Georgia Tech II - Toss-Ups

MLK Weekend Tournament - January 15-16, 1994

1.  This chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (1961-71) wrote the book Man and the Atom and was section chief at the University of Chicago Metallurgical laboratory.  FTP, name this nuclear chemist who founded the actinide concept and won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Answer: Glenn Seaborg

2.  Born in Barbourville, Va. in 1784, his family moved to Kentucky in 1785.  In 1841, he became commander of the second department of the United States Army at Fort Smith, Arkansas.  FTP name this Whig President who defeated Lewis Cass in the 1848 election.

Answer: Zachary Taylor

3.  In 1882 this English author died from a stroke reportedly caused by over-hearty laughter.  He designed the red mail boxes that are still used in England and penned the Bartetshire novels.  His works include The Warden , Barchestier Towers , and The Betrams.  Who was this English author?

Answer: Anthony Trollope

4.  Born in Stratford, VA in 1732 he served in the Virginia House of Burgesses (1758-1775) and was an active member of the First Continental Congress.  With Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson he originated a plan for intercolonial committees of correspondence.  FTP, name this senator from Virginia from (1789-1792) who opposed ratification of the Federal Constitution.

Answer: Richard Henry Lee

5.  This Dutch economist developed mathematical models used in econometrics.  For 10 points, name this chairman of the UN Committee for Development Planning who shared the first Nobel Prize in Economics with Raguar Frisch in 1969.

Answer: Jan Tinbergen

6.  His will divided the empire between his sons Honorius and Arcadius, splitting it permanently into eastern and western empires.  A treaty he made with the Visigoths made the Visigoths the first independent barbarians in the Roman Empire.  For 10 points, identify this Roman emperor who ruled from A.D. 346 to 395 and prohibited all pagan practices in the empire.

Answer: Theodosius II

7.  The languages spoken in this African nation include English, Chewa, Lomwe, and Yao and its largest city is Blantyre.  President Hastings Kamuzu Banda ascended to his office on July 6, 1966.  FTP identify this nation formerly known as Nyassaland, and whose capital is at Lilongwe.

Answer: Malawi

8. This American writer was born in 1902 and dropped his real first named of James while still living in his hometown of Joplin, Mississippi.  He got a job as a merchant seaman and lived for a time in Rome and Paris.  In his autobiography Wonder As I Wander (1956), he cites D.H. Lawrence's "The Rocking Horse Winner" as inspiring him to write short fiction, which earned him a scholarship to Lincoln University, from which he graduated in 1929.  Who was this leading writer in the Harlem Renaissance, who collected 28 anthologies of African American folklore and who penned The Weary Blues (1926)?

Answer:   Langston Hughes

9.    He was born in Perkin, Ill., attended the U of Minn., and served in the House of Rep. from 1939-49.  A pre-WW2 isolationist, he later defended the foreign policies of both Democratic and Republican administrations.  He was elected a Republican senator from Illinois in 1950, 1956, 1962, and 1968, becoming Senate majority leader in 1959 and probably the most influential senators of the sixties. FTP, who was this famous lawmaker who hosted a weekly TV talk show with future president Gerald Ford?

Answer: Everett McKinley Dirksen

10.Born in 1007, he was the son of Thorfinn and Guldrid Karlsefni, members of Leif Erickson's expedition to Vinland, in present-day Newfoundland. FTP, identify this child, who later became an important member of the Norse community in Iceland, the first European child known to have been born in North America.

Answer:    Snorro

11.   Karol J. Bobko, Richard J. Hibe, Marc Garneau (the first from Canada), Rodolfo Neri (the first from Mexico), Prince Sultan Salman al-Saud of Saudi Arabia (the first Arab), Ulf Merbold (of Germany), Valery F. Bykovsky, Virgil I. Grissom, and Yuri A. Gagarin.  What do these men all have in common?

Answer:  they've all been in space or astronauts cosmonauts etc...

12.  Many transition metal ions form coordination complexes in solution or in the solid.  These species consist of a metal ion surrounded by a group of anions or neutral molecules called this.  FTP what are these molecules or ions bound to a metal atom or ion through coordination of its lone electrons?

Answer:  a ligand

13.  By most agencies' definitions of a major city, it is the second highest major U.S. city in elevation at 1,050 feet above sea level.  It was founded in 1837 as Terminus and renamed for an imaginary continent in 1845, two years before incorporation.  After playing a major role in getting trampled upon in the Civil War, it became the transportation and commercial center of the New South.  Identify this capital of Georgia in which you are now sitting.

Answer:   Atlanta , Georgia

14.   He graduated magna cum laude from the California Institute of Technology in 1930 with a Ph.D.  He remained there working on cosmic rays and been there ever since.  In 1932 while studying photograph tracks of a cloud chamber, he came across electrons that seemed to go the wrong way.  He had actually found the positron, predicted by Dirac.  FTP, who was this New York City-born physicist, who also found the meson in 1935 at the U. of Colorado?

