Georgia State I - Toss-Ups
MLK Weekend Tournament - January 15-16, 1994
T1. A close friend of Simon Bolivar, he helped gain independence for Ecuador with his military victory at Pichincha. In 1824, he won another great victory at Ayacucho that freed Bolivia and led to his being named that nation's first president in 1826. FTP, name this man, after whom Bolivia's legal capital is named.
ANSWER: Antonio Jose de Sucre
T2. "Taxi Driver", "The Duelists", "The Last Temptation of Christ", "Thelma & Louise", "Reservoir Dogs", "Bad Lieutenant", "Rising Sun", and "The Piano" are among the films of this cult superstar actor. FTP, name the performer common to all these movies.
ANSWER: Harvey Kei tel
T3. The models for this famous painting were the artist's sister and his dentist. It had a direct, earthy quality that was quite popular in some circles. However, it incensed many Iowan farmers who felt they were being ridiculed. FTP. name this 1930 American portrait.
ANSWER: " American Gothic "
T4. Falsely accused of the kidnapping of a baby, he and his family were seized under false pretenses by an overanxious U.S. Army Lieutenant in 1861. FTP, name this chief who would escape to lead his Chiricahua Apache in a series of merciless raids on settlements in Arizona.
ANSWER: Cochise
T5. The device itself was quite simple, it was merely a box within which resided an entity that was capable of separating high energy molecules from low energy molecules and using the temperature differential created to run a heat engine. Thus, it theoretically avoided the problem of entropy all together. FTP, name this device, a "perpetual motion machine of the second kind," named for the Scottish natural philosopher who conceived it.
ANSWER: Maxwell's Demon
T6. Too poor to outfit himself as a proper conquistador, he stowed away in a barrel on a ship bound for Panama. There he became friendly and won the trust of the local Indians. Who, FTP, was this explorer who, allegedly, would become the first European to lay eyes on the Pacific Ocean?
ANSWER: Vasco Nunez de Balboa
T7. Leviticus 16:1-27 describes how, as part of a Hebrew ritual on the Day of Atonement, two of these animals are presented at the altar of the tabernacle. Lots are cast, and one of the animals is sacrificed, the second is set free, or more figuratively, set aside for Azazel, the evil spirit of the wilderness. FTP, name this creature, from which we have derived a colorful term meaning "someone or something to take the blame."
ANSWER: scape goat
T8. Pierre de Ronsard and Joachim du Bellay led a group of poets whose work is considered to be the pinnacle of Renaissance French literature. FTP, supply the collective name given to these seven poets, taken from the name for a cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus known as "the seven sisters."
ANSWER: the Pleiades
T9. First successfully calculated by F.W. Bessel in 1839, it is the angle of the apparent shift in the position of a star in the night sky against the backdrop of more distant stars. FTP, name this measurement, used to determine the likely position of a celestial body.
ANSWER: parallax
T10. Two debates, several lectures, a meeting with the author's lawyer and accountant, and an excursion to a West Side disco in the company of Truman Capote highlight the events chronicled in Cruising Speed a diary of one week in this man's life. FTP, name the diary's author, a widely syndicated columnist, the founder of The National Review .
ANSWER: William F. Buckley , Jr.
T11. Friar Oderic was sent by Rome in 1327 to look for the legendary Prester John, a Crusader who supposedly conquered the infidels and set up a Christian colony in the East. Though Prester John was a tall tale, Oderic's journey to find him did lead him through India and high in the Himalayas, to, FTP, what fabled "forbidden city" in Tibet?
ANSWER: Lhasa
T12. Eleven to 16 percent nitrogen, 8 to 12 percent phosphoric acid, and 2 to 3 percent potash, it is harvested off Peru, Baja California, and Africa. FTP, name this fertilizer, the accumulated excrement and remains of birds such as the cormorant and pelican.
ANSWER: guano
T13. "Domination of Black", "A High-Toned Christian Woman", "Anecdote of the Jar", "The Snow Man", "Sunday Morning", "The Idea of Order at Key West", "Peter Quince at the Clavier", and "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" are all poems by, FTP, what American poet, the recipient of the 1955 Pulitzer in Poetry for his Collected Poems .
