Oglethorpe - Toss-Ups
MLK Weekend Tournament - January 15-16, 1994
1) These animals are the world's largest invertebrates and are of the genus Ardriteuthis. One of these was found in a recent Peter Benchley novel ripping up boats off the Bahamas. They can do it easily, one found in New Zealand in 1887 was 57 ft. long, including nearly 50 ft. of tentacles. For ten points, name these denizens of the deep.
Answer: Giant Squids or Kracken
2) In 1912, this painter had to choose between painting and walking again. For six years, he had been confined to a wheel chair due to rheumatoid arthritis. He consulted a physician who put him on a special diet to strengthen his limbs, but it was to no avail as he could only hobble a few painful steps. He reportedly said: "I give up. It takes all my will power, and I would have none of it left for painting. And if I have to choose between walking and painting, I'd much rather paint." He never walked again, but did plenty of painting. With a brush tied to his crippled hands, he produced at least 2 masterpieces, "The Judgement of Paris" and "The Women with Hats". For ten points, who was this artist.
Answer: P. Auguste Renoir
3) They are comprised of billions of particles of water ice ranging in size from smaller than a grain of sugar to as large as a house. They encompass a total span of 74,000 kilometers. Their main components are labeled A, B, and C, with the division between A & B called the Cassini Division. For ten points what are these celestial objects, of which we were offered a spectacular computerized view after the eclipse in the first few seasons' title sequence of Star Trek, the Next Generation?
Answer: The rings of Saturn
4) Born in 1947, she was educated in the U.S. at American University and later became a member of the German Democratic Socialist Party. She was elected to the Bundestag in 1983 and 1987 under the party she had co-founded. For ten points name this leader and co-founder of the German Green Party, who was either murdered or committed suicide in 1992.
Answer: Petra Kelly
5) In the end, he is unmaksed by Traddles and Micawber but not before cheating and robbing his employer under the guise of knowin his "'umble place". For 10 points, identify this fawning, crooked villian who aspires to the hand of Agnes Wickfield in Charles Dickens' David Copperfield.
Answer: Uriah Heep
6) Dreiser publishes Sister Carrie, Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams, Arthur Evans begins his excavations of Minoan culture in Crete, King Umberto of Italy is murdered by an anarchist, Boxer risings take place in China against Europeans, William McKinley is elected President. For ten points, in what year did these occur?
Answer: 1900
7) Educated at Harvard and The U.S. Naval Academy, this engineer almost committed suicide by jumping into the Chicago River in the 1920s. In 1917 he discovered energetic/synergetic geometry, and he later devised a structural system known as Tensegrity. He is the author of such works as I Seem To Be A Verb, The Critical Path and Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. For ten points, identify the inventor of the geodesic dome.
Answer: Buckminster Fuller
8) It is a landlocked nation, but it nevertheless possesses a navy of one boat. This craft's task is to patrol the waters of a lake which forms part of the border with its western neighbor. For ten points name this country much of whose land as well as the lake in question is on the Altiplano, a very high plateau situated between the eastern and western branches of the Andes.
Answer: Bolivia
9) "While there is a lower class, I am in it. While there is a criminal element, I am of it. Where there is a soul in prison, I am not free." For ten points name the speaker of these words, who was a perennial Socialist Party candidate for president of the United States.
Answer: Eugene V. Debs
10) Everyone loves a romance, and what better setting for a romance than a boat. The main character falls in love with a fair maiden, and decides to run away with her. That was, of course, until he learned that he was still under apprenticeship because his birthday fell on February 29, and thus he had a birthday only every 4 years. This is the plot of, for 10 points, which Gilbert and Sullivan operetta?
Answer: The Pirates of Penzance
11) This Nigerian novelist focuses on the moral and practical dilemmas of Africans caught up in the clash between western values and traditional lifestyles. He received international acclaim for Arrow of God (1964) and A Man of the People (1966). For ten points name this 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature winner whose best known work is Things Fall Apart.
Answer: Chinua Achebe
12) This American painter studied at the New York School of Art from 1900 to 1906. His mature work, such as Early Sunday Morning, features everyday scenes portrayed in stark reality, conveying an atmosphere of desolation or loneliness. For ten points identify the artist of Nighthawks.
Answer: Edward Hopper
13) "But with the governments who have declared their independence and maintain it, and whose independence we have, on great consideration and just principles, acknowledged, we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them or controlling in any other manner their destiny by a European power in any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States." For ten points, from which 1823 statement of U.S. foreign policy is this quotation taken?
