

Answer:   Sexton

17. In 19th-century England, one's carriage or carriages had as much social connotation as do cars in today's society.  FTP each, identify the following types of carriages.

a. Considered the perfect bachelor's carriage, it held two passengers comfortably and had a sheltered hood with a curtain that could be drawn for privacy.

Answer:   Cabriolet

b. The 19th-century version of the limousine, this large, four-horse carriage was used for long-distance travel and formal dress occasions.

Answer:   Landau

c. The "Gondola of London," this vehicle was hired by gentlemen, like Sherlock Holmes, who could not afford or did not want to keep a private carriage.  Nowadays, you can see them driving through New York's Central Park.

Answer:   Hansom Cabs

18. Given a pen name, give the real name, five points each.

a.  George Orwell Answer:  Eric Blair

b.  Maxim Gorky Answer:  Alexei Pushkov

c.  Voltaire Answer:  Francois Marie Arouet

d.  Mary Renault Answer:  Mary Challans

e.  Richard Saunders Answer:  Ben Franklin

f.  Nancy Boyd Answer:  Edna St. Vincent Millay

19. In Greek mythology, the Pleiades were known as the "Seven Sisters."  For five points each, and a total of 35, name these seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione.

Answer:   Alcyone, Asterope, Electra, Celaeno, Maia, Merope, Taygeta

20. In the 30+ year career of the Rolling Stones, the band has produced many landmark albums.  For five each, I'll give you a list of songs from a Stones album and you name the album.

a.  Brown Sugar, Dead Flowers, Moonlight Mile

   Answer:   Sticky Fingers

b.  Tumbling Dice, Happy Sweet Virginia

   Answer:   Exile on Main Street

c.  Satisfaction, Play with Fire, Spider and the Fly

   Answer:   Out of Our Heads

d.  Salt of the Earth, Street Fighting Man, Sympathy for the    Devil

   Answer:   Beggars Banquet

e.  Miss You, Beast of Burden, Far Away Eyes

   Answer:   Some Girls

21. Only four asteroids have diameters greater than 200 miles.  One, naturally, is Ceres, the largest.  FTP each, name the other three.

Answer:   Pallas, Vesta, Hygiea

22. The grading system of eggs in the US goes far beyond the simple "Grade A" that we are all used to seeing.  For five points each, name the five other grades of American eggs.

Answer:   AA , B , C , I , and II

23. This past season, the National Football League welcomed the Carolina Panthers and the Jacksonville Jaguars into the league.  While those two teams will begin play in 1995, three other cities, St. Louis, Memphis, and Baltimore will not have a team, as they lost in the expansion derby.  Each city had already picked out a nickname for the team that would have represented it, had they gotten a team.  FTP each, give me the three nicknames that those teams would have assumed had they actually been picked by the NFL.

Answer:  St Louis Stallions , Baltimore Bombers  or Rhinos    Memphis Hound Dogs

24. Even though the rock-n-roll Hall of Fame won't be completed until 1995, new members continue to be inducted.  For five points each, name the five bands or artists to be inducted in 1994.

Answer:  Elton John ,  Rod Stewart , John Lennon , The animals ,      and Duane Eddy