ANSWER: Wallace Stevens
T14. In May 1993, a 19-year-old man who had been diagnosed with the flu was rushed to the hospital suffering from respiratory distress, dying shortly thereafter. As the cases mounted, CDC officials were called in, eventually identifying the disease as a virus carried by wild deer mice. FTP, name this virus, associated with the area of the desert Southwest where the first cases were originated.
ANSWER: Four Corners disease or Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome
T15. Note: Two answers required. Though separated by most of a continent, they had a great deal in common: both frustrated in loveless marriages, turn to adulterous affairs which go awry. In both cases, the character commits suicide rather than living in disgrace. FTP, name these two women, the title characters of novels by Gustave Flaubert and Leo Tolstoy.
ANSWER: Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina
T16. The appearance that two coincidental events are actually meaningfully related, the psychologist Carl Jung coined this term to explain phenomena such as "Deja Vu." FTP, name this term, the title of an album by The Police.
ANSWER: synchronicity .
T17. Scottish inventor John Logie Baird becomes the first to transmit a person's picture via television; the Locarno Peace Conference opens; Nellie Tayloe Ross is elected governor of Wyoming, the first woman so honored; Adolph Hitler publishes his Mein Kempf ; and John T. Scopes is convicted in the infamous "monkey" trial. FTP, in what year did all the preceding events take place.
ANSWER: 1925
T18. Derived from the traditional call to rouse hounds for the chase, it was Thomas Edison who first introduced this word. Alexander Graham Bell's had favored the term "ahoy", but Edison overrode him. FTP, name this word, now regarded as the proper way to answer the telephone.
ANSWER: hello
T19. In December, the weekend home of this Princeton University professor went up in flames, reeking a devastating toll on the literary world. FTP, name the author who lost all her original manuscripts, including the 1988 Pulitzer Prize-winning, Beloved .
ANSWER: Toni Morrison
T20. Originally, in all likelihood, it was a straight branch from the top of which grew two twigs; the twigs were then pulled back and twined around the branch. The twigs were said to represent snakes. FTP, name this, the wand of Hermes, adopted as the symbol of the medical profession.
ANSWER: the caduceus
T21. One of it's founders, poet Tristan Tzara, said this, "like everything in life...is useless." Founded in Zurich in 1915, it was a revolt against complacency. FTP, name this artistic movement, whose name is derived from the French word for "hobbyhorse."
ANSWER: Dada
T22. A Perfect Ganesh is something of a departure for a playwright known primarily for light comedies such as And Things That Go Bump in the Night , and Lips Together, Teeth Apart . Perhaps the darker tone of "Ganesh" reflects some of the author's personal adversity, having lived for three decades in the shadow of his former lover Edward Albee. FTP, name this man, most widely recognized for his play Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune .
ANSWER: Terrance McNally
T23. The Depression of the 1930's hit farmers hard, so hard, indeed, that only one farmer's cooperative was able to avoid dependence on government assistance, choosing instead to rely on divine providence. FTP, name this organization, the largest private land holder in the state of Utah.
ANSWER: Mormons or the Church of Latter Day Saints
T24. Pencil and paper ready? Luckily, however, no math is necessary, just note the following equations: 21,978 x 4 = 87,912 and 10,989 x 9 = 98,901. Look closely, and FTP, identify what these mathematical statements have in common with words such as "boob", "level", and "radar."
ANSWER: they're all palindromes
T25. "Blind Willie" McTell was actually born in McDuffie County and not here as he had previously claimed. Nevertheless, he did set perhaps his most famous Blues composition in this Georgia town. FTP, name the town or the song, made famous when it was re-recorded by the Allman Brothers.
ANSWER: Statesbor o Blues
T26. As President Clinton begins his campaign for health care reform, he is having to battle not only special interest and Republican opposition, but also a member of his own party, who is championing a plan of his own. FTP, name the Oxford-educated Representative from Tennessee, whose counter plan has been described as a middle road between Clinton and the Republicans. ANSWER: Jim Cooper
T27. Citizens pay no taxes and all social services are free in this bisected Asian nation. Even though most of the businesses are run by the Chinese minority, the Sultan Waddaulah is firmly in control. FTP, name this oil-rich country cut in two by Malaysia.
