Emory - Bonuses

MLK Weekend Tournament - January 15-16, 1994

1.  (30)   Identify the three following French chemists from their accomplishments.  10 pts each.

a.  Formulated the law, now called Charles' Law, that deals with the effect of temperature on gasses.

Answer: Joseph Gay-Lussac

b.  First explained that burning is the rapid union of the burning material with oxygen.

Answer: Antoine Lavoisier

c.  Patented and marketed rayon.  His name sounds like a wine.

Answer: Chardonnet

2.  (25) The Apostle Paul led a spectacular life, and on his three missionary journeys and at other times he had quite some adventures.  Tell the city where or place where each of the following events in the life of Paul occurred, 5 pts each.

a.  Shipwreck Malta

b.  His conversion to Christianity on the road to Damascus

c.  His sermon before the Areopagu s Athens

d.  His home town Tarsus

e.  His death Rome

3.  (30)  Identify the following American civil rights organizations given descriptions. You may choose to give the organizations' full names for all three for ten points each, or only the acronyms for five points each. You must choose before answering any questions.

-- This group emerged from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s activities in Montgomery, and operated with a philosophy of nonviolent resistance.

Answer: (SCLC / Southern Christian Leadership Conference)

-- This group organized the "Freedom Rides," a tactic which brought young Northerners into the southern civil rights movement, making it a national movement.

Answer: (CORE / Congress of Racial Equality)

-- This group grew out of an April 1960 meeting in Raleigh which involved sit-in participants. It became the most militant and radical of the major civil rights groups of the 1960s.

Answer: (SNCC / Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee)

4.  (25)  Ah! Coffee. Nothing like it.  Pour yourself a strong cup of joe and, for 5 pts each, answer a miscellaneous question about 5 major coffee producing countries

a.  What is the name of the landmark peak towering above Rio de Janeiro in Brazil?

Answer: Sugarloaf

b.  What is the lovely old Spanish colonial city on the coast of Colombia where President Bush staged his photo-op "drug summit"

Answer: Cartagena       

c.  Of Mali, Guinea, Cameroon, Liberia, and Ghana which does not border Ivory Coast?

Answer: Cameroon

d.  What is the name of the southern state of Mexico where there was an armed uprising by peasants over the New Year?

Answer: Chiapas

e.  What is the name of the airport in Idi Amin's Uganda where Israeli commandoes staged a raid to rescue a hijacked plane?

Answer: Entebbe

5.  (30)  The first allied landing in Europe in the second world war was not at Normandy on D-Day but in Sicily on July 10, 1943.  For 10 pts each, answer the following three questions about this important front.

a.  After the Allies subdued Sicily, they turned to the mainland.  Name either the southern Italian region where British and Canadian forces landed or the city near Naples where US troops reached the mainland.

Answer: Calabria or Salerno

b.  In January 1944, the Germans were still holding the Allies south of Rome.  There was an attempt to outflank the Germans with a massive landing at a beach town 33 miles south of Rome.  What was this major battle which the Germans managed to withstand?

Answer: Anzio

c.  One major event in the battle for Italy was a monumental blunder by the Allies.  What was the ancient hill top monastery with an important library which the Allies destroyed in the mistaken belief that the Germans were using it?

Answer: Monte Cassino

6.  (30)  Flannery O'Connor's stories are both hilarious and horrific.  Identify three her books, two novels and one collection of stories from the following descriptions, 10 pts each.

a.  Her first novel, it tells the story of the young man who attempts to establish the "Church Without Christ" and two of his followers, a slutty girl and a boy who blinds himself.

Answer: Wise Blood

b.  This book contains stories including "Good Country People" and the title story about an prison-escaped psychopath and the vacationing family he encounters.

Answer: A Good Man Is Hard to Find

c.  This book concerns the Tarwater family, including a backwoods self-styled prophet, his town relations, and their baby, whom the prophet is determined to baptize.

Answer: The Violent Bear It Away

7.  (25)  The field of biology, the study of anything that lives or ever lived, is ridiculously broad, so there are umpteen subfields to biology.  Identify these 5 subfields of biology;  they all begin with the letter "P".

a.  the study of disease Answer: Pathology

b. the study of the relationship of climate to periodic biological phenomena (as bird migration or plant flowering).

Answer: Phenology

c.  the study of the proper function of living matter Answer: Physiology

d.  the study of unicellular animals Answer: protozoology

e.  the study of life of past geological periods through fossils

Answer: paleontology

8.  30-20-10. Identify this woman.

30: The daughter of a U.S. Congressman, she once declined an invitation to join John F. Kennedy on stage at a ceremony at Muscle Shoals, saying, "Tell the President... that I would be honored to join him, but I refuse to sit on the same platform with George Wallace anywhere."

