Vanderbilt B - Toss-Ups
MLK Weekend Tournament - January 15-16, 1994
1. Born in El Padron, he attended the University of Madrid and also served in Franco's army during the Spanish Civil war. His style of brutal realism, known as tremindista was apparent in this first novel. For 10 points, identify this novelist of Mrs. Caldwell Speaks to Her Son who is best known for La familia de Pascual Duarte and as the winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Answer: Camilo Jose Cela
2. He was born in Sarrat in 1917 and while still a student was convicted of a politically motivated murder. Free on bail,he earned a law degree, appealed his case and won acquittal. During World War II he served as an intelligence officer and after the war served in the Philippine House and Senate. For 10 points, identify this man who defeated Diosdado Macapagal in the presidential election of 1965 who in 1972 suspended the constitution, declared martial law and ruled the Philippines as a dictator.
Answer: Ferdinand Marcos
3. It is located mostly in southwest Poland but also includes region of the Czech Republic and part of Saxony in Germany. Although only 1900 square miles in area, this region was very important to European history. For 10 points, identify this region whose seizure by Prussia in 1740 set off the War of Austrian succession.
Answer: Silesia
4. It was acccidentally discovered in 1781 and named in honor of its disoverer's royal patron. That name did not stick and for a time it was named in honor of its discoverer. It's present name was first proposed by Jonan Bode and was in general use by the lat 19th century. For 10 points, identify this planet with a mass is 17 times that of the Earth, that has a large storm system the size of Earth known as the Great Dark Spot discovered by William Herschel.
Answer: Uranus
5. He attacked capitalism in his work The People of the Abyss and wrote on reincarnation in his 1915 collection The Star Rover. He was a strong believer in environmental determinism, as shown in his two great animal novels. FTP, name this author of The Son of the Wolf, White Fang and The Call of the Wild .
Answer: Jack London
6. It became a scandal when it was revealed that there had been demands of a ten million dollar loan and a $250,000 gift to the French foreign minister. The demands were made through a set of agents who met with three American commissioners - C.C. Pinckney, John Marshall, and Elbridge Gerry. For 10 points, what is this incident of American history that is known by the letters used to designate the agents in the correspondence of the American ministers.
Answer: XYZ Affair
7. His System of Logic ranks with Aristotle's in that field. Other works of his include Principles of Political Economy and The Subjugation of Women. FTP name this utilitarian philosopher best known for the essay On Liberty .
Answer: John Stuart Mill
8. It was an artistic movement that flourished in American painting from the mid-1940's to the mid-1950's. It developed a revolutionary approach to the nature and purpose of painting. FTP, identify this movement whose philosophy was shown in various styles such as Jack Pollack's action painting.
Answer: Abstract expressionism
9. Unlike its logarithmically based competitor, it is is comprised of tweleve arbitrary rankings based on observed effect. For 10 points, what is this competitor of the Richter scale for measuring earthquake intensity?
Answer: Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale
10. He kills two Burgundian chiefs and takes their magic sword, their cursed hoard of gold, and their tarnkappe - a cape that makes its wearer invisible. He then goes to Worms to court the beautiful Kriemhild, the sister of the Burgunidan king Gunther. For 10 points, identify this hero murdered by Hagen, the central figure of German legend and husband of Kriemhild.
Answer: Sigfried or Sigurd
11. Of an uncertain origin, anthropologists think they may be related to European, Asian, or Aboriginal ancestry. Their language is not believed to be related to any other and full-blooded members of this rase are rare. Over the centuries, many have given up their villages ad accepted the customs of the Japanese. FTP, identify this group of people who may have been the first inhabitants of Japan.
Answer: Ainu
12. He was born in 1756 and baptized with the first two names Johannes Chrysostomos, but it is by another pair of names that we better know him. He first learned to play the harpsichord at the age of 4 and by the age of 12 had written the opera buffa, "The Simple Pretense". For 10 points, identify this classical composer who wrote his serenade Eine Kleine Nachtmusk the same year as his opera Don Giavonni .
Answer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
13. It's original charter was obtained by two men though it provided for a board of trustees to govern it. It served its purpose as a buffer to the Spanish well, but did not begin to grow and prosper until the charter expired in 1753. For 10 points, identify this British colony that was founded, in part, as a settlement of London's criminals and poor by James Oglethorpe in 1733.
