Georgia Tech I - Toss-Ups

MLK Weekend Tournament - January 15-16, 1994

1. It is the ability of electricity to flow from a hot filament in a vacuum lamp to an enclosed wire and was discovered in 1883.  Its discovery was the only important contribution of a purely scientific nature of a man widely famous for his intellectual exploits.  For ten points, identify this phenomenon that is named after its discoverer, the inventor of the electric light.

Answer: Edison Effect

2. Sponsored by and named after a Colorado Senator, this piece of legislation attempted to allay the fears of many Americans who feared their nation's rising imperialism.  FTP, identify this act that stated that the United States intended to recognize Cuba's independence after the restoration of peace on the island.

Answer: Teller Resolution

3. This literary work's first sentence is, "This morning (we lying lately in the garret) I rose, put on my suit with great shirts, having not lately worn any other clothes but them."  It was written from January 1, 1660, to May 31, 1669, when the author quit writing because he feared it was hurting his eyesight.  FTP, identify this work by Samuel Pepys.

Answer: the diary of Samuel Pepys

4. As oscillators they form he basis of extremely accurate atomic clocks; as amplifiers they can detect feebler singlas than any other kind, and are used to measure signals from outer space. The first was built in 1951, and the general idea behind them was worked out on a Washington DC park bench by Charles Townes.  FTP, identify this device, which amplifies microwaves by stimulated emission of radiation.

Answer: maser

5. Expounded in 1817, it states that wages tend to stabilize around the subsistence level.  FTP, what is this economic principle, proposed in The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, by David Ricardo?

Answer: Iron Law of Wages

6. The Purple Decades is a selection of his writings from the sixties and seventies.  Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine, and The Pump House Gang are other volumes by this man.  FTP, identify this exponent of "new journalism" best known for such works as In Our Time, From Bauhaus to Our House, and The Right Stuff.

Answer: Tom Wolfe

7. This system of nonvolcanic mountain ranges extends about 1500 miles Northeast to Cape Bon.  The ranges included in the system include the Grand, Anti, Maritime, and Saharan, and the region was the home of the Berbers.  FTP, identify this North African mountain group with a mythological name.

Answer: Atlas Mountains

8. The title of this play is taken from the first line of Virgil's Aeneid.  Set in Bulgaria, it satirizes romantic attitudes about war.  FTP, identify this 1894 play by George Bernard Shaw.

Answer: Arms and the Man

9. She was the daughter of an animal trainer in a circus and became an actress and dancing girl before her marriage in 523.  A much stronger character than her husband, she saved the throne through her energetic action in the Nika sedition, and the efforts to reconcile the Monophysites to orthodoxy were probably her doing as well.  FTP, identify this empress, the wife of Justinian.

Answer: Theodora

10. The arrogant young count of Rousillon, this man scorns his betrothed and departs for the Florentine war, stating that until she obtains the ring on his finger and produces his child, he will not return nor can she call him husband.  After she follows him to Florence disguised as a pilgrim and obtains the ring and child, she finally wins his love.  FTP, who is this leading character and beloved of Helena in William Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well?

Answer: Bertram

11. This man was born in Alabama but moved to Cleveland and attended Ohio State University.  He was barred by the AAU because he failed to go on a scheduled trip to Sweden with a team of American track stars, but had already made his name by that time, having won, with Ralph Metcalfe, the 400 meter relay race, as well as equaling the world record of 10.3 seconds in the 100 meters and breaking the world records in the 200 meters and the broad jump.  FTP, who was this track star who astounded the world and upset Hitler's "Aryan" theories with his performance at the 1936 Olympics?

Answer: Jesse Owens

12. Born on July 4, 1900 into a poor family, this man was sent to the Colored Waifs' Home for Boys, a reform school, for firing a shot into a New Year's Day parade.  There he found a cornet and taught himself to play it, becoming the leader of the reform-school band.  Then he dedicated himself to playing jazz, introducing "scat" singing and creating such songs as "Tiger Rag," "Potato Head Blues," and "Ain't Misbehavin'."  FTP, name this famous jazz trumpeter known as "Satchmo."

Answer: Louis Armstrong

13. The closest to Jupiter of all the Galilean moons, parts of this satellite's surface are about negative 145 degrees celsius, but other regions are molten sulfur beds.  The gravitational forces of Jupiter and other nearby moons cause great seismic activity, and the Voyager probes photographed volcanoes erupting here. FTP, identify this moon of Jupiter, the most volcanically active body in the solar system.