20: She was acclaimed for her Broadway performance as Regina in The Little Foxes.

10: This Alabama-born actress's best-known film performance was in Lifeboat.

Answer: Tallulah Bankhead

9.  (30)  Yeats and Eliot divide the world of high modern poetry between them.  Eliot concentrated great effort on a small output, whereas Yeats wrote hundreds of poems.  Identifying Yeats' poems by quotes is, therefore, the more challenging, so try these for 10 pts each.

a. I balanced all, brought all to mind,

The years to come seemed waste of breath,

A waste of breath the years behind

In balance with this life, this death.

Answer: An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

b.  O sages standing in God's holy fire

As in the gold mosaic of a wall,

Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,

And be the singing-masters of my soul.

Answer: Sailing to Byzantium

c. How can those terrified vague fingers push

The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?

And how can body, laid in that whiter rush,

But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?

Answer: Leda and the Swan

10.  (25)  For 5 pts each, identify the creators of the following famous pieces of sculpture.

a.  St Theresa in Ecstasy

Answer: Gianlorenzo Bernini

b.  The Tomb of Giuliano de'Medici

Answer: Michelangelo

c.  The Dying Slave

Answer: Michelangelo

d.  The Burghers of Calais Answer: Auguste Rodin

e.  the "Gates of Paradise" Answer: Lorenzo Ghiberti

11.  (25) For 5 pts each, given a description of a particular potentate identify the individual being described.  They'll be a little more obscure than "king" or "president."

a.  any member of the nine superior grades of the administration of the Chinese Empire.

Answer: Mandarin

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b.  from the Arabic for "commander," a native ruler

Answer: emir

c.  a governor of a fourth part of a province, or by extension, a subordinate prince

Answer: Tetrarch

d.  temporal and spiritual head of Islam in the succession after Mohammed.

Answer: Caliph

e.  official in the Catholic ecclesiastical hierarchy who is next below the Pope

Answer: Cardinal

12.  (25)  You might be surprised that the extent of the remaining Greek tragedy is a mere 33 plays.  This bonus tests how many of the extant titles you can recognize.  You will be given the title of a tragedy and you have to say whether or not it currently exists.  5 pts each.  If you say "yes," to get your 5 pts you have to tell which tragedian wrote it.

a.  Seven Against Thebes Yes, Aeschylus

b.  Ajax Yes, Sophocles

c.  Cassandra No

d.  The Spartan Women No

e.  Helen Yes, Euripides

13.  (30)  Today the term "gentleman's agreement" means any measure agreed upon by a class or group of people, but not made into law, that affects the welfare of another.  The original was a measure designed to discourage emigration to the U.S. by a particular group.  Answer the following questions about it, 10 pts each.

a.  With what country did the US make the gentleman's agreement to discourage emigration rather than passing an exclusionary law?

Answer: Japan

b.  Who was US President when it was concluded? Answer: T. Roosevelt

c.  Within ten years, what was the year? Answer: 1907 (1897-1917)

14.  (25)  Here's a cheesy Jeopardy category style bonus.  All the answers contain the word "Green."  5 pts each.

a.  a small, rounded greenish yellow cultivated plum Answer: greengage

b.  A town in Scotland that is a proverbial name for a place where eloping lovers can get married.

Answer: Gretna Green

c.  The price one pays for the privilege of playing on a golf course

Answer: greens fee

d.  jealousy

Answer: green-eyed monster

e.  a flavor of ice cream often served in Japanese restaurants

Answer: green tea

15.  (30)  The history of science in the twentieth century is a story of individual luminaries, one of whom is Max Planck.  For 10 pts each answer, these questions about the work of Planck.

a.  What is the formula Planck devised in his law of radiation?

E = hv  (energy  =  frequency times constant)

b.  What is the approximate value of Planck's constant to two decimal places and in Joule seconds?

6.63 x (10 to the negative 31) erg second  

c.  "E" in the formula is the energy of what?

photon or quantum

16.  (30)  One of the most important events in the history of medieval European monasticism was the establishment of the monastery at Cluny, which leant its name to the "Cluniac" reform movement to rid monasticism of abuses.  For 10 pts each,answer these questions.

a.  In what century did William the Pious, duke of Aquitaine establish Cluny?

Answer: Tenth (909)

b.  To what order, the dominant one of the early Middle Ages, did Cluny belong?

Answer: Benedictine

c.  What was innovative about the authority over Cluny, the most important of its reforms?  That is, who was in charge of Cluny?

Answer: monastery under the direct authority of the papacy (or pope) rather than a secular, feudal lord.