Answer: Georgia
14. One of the three means of expressing concentration, it is a common unit equaling the number of moles of solute dissolved in one kilogram of solvent. FTP, identify this unit designated by the small letter "m."
Answer: Molality
15. It includes the most important myth in Greek mythology--- the origins of the universe. It is according to its text that Gaea arose out of Chaos giving birth to Uranus, the sky. FTP, name this 8th century BC text by Hesiod.
Answer: Theogeny
16. In 1187, he was arrested on a charge of conspiring to assassinate Emperor Alexander III of Russia and spent five years in penal servitude in Siberia. Following his relase, he became a leader of the Polish socialist party and in 1894 beagen to publish The Worker, a secret party newspaper. He later organized a secret private army of about 10,000 Poles to fight for the freedom of Poland smf led the Polish forces on the side of Austria against Russia in WWI. For 10 points, identify this man who retired from politics in 1923, but returned in 1926 leading a military overthrow of the government of Poland.
Answer: Jozef Pilsudski
17. It was founded in 1943 and the Balagna winery is marking its 50th anniversary with a new wine called La Bomba Grande featuring a mushroom cloud on its label. It is operated by the University of California and funded by the Department of Energy. FTP, identify this national laboratory in which much work was done in the development of the atomic bomb.
Answer: Los Alamos National Laboratory
18. He raised the conventional academic tragedy of his time, rigidly held within the limitations of the Senecan form, to a level of serious and emotionally gripping art. He is considered the first great Elizabethan writer of tragedy, establishing his theatrical reputation around 1587 with Tamburlaine the Great . FTP, name this British author of The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus .
Answer: Christopher Marlowe
19. He practiced law and served in the Tennessee Senate before entering the US House in 1827 as a Democrat. In 1829 he joined the Whig party and in 1834 defeated James K Polk for the office of Speaker of the House. Along with Edward Everett, he ran in the election of 1860 on the platform of maintaining the Union at all costs. FTP, name the Presidential candidate of the Constituinal Union party who finished fourth in the hotly contested election of 1860.
Answer: John Bell
20. It is a classification which contains some 22,000 species of plants divided into three phyla. In their level of organization, hte lie between the green algae and the simpler lower vascular plants such as the lycopodiophyta. For 10 points, identify these nonvascular embryo-bearing plants that include the hornwarts, mosses, and liverworts.
Answer: bryophytes or bryophyta
21. Henry James publishes "The Bostonians", Geronimo surrenders, the Pasteur Institute is founded, Haymarket Square is bombed, and the Statue of Liberty is dedicated. FTP, identify the year in which these events occurred.
Answer: 1886
22. This branch of Protestant Christianity accepts the Bible as the primary rule of faith with Christian tradition and reason as secondary. A break-away from the Anglican church, it is now the 3rd largest denomination in the U. S. FTP, name this church founded by John Wesley.
Answer: (United) Methodist
23. This mountain system stretches over 7,000 miles across Africa, Europe, and Asia. It is considered to be the result of the collision of the Eurasian plate with the African, Arabian, and Indian plates. FTP, name this system which includes the Alps, the Atlas, the Carpathian, the Caucasus, and the Himalayan mountains.
Answer: Tethyan Mountain system
Vanderbilt B - Bonuses
MLK Weekend Tournament - January 15-16, 1994
1. (30) Identify the composers of the following works for ten points each.
A. "A Musical Joke" A concerto and divertimento making fun of lesser composers.
Answer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
B. "The Hebrides" and "Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage"
Answer: Felix Mendelssohn
C. "Das Lied von der erde"(The Song of the Earth) and "Songs of a Wayfarer"
Answer: Gustav Mahler
2. (30) Given a description identify the following Dickinson's for 10 points each.
1. An American poet, know as much for her seclusion as for her poems such as "Because I could not Stop for Death."
Answer: Emily Dickinson
2. She was an orator of the Civil War period who spoke on abolitionism and women's rights. Known as the North's "Joan of Arc," she attacked the South in a speech to Congress and Abraham Lincoln.
Answer: Elizabeth Dickinson
3. A representative of Delaware at the Constitutional Congress. He was also one of the few members of the Second Continental Congress not to sign the Declaration of Independence. His writings earned him the name, "penman of the Revolution."