Answer:  Carl Anderson

15.   He was born in Horse Cave Creek, Ohio in 1842, the youngest of nine in a poor family.  His only formal schooling was a year at the Kentucky Military Academy, but he enlisted in the Union Army as a drummer boy and saw action at Shiloh, Chickamauga, and marched to the sea with Sherman.  He then moved to San Francisco and became a writer and editor for the city's newspapers where he thrived.  He then lived in London off his wife's great dowry, but went to Mexico and vanished without a trace when his wife left him and his sons died.  Identify this author of Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891) (later retitled In the Midst of Life), and The Devil's Dictionary(1911).

Answer:   Ambrose Bierce

16. It is the only nation on earth to have a two-sided flag.  It sits mainly on two rivers and was populated first by the Guarani Indians before the arrival of Europeans in 1527.  Much of its territory was lost in the War of the Triple Alliance of 1865-70, but it regained large areas in the Gran Chaco War with Bolivia in 1932-35.  For 10 points, what is this nation, whose capital is at Asuncion?

Answer:   Paraguay

17.   A former semiprofessional baseball player and a hockey player on Oxford's team and the British Olympic team, he won fame as an international statesman.  He helped establish NATO, served on a UN commission that drew up cease-fire plans in the Korean War, became President of the UN General Assembly, and later played a leading role in ending war in Egypt over control of the Suez Canal.  In 1957, he became the first Canadian to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.  Who is this Prime Minister of Canada from 1963-1968.

Answer:  Lester Bowles Pearson

18.   His plays include The Silver Box, Strife, Justice, and Loyalties.  An English novelist and playwright, he wrote the trilogy A Modern Comedy, consisting of The White Monkey, The Silver Spoon, and Swan Song.  He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.  He also wrote the trilogy The Forsythe Saga consisting of The Man of Property, In Chancery, and To Let.  Who was this British author?

Answer:  John Galsworthy

19.   Born in Paris in 1835, his mother gave him his first music lessons.  A virtuoso pianist and organist, at the age of 22 he became organist at the Church of the Madeleine but was already earning fame as a composer of orchestral symphonic music.  Most notable are 4 symphonic poems composed under the influence of Liszt who took great interest in his career.  Among the works of this French composer include "Variations on a Theme by Beethoven" for two pianos, "The Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso" for violin and orchestra, and "The Carnival of Animals".  Name this French composer.

Answer:  Camille Saint-Saens

20.   Born 1807 in Nice France, he went to South America and won fame fighting for the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, which was in revolt against the Brazilian government.  He also fought for Uruguay, which was struggling against Argentina to preserve independence.  Later in life, he went to the US and worked as a candlemaker on Staten Island.  In 1859, he took part in the Sardinian War versus Austria, and in 1860, with the aid of the red shirts, he conquered the Kingdom of the two Sicilies for the Kingdom of Italy.  Who was this Italian patriot?

Answer:  Giuseppe Garibaldi

21.   He became a high-ranking civil servant and a member of the French Academy under King Louis XIV.  He helped start a famous literary battle called "The Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns."  In The Century of Louis the Great and Parallels between the Ancients and the Moderns, he argued that the culture of his own time was superior to the culture of Classical Greece and Rome.  FTP who is this Frenchmen  most famous for a book of fairy tales he collected, Tales of Mother Goose.  

Answer:  Charles Perrault

22.   He was an American who became the first swimmer to win 5 gold medals in Olympic Games competition.  In 1950, the Associated Press selected him as the greatest swimmer of the half century.  From 1932 to 1948, he acted in films playing the part of Tarzan.  Who was this famous athlete and Olympian?

Answer:  Johnny Weissmuller

23.   He received his artistic training from his father, a noted book and magazine illustrator.  He paints in watercolor and tempura, but most of his well known paintings are painted in egg tempura.  He draws his subjects primarily from his native farming community Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and his summer home, the fishing town of Cushing, Maine. Who is this American artist, whose works include "Tenant Farmer", "Ground Hog Day", and "Christina's world"?

Answer:  Andrew Wyeth

Georgia Tech II - Bonuses

MLK Weekend Tournament - January 15-16, 1994

1.  Answer the following questions about a certain writer for 5 points apiece.

A. In the movie Reds , he was played by Jack Nicholson

Answer: Eugene O'Neill

B. What famous person did O'Neill's daughter Oona marry?

Answer: Charlie Chaplin

C. Name the books that brought O'Neill his 4 Pulitzer Prizes?

Answers: Long Day's Journey Into Night, Beyond the Horizon, Anna Christie, and Strange Interlude

2.  This is a European geography 30-20-10 bonus:

30 point clue -  It is an industrial suburb of Paris, located about 10 km N of the French capital, on the right bank of the Seine River at the Canal of the same name.  It was named after a 3rd century martyr who is considered the first Bishop of Paris and Apostle of France

20 point clue -  The Royal Abbey of this city rebuilt in Gothic style is the city's principal landmark.  The church also houses the tombs of French kings and their royal consorts.

