Georgia Tech III - Toss-Ups
MLK Weekend Tournament - January 15-16, 1994
1. Born in Virginia in 1755, he was a staunch Federalist that was one of the US negotiators involved in the XYZ affair. He was elected to Congress in 1799, and was made Secretary of State under President Adams in 1800. In 1801, he became the fourth chief justice, presiding over landmark cases such as McCulloch v. Maryland and Gibbons v. Ogden. For ten points, who was this person who established the courts' power of judicial review?
Answer: John Marshall
2. This author supported Mussolini, and was indicted of treason in America after broadcasting pro-fascist propoganda during World War II. He championed the imagist and vorticist movements, and was influenced by other authors such as T.S. Eliot, Yeats, and Frost. For ten points, who was this person, whose works include "Homage to Sextus Propertius", "Hugh Selwyn Mauberly", and "Cantos"?
Answer: Ezra Pound
3. Born in Kiel, Germany in 1858, this physicists findings did not conform to classical physcis at the time, and in 1900, announced his revolutionary theory, which laid the foundation for quantum theory and quantum mechanics. For ten points, who was this winner of the 1918 Nobel Physics prize who discovered that energy comes in dicontinuous, discrete bundles?
Answer: Max Planck
4. It was an Asiatic religion that developed from Zoroastrianism that included Buddhist and Gnostic elements. It was presented to Shpaur I by Mani as the religion which was to be to Babylonia what Buddhism was to India and Christiianity to the West. The system consisted of two eternal, conflicting principles: God and matter, or light and darkness. For tenpoints, what was this religion that later influenced Christianity through Plotinus and St. Augustine?
Answer: Manicheanism
5. It began as a protest against the associanist view that stimuli are perceived in parts and then built into images. About 1910, German researchers Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, and Wolfgang Kohler rejected this prevailing view for one which studied the process of perception. For 10 points, this gave birth to what psychological school whose name translates from the German roughly as "configuration".
Answer: Gestalt
6. Upon gaining his master's degree from Ohio State University in 1949, he taught at several schools including Rutgers and Ohio State. At the beginning of his career, he painted cowboys and Indians in modern art styles and became the first American artist to have an exhibition at London's Tate Gallery. For 10 points, identify this leader of the pop art movement whose distinctive style of dots and lines is translated into enlarged comic-strip scenes such asd "Whaam" and "Okay, Hot-Shot".
Answer: Roy Liechtenstein
7. As the British foreign secretary, he was instrumental in securing Belgian independence, upholding the Ottoman empire in 1848, and maintaining peace in Europed during Revolutions of 1848. As Prime Minister, he led Britain to victory in the Crimean War and kept out of the American Civil War. For ten points, who was this British statesman?
Answer: Henry Palmerston
8. He spent several years in the Russian army but resigned his commission in 1844. He was arrested in 1849 because he was suspected of being a member of a socialist group. Although he was condemned to be shot, his sentence was commuted to four years of hard labor in Siberia. In 1876, he established and edited his own magazine, _The Writer's Diary_. He died of a major epileptic attack in 1881. For ten points, who was this Russian, author of novels such as _The Devils_, _The Brothers Karamazov_, and _The Idiot_?
Answer: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
9. They are complex aluminum silicates varying in color and composition. They range in hardness from 2 to 4 and the most important types are phloogopite, lepidolite, biotite and muscovite. For 10 points, what are these mineral that no matter how they vary in composition are characterized by a perfect basal cleavage that causes them to separate into very thin, somewhat elastic leaves.
Answer: mica(s)
10. The issues set forth in it later became a major part of the Republican and Free-Soil platforms and was pposed by the likes of John C. Calhoun. Proposed by a representative from Pennsylvania it was attached to a bill authorizing $2 million dollars to President Polk to negotiate a settlement with Mexico. For 10 points, what was this 1846 amendment to a Congressional bill that was passed by the House but not by the Senate.