Answer: John Dickinson
3. (30) Given the capital of a former Yugoslav republic, identify the republic for five points each.
A. Belgrade Answer: Serbia
B. Sarajevo Answer: Bosnia and Hercegovina
C. Zagreb Answer: Croatia
D. Ljubljana Answer: Slovenia
E. Titograd Answer: Montenegro
F. Skopje Answer: Macedonia
4. (30) For ten points each, identify these terms from nuclear physics. A. It is the nucleus of a specific isotope.
Answer: Nuclide
B. The particle that carries the weak force.
Answer: weak boson or intermediate vector boson or z particle or omega plus or minus particle
C. A short-lived particle made of a quark-antiquark pair.
Answer: Meson
5. (30) For ten points a piece, given a quote, identify the character from King Lear who says it.
A. "And worse I maybe yet, The worst is not/ So long as we can say 'This is the worst.'"
Answer: Edgar
B. "As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport."
Answer: Earl of Gloucester
C. "Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low- an excellent thing in a woman."
Answer: King Lear
6. (30) Cambodia held its first free elections in many years in 1993. For ten points each, answer the following questions about modern Cambodian politics and the election.
A. It is the Maoist Communist group that boycotted the elections.
Answer: Khmer Rouge
B. He ruled as prince of Cambodia in the '50's and '60's, and he was the winner of the national elections.
Answer: Norodom Sihanouk
C. This general and prime minster of Sihanouk seized power in March 1970 while Sihanouk was abroad.
Answer: Lon Nol
7. (30) Identify the following gas laws for ten points each.
A. It states that the volume of a gas is directly proportional to its Kelvin temperature, if pressure is constant.
Answer: Charles's Law
B. It states that the relative rates at which two gases under identical conditions and pressure will diffuse vary inversely as the square roots of the molecular masses of the gases.
Answer: Graham's Law
C. Formulated by a British chemist, it states that when temperature is held constant, the weight of a gas that dissolves in a liquid is proportional to the pressure exerted by the gas on the liquid.
Answer: Henry's Law
8. (30 points) Answer the following questions about Andrew Jackson and his advisors.
1. For 5 points, name the unofficial body with whom Jackson met regularly from 1829 to 1831 because of strife in his administration.
Answer: Kitchen cabinet
2. Jackson's official cabinet was split because of rivalry between his Vice President and his Secretary of State. For 5 points, each name them.
Answer: Martin Van Buren and John C. Calhoun
3. For 15 points, name the only other official cabinet members, besides Van Buren who met with the Kitchen cabinet, Jackson's Secretary of War.
Answer: John Eaton
9. (30-20-10) Identify the author from his works.
(30) Diaries of Adam and Eve
(20) Letters from the Earth
(10) The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
Answer: Mark Twain or Samuel Clemens
10. (30) A. This economic theory, accepted widely until the 1700's, stressed the importance of government in regulating trade.
Answer: Mercantilism
B. This group of French writers were the first to attack mercantilism in the 1700's.
Answer: physiocrats
C. The physiocrats developed what term meaning governmental non-interference in the economy.
Answer: Laissez faire
11. (30) Here is a bonus to test your NCAA football bowl knowledge. For ten points each, in what two bowl games did teams have time added to the clock at the end of a game or half in order to attempt an unsuccessful field goal.
Answer: Independence and Orange Bowls
For ten more points, name the major corporate sponsor of the Independence and Orange bowls.
Answer: Poulan Weedeater Independence Bowl and Federal Express Orange Bowl
12.(30) For ten points each, identify the following figures from Greek mythology.
A. Beautiful maidens that guarded various parts of nature. Answer: Nymphs
B. Nymphs who lived in the forest. Answer: Dryads
C. Nymphs who lived in the sea. Answer: Nereids
13. (30) For ten points each, identify the following functions by the hyperbolic functions they represent.
A. (e x -e -x) /(e x +e -x) Answer: tanh x (hyperbolic tangent of x)
B. 2/(e x -e -x ) Answer: csch x (hyperbolic cosecant of x)
C. (e x +e -x )/2 Answer: cosh x (hyperbolic cosine of x)
14. (30-20-10) Name the scientist.