17.  (30)  Two matters of current events concern Muslims in Europe.  First is, of course, the civil war in Bosnia, where a small enclave of Muslims is fighting its Christian neighbors.  The second is the issue of the integration of Turkey, a Muslim nation, into Europe, whether as a member of NATO, or through the presence of its citizens in European nations, as in Germany.  Both these stories relate to the history of the late Ottoman Empire in Europe, for 10 pts each, answer these questions.

a.  The height of Ottoman territorial control in Europe was in the sixteenth century under a sultan who is probably the best known to Europeans.  Who was he?

Answer: Suleiman I the Magnificent

b.  Alarmed by Ottoman expansionism, the great European powers united to deal the Turkish fleet a mighty blow off the coast of Greece in what 1571 battle?

Answer: Lepanto

c.  A final push by the Turks to expand into Europe beyond the Balkans and Hungary was stopped in 1683 when they were turned away from the gates of what great European city? Answer: Vienna

18.  (30)  Anytime there's aberrant weather these days, you always here somebody spouting off about El Nino.  For 10 pts each, answer these questions about this unexplained phenomenon.

a.  Where in the world does the El Nino's characteristic appearance of warm ocean water occur?

Answer: off the western coast of S. America or pacific ocean off the coast of americas... etc...

b.  Over what Asian-Pacific nation is an annual low pressure system sent out of whack by El Nino?

Answer: Indonesia

c.  What band of winds blowing between S.America and Indonesia collapses during El Nino?

Answer: South East Trade Winds

19.  (30)   The sixth century BC is an interesting period in the history of western civilization.  Old Testament and ancient Greek history overlap in this period when the great cultures of the near east were reaching great heights.  For 10 pts each, identify these 3 figures from the period.

a.  A young thinker from Miletus in Asia Minor, this historical, but later mythologized figure, is credited with predicting an eclipse and measuring the height of the great pyramid.

Answer: Thales

b.  This fellow, king of the Persians, overthrew his Median overlord and made Persia supreme.  He appears both in Greek history and the Bible.  His name in Hebrew is Koresh.

Answer: Cyrus

c.  This man was the king of Lydia in the sixth century.  His wealth later became proverbial.

Answer: Croesus

20.  (25)  Perhaps the supreme expression of Byzantine Art is the great church covered from floor to ceiling in glittering mosaics.  For 5 pts each, identify these great monuments of Byzantine art.

a.  The church of San Vitale in this N. Italian port is known for its Justinianic mosaics, especially the famous portraits of the emperor and his wife.

Answer: Ravenna

b.  The other great Justinianic building is this church in the imperial capital, though its mosaics were long ago lost to Iconoclasts and Muslims.

Answer: Hagia Sophia

c.  The mosaics in this monastery in Phocis, Greece are the best preserved in Greece.

Answer: Hosios Loukas or St. Luke

d.  This eleventh century monastery outside Athens would equal Hosios Loukas if its impressive mosaics were only better preserved.

Answer: Daphni

e.  The cathedral of Venice was built in the eleventh century in the Byzantine style.  To what saint is this impressive landmark dedicated?

Answer: St. Mark's

X1.  (25)  Let's hope you know your "late Gothic" or "early Renaissance Art." This question concerns one work and one work only from that period:  the Portinari altarpiece.  Five questions, 5 pts each.

a.  Who painted the Portinari altarpiece? Answer: Hugo van der Goes

b.  What was his nationality? Answer: flemish

c.  It consists of a central panel with two folding side wings.  What is this form called?

Answer: triptych

d.  What scene does the central panel depict?

Answer: Nativity

e.  You could see it at the Uffizi Gallery in what city?

Answer: Florence

X2. (30)  For 10 pts each, identify the following women poets of the twentieth century.

a.  She pioneered an autobiographical, almost self-psychoanalytical style in the late 50's and early 60's and gets included as a member of Lowell's "Confessional" school.  Titles such as To Bedlam and Part Way Back show her interest in her own self-perceived madness.

Answer: Anne Sexton

b.  The primary stuff of her poetry is rage, initially at the injustices of the sixties and since at the male-dominated world.  Titles include "Last Scene in the First Act" and "The Moon is Always Female."

Answer: Marge Piercy

c.  This poet does not record rage or politics but human lives.  She won the 1987 Pulitzer for Thomas and Beulah and has been recently name Poet Laureate of the US.

Answer: Rita Dove

X3.  (25) The thought of Confucius had a profound impact on the course of history in China.  For the stated number of pts, identify these Confucian writings.

a. For ten pts.  Although Confucius himself never wrote down his ideas, this book purports to be the actual sayings of the master as recorded by his followers and students.