Answer: Io

14. A veteran of the first World War, this man rapidly rose in rank under the Hitler regime.  In World War II he commander air operations in Poland, on he Western Front, in central Russia, and in Italy.  In 1943 he replaced Rommel as commander in Italy and two years later replaced Rundstedt in the West.  FTP, who was this German field marshall who surrendered to American troops in May of 1945?

Answer: Albert Kesselring

15. This disorder causes a characteristic mark-like facial appearance, shuffling gait, slowness to move, muscular rigidity and tremor at rest; mental ability is preserved except in those cases following encephalitis lethargica.  It is a disorder of the basal ganglia and may be substantially helped by drugs that affect impulse transmission in these sites.  FTP, name this disease, named after a 19th century English physician, which is a common disorder of the elderly.

Answer: Parkinson's Disease

16. This work is divided into three sections: the first concerning the existence and nature of God and his universe; the second developing a moral philosophy; the third discussing the role of Christ adn the sacraments in the salvation of the soul.  It was left unfinished by the author's death, but was finished according to his design by his follwer Reginald of Piperno, and is still the recognized as the doctrinal basis for all such teachings in the Roman Catholic Church.  FTP, identify this major philosophical treatise by Thomas Aquinas.

Answer: Summa Theologica

17. In order to reduce corporate power and return government to the people, it proposed to lower tariffs, revise the monetary system, break up monopolies, and reinvigorate the free enterprise system. FTP, identify this political and economic reform program proposed during the election of 1912 by Woodrow Wilson.

Answer: New Freedom

18. A profound symbolic study of good and evil, this novel was almost forgotten at the time of its author's death.  The characters include Tashtego, Daggoo, and Pip, and the title character has no dialogue.  FTP, identify this novel, written in 1851 by Herman Melville.

Answer: Moby Dick

19. In nuclear physics it is the existence of metastable states of an atomic nucleus having the same atomic number and mass number as the ground state, but higher energy. In chemistry it is the existence of compounds having identical chemical composition and molecular formula but differing in the arrangement of atoms in their molecules, and having different properties.  FTP, identify this term.

Answer: isomerism

20. This act was passed by the British Parliament on March 18, 1766 and stated that the king and Parliament had the right and power to make laws that were binding on the colonies "in all cases whatsoever," even though the Americans were unrepresented in Parliament.  FTP, what is this piece of legislation passes immediately after the repeal of the Stamp Act.

Answer: Declaratory Act

21. It is the distance at which 1 astronomical unit would subtend an angle of 1 second, or 206,265AU.  FTP, what is this unit originally defined as the distance of a star with a parallax of one second viewed from the earth and sun?

Answer: parsec

Georgia Tech I - Toss-Ups

MLK Weekend Tournament - January 15-16, 1994

1. Given a presidential candidate and a year, identify the party for which he ran for 5 points each.

1. Henry Clay, 1844               Answer: Whig

2. James Birney, 1840             Answer: Liberty

3. John Bell, 1860                Answer: Constitutional Union

4. George Wallace, 1948           Answer: Progressive

5. John Bidwell, 1892             Answer: Prohibitionist

6. Martin Van Buren, 1848         Answer: Free Soil

2. Given characters from a story from The Canterbury Tales, tell which tale it is for 5 points each.

1. the patient Griselda                Answer: Clerk's Tale

2. the revellers who seek Death        Answer: Pardoner's Tale

3. Thomas and the friar                Answer: Summoner's Tale

4. the knight and the hag              Answer: Wife of Bath's Tale

5. the summoner and the devil          Answer: Friar's Tale

6. Chanticleer and Pertelote           Answer: Nun's Priest's Tale

3. (30 points) For 5 points each, identify these "C" terms from government.

1. It is an agreement between the Roman Catholic church and a secular government.

Answer: concordat

2.  It is the term for a closed meeting of members of a political party of faction for the purpose of making decisions on behalf of the body as a whole.

Answer: caucus

3. This positon is the director of the General Accounting Office. Answer: Comptroller General

4. This is the term for a subordinate diplomat who substitutes for an absent ambassador or minister.

Answer: charge d'affairs

5. This was the name of the unicameral parliament of Spain prior to it's 1977 replacement with a Congress of Deputies and Senate.