Answer: Monroe Doctrine
14) He studied law at the University of Chicago, where he was a star basketball player, and at Oxford. An excellent athlete, he fought against French boxing champion Georges Carpentier and was offered a match with world champion, Jack Johnson. It is probably a good thing he declined this match because he used the remaining brain cells to discover the relationship between the velocity of receding galaxies and their distance from the earth. He went on to use this relationship to measure the size of the universe. For ten points name this astronomer whose calculations for this have been revised by a factor of about 10.
Answer: Edwin Hubble
15) His wife caught him kissing the maid and said, "I am surprised!" Without skipping a beat he said, "My dear, I am surprised; you are astonished," thereby correcting her grammar, since in his time "surprise" meant "to be taken by surprise;" and he should have known. For ten points, who was this first great American lexicographer?
Answer: Noah Webster
16) As children their active imaginations transmuteda set of wooden soldiers into characters in a series of stories they wrote about the imaginary kingdoms of Angria and Gondal. Their father, Patrick was born in Ireland but sent to Haworth, Yorkshire as rector and it is with Haworth that they are associated. For 10 points, identify this literary family in which the three sisters overshadowed their brother Branwell in reputation as writers.
Answer: Bronte
17) According to Norse mythology, they were discovered by Odin hanging upside down from Yggdrasil, or the World Tree. Akin in function to the Tarot and the Chinese Book of Changes, they were last in current use in Iceland during the late Middle Ages. They were used for legal documents, writing poetry, inscriptions and divination, yet they were never developed as a spoken language. For ten points, what is this ancient alphabetic script, each of whose letters possessed a meaningful name as well as a sound, and which you may be able to read if you are familiar with the game Ultima in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien?
Answer: The Runic alphabet or Runes
18) Established in 1977, this opposition Human Rights group originally had 242 individuals sign its manifest. When it was distributed in 1992 its leader noted "We never thought we would live to see the moment that we could abolish it." This Czechoslovakian dissident movement helped organize the anti-government demonstration in November 1989, culminating in a violent revolution that led to the downfall of the Communist regime. For ten points name this group whose most prominent leader, poet and playwright Vaclav Havel, later became president of Czechoslovakia.
Answer: Charter 77
19) Signs and symptoms include shallow breathing, rapid and weak pulse, pale and moist skin, mental confusion, drooping eyelids, and dilated pupils. It may accompany any serious injury, such as blood loss, breathing impairment, and heart failure. For ten points, what is this medical condition?
Answer: Shock
20) This strange phenomenon occurs when a light source is placed in a strong magnetic field, causing the spectral lines to be split or shifted. For a quick ten points, identify this effect, named for the Dutch physicist who discovered it in 1896.
Answer: Zeeman effect
21) He was born into a poor Jewish family in Vitebsk, Russia, in 1884. In 1910 a patron enabled him to move to Paris, where the influence of the contemporary avant-garde art forms liberated him from naturalism. It was about this time he painted his first masterpiece, I and the Village. For ten points name this Russian-born French painter, whose The Fallen Angel came much later in his life.
Answer: Marc Chagall
22) This tenor was in San Francisco during the 1906 earthquake. Fortunately for music lovers, he was not harmed. Not surprisingly, he never set foot in the city again. He was born in 1873 in Naples and had a mediocre career until his first big hit in La Gioconda. From then on his astonishingly beautiful voice, with its rich and mellow tones, made him famous the world over. He was the first "gramaphone tenor" and began recording in 1902, making his last in 1920. For ten points, name this famous Italian tenor, one of whose best recordings is "Una furtima lagrima."
Answer: Enrico Caruso
23) Amidst all the efforts toward recycling nowadays, it makes you wonder how many calendars are thrown away each year. Wouldn't it be great if we all saved and reused all our old calendars? For ten points, how many annual calendars would we each need to save before never needing to buy another?
Answer: 14 (One per year beginning on Monday, one for Tuesday, etc., and then seven more for leap years.)
24) When Hyman Admiral Rickover asked this future president if he had always done his best in school, he said yes, and then he changed his answer to no. Admiral Rickover then asked "why not?" For ten points, name this President who took as one of his slogans, "Why not the best?"
Answer: Jimmy Carter
25) According to the 1993 Information Please Almanac, the top ten banks in the world by monetary assets are located, for ten points, in what two countries?