Answer: the Analects

b.  When the first real Chinese empire was established in the second century BC, Confucianism was given imperial sanction and a sort of university was established to train bureaucrats in Confucian thinking.  For 15 pts what is the name given to the collection of Confucian works on which the university's curriculum was based.

Answer: Five Classics

X3.  (25)  In honor of the Winter Games in Lillehammmer in February, here's an Olympics bonus.  Well, sort of.  It's an ancient Greek Panhellenic athletic festivals bonus.

a.  For 5 pts each, what were the three other major Panhellenic games other than the Olympics in ancient Greece?

Answer: Nemean, Isthmian, and Pythian

b.  For an additional 10 pts, what were the large games held by Athens in honor of Athena which were not quite as prestigious as the four Panhellenic games?       

Answer: the great Panathenea (Panathenaic games)

Emory - Toss-Ups

MLK Weekend Tournament - January 15-16, 1994

1.  Two answers required.  In Canto V of Dante's Inferno, the poet describes the second circle of Hell, and here are eternally condemned the Carnal sinners.  Along with Semiramis, Helen, Achilles, Tristan and others are two sinners from Dante's day.  He speaks with them at length.  They tell the story of their passionate and ill-starred love that ended in tragedy in the world above and earned them eternal damnation.  FTP, who are these famous lovers who get a sympathetic treatment by Dante?

Answer: Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta

2.  Among other provisions, it forbade unions to contribute to political campaigns, prohibited jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts, and outlawed the closed shop. It empowered the government to obtain an 80-day injunction against any strike deemed a threat to national health or safety. FTP, identify this act, passed over Truman's veto in 1947.

Answer: Taft-Hartley Act

3.  One of the really heavy hitters of modern art in Great Britain sounds like someone out of the Elizabethan era.  This painter expresses the torment and crippling effect of modern life.  He sometimes painted figures in states of extreme fear or awaiting execution, but his hallmark is the portrayal of faces contorted with pain hysterically screaming.  Such is the case of his Study After Velasquez:  Portrait of Pope Innocent X, where the pontiff is showed horribly disfigured with agony.  FTP, name this recently deceased painter.

Answer: Francis Bacon

4. This is the name for one of the basic features of pre-classical Greek architecture. In domestic architecture it is the main room of simple dwellings, where the hearth is.  It is most often, however, discussed in the context of the elaborate palace architecture of the Minoan and Mycenaean periods, when it is the main hall of the palaces, sometimes referred to as the "throne room."  FTP, give this term for a grand palace hall, the site of encounters between great kings in the Homeric epics.

Answer: Megaron

5. Born in a kitchen in Raleigh in 1808, he moved with his family to eastern Tennessee in 1826 and established a tailor shop. In 1827 he married Eliza McCardle, who taught him to write. Despite his lack of formal education, he ascended the political ladder, becoming a Congressman, governor, and U.S. Senator. FTP, identify this man who in March 1862 was appointed military governor of Tennessee by Lincoln.

Answer: Andrew Johnson

6. The musical highlight of this opera is the Act II aria "Un bel di'" in which the heroine sings of the happiness she will feel at the return of her lover, who is far away in America.  A hint of Americana is added to the music with a snippet of "The Star-Spangled Banner" in one of the male lead's parts.  An oriental flavor is also given by the incorporation of Japanese tunes.  This is all in high Italian opera.  FTP, what is it, the story of the tragic love affair of a Japanese girl and an American naval officer.

Answer: Madama Butterfly

7.  Near the beginning of this work the author says he has written it because "I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet which said 'Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches:  to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.'"  FTP, what is this book of the Bible?

Answer: Revelation (or Apocalypse)

8.  This man would have gone on to a career as a metal worker had he not been drafted by the Austro-Hungarian army and sent to fight on the Eastern front in WWI.  He was eventually captured by the Red Army and, while a prisoner of war, became a Communist.  He returned to his homeland and led a Communist guerilla army called the Partisans, which eventually led him to power in Yugoslavia.  FTP, who is this man, who led Yugoslavia into and then out of the Soviet fold?

Answer: Josip Tito ( born Josip Broz)

9.  This subatomic particle was observed in the aftermath of collisions between electrons and positrons.  It is large by subatomic standards, with a mass 3 or 4 times that of a proton and has an unusually long lifespan for such a particle, 10 billionths of a trillionth of a second!  FTP, what is this chargeless particle, observed by Samuel Ting and Burton Richter in 1974?

