Georgia Tech IV - Toss-Ups

MLK Weekend Tournament - January 15-16, 1994

1. This controversial declaration triggered a wave of northern resentment agaisnt the South when it was leaked in 1855.  In it the US minister to Spain, Pierre Soule, said that the United States would be justified in wresting Cuba from Spain.  For 10 points name this manifesto issued to US president Franklin Pierce.

Answer: Ostend Manifesto

2. This American poet won the first Pulitzer Prize to be awarded for poetry for his Collected Poems in 1921.  He is known for his long narrative poems, objective psychological portraits of New England characters, and his creation of Tilbury Town.  For 10 points, identify this author of such poems as "Richard Cory" and "Miniver Cheevy."

Answer: Edwin Arlington Robinson

3. This scientist described an electron as a wave function called psi because of the particle's wave-like properties.  For ten points identify this German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1933.

Answer: Erwin Schrodinger

4. The Men Who Tread the Tiger's Tail, Nor Regrets for Our Youth, The Bad Sleep Well, Rashomon, Drunken Angel, The Seven Samurai, and Ikiru.  For 10 points, identify the director of all of these movies, who was born in Tokyo in 1910.

Answer: Akira Kurosawa

5. This Dutchman went to work as a Calvinist missionary among the coal miners of Borinage, Belgium.  Later he turned to art, and many of his early paintings imitated the works of Jean Millet.  For ten points, name this artist of such works as The Potatoe Eaters, Sunflowers, and Starry Night.

Answer: Vincent Van Gogh

6. His policy was based on the notion that a lie, repeated often and forcibly, gains the legitimacy of truth.  He eventually poisoned himself and his family when it became clear that Germany would lose World War II.  For ten points, who was this man, the propaganda minister to Adolph Hitler?

Answer: Joseph Goebbels

7. This novel was written so the author could expose the social hypocrisy of 19th century England, and is subtitled, A Novel Without a Hero.  For 10 points, name this work whose main character is Becky Sharpe and whose author is William Makepeace Thackeray.

Answer: Vanity Fair

8. This small, cylindrical cell organelle is located near the nucleus in most eukaryotic cells.  For 10 points, name this body that moves ahead of the spindle to the opposite poles of the cell as it divides during mitosis.

Answer: centriole

9. Among other insane notions, he claimed that he defeated the god Neptune.  Born Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus , this Roman later received the nickname "Little Boot".  For ten points, who was this man who was Roman emperor from A.D. 37 to 41, the year in which he was assassinated?

Answer: Caligula

10. He was born on March 26, 1911, in Columbus, Mississippi, and died in 1983 by choking to death after swallowing the cap of a medicine bottle. For ten points, who is this U.S.  playwright who is remembered for his characters Tom and Laura Wingfield, Stanley Kowalski, and Blanche DuBois?

Answer: Tennessee Williams

11. There were many of these communities in Pennsylvania and the Midwest.  One of their most famous representatives are the Amish.  What is the collective name of these groups of Protestants, founded in the early days of the Reformation, who believe in living with great simplicity, and who refuse to hold public office or to serve in the military?

Answer: Mennonites

12. He had the good to fortune to  receive a gold medal for a plan for lighting the city  streets of Paris. He also had the bad luck to be arrested, tried, and ultimately executed because he was one of the farmers-general during the French Revolution. For ten points, name this French chemist, guillotined in 1794, who wrote the first modern chemistry textbook and the first chemical equation, and proved the law of the conservation of matter.

Answer: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

13. It streches about 930 miles at its greatest length and covers an area of 160,000 square miles.  It consists of two large Gulfs in the North and in the south features many smaller indentations.  It is connected via the Oresund, Store Baelt, and two more famous channels to the North Sea.  For 10 points, what is this body of what surrounded by Sweden, Finland, the Baltics, Russia, Poland, and Germany.

Answer: Baltic Sea

14. This term was first taken from the title of a book by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer.  It is a pejorative term for Americans living or travelling abroad who remain ignorant of the local culture and judge everything by American standards.  For ten points, identify this term.

Answer: Ugly American

15. She was born in Paris on July 1, 1804. Her first two  novels were written in collaboration with novelist Jules  Sandeau. She was a prolific writer who produced works such as Indiana, Valentine, and Lelia, which exalted free  love unhampered by conventional marriage. For ten points, who is this French novelist who dressed like a man and was perhaps best known for her affairs with French poet Alfred de Musset and Polish composer Frederick Chopin?

Answer: George Sand

16. His motto in Polish was "Nie dam sie" (I shall never give in"). He became the greatest-selling classical pianist in  history with 200 records and over 10 million copies. His autobiography was called My Young Years, and he received  the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1976. For ten points, who is this American pianist of Polish descent?

Answer: Arthur Rubinstein

17. Though he is the father of three major figures of Greek mythology, his name is not Greek and scholars suggest that it could be a version of Japhet, like the son of Noah in the Old Testament.  His three famous sons were known for giving fire to man, giving man their troubles, and the third for holding up the world.  For 10 points, name this son of Uranus and Gaia, the father of Prometheus, Epimetheus and Atlas.