ANSWER: Brunei
T28. Developed during the 1940's, it is a mixture of a petroleum component and a thickening agent that gives it the advantage of flowing under pressure. FTP, name this weapon that sticks to its target like smoking molasses, and was used extensively in the Vietnam War.
ANSWER: napalm
T29. The Crow Indians adopted him into their Nation under the name of Red Fish and made him a chief. FTP, name this mulatto adventurer whose life was detailed in a extravagant biography, and who has a mountain pass in the Sierra Nevadas named after him.
ANSWER: James Beckwourth
T30. He gave out seemingly generous $100,000 bonuses to his employees, but there was one catch, those receiving the money were to divert it to Richard Nixon's re-election fund. FTP, name this industrialist, pardoned by Ronald Reagan for his illegal campaign contributions, who is also an owner the New York Yankees.
ANSWER: George Steinbrenner
Georgia State I - Bonuses
MLK Weekend Tournament - January 15-16, 1994
B1. 30-20-10. Identify this religious sect.
30 - Their official name is the "United Society of Believer's in Christ's Second Appearing."
20 - It was founded in America in 1774 by Ann Lee, and reached its height in the 1840's.
10 - The name of this celibate sect refers to the involuntary movements made by believers during spells of religious fervor.
ANSWER: the Shakers
B2. (30) On September 18, 1931, just outside of the capital city of Mukden, an explosion thought to be set by Chinese saboteurs apparently blasted away a short section of railroad, prompting Japanese occupiers to invade. However, later that day train traffic proceeded as usual. The train must have jumped the gap, the Japanese lamely replied.
1) For 5 points, what was the Chinese province in which this famous "incident" occurred?
ANSWER: Manchuria
2) For 10 points, what was the state of Manchuria called under Japanese occupation.
ANSWER: Manchukuo
3) For 15 points, who was the U.S. Secretary of State whose doctrine of nonrecognition did little to stem Japanese aggression?
ANSWER: Henry L. Stimson
B3. In 1930, "twelve southerners", mostly graduates of Vanderbilt University, published one of the most influential books in the history of southern literature, defiantly championing the "agrarian" way of life. For 10 points, name this landmark collection, which despite its blatant reactionary outlook and tacit racism would influence a generation of southern writers.
ANSWER: I'll Take My Stand
Though I'll Take My Stand is inexorably linked with the Fugitive movement, only four of the twelve authors had actually been published in that short-lived journal. For an additional 20 points, 5 points each, name these four "Fugitive" poets.
ANSWERS: Donald Davidson , Allen Tate , Robert Penn Warren
and John Crowe Ransom
B4. (30) Harkening back to the Florentine and Sienese masters, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood is one of the more interesting 19th century artistic experiments. For 10 points name the three painters who formed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848.
ANSWERS: John Everett Millais
William Holman Hunt
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
B5. (30) In nuclear fusion, two nuclides of a low atomic number are transformed into one nuclide of a higher atomic number;
1) Typically, hydrogen combines to for 10 points what element?
ANSWER: helium
2) For an additional 20 points, 10 points each, name the two radioactive isotopes of hydrogen used to speed up the reaction in this form of fusion.
ANSWER: deuterium and tritium
B6. For 10 points each, identify the following American universities recently in the news.
1) Andrew Wiles, the mathematician who allegedly solved "Fermat's Last Theorem" does research at this school.
ANSWER: Princeton University
2) This university has been represented by the most Nobel Prize winners, including 1993's winner in Economics.
ANSWER: University of Chicago
3) It was at this school that researchers recently developed a method to clone human embryos.
ANSWER: George Washing ton University
B7. (30) 30-20-10. Identify this island nation.
30 - Its national symbol, the Sisserou parrot, a black, red, green, and purple bird unique to the island, appears on the country's flag.
20 - Having a rough topography with volcanic peaks rising nearly 5,000 feet, it is the most mountainous island in the Caribbean.
10 - It received its name from Christopher Columbus, who first spotted this massive windswept island on Sunday, November 3, 1493.
ANSWER: Dominica (Do-min-EE-ka)
B8. (30) Identify the following characters from Greek mythology for 15 points on the first clue, or 5 points on the second clue.