Answer: Japan and France (Switzerland's top bank is only #26 in the world!).
26) Thomas Jefferson's house is Monticello; George Washington's house is Mount Vernon. For ten points, what is the name of Andrew Jackson's house?
Answer: The Hermitage
27) This architectural partnership is the world's largest and has built over 800 structures worldwide. Among its partners are Bruce Graham, Gordon, Bunshaft, Walter Nietche and Myron Goldsmith. For ten points name this firm which built the Sears and John Hancock Towers in Chicago.
Answer: Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
28) This two word name is the location of the most famous and most thoroughly preserved of the ancient Mayan settlements on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. For ten points, what is this two word name?
Answer: Chichen Itza
29) She was born in Decatur, Alabama, and received a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from Stanford University in 1977 and later her doctorate in medicine from Cornell University in 1981. From January 1983 through June 1985, she was the Area Peace Corps Medical Officer for Sierra Leone and Liberia in West Africa. For ten points name this woman who was one of two female astronauts comprising the seven member crew of the fall 1992 mission of the Space Shuttle "Endeavor," and was the first African-American woman in space.
Answer: Dr. Mae Jamison
Oglethorpe - Bonuses
MLK Weekend Tournament - January 15-16, 1994
1) (30 pts) Do you skip ahead and read the conclusions of novels first? Then this question is for you. Identify the novel from the final sentence, five points apiece and a five point bonus for all correct.
a) "The knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took off." Answer: Catch 22
b) "The old man was dreaming about lions."
Answer: The Old Man and the Sea
c) "Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everbody."
Answer: The Catcher in the Rye
d) "So we beat on, boats against the currrent, borne back
ceaselessly into the past."
Answer: The Great Gatsby
e) "Whatever we had missed, we possessed the precious, the
incommunicable past."
Answer: My Antonia
2) (25 pts) Given a vice president(s), name the president under whom he served.
a) Daniel Tompkins James Monroe
b) Richard Johnson Martin Van Buren
c) Schyler Colfax & Henry Wilson U.S. Grant
d) Thomas Marshall Woodrow Wilson
e) Alben Barkley Harry Truman
3) (25 pts) Carmen Sandiego is on the loose again. This time, she's wreaking havoc on the periodic table! (Reader: please pause to allow for agonized screams) She is tired of all those Acme Agents thwarting her plans so she's decided to get rid of them once and for all by stocking up on some not-so-friendly elements. Name the element from the description and you will earn five Acme Crime Bucks as you play: "Where on the Periodic Table is Carmen Sandiego?"
a) Carmen just hates to be photographed! They never show her good side on those Post Office mug shots. She decides to steal this element, #47, which forms nitrates and halides that are essential to photography.
Answer: Silver
b) After swiping silver, Carmen pauses to snatch the element right below it at #79.
Answer: Gold
c) She'll fix those gumshoes! She jumps down to the actinide series to pick-up a favorite element of mad physicists with plans for world domination. Carmen's got her own plans for element #92
Answer: Uranium
d) From Uranium, she runs across the transition metals and climbs the step that separates metals from non-metals. Along the way, she snags element #33, which is a favorite poison of devious old ladies who wear lace.
Answer: Arsenic
e) Done with her lethal shopping spree, Carmen heads for the noble gases, and in particular, the one that can help her make a quick getaway by air.
Answer: Helium
4) (30 pts) For ten points, each identify the genetic disorder which results from the following conditions:
a) A female with only one X chromosome
Answer: Turner's Syndrome
b) A male with an extra X chromosome
Answer: Klienfelter's Syndrome
c) An individual with three number 21 chromosomes
Answer: Down's Syndrome
5) 30-20-10. I'll give you some nicknames for a state, you name the state.
30-Battleground of Freedom; Garden of the West: Salt of the Earth.
20-Breadbasket of America; Wheat State
10-Sunflower State; Jayhawk State
Answer: Kansas
6) (30 pts) All good College Bowlers should know Pulitzer Prize winners in Literature by the year they won, but we'll understand if you don't. I'll give you ten points if you can name the author, given just the year, five if you need the work also.
a) 10-1939 5-The Yearling
Answer: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
b) 10-1948 5-Tales of the South Pacific
Answer: James Michener
c) 10-1955 5-A Fable Answer: William Faulkner
7) (25 pts) The apostle Paul wrote about one half of the New Testament. Four of the books he didn't write were the four gospels - Matthew, Mark,Luke and John. Another, Hebrews, is by an unknown author. For five points apiece name the five other authors who wrote New Testament booksbeside the Paulines, the Gospels and Hebrews. (Hint: two also wrote gospels.)