Answer: Iapetus

18. This disease causes shortness of breath and painful coughing, and can increase the likelihood of developing heart disease.  For ten points, identify this chronic disorder in which the air sacs in the lungs become stretched and enlarged so that they are less able to supply oxygen to the blood.

Answer: emphysema

19. He was an 18th century novelist and journalist who who wrote his most famous work while in jail for 20 guineas.  His work, published in two volumes in 1748 was suppressed as pornographic in 1749 and since then has enjoyed a persistant surreptitious publication.  For 10 points, identify this author whose Fanny Hill was seized by polic as late as 1963 when it was published in an unexpurgated edition.

Answer: John Cleland

20. According to the romance of the Holy Grail, he received a cup at the Last Supper and used it to capture the blood flowing from Jesus' wounds as he hung from the cross. He later brought it to Britain and kept it in a castle called Corbenic. For ten points, who is this man who,  according to the New Testament, requested the body of  Jesus Christ from the Roman procurator Pontius Pilate and place it in his own tomb?

Answer: Joseph of Arimathea

21. He has been quoted as saying,"It is gratifying to see at this table tonight the most superbly ducated men in the world, for in this room there are  three Rhode scholars, four graduates of Harvard, three of Yale, and one from Southwest Texas State Teachers  College".  For 10 points, identify this 20th century president from Texas.

Answer: Lyndon Johnson

22. It is short and rod shaped and believed to reside in the intestines of the flea Xenopsylla cheopis.  This bacterium is infamous for causing the deaths of  one third of Europe's citizens in the Middle Ages. FTP, give the name of the bacterium which causes the bubonic plague.

Answer: Yersinia pestis  more info if early buzz with bubonic

Georgia Tech IV - Bonuses

MLK Weekend Tournament - January 15-16, 1994

1. 15-10-5 With which war is each of the following novels involved?

1. No Bugles, No Drums by Charles Durden

Answer: Vietnam War

2. Long Remembered by MacKinlay Kantor

Answer: Civil War

3. A Farewell to Arms by Earnest Hemingway

Answer: World War I

2. Answer the following questions about the Balearic Islands.

1. For 5 points, what is their capital?

Answer: Palma

2. For 10 points, all or nothing, what are their two largest islands?

Answer: Majorca and Minorca

3. For 15 points, name the third largest Balearic island.

Answer: Ibiza

3. 30-20-10, name this American author.

1. Moods

2. The Stoic

3. An American Tragedy

Answer: Theodore Dreiser

4. For 10 points apiece, give the order to which the following mammals belong.

1. dolphins                  Answer: cetacea

2. elephants                 Answer: proboscidea

3. giraffe                   Answer: artiodactyla

5. Answer the following questions about the influential Supreme Court case Gideon vs. Wainwright for 10 points each.

1. In ruling in favor of Gideon, the court reversed its previous decision in what 1942 case?

Answer: Betts vs. Brady

2. What Alabama-born associate justice authored the majority opinion in the case?

Answer: Hugo Black

3. After the court ruled that Gideon was allowed legal counsel, what man, who later served on the Supreme Court from 1965-69, was appointed to defend him?

Answer: Abe Fortas

6. Identify the German artist who created the following works of art. 5 points each.

1. Knight, Death, and the Devil   Answer: Albrecht Durer

2. The Ambassadors                Answer: Hans Holbein the Younger

3. The Elephant Celebes           Answer: Max Ernst

4. the Isenheim altarpiece        Answer: Mathis Grunewald

5. Fighting Forms                 Answer: Franz Marc

6. Rest on the Flight into Egypt  Answer: Lucas Cranach the Elder

7. Identify the following fictional lands for 10 points given a geographical description or for 5 points if you need the author who created them.

1. 10: Surrounded by the Deadly Desert, Impassable Desert, Shifting Sands, and the Great Sandy Waste, it is divided into districst such as Gillikin Country, Winkie Country, and Quadling Country.

   5: L. Frank Baum

Answer: Oz

2. 10: Points of interest within it include Miraz Castle, the Rush River, Trufflehunter's Cave, Bulgy Bear's House, and Cair Paravel.

   5: C. S. Lewis

Answer: Narnia

3. 10: It is an archipelago south of Havnor and north of Wathort.

   5: Ursula LeGuin

Answer: Earthsea

8. Answer the following questions about methane for the stated number of points.

1. For 5 points, what is its chemical formula?

Answer: CH4

2. For 5 points, of what type of aliphatic hydrocarbon is it the simplest example?

Answer: alkane

3. For 10 points, what is the shape of the molecule?

Answer: tetrahedral

4. For 10 points, what type of chemical bond, possessing spherical symmetry, resulting from sp3 hybridization, and designated by a Greek letter, are its four bonds?

Answer: sigma bond

9. Answer the following questions concerning the figures involved in the negotiation and ratification of the Treaty of Versailles for ten points each.