1) 15 - This Phyrgian king that had the audacity to cut up his son Pelops and serve him to the gods.
5 - He was punished in Hades by unquenchable thirst and hunger.
ANSWER: Tantalus
2) 15 - He had his wife dishonor his body upon death, and used this affront as an excuse to come back to life.
5 - In Hades, he was punished by having to forever roll a stone up a hill, only to have it roll back down.
ANSWER: Sisyphus
B9. (30) He was expelled from a prestigious Ivy League university after throwing a beer bottle through the window of the school's President's office. For 10 points each, name the bottle-hurler who would go on to win 4 Pulitzer Prizes in Drama, the school's President who would later move on to a prestigious political career, and the place of higher learning where this incident occurred.
ANSWERS: Eugene O'Neil , Woodrow Wilson , and Princeton University
B10. (30) Answer the following questions pertaining to volcanoes for 10 points each.
1) What was the American lake created by the eruption of Mt. Mazama almost 7,000 years ago?
ANSWER: Crater Lake
2) What was the name of the volcano that erupted in 1883 in the Sundra Strait and could be heard 3,000 miles away?
ANSWER: Krakatau
3) What is the world's most seismically active nation?
ANSWER: Iceland
B11. (30) Identify the following Greek scholars whose work helped to shape Europe's understanding of their world prior to the Copernican Revolution. For 15 points each
1) His theories, postulating an Earth-centered system, were accepted by most for 1,400 years.
ANSWER: Claudius Ptolemy
2) As early as the third century B.C. he suggested a heliocentric universe.
ANSWER: Aristarchus of Samos
B12. Answer the following questions about the "Aroostook War",one of the greatest fiascos in the history of U.S. foreign policy, which saw a single state independently declare war on a foreign country, Canada, over a land dispute.
1) What state, which entered the union along with Missouri, took this unprecedented step?
ANSWER: Maine
2) Over its claim to what Canadian territory did Maine declare war?
ANSWER: New Brunswick
3) What treaty ended the conflict, setting the borders at their present location?
ANSWER: the Webster-Ashburton Treaty
B13. (30) Queen Victoria has several geographical features named after her with two of these being in Africa.
Given these locations, identify the nations that border them, for 5 points each, and a 5 point bonus for all five.
ANSWERS
1) Lake Victoria (3 countries) - Kenya , Tanzania & Uganda
2) Victoria Falls (2 countries) - Zambia & Zimbabwe
B14. Answer the following questions about the U.S. Constitution for 10 points each.
1) Which article spells out proceedures for the Constitution's ratification?
ANSWER: the seventh
2) Provisions for amending the Constitution are spelled out in which article?
ANSWER: the fifth
3) The powers of the executive branch are enumerated in which article?
ANSWER: the second
B15. (30) The success of the mini-series "Lonesome Dove" has inspired a renewed interest in the works of Larry McMurtry. Indeed, a number of his stories have inspired Academy Award-winning performances. For 10 points each, given an award winner name the following movies.
1) Cloris Leachman and Ben Johnson won Best Supporting Actor and Actress Oscars for their work in this 1971 motion picture.
ANSWER: " The Last Picture Show "
2) This 1983 film earned four Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director for James L. Brooks, and Best Supporting Actor for Jack Nicholson.
ANSWER: " Terms of Endearment "
3) Patricia Neal was awarded Best Actress and Melvyn Douglas Best Supporting Actor for this 1963 movie.
ANSWER: " Hud "
B16. (30) For 10 points each, name the gland with which the following digestive enzymes are associated.
1) trypsin ANSWER: pancreas
2) maltase ANSWER: intestine
3) ptyalin ANSWER: salivary
B17. (30) The Oscar-winning musical "Cabaret" is based upon a series of sketches called Goodbye to Berlin by, for 10 points, what British novel/dramatist?
ANSWER: Christopher Isherwood
Christopher Isherwood's stories were adapted into a play which, then, served as the inspiration for "Cabaret". For an additional 20 points, 10 points each, name this play and its author.