Answer: Wilmot Proviso
11. This city, first visited by the French explorer Etienne Brule in 1615 became the site of a 1720 trading post. In 1750, Fort Rouille was built there, but was later destroyed in 1759 to avoid capture by the British. In 1793, the British settled in the area and named it York, which later became the Capital of Upper Canada. For 10 points, name this city whose name is derived from the Indian word for "place of meeting" and is the site of the CN tower.
Answer: Toronto
12. Located 415 light years away, it is comprised of some 400 stars within a 25 light year radius of which at least six are visible to the naked eye. It is designated M15 and lies in the constellation Taurus. For 10 points, name this star cluster representing seven nymphs of Greek mythology.
Answer: Pleiades
13. Born in Portage, WInsconsin on November 14, 1861, this American author began as a taecher and founder of the graduate history program at Wisconsin. He won a 1933 Pulitzer Prize for a posthumously published collection of essays and his works chronicle the influence of the westward advance of the American frontier on American institutions and character. For 10 points, identify this author of The Significance of Sections in American History and The Significance of the Frontier in American History. Answer: Frederick Jackson Turner
14. Residing in Manchester, this spouse of a Unitarian minister wrote of the sufferings of the working classes in England during the industrial revolution. Her novels include Ruth and Wives and Daughters. For 10 points, identify this English author and biographer of Charlotte Bronte and Mary Barton.
Answer: Elizabeth Gaskell
15. This economist, one of the chief founders of English neoclassical economy, was from 1891 to 1894 a member of the Royal Commission of Labor. He is known for his books Industry and Trade and Money, Credit and Commerce. For 10 points, identify this man who in his Principles of Economics integrated the modern and classical economic views to state that price is governed by the cost of production and demand for goods.
Answer: Alfred Marshall
16. It was divided into twelve or more realms in which each principal god had his own luxurious mansion of gold or silver. Access was only possible via the guarded bridge Bifrost and the most important palace was that of Valhalla, the home of Odin. For 10 points, identify this abode of the gods in Norse mythology.
Answer: Asgard
17. This author who studied anthropology at the University of Chicago, contemplated 20th century horrors in his works which include the play Happy Birthday, Wanda June and the novels Player Piano and Cat's Cradle. For 10 points, name this American author who drew on his internment in Germany during World War II to write the novel Slaughterhouse 5.
Answer: Kurt Vonnegut
18. It began with concern over the Vatican's proclamation of papal infallability and prohibited priests from voicing political views from the pulpit and later dissolving the Jesuit order. It took place from 1871 to 1887 and was a move to limit the freedom of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany. For 10 points, what is this program from which Bismarck backed away after Catholic influence in Parliament doubled in the election of 1874.
Answer: kulturkampf
19. In 1910 she made her American debut with the Russian dancer Mikhail Mordkin at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. She founded her own company in 1911 and until her retirment in 1925 danced extensively in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas often bringing ballet for the first time to remote areas. For 1o points, identify this outstanding representative of classical Russian ballet admired for her roles in Giselle, Swan Lake and her solo The Dying Swam created for her by Michael Fokin in 1905.
Answer: Anna Pavlova
20. Although widely distributed in nature, it is so similiar in its chemical properties to chlorine that it was not recognized as a separate element until 1826 when it was discovered and isolated by the French chemist Antoine Balard. At ordinary temperatures it is a dark reddish brown liquid that is almost as viscous as water, and is extremely volatile, giving off a poisonous suffocating vapor composed of diatomic molecules. For 10 points, what is this halogen with atomic number 35?
Answer: bromine
21. He was born in 1879 as the son of a Georgian village shoemaker. He joined the Georgian Social Democratic party in 1901, becoming its Tiflis organizer in 1905. In 1912, he coopted onto the Bolshevik Central Committee. For ten points, who was this man, originally named Josif Vissarionovich Dzugashvili?
Answer: Joseph Stalin
Georgia Tech III - Bonuses
MLK Weekend Tournament - January 15-16, 1994
1. (30 points) Identify these ancient Spartans for 10 points each.