1. For 10 points, all or nothing, name the so-called "Big Four" leaders.

Answer: Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau, and Vittorio Orlando

10. Given a work of Italian literature, name the author: 5, 10, 15.

1. Six Characters in Search of an Author

Answer: Luigi Pirandello

2. Bread and Wine

Answer: Ignazio Silone

3. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller

Answer: Italo Calvino

11. In this 5-10-15 bonus you will be given the first names of a pair of related individuals known collectively in the form "blank and blank."  You give that collective name.  For example, if I said, "Rick and A.J.," you would say, "Simon and Simon."  Additionally, you get your choice of two categories for each question. [Readers: give them the categories two at a time and let them choose.  They must answer 1 or 2, 3 or 4, and 5 or 6.  The first are 5 points, the second 10 points, the third 15 points.]

1. Category: Television.  Names: Fred & Lamont

Answer: Sanford and Son

2. Category: Science.  Names: Robert & Gustav

Answer: Bunsen and Kirchoff

3. Category: US History   Names: Nicola & Bartolomeo

Answer: Sacco and Vanzetti

4. Category: Art   Names: Nathaniel & James

Answer: Currier and Ives

5. Category: Music  Names: William & Arthur

Answer: Gilbert and Sullivan

6. Category: Literature   Names: Francis & John

Answer: Beaumont and Fletcher

12. The Norse gods of strength and berserkers were two brothers whose mother was the goddess of excellence in battle.  For 10 points each, name these two sons of Thor and their mother.

Answer: Magni, Modi, Sif

13. The Washington Naval Conference met in the winter of 1921-22 in an attempt to limit the naval armaments of the great powers.  Identify the following men who represented their countries at the conference for 10 points each.  If you need another clue about the man, you will receive 5 points.

1. 10: This man headed the British delegation.

   5: A British prime minister, he is most famous for his authorship of the delcaration favoring limited Jewish settlement in Palestine.

Answer: Arthur Balfour

2. 10: This Prime minister was the chairman of the French delegation.

   5: A winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, he is best known for his 1928 treaty which outlawed war.

Answer: Aristide Briand

3. 10: This man initiated the conference and headed a delegation.

   5: Serving at the time as Secretary of State, in his lifetime he was also an unsuccessful presidential candidate and Chief Justice of the United States.

Answer: Charles Evans Hughes

14. 1. For 5 points name the famous mock-epic, considered the best in the English language, written by Alexander Pope.

Answer: The Rape of the Lock

2. For 10 points name the heroine whose hair is cut in Pope's mock-epic.

Answer: Belinda

3. For 15 points, name the real upper class English girl whose life is the basis for the character of Belinda.

Answer: Arabella Fermor

15.

2. What Massachusetts Republican Senator and chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee was one of the most outspoken critics of the treaty?

Answer: Henry Cabot Lodge

3. What Idaho Republican was the leader of the "irreconcilables" in the Senate?

Answer: William E. Borah

16. For 15 points each, identify the following men who were pioneers in the development of the television.

1. One of TV's chief backers, this president of RCA was a determined television planner.

Answer: David Sarnoff

2. This Russian scientist developed the Iconoscope camera and continued his television research at RCA after emigrating to the United States.

Answer: Vladimir Zworykin

17. For 5 points each, name the musicals the following songs are from.

1. "Luck Be a Lady"               Answer: Guys and Dolls

2. "Shall We Dance"               Answer: The King and I

3. "Ol' Man River"                Answer: Show Boat

4. "On the Street Where You Live" Answer: My Fair Lady

5. "There is Nothing Like a Dame" Answer: South Pacific

6. "Sunrise, Sunset"              Answer: Fiddler on the  Roof

18. 30-20-10 Identify this thing.

1  It was completed on December 6, 1884, dedicated on  February 21, 1885, and opened to the public on  October 9, 1888.

2. Pope Pius IX donated a marble block to it from the Temple of Concord in Rome, but it was stolen, probably by members of the American Party.

3. It is an Obelisque near the Potomac  River in Washington, D.C. in honor of a U.S. President.

Answer: Washington Monument

19. In the 1960's social and political forces led to the formation of several important radical organizations.  For 10 points apiece, identify the founder of the following groups.

1. Students for a Democratic Society        Answer: Tom Hayden

2. the Black Panthers                       Answer: Huey Newton

3. the John Birch Society                   Answer: Robert Welch

20. Answer the following questions about the origin of the laws of heredity for the stated number of points.

1. For 5 points, what Austrian amateur scientist first formulated these laws due to his study of pea plants?

Answer: Gregor Mendel

2. Although Mendel is known mostly for his botanical research, he was also a monk.  For 15 points, to what order did he belong?

Answer: Augustinian

3. And, for 10 points, who was the Dutch botanist who independently discovered Mendel's laws decades later before coming across Mendel's papers?

Answer: Hugo De Vries

21. Identify this man, 30-20-10.

1. His most famous written work is The Bloody Tenent.

2. He was a Puritan minister who condemned the legal establishment of Congregationalism and questioned the moral and legal justification for the seizure of Indian lands.

3. He is best known for founding Rhode Island.

Answer: Roger Williams