Answer: St. Peter, St. Luke, St. John (son of Zebedec), St. James, St. Jude
8) (25 pts) Place the following events of ancient history in
chronological order from earliest to lastest for five points apiece and a five point bonus for all correct: Cyrus establishes the Persian Empire; Siddhartha Gautama develops Buddhist philosophy; Aeschylus writes first early Greek tragedies; Lao-tze develops the philosophy of Taoism.
Answer: Lao-tze, Siddhartha Gautama; Cyrus; Aeschylus
9) (30 pts) Given a Civil War battle, you identify the state in which it took place for five points apiece.
a) First Bull Run Virginia
b) Fort Donelson Tennessee
c) Antietam Maryland
d) Vicksburg Mississippi
e) Chickamauga Georgia
f) Cold Harbor Virginia
10) (30 pts) Just when you thought it was safe to go back to a scholar'sbowl tournament...it's time for that dreaded opera bonus! Given a list of characters, identify the opera for ten points. (Don't worry, you have heard of these.)
a) Tamino, Papageno, Pamina, and Papagena.
Answer: The Magic Flute
b) Count Almavira, Rosina, Figaro, Susanna.
Answer: The Marriage of Figaro
c) Marenka, Jenik, Kecal, and Vasek
Answer: The Bartered Bride
11) (20 pts) It's time for musical fun math! 10 points for each answer.
a) Calculate the number of pennies in an opera times the number of brides for those brothers plus the number of oranges that Prokofiev loved.
Answer: 24 = (3 X 7) + 3
b) Add the number of movements in a sonata to the year in Tchaikovsky's famous overture and multiply times the number of flats in C major.
Answer: 0 = (3 + 1812) X 0
c) Take the number of quartets by T.S. Eliot, multiply by the number of operas by Beethoven, and add it to the number of days of Musa Dagh
Answer: (4 X 1) + 40 = 44
12) (30 pts) You'll get ten points for naming the year given presidential campaign slogans, five points if you need the names of the candidates.
a) 10-"The Moose is Loose," "A Covenant with the People."
5-Woodrow Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt, William Taft, Eugene V. Debs, Eugene W. Chafin.
Answer: 1912
b) 10-"Scratch a Democrat and You Will Find a Rebel," "Vote as You Shot," "The Party That Saved the Union Must Rule It."
5-Ulysses S. Grant, Horatio Seymour
Answer: 1868
c) 10-"A Vote for Al Smith is a Vote for the Pope," "A Chicken in Every Pot, A Car in Every Garage."
5-Herbert Hoover, Alfred E. Smith, Norman Thomas
Answer: 1928
13) 30-20-10-5. Name author given the list of works.
30 - The Road to Wigan Pier.
20 - Down and Out in Paris and London
10 - Homage to Catalonia
5 - 1984
Answer: George Orwell
14) (30 pts) Identify the Shakespeare play given a list of characters for ten points each.
a) Orlando, Duke Senior, and Rosalind.
Answer: As You Like It
b) Viola, Orsino and Malvolio.
Answer: Twelfth Night
c) Miranda, Ferdinand and Ariel.
Answer: The Tempest
15) (25 pts) Identify the order to which the following mammals belong for five points each.
a) Muskrats, lemmings, beavers, mice
Answer: Rodentia
b) armadillos, sloths, hairy anteaters
Answer: Edentata
c) raccoons, skunks, foxes, lions, hyenas
Answer: Carnivora
d) moles, shrews, hedgehogs
Answer: Insectivora
e) belugas, porpoises, killer whales, right whales
Answer: Cetacea
16) (30 pts) Everyone knows how to convert in the traditional units ofthe English and metric systems, but how good are you at identifying more exotic measurements? For five points apiece, identify each measurement given a definition.
a) A term used in measuring cloth equal to 40 yards.
Answer: Bolt
b) Originally the weight of a seed of the carob tree in the
Mediterranean region, it equals 200 milligrams or 3,086 grains
troy. It is used to measure the amount of alloy in a metal in
proportion to gold.
Answer: Carat
c) Two liquid barrels.