10 point clue - Another city of the same name is the capital of the French Overseas Department, Reunion.

Answer: Saint-Denis

3.  Given a Queen, Give the King (3 parts, 10 points each):

A. Marie Leszcynska   Louis XV of France

B. Margaret de Valois    Henry IV of France

C. Eleanor of Castille   Edward I of England

4.  Given works, identify the French author on a 10-5 basis (there are there authors):

A. 10 point clue - The Myth of Sisyphus and other essays, Exile and the Kingdom

5 point clue - Caligula

      Answer: Albert Camus

B. 10 point clue - The Princess Faraway

5 point clue - Cyrano de Bergerac

      Answer: Edmund Rostand

C.10 point clue - Indiana, He and She

       5 point clue - Lelia, Consuelo

      Answer: George Sand

5.  Given historical events, give the year on a 15-5 basis(there are to parts):

    A. 15 point clue - John Dewey publishes Democracy and Education, US buys the Virgin Islands

          5 point clue - Carl Sandburg publishes Chicago Poems, Jeannette Rankin becomes the first       Congresswoman elected

Answer: 1916

    B. 15 point clue - King George I of Greece is assassinated, Charles Beard publishes his Economic      Interpretation

          5 point clue - Alfred Werner wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Federal Reserve System is       authorized

Answer: 1913

6.  Given a description, identify the art movement (2 parts, 15 points each):

    A. Design prevalent during the 1920's and 1930's characterized by a sleek use of straight lines and          slender forms

Answer: Art Deco

    B. A style in art and architecture(c.1520-1600) that arose in reaction to the harmony of form and proportion of the high renaissance, featuring strange unbalance forms, tunnel-like spaces, arbitrary arrangements, and harsh lighting

Answer: Mannerism

7.  Identify these famous entertainers from their real names and jobs (3 parts, 10 points each):

1.Larry Ziegler; TV talk show host Larry King

2.John Yule, Jr.; Boys Town actor Mickey Rooney

3.Alphonso D'Abruzzo; actor on M.A.S.H. Alan Alda

8.  FFP each, give the capitals of the following island nations:

1.Dominica Roseau

2.Vanuatu Vila

3.Nauru Yaren

4.W. Samoa Apia

5.Malta Valetta

6.Falkland Is. Stanley

9.  Identify the Supreme Court case given its year and a brief description (3 parts, 10 points each):

1.1957: The court ruled that obscene material wasn't subject to 1st Amendment protection and defined obscene as anything "utterly without social value" and appealing to "prurient interests" of the average person.

Answer: Roth v. United States (also Alberts v. California)

2.1951: The court upheld the convictions under the Smith Act of 1940 for speaking about communist theory that advocated forcible overthrow of the government. Yates v. US in 1957 modified this ruling.

Answer: Dennis et al. v. United States

3.1925: The court ruled that the 1st Amendment prohibition against restricting freedom of the press applied to the states as well as the federal government.  It was the first of several cases to extend the 14th Amendment rights over the states.

Answer: Gitlow v. New York

10.  Identify the famous American, on a 30-20-10 basis:

30 point clue - This Detroit native graduated summa cum laude from UCLA in 1925, even though he worked a job as a janitor and played football, baseball, and basketball.

20 point clue - He went on to study at Harvard, London, and South Africa and joined the faculty at Howard University in 1928 before winning the NAACP's Spingarn Medal in 1949.

10 point clue - An expert on colonialism, he became the first African-American to win the Nobel Prize for peace (in 1950) when he negotiated a peace agreement between Palestinian Arabs and Israel.

Answer: Ralph Bunche

11.  Identify the author by works on a 10-5 basis:

A. 10 point clue - The Jew of Malta; Tamburlaine the Great

     5 point clue - The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus

Answer: Christopher Marlowe

B. 10 point clue - the unfinished works The Trial and The Castle

     5 point clue - The Metamorphosis

Answer: Franz Kafka

C. 10 point clue - The Bluest Eye, Tar Baby

     5 point clue - Sula, Song of Solomon, Beloved

Answer: Toni Morrison

12.  Give the name of the work from its first line and author FFP each:

1. "When my mother was pregnant with me, she told me later, a party of hooded Ku Klux Klan riders galloped up to our home in Omaha, Nebraska, one night."  Author: Alex Haley