ANSWERS: " I Am a Camera " by John Van Druten
B18. (30) Place the following events from Ancient Egyptian history in correct chronological order from earliest to latest for 5 points each: the completion of the pyramid of Khufu, the completion of the Temple of Amon-Re by Ramses II, the uniting of the Upper and Lower Kingdoms, the reign of Akhenaton, the invasion by the Hyksos, and the reign of Tutankhamon.
ANSWERS: 1) the uniting of the Upper and Lower Kingdoms
2) the completion of the pyramid of Khufu
3) the invasion of the Hyksos
4) the reign of Akhenaton
5) the reign of Tutankhamon
6) the completion of the Temple of Amon-Re
B19. (30) Answer the following questions about Norse mythology for 15 points each.
1) Name the Icelandic poem collections which are our primary sources for information about Norse mythology.
ANSWER: the Eddas
2) This Germanic poem, along with the Eddas, a inspired Wagner's "Ring Cycle."
ANSWER: the Nibelungenlied (nee-buh-LUNG-un-leed)
B20. (30) Though Einstein was awarded the 1921 Nobel in Physics for his work on the photoelectric effect, he did not discover the phenomenon itself. Rather, the effect was discovered earlier by two scientists, for 15 points each, name these scientists.
ANSWER: Heinrich Hertz and Wilhelm Hallwachs
B21. The Afternoon of a Faun was a ballet choreographed specially as a vehicle for the dancer Nijinsky by for 10 points, what director of the Ballet Russes?
ANSWER: Sergei Diaghilev
For an additional 20 points, 10 each, name the two Frenchmen who composed its music and libretto.
ANSWER: Claude DeBussy and Stephan Malarme
B22.
B23. (30) Given a famous Latin American writer, name the country from which he hails for 10 points each.
ANSWERS
1) Jorge Luis Borges - Argentina
2) Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Colombia or Mexico
3) Pablo Neruda - Chile
B24. (30) Though the planets in our solar system are quite unique, they are classified into two caterogies, terrestrial and jovian, based upon size and composition. For 5 points each and a 5 point bonus for all five, name the terrestrial planets.
ANSWERS: Mercury , Venus , Earth , Mars , and Pluto
B25. (30) 30-20-10. Name the following famous American
30 - This industrialist was the Greenback Party's candidate for President in 1876.
20 - He was Cyrus Field's chief associate in laying the Atlantic telegraph cable.
30 - His Tom Thumb was one of the first steam-powered locomotives.
ANSWER: Peter Cooper
B26. (30) Answer the following questions about Thomas Mallory's Morte d'Arthur .
1) For 20 points, 10 each, name the parents to which Sir Galahad
was borne illegitimately.
ANSWERS: Sir Lancelot and Princess Elaine
2) For 10 additional points, Sir Galahad, the purest knight of the Round Table, was the last descendant of what Biblical figure?
ANSWER: Joseph of Arimathea
B27. (30) The plight of poor southern farmers during the Great Depression led a future Pulitzer-Prize winner to team up with one of the U.S.'s most respected photographers in an effort to capture the day to day experience among share-croppers in rural Alabama, for 10 points, creating what classic work?
Answer: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
For an additional 20 points, 10 points each, name the novelist and photographer who collaborated on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men .
Answer: James Agee and Walker Evans
B28. (30) John Randolph, who had spearheaded the Republican platform through Congress during the first years of the Jefferson administration, saw his political career undone by his vitriolic prosecution in the impeachment trials of two leading Federalist jurists. Given a brief description, name each jurist for 15 points apiece.
1) The Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, his insane antics made him an obvious target for impeachment.
ANSWER: John Pickering
2) Despite his bitterly partisan prosecutions of Republicans under the Alien and Sedition Acts while on the circuit, this associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court was more than a match for Randolph.
ANSWER: Samuel Chase
(30) Now it's time for a classic college bowl question. . . college football bowl, that is. . . Given the winner of one of this year's bowl games, for 10 points, identify the COMPLETE name of the sponsor. If a second clue is necessary, the city in which the game was played, 5 points will be granted.
1) 10 - Alabama
5 - Jacksonville, FL ANSWER: Outback Steak House
2) 10 - Boston College
5 - Miami, FL ANSWER: CarQuest Auto Parts 3) 10 - Virginia Tech
5 - Shreveport, LA ANSWER: Poulan Weed Eater