(30) His matrix mechanics were found to be equivalent to Schrodinger's wave mechanics.
(20) He won the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work in nuclear physics.
(10) He is best known for the uncertainty principle given his name.
Answer: Weiner Heisenburg
15. (30) For 10 points, what African-American won the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Answer: Toni Morrison
For 10 points, Morrison won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for what novel?
Answer: Beloved
For a final 10 points, she is a professor teaching creative writing at what Ivy League school?
Answer: Princeton
16. (30) Identify the patron saint of the given profession or country for 10 points each.
A. England Answer: St. George
B. carpenters Answer: St. Joseph
C. travellers Answer: St. Christopher
17. (30) Given the year and the assailant, identify the U. S. leader who was attacked(but not necessarily killed).
A. Nov. 1, 1950, Puerto Rican nationalists Answer: Harry S. Truman
B. Sep. 6, 1901, Leon Czolgolz Answer: William McKinley
C. June 5, 1968 , Sirhan Sirhanb Answer: Robert Kennedy
18. (30-20-10) Name this man.
(30) He studied mathematics at Rostov University and served as a commander of a reconnaissance battery in WWII for the Soviet Union.
(20) Arrested at the end of a war, he served in a labor camp for eight years. His sentence of internal exile "in perpetuity" was commuted, allowing him to teach astronomy and physics.
(10) He is best known for his novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich , in which he draws on his own prison camp experience.
Answer: Alexander Solzhentsyn
19. (30) identify the following theories for the existence of God for ten points each.
A. An a priori argument, it attempts to prove the existence of God through logic. It relies on the definition of God as "That than which nothing greater can be conceived."
Answer: ontological argument
B. It attempts to prove God's existence by demonstrating the order in the universe.
Answer: teleological argument
C. It claims that God is an independent being which is the cause of all dependent beings. It relies on the principle of sufficient reason.
Answer: cosmological argument
20. (25) Identify the five branches of traditional philosophy given a clue for five points each.
A. The study of the fundamental nature of reality and existence of the essence of things.
Answer: metaphysics
B. It aims to determine the nature, basis, and extent of knowledge.
Answer: epistemology
C. The study of the principles and methods of reasoning.
Answer: logic
D. It concerns human conduct, character, and values.
Answer: ethics
E. It deals with the creation and principles of art and beauty.
Answer: aesthetics
21. (30-20-10) Name this historical event.
(30) It marked the actual beginning of the Thirty Years' War.
(20) It was not actually unususal for this to happen, for it followed an old Bohemian custom of punishing officials.
(10) This event culminated in Protestant rebels throwing two of Emporer Mathias's ministers out of a window.
Answer: defenestration of Prague
22. (30) Given the common name, give the Latin name for each constellation for ten points each.
A. The Big Dipper Answer: Ursa Major
B. The Little Dog Answer: Canis Minor
C. The serpent bearer Answer: Ophiuchus
23. (30) For fifteen points each, name
A. The Guardian Angels leader who has survived two assassination attempts. Answer: Curtis Sliwaain
B. The group seeking to prevent gay-bashing set up similarly to the Guardian Angels.
Answer: The Pink Panthers
24. (30) Given a fictional location, identify the TSR series in which it can be found.
A. Krynn Answer: Dragonlance
B. Toril Answer: Forgotten Realms
C. Barovia Answer: Ravenloft
25. (20) Given a year, identify the U.S. state that had the highest population at the time.
A. 1800 Answer: Virginia
B. 1860 Answer: New York
C. 1960 Answer: New York
D. 1970 Answer: California
26. (20) Identify the year of the following events for five points each.
A. Francis Gary Powers is shot down over the USSR.
Answer: 1960
B. The Winter Olympics are held in Nagano, Japan.
Answer: 1998
C. Andorra is admitted to the U. N.
Answer: 1993
D. Sally ride becomes the first American woman in space.
Answer: 1983
27. (30) For ten points each, identify the important Middle Age epic given its time period and origin.
A. An Anglo-Saxon epic that appeared about 700. Answer: Beowulf
B. A French epic written about 1100. Answer: The Song of Roland
C. A German epic appearing about 1200. Answer: Nibelingenlied (Song of the Nibelungs)