Answer: The Autobiography of Malcolm X

2. "Actually, I was sitting on my bed in my apartment in Culver City, watching the Lakers game with the sound turned off, while I tried to study vocabulary for my introductory Japanese class."  Author: Michael Crichton

Answer: Rising Sun

3. "Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm,  had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes."   Author: George Orwell

Answer: Animal Farm

4. "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."   Author:  Jane Austen

Answer: Pride and Prejudice

5. "It was Wang Lung's marriage day."  Author:  Pearl Buck

Answer: The Good Earth

6. "When Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, extending upon his countenance like the rays in a rudimentary sketch of the rising sun."  Author:   Thomas Hardy

Answer: Far From the Madding Crowd

13.  Give the month, day, and year of the following historical events for 5 pts. each:

1.Julius Caesar is assassinated March 15, 44 B.C.

2.Charlemagne is crowned king December 25, 800

3.Germany invades Poland to start WW2 September 1, 1939

4.The first A-bomb in warfare is dropped on Hiroshima August 6, 1945

5.King John attaches his seal to the Magna Carta June 15, 1215

14. FFP each, given each action in WW2, identify it by its operation code name:

A. September 1, 1939 - Germany invades Poland and starts WW2

Answer: Operation Case White

B. June 22, 1941 - Germany invades the Soviet Union with 3 million troops despite a previous non-aggression pact.

Answer: Operation Barbarossa

C. November 1942 - the Allies under Eisenhower invade north Africa.

Answer: Operation Torch

D. September 1943 - the Allies under Patton and Montgomery invade the Italian mainland.

Answer: Operation Avalanche

E. June 6, 1944 - the Allies under Eisenhower invade the Normandy coast of France on D-Day.

Answer: Operation Overlord

F. April 1945 - the Allies stage a paratroop invasion of German-controlled SE France.

Answer: Operation Anvil

15.  Given the works, identify this English author on a 30-20-10 basis:

30 point clue - His first work was The Chase, and William and Helen (1796).  He also authored the full length poem The Lay of the Minstrel.

20 point clue - The novels Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, and Old Mortality.

10 point clue - Rob Roy, Redgauntlet, The Talisman, Ivanhoe.

Answer: Sir Walter Scott

16.  Given a brief description, identify this ecumenical council on a 30-20-10 basis:

30 point clue - Pope Paul III called this council which declared Scripture and tradition as equally valid sources of Catholic faith, reaffirmed the doctrine of transubstantiation, and defended the practice of granting indulgences.

20 point clue - This council attempted to define Catholic belief in light of the Protestant reformation and formed the basis of the counter reformation.

10 point clue - This council took place from 1545 to 1563 during three distinct sessions.

Answer: the Council of Trent

17.  Given the works, name the social scientist (3 parts, 10 pts. each):

A. This economist authored the Theory of Moral Sentiments.

Answer: Adam Smith

B.  This sociologist authored the Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism and The Theory of Social and Economic Organization.

Answer: Max Weber

C.  This anthropologist authored the The Making Mankind and the autobiography One Life.

Answer: Richard Leakey

18. Arrange the following events of the American Revolution in chronological order from earliest to latest (6 parts, 30 points):

British capture Fort Ticonderoga

Declaration of Independence is approved

John Paul Jones Bonhomme Richard defeats the Serapis

Nathan Hale is executed

British force is defeated at King's Mountain

Correct Order: Declaration of Independence is approved, Nathan Hale is executed, British capture Fort Ticonderoga, JPJ defeats the Serapis, the British are defeated at Kings Mountain

19.  Given the year they won the Nobel Prize in Physics and a description of their work, identify the individual (3 parts, 10 points each):

A.  1906.  For studying electrical discharge through gases and discovering the electron.

Answer: J.J. Thompson

B.  1927.  For inventing the cloud chamber.

Answer: Charles Wilson

C.  1938.  For producing the transuranic radioactive elements by nuclear irradiation.

Answer: Enrico Fermi

20.   Identify the following six business terms FFP each from its definition:

A. It is the use of a merger to branch out into diverse fields to get the most money possible.  It is legal today.

Answer: conglomerate

B. It is the consolidation of two companies into a single corporation.

Answer: merger

C. Legal today, it is when a person buys sufficient stock in different companies (called subsidiaries) to be able to control them all.

Answer: holding company

D. It is where a secret agreement is sealed between competitors to fix prices and output, to divide sales territory, or both.  It is highly illegal today (ask MIT and the Ivy League).

Answer: a pool

E. A once very popular (and today highly illegal) tactic, it called for stockholders of competing companies to turn their stock over to a board in exchange for certificates.  The board then gained control and managed member companies so as to eliminate competition.

Answer: the trust

F. This is where one or more men served on the boards of directors of several different companies so that they are able to influence the decisions of all the companies involved.

Answer: interlocking directorate