1. This Spartan naval commander defated the Athenians at Aegospotomai in 405 B.C. thus ending the Peloponnesian war.
Answer: Lysander
2. This legenday legislator is referrred ot by Herodotus and Xenophon, but nothing certain is known about him. He is credited with transforming the Spartans form and art and luxury loving people in the stern and disciplined state-directed citizens of the 6th century.
Answer: Lycurgas
3. This Spartan king and hero was slain with his forces at the pass of Thermopylae.
Answer: Leonidas
2. Identify these science terms that being "hy" 5-10-15.
1. 5 pts: It is the third largest order of insects and includes ants, wasps, and bees.
Answer: hymenoptera
2. 10 points: It is the physical phenomenon in which two or more quantities bear a relationship which depends on prior history.
Answer: hysterisis
3. 15 points: It is the collective name for any baryon with nonzero strangeness. It has generally been limited to particles which are semi-stable and decay thourhg photon emission or weaker decay interactions.
Answer: hyperons
3. (30 points) Identify these English poets from their works 10-5.
1. a) The Idiot Boy b) The Prelude
Answer: William Wordsworth
2. a) Thyrsis b) The Sick Rose
Answer: William Blake
3. a) Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat b) Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Answer: Thomas Grey
4. (30 points) Identify this philosopher 30-20-10.
1. A German philosopher of Idealism, his most important follower was Marx. He was famous for his professorial lectures at the University of Berlin, where he wrote on logic, ethics, history, religion and ethics.
2. Chief works include Phenomenology of the Mind and Philosophy of Right.
3. His dialectics consisted of a synthesis and antithesis joining to form a new thesis, which was the process and development of the World Spirit, or Weltgeist.
Answer: Georg Hegel
5. (30 points) 30-20-10 Identify this US Statesman.
1. He served longer as Speaker of the House than anyone else during the 19th century.
2. He served as Secretary of State from 1825 to 1829.
3. He was born in Richmond, Virginia and served as a US representative and Senator from Kentucky from 1806 to 1852.
Answer: Henry Clay
6. (30 points) Identify the actor who appeared in the following sets of film.
1. Rebel Without a Cause and The Gene Krupa Story
Answer: Sal Mineo
2. Greetings and Mean Streets
Answer: Robert DeNiro
3. Mystic Pizza and Steel Magnolias
Answer: Julia Roberts
7. (30 points) 30-20-10 Identify these compounds.
1. They derive their name from an Arabic word denoting a fine powder of antimony used as an eye make-up. The word originally applied to any fine powder but the medieval alchemists in Europse later applied it to essences obtained by distillation.
2. They can be classified as primary, secondary and tertiary and will react readily with carboxylic acids to form ester residues.
3. They are a class of organic compounds containing a hydroxyl group attached to a carbon atom.
Answer: alcohols
8. (30 points) 30-20-10 Identify this historical figure.
1. In 1798 he was appointed Secretary of the Northwest Territory.
2. In 1811, his regiment was attacked near the Indian settlement of Prophetstown.
3. He was the 9th president of the US.
Answer: William Henry Harrison
9. (30 points) For 10 points after one clue, 5 points after two clues, identify these composers from works.
1. a) Benvenuto Cellini b) Symphonie fantastique
Answer: Hector Berlioz
2. a) Der Wanderer b) Trout Quintet in A major
Answer: Franz Schubert
3. a) Les Preludes c) Faust Symphony
Answer: Franz Liszt
10. (30 points) Answer the following questions about the moons of Uranus.
1. For 5 points, four of the five largest moons of Uranus are named after characters from what play?
Answer: The Tempest
2. For 10 points, what is the name of the one moon that does not derive its name from Shakespeare?
Answer: Umbriel
3. For 15 points, all or nothing, name the two largest of Uranus' moons.
Answer: Oberon and Titania
11. (30 points) For ten points each, identify which Charles did what
1. Came to the throne in 1625 but his absolutist beliefs and Roman Catholic sympathies alienated the Puritan dominated parliament.
Answer: Charles I
2. He was dominated by his mother and reigned during the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
Answer: Charles IX
3. During his reign Spain was ruled primarily by his wife, Maria Luisa of Parma, and by her lover, Chief Minister Manuel de Godoy. After France defeated Spain, he was forced to abdicate in 1808.