Answer: Psi particle  or J particle or J-psi

10. Believing with Jung that Freud had put too much emphaseis on sexual impulses, this psychologist thought that a child's small size was compensated by a drive for superiority. This man believed that people were motivated by an inferiority complex. FTP, name this man whose theory has been named Individual Psychology.

Answer: Alfred Adler

11.  Born in Russia, educated in Germany and Switzerland, this man taught chemistry in England during WWI, when his discoveries of improved methods of making acetone and butyl alcohol helped the English wartime explosives industry, enough of an accomplishment to earn him a reputation as a fine chemist.  He did, however, go on to greater things, including becoming the first president of Israel in 1949.  FTP, who is this venerable chemist turned politician?

Answer: Chaim Weizmann

12.  First explored in 1541, this state was acquired in the Louisiana Purchase. It is currently the state with the second-highest number of Native Americans. FTP, name this state which entered the Union as the 46th state and is the birthplace of Wilma Mankiller.

Answer: Oklahoma

13.  It is a magnetic property of all substances, but one often masked by other magnetic effects such as paramagnetism or ferromagnetism. Because of it, a substance shows a magnetic permeability smaller than one in an external magnetic field. Such a substance is repelled in proportion to the strength of the external magnetic field and if freely suspended assumes a direction normal to the magnetic meridian. FTP, identify this magnetic property.

Answer: diamagnetism

14.  His 1808 "Specimens of English Dramatic Poets" was influential in reviving interest in Shakespeare and his contemporaries. As "Elia," he wrote for the London Magazine a series of gently whimsical essays which started a whole tradition of English essay writing. FTP, identify this English essayist and critic who spent most of his life taking care of his insane sister.

Answer: Charles Lamb

15.  First introduced in 1857, it was sponsored by a Republican Congressman from Vermont. It was expanded in 1887 and 1914 by the Hatch and Smith-Lever Acts respectively. It gave Federal lands to the states for the establishment of colleges offering programs in agriculture, engineering, and home economics, as well as in the traditional academic subjects. FTP, identify this act.

Answer: Morrill Act

16.  Minister of Defense from 1931-33, this man founded the Nasjonal Sawling Party. The premier from 1942 to 1945, he was executed after the war. FTP, name this Fascist leader whose name is synonymous with "traitor."

Answer: Vidkun Quisling

17.  It is the dull-color neural tissue, especially of the central nervous system. It is primarily composed of nerve cells and forms the cortex of the cerebrum and cerebellum, the nuclei of the brain, and part of the spinal cord. FTP, give the "colorful" term for this neural tissue which connotes brains and intelligence.

Answer: gray matter

18.  This Italian was the leader of the "Hermetic" poets. His later works include Day After Day (1947) and To Give and Have. FTP, name this winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Answer: Salvatore Quasimodo

19.  He was an eccentric who often concealed his serious artistic intent with humor, adding facetious titles such as Three Pieces in the Shape of a Pear. In Socrate he foreshadowed the neoclassicism of Stravinsky. He developed a restrained, abstract, and deceptively simple style. FTP, identify this composer best known for his 1888 piano piece Gymnopedies.

Answer: Erik Satie

20. One of the most interesting writers of the Roman empire might be called a traitor by some.  Originally a general of an army in rebellion against Rome, he was captured and converted to the Roman side helping the emperors Vespasian and Titus win the war.  He also wrote a book about his experiences, an important historical document for the period, The Jewish War.  FTP, who was this Jew who records the Roman atrocities in the sack of Jerusalem in 70 AD?

Answer: Josephus

X1.  This author was described by officials of the Soviet Union as a "slanderer of Soviet reality."  His offense was treating the Russian revolution and its aftermath with black humor.  He produced stage comedies which were quickly repressed and could not find publishers for his stories.  But after his death in 1940, his reputation was assured by the publication of the novel The Master and Margarita, about the appearance of Satan in Moscow.  FTP, name this persecuted writer.

Answer: Mikhail Bulgakov

X2.  This Russian ballet impresario's greatness lay in his grasp of the composite nature of ballet (the interplay of dance, mime, music, decor, costumes and lighting), his recognition of genius, and his receptivity to new ideas. FTP, identify this man who started the famous Russian ballet which helped develop the likes of Balanchine, Nijinsky, and Stravinsky.

Answer: Sergei Diaghilev

X3.  This German composer of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century is unfortunately not as widely known as others, but he is responsible for some of the most purely beautiful music in the classical repertoire.  He held firmly to the style of high romanticism and got results from it even in the midst of the developments of the early part of this century.  What survives of his work is a setting for cello and orchestra of the Jewish prayer Kol Nidrei and the justly lauded G-minor Violin Concerto.  FTP, name the composer.

Answer: Max Bruch