Answer: Hogshead
d) A unit of length equal to 66 feet and usually divided into 100 links. It is used in surveying.
Answer: Chain
e) 500 sheets of paper, or 20 quires.
Answer: Ream
f) Used in printing to measure type size, it equals .013836 inch or 1/12 pica.
Answer: Point
17) (25 pts) For five points apiece identify the state given it's official song.
a) "On the Banks of the Wabash Far Away" Ohio
b) "Suwanee River" or "Old Folks at Home" Florida
c) "Home on the Range" Kansas
d) "Yankee Doodle" Connecticut
e) "You Are My Sunshine" Louisiana
18) (25 pts) Name the biologist for five points apiece.
a) The first to compare the anatomy of various animals with that of humans, he is known as the founder of comparative anatomy and the developer of vertebrate paleontology.
Answer: Baron Georges Cuvier
b) An early evolutionist, this Frenchman is best known for his
erroneous theory that plants and animals evolve by adjusting to
changes in their environment.
Answer: Jean Baptiste Chevalier de Lamarck
c) This American led an investigation that proved that mosquitoes
carried the yellow fever virus from person to person. He helped
show how to control both typhoid and yellow fever.
Answer: Walter Reed
d) The author of Species Plantarum (1753) and Systema Natura (1758) he classified all known plants and animals and standardized terminology and nomenclature.
Answer: Carolus Linnaeus
e) This Scot discovered penicillin in 1928 and shared the Nobel
Prize in 1945 for the development of that drug.
Answer: Sir Alexander Fleming
19) 1) (30 pts) Alright chaps, let's test your knowledge of the Queen's English. You will get five points apiece for correctly translating the following Britishisms into their American counterparts.
a) Boot trunk
b) Bonnet hood
c) Pillarbox mailbox
d) Tarmack asphalt (Pavement is ok, although in UK pavement = sidewalk)
e) Lorry truck
f) Plimsoles tennis shoes
20) 30-20-10. Identify the literary figure from a list of works.
30-Not I, Ill Seen Ill Said
20-Murphy, Happy Days, Watt
10-Malone Dies, Endgame
Answer: Samuel Beckett
21) (25 pts) List the following religious affliations in descending order of the number of members they have in the United States. They are: Later-Day Saints (Mormons), Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, Lutherans.
Answer: Baptists, Methodists, Lutherans, Later-Day Saints, Presbyterians
22) (25 pts) For five points each, arrange the following rulers of Russia in chronological order: Peter I, Boris Godunov, Ivan III, Demetrius I, and Theodore I.
Answer: Ivan III, Theodore I, Boris Godunov, Demetrius I, Peter I
23) (30 pts) The United States has 10 officially designated national holidays. New Year's Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas immediately come to mind. For five points apiece name the other six.
Answer: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veteran's Day, Washington's Birthday
24) (25 pts) Let's see how well you handle those adjectives relating to time. I'll give you a short definition and for five points you supply the correct answer. For example if I say, "Relating to a hundred years," you would answer, "Centennial." Or if I say "Yearly," you would answer, "Annual."
a) Relating to a period of a thousand years.
Answer: Millenial
b) Relating to a period of three years.
Answer: Triennial
c) Occurring year after year.
Answer: Perennial
d) Relating to a period of 150 years.
Answer: Sesquicentennial
e) Relating to a period of 50 years.
Answer: Semicentennial
25) (20 pts) For five points apiece name the four Presidents of the United States who received more than 60% of the popular vote. Answer: Lyndon Johnson (1964), Franklin Roosevelt (1936), Richard Nixon (1972), Warren Harding (1920)
26) (30 pts) For five points each rank the following states by per capita income (1986 statistics) from richest to poorest: New Mexico, Hawaii, Arkansas, South Dakota, West Virginia, Kansas.
Answer: Hawaii, Kansas, South Dakota, New Mexico, Arkansas, West Virginia
28) (25 pts) Don't you just love those Latin phrases? You use them every day, but do you know what they mean? Five points each for the English translation.
a) Corpus delecti
Answer: The Body of the crime (The material substance upon which a crime has been committed)
b) non sequitor
Answer: It does not follow
c) cui bono
Answer: To whose benefit
d) ex cathedra
Answer: From the chair (with authority derived from high office)
e) caveat emptor
Answer: Let the buyer beware
29) (30 pts) Six states are entirely within the Mountain time zone. For five points apiece name them.
Answer: Arizona, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming