Tennessee - Bonuses
MLK Weekend Tournament - January 15-16, 1994
1) (30) The Five Civilized Tribes is a name used since the mid 19th century for five tribes resettled to Oklahoma under the Removal Act of 1830. These tribes had written constitutions and tripartine governments. For 5 pts each, name the Five Civilized Tribes.
Ans: Cherokee , Choctaw , Chickasaw , Creek, and Seminole
2) (30) Given a college or university, supply the nickname sported by it's athletic teams, 5 pts each.
a) Virginia Military Institute a) Keydets
b) UC-Santa Cruz b) Banana Slugs
c) University of Idaho c) Vandals
d) UNC- Wilmington d) Seahawks
e) University of Pennsylvania e) Quakers
f) Coastal Carolina College f) Chanticleers
3) (30) Tell whether the following sub-atomic particles are bosons or fermions, 5 pts each
a) neutron a) fermion
b) gluon b) boson
c) pion c) boson
d) kaon d) boson
e) electron neutrino e) fermion
f) alpha particle f) boson
4) (30) This question will test your vocational aptitude for being a vexillologist.
a) First, for 5 pts, what the heck does a vexillologist study?
Ans: flags
b) Now, for 10 pts, the flag of Bangledesh has a red disc on what color of
field? Ans: green
c) Finally, for 15 pts, how many stars are on the flag of the Federated States
of Micronesia? Ans: 4 (four)
5) (30) To save the reader's voice I'll spare you the short biography of John Dos Passos and simply ask you to name the three books in his USA trilogy for 10 pts each.
Ans: The Big Money, The 42nd Parallel, 1919
6) (30) The BCS theory of superconductivity was very successful at predicting the behavoir of superconductors at low temperatures. That changed when researchers like Paul Chu and Bednorz and Muller discovered high temperature ceramic superconductors in the mid-eighties. It's a good thing that the three formulators of the BCS theory had already got their Nobel Prize in 1972. For 10 pts each, name these three physicists whose theory seems to be losing adherents day by day.
Ans: John Bardeen , Leon Cooper , and Robert Schrieffer
7) Name the British poet from works, 30-20-10
30- Afterthought and Michael
20- Yew Trees and Three Years She Grew
10- The World Is Too Much With Us and I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Ans: Williiam Wordsworth
8) (30) Given a short quote from their citation, name the Nobel laureate in literature for the stated number of pts:
a) 5 pts- "...for his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form
in the Forsyth Saga ." Ans: John Galsworthy
b) 10 pts-"...for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses
the essence of the Japanese mind." Ans: Kawabata Yasunari
c) 15 pts-"the greatest living master of the art of historical writing, with
special reference to his monumental work, A History of Rome ."
Ans: Christian M.T. Mommsen
9) (25) Which amendment to the US constitution deals with the following, 5 pts each.
a) freedom from double jeopardy a) 5th
b) gives 18-year olds the vote b) 26th
c) repeals prohibition c) 21st
d) direct election of senators d) 17th
e) right to bear arms e) 2nd
10) (30) Given a monarch and the country they reigned over, name the dynastic house to which they belonged, 5 pts each.
a) William IV of England a) Hanover
b) Henry IV of France b) Bourbon
c) James I of England c) Stuart
d) Alexander II of Russia d) Romanov
e) Francis II of France e) Valois
11) (30) The spectral series of hydrogen have been ascribed names historically from the men that first cataloged and described them. They are delineated by the energy level to which all the transitions in the series ultimately fall. For 5pts. each and a 5pt bonus for all 5, name the first 5 spectral series of hydrogen(in no paticular order).
Ans: Lyman, Balmer, Paschen, Brackett , and Pfund
12) Name the composer from works, 30-20-10
30- the symphony Scythian Suite
20- the ballet Prodigal Son
10- the symphony Peter and the Wolf
Ans: Sergei Prokofiev
13) Name the author from works 25-10
25- Tigers Are Better Looking , The Left Bank , and Sleep It Off Lady
10- Wide Sargasso Sea
Ans: Jean Rhys
14) Name the state 30-20-10
30- The name is from an Algonquin word meaning "large prarie place." It was the
name of the site of an Indian massacre in Pennsylvania.
20- Containing only .2% of the US population, its motto is "Equal Rights."
10- It is the site of Grand Teton National Park, and was the first state to grant
women the vote.
Ans: Wyoming
15) (30)Given a brief description, name these 20th century Marxist thinkers, 15 pts each
a) A brilliant essayist and critic, he was also(unfortunately for him) a
German Jew, and died a suicide while fleeing the Nazis in 1940. His most
famous work is the essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical
Reproduction."
Ans: Walter Benjamin
b) A German poet, dramatist, and essayist, he discussed the
"defamiliarization effect" in his essays on theatre. He is better known for
his plays, including Mother Courage and Her Children.
Ans: Bertolt Brecht
16) (30) Everyone knows the contributions made by Machiavelli to Renaissance humanism, but are you familiar with these other two important humanistic pioneers. Identify them, 15 pts. each.
a. In his pioneering essay "Oration on the Dignity of Man," he argued that humans have free will and can shape their own destiny.
Ans: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
b. He best exemplified the humanist emphasis on historical scholarship in his "Declamation Concerning the False Decretals of Constantine. He also wrote the radical essay "On Pleasure."
Ans: Lorenzo Valla
17) (30) The Roman Republic was torn apart by internal strife and backbiting between roughly 150 and 40 BCE. Answer these questions about that era of decline.
a. These brothers, Tiberius and Gaius, were unsuccessful (because they were assassinated) in their attempts to resolve Rome's fiscal and agricultural crisis caused by the Punic Wars. Ans: Gracchi or Gracchus
b. This general became consul of Rome in 107 BC and began the process (built upon later by Pompey and Julius Caesar) of manipulating soldiers to be loyal to them and not Rome. Ans: Marius
c. This general made war with Marius' armies and when Marius died, he marched on Rome and instituted a terror that far surpassed Marius' violence. Ans: Sulla
18) (30) For 5 pts. each, identify the painter of these 19th century works of art.
a. The Young Ladies of the Village Giving Alms to a Cowhers in a
Valley of Ornans Ans: Gustave Courbet
b. The Gleaners Ans: Jean-Francois Millet
c. Beata Beatrix Ans: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
d. Portrait of Emile Zola Ans: Edouard Manet
e. A Sunday on the Grande-Jatte--1884 Ans: Georges Seurat
f. The Gross Clinic Ans: Thomas Eakins
19) (30) Name these noted classical Hollywood directors from one of their films for 10 pts., from two for 5.
a. 1) Red River
2) Bringing Up Baby ANS. Howard Hawks
b. 1) Mildred Pierce
2) Casablance ANS. Michael Curtiz
c. 1) Madame Bovary
2) An American in Paris ANS. Vincente Minnelli
20) (25) Given the genus and species for several kinds of primates, identify them, 5 pts each.
a) Pan troglodytes a) chimpanzee
b) Hylobates lar b) gibbon
c) Mandrillus sphinx c) mandrill
d) Pongo pygmaeus d) orangutan
e) Colobus guereza e) colobus monkey
21) (30)Given the name of a country in its "native" tongue, identify it, 5 pts each.
a) Druk-yul a) Bhutan
b) Ellas b) Greece
c) Kalaallit Nunaat c) Greenland
d) Misr d) Egypt
e) Suomi e) Finland
f) Eire f) Ireland
22) (30) Since the bicentennial of our country in 1976 only 6 different schools have won the NCAA Indoor Track Championships. For 5 pts each, name them.
Ans: Arkansas, UTEP, Southern Methodist, Villanova , and Washington State
Tennessee - Toss-Ups
MLK Weekend Tournament - January 15-16, 1994
1) Born in 1612 in Northampton, England, she came to Massachusetts with her father and brother, who were both later governors of the colony. Her work is often derivative and formal, but she is considered the first important woman writer in America. FTP, name this woman, whose collections include Several Poems and The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America .
Ans: Anne Bradstreet
2) Before Pauli postulated this particle in the early part of the century, beta decay seemingly violated conservation of momentum. an electron would be ejected from a neutron and the two particles would not fly apart back-to-back, but at some angle to one another. Pauli theorized that an undetectable particle also took part in the deacy and carried away some momentum. FTP, name this lightest lepton.
Ans: (electron) neutrino
3) He wrote a play entitled Play in 1962 and a screenplay for a film called Film in 1963. These works were both in English, although we usually associate this expatriate Irishman with the works he produced in the tongue of his adopted nation, France, including his best known work, En Attendant Godot . FTP, name this author of Happy Days and Endgame .
Ans: Samuel Beckett
4) She had four sons: the two youngest (and longest lived) were Richard and John. She was heiress to about one half of southern France, and thus brought considerable wealth with her into her marriage to Henry II. FTP, name this powerful woman, wife to two kings, Louis VII of France and Henry II of England, mother of two kings of England, and heiress of Aquitaine.
Ans: Eleanor of Aquitaine
5) "The dog Cerebus relaxed his guard; the wheel of Ixion stood motionless; Sisyphus set at rest upon his stone; for the first time the faces of the Furies were wet with tears."-Edith Hamilton describes the entrance to the Underworld of this son of Calliope and a Thracian prince. FTP, name this man, whose romance with Eurydice was a subject for operas by Monteverdi, Haydn, and Gluck.
Ans: Orpheus
6) Distributions of mass give rise to different kinds of metrics in general relativity. A spherically symmetric mass distribution, like a star, gives rise to a metric named for this man. FTP, name this German, better known for a radius of astrophysical import that bears his name. Ans: Karl Schwarzschild
7) It was first sung on Broadway by Bryant's Minstrels and it was first performed in the South in a New Orleans production of Pocahontas . FTP, name this rousing song written by Daniel Decatur Emmett.
Ans: Dixie
8) At the outset of the Civil War he briefly served with a group of Confederate volunteers, but when his brother Orion was appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory, he went west to become a miner. Disgusted with mining, he walked the 130 miles to Virginia City to become a reporter for the Territorial Enterprise. While staying with Jim Gillis in the central California mining district, he heard a tale which inspired his best known short story. FTP, name this author of "The Jumping Frog of Calavaras County." Ans: Mark Twain or Samuel Clemens
9) In the late 19th century the dowager empress of China was openly encouraging antiforeign groups in China to aid in the expulsion of foreigners. The most menancing of these, the I Ho Chuan, or Society of Harmonious Fists, occupied Beijing in June 1900 and beseiged Westerners and Chinese Christians there. FTP, what was this uprising called, perhaps a clever play of words on the name of the 140,000 nationalists involved in the uprising?
Ans: Boxer rebellion
10) His father was a Scottish merchant of noble birth, his mother the headstrong daughter of a West Indies physician. But they never married and he grew up scarred by poverty and illegitimacy. Driven by ambition, his marriage the daughter of a wealthy New York politician gave him influential connections, but also powerful enemies, such as Aaron Burr. FTP, name this New York politician.
Ans: Alexander Hamilton
11) It is one of the simplest models that is regularly studied in statistical mechanics: Take a set of spins and put them in an external magnetic field. Define the energy of a given spin as the sum of its interaction with the external field and a linear interaction with whatever spins you want to term it's 'nearest neighbors.' FTP, name this model, which provides an effective method of visualizing phase transitions. Ans: Ising model
12) Living from 1881 till 1955, this French Jesuit was enjoined from teaching in 1926 for his attepts to espouse his theory of "cosmic evolution." Nevertheless, his The Phenomenon of Man was published posthumously in 1995, wherein he discusses his 'Omega Point,' variuosly interpreted as the Second Coming or a complete integration of personal conciousness. FTP, name this priest/paleontologist who was involved in the discovery of Peking Man.
Ans: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
13) It flows south for approximately 1600 miles from the summit of Mt. Delgado Chalbaud to a very large marshy delta in the northeast of the country. It is connected to the Amazon via the Casiquiare, a natural canal. FTP, name this principle river of Venezuela. Ans: Orinoco River
14) The name's the same: one of the oldest ballads in English, possibly based on the Battle of Otterborne, found in Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry . A town in Maryland just outside the Beltway. And a recently failed evening talk-show host who might have to go back to National Lampoon movies and Gerald Ford impressions to make a living. FTP, what's the common name?
Ans: Chevy Chase
15) Never mind what US politicians say. It's really rather easy to get rid of gridlock: just have Napolean come back from Elba! It certainly worked in 1815, when an conference of major European powers was jolted by Bonaparte's return into settting aside niggling differences in order to reach important agreements on the balance of power in Europe. FTP, name this meeting, where the Confederation of the Rhine and the Concert of Europe were created.
Ans: Congress of Vienna
16) In 1893 this man was fitted with a rubber prosthetic jaw and palate in a secret hour-long operation on a yacht cruising the East River off Manhattan. He was sheriff of Erie County, NY from 1871-1873, mayor of Buffalo in 1882, and governor of New York from 1883 to 1885. FTP, who was this man, the only president to get married in the White House?
Ans: Grover Cleveland
17) Kant said reading the works of this man "awakened me from my dogmatic slumbers." He was one of the few people capable of maintatining a friendship with Rousseau, although Rousseau turned on him near the end of his life in 1776. FTP, name this Scottish skeptic, author of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Ans: David Hume
18) For phenotypes that contain simple dominant or recessive genes it takes on a particularly simple 2 by 2 form. For polygenic phenotypes they can contain many rows and columns. FTP, what is this genetic book-keeping device named for its inventor, an early geneticist? Ans: Punnett square
19) Encompassing works that ranged from pure abstraction to romantic imagery, this movement was led by Macke, Marc, Klee, and Kadinsky in Munich from about 1911 to 1914. FTP, what was the name of this expressionist art movement, named for an equestrian painting by Kandinsky?
Ans: Der Blau Reiter
20) "The Sun never shone on a cause of greater worth. Tis not theaffair of a city or county or province or a kingdom; but of acontinent. . . . Now is the seedtime of continental union, faithand honor. . . . Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation." This is a brief quote from one of the most influential pamphlets in American history. FTP, name this which sold over 100,000 copies in 1776.
Ans: Common Sense
21) Break, Break, Break , The Eagle , Locksley Hall , Tithonus , The Lady of Shallot , and Ulysses are all poems by one of the greatest of Victorian poets. FTP, name this former poet laureate of England. Ans: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
22) 23) The second Lancaster king of England, the early years of his reign were troubled by the rebellion of the Lollards. He reopened the Hundred Years War in 1415 by invading France. FTP, who was this king, who introduced the French army to the wonders of the longbow on St. Crispin's Day, 1415?
Ans: Henry V
24) It may well be the oldest continously occupied city in the world. Bisected by the Barada River it was a Byzantine provincial capital until it fell to the Arabs in 635. FTP, what is this largest city and capital of Syria?
Ans: Damascus
25) For a quick ten points, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the National Travel and Tourism Board, and the Bureau of the Census are all parts of what cabinent department? Ans: Department of Commerce