Answer: Charles IV
12. For 10 pts. each, identify these Edgar Allan Poe short stories from a brief description.
1. A mother and daughter's mysterious murder is solved by C. Auguste Dupin.
Answer: The Murders in the Rue Morgue
2. A woman of royal rank is blackmailed by a cabinent minister on the basis of a compromising document located by the innimitable C. Auguste Dupin.
Answer: The Purloined Letter
3. Egaus is in love with his epileptic cousin, the title character. Fascinated by her teeth, he pulls them when she is presumed dead but she shortly returns to life.
Answer: Berenice
13. (30 points) Identify this Old Testament figures for 5 points each from a brief description.
1. A king of Babylon, he destroyed Jerusalem
Answer: Nebuchadnezzar
2. Handmaid of Sarah, concubine of Abraham, and mother of Ishmael
Answer: Hagar
3. Wife of Mahlon, she later became the wife of Boaz. She was also the daughter-in-law of Naomi.
Answer: Ruth
4. Son of David and Macaah, he revolted against David and was slain by Joab.
Answer: Absalom
5. A patriarch that underwent many afflictions, comforted by Bildad, Elihu, Eliphaz, and Zophar.
Answer: Job
6. A patriarch that was the father of Lamech and was the son of Enoch.
Answer: Methusaleh
14. (30 points) For 5 points each, identify the museums which house the following works of art. 5 point bonus for all correct.
1. Starry Night Answer: Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)
2. Mona Lisa Answer: Louvre
3. Birth of Venus Answer: Uffizi Gallery
4. the spaceship, Friendship 7 Answer: National Air and Space Museum (prompt for more info on Smithsonian)
5. View of Toledo Answer: Metropolitan Museum of Art
15. (30 points) Answer the following questions about the exciting history of the state of Indiana for 10 points each.
1. In what year, within 5, was Indiana admitted to the Union?
Answer: 1816 accept 1811-1821
2. What utopian community was founded there in 1825 by Robert Owen?
Answer: New Harmony
3. What Confederate cavalry commander led raids into southern Indiana in July 1863?
Answer: John Hunt Morgan
16. (30 points) Identify this archaelogical site 30-20-10.
1. It was known to the people who built it as Vilcampapa.
2. It was discovered in 1911 by Hiram Bingham.
3. It was an Inca fortresss built atop a mountain in the Peruvian Andes that was never found by the Spanish.
Answer: Machu Picchu
17. (30 points) 30-20-10 Identify this goddess.
1. According to Hesiod, she was first called Tritogeneia--an epithet which suggests and association with water.
2. As the guardian goddess Polias, she has been identified with goddesses of Crete and Mysenaean Greece. She takes the form of a sea-eagle in The Odyssey.
3. Athenians acknowledged her as the ancestress of their first king, Erichthonius.
Answer: Athena or Pallas Athena
18. (30 points) For 5 points each, name the currency currently used in the following nations.
1. Denmark Answer: Krone
2. Bangladesh Answer: Taka
3. Liberia Answer: dollar
4. Albania Answer: lek
5. Ecuador Answer: Sucre
6. Indonesia Answer: Rupiah
19. (30 points) Given a fictional characters, give how they died for 10 points each. Be fairly detailed. ie be more specific than suicide or killed...
1. Hedda Gabler Answer: Shot herself
2. Madame Bovary Answer: Drowned herself
3. Tybalt Answer: Stabbed/Run thru/lost a fight
Answer: deaths
20. (30 points) For 10 points each, give the words for which the following computers abbreviations stand.
1. ISA Answer: Industry Standard Architecture
2. CMOS Answer: complimentary metal oxide semiconductor
3. NPU Answer: numeric processing unit
21. (30 points) Identify this author from works.
1. The American Songbag and Remembrance Rock
2. Rootabaga Stories and Slabs of the Sunburnt West
3. Cornhuskers and The People, Yes
Answer: Carl Sandburg