Answer: Cortes

6. It was the name applied to the government by Parliament headed by Oliver Cromwell following the execution of Charles I. Answer: Commonwealth

4. Given a European war, identify the treaty which ended it for 10 points each.

1. War of the League of Augsburg       Answer: Ryswick

2. War of Devolution                   Answer: Aix-la-Chapelle

3. Great Northern War                  Answer: Nystad

5. Give the name of the following effects from physics for the stated number of points.

1. For 5 points, it is the change in wavelength as the source and detector of waves move relative to each other.

Answer: Doppler effect

2. For 10 points, this is the interaction of X-rays and electrons as the X-rays transverse matter resulting in a lengthening of the X-ray wavelength.

Answer: Compton effect

3. For 15 points, by this effect, iron's magnetization increases by little jerks accompanied by noise as it is subjected to a continuously increasing magnetic field.

Answer: Barkhausen effect

6. Identify the following rebellions from American history from short descriptions for the stated number of points.

1. (5 points) This 1794 uprising occured in Western Pennsylvania and was crushed by George Washington.

Answer: Whiskey Rebellion

2. (10 points) Governor Samuel King of Rhode Island put an end to this 1842 attempt to revise the state constitution and widen the suffrage.

Answer: Dorr's Rebellion

3. (15 points) This 1689 rebellion in New York was put down by the new royal governor, Colonel Henry Slaughter.

Answer: Leisler's Rebellion

7. (30 points) For 5 points each, name the art museum in which you would find the following works of art.

1. Constable's The Haywain        Answer: National Gallery (Britain)

2. Wood's American Gothic         Answer: Art Institute of Chicago

3. Rembrandt's The Night Watch    Answer: Rijksmuseum

4. Thomas Cole's The Voyage of Life    Answer: National Gallery (US)

5. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon      Answer: MOMA (Museum of Modern Art)

6. Luncheon on the Grass          Answer: Musee d'Orsay

8. Let's see how well you know the first lines of works of foreign literature.  Given the  opening line to a novel, identify the work for 10 points.  If you need the author, you will receive 5 points.

1. 10: "On the 6th of January 1842 the Parisians were awakened by the noise of all the bells within the triple circuit of the city, the University, and the town ringing in full peal."

   5: Victor Hugo

Answer: The Hunchback of Notre Dame

2. 10: "'Well, Peter, not in sight yet?' was the question asked on May 20th, 1859 by a gentleman a little over forty, in a dusty coat and checked trousers, who came out hatless to the low porch of the posting station at S---."

   5: Ivan Turgenev

Answer: Fathers and Sons

3. 10: "The day had gone by just as days go by.  I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and withdrawn way of life.  I had worked for an hour or two and perused the pages of old books."

   5: Hermann Hesse

Answer: Steppenwolf

9. (30 points) For 5 points each, identify the modern country in which you would find the following regions of the world.

1. Annam

Answer: Vietnam

2. Andalusia

Answer: Spain

3. Apulia

Answer: Italy

4. Aram

Answer: Syria or Lebanon

5.  Antrim

Answer: Great Britain or Northern Ireland

6. Ahvenanmaa (spell this one out)

Answer: Finland

10. How much do you know about plant anatomy?  Answer these questions for 10 points each.

1. What is the term for the organizing center of undifferentiated, actively dividing cells forming zones where new organs can be generated throughout the life of the plant?

Answer: meristem

2. What is the name for the embrionic seed leaf that stores nutrients to sustain the growth of a newly germinated plant?

Answer: cotyledon

3. Which type of vascular tissue must be alive to function and is responsible for carbohydrate transport?

Answer: phloem

11. Given a character from a Mark Twain novel, identify the novel for 5 points each.

1. Tom Canty

Answer: The Prince and the Pauper

2. Hank Morgan

Answer: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

3. Horace Bixby

Answer: Life on the Mississippi

4. Becky Thatcher

Answer: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

5. Brigham Young

Answer: Roughing It

6. Louis XVII

Answer: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

12. Given an African leader, name the country to which he belongs for 5 points each.

1. Kwame Nkruma                        Answer: Ghana

2. Joseph Kasavubu                     Answer: Zaire

3. Kenneth Kaunda                      Answer: Zambia

4. Patrice Lumumba                     Answer: Zaire

5. Idi Amin                            Answer: Uganda

6. Houari Boumedienne                  Answer: Algeria

13. Identify this branch of science, 30-20-10.

1. It appears to be making a comeback at Texas A&M University, since California financier William Telander gave Dr. John Bockris a $200,000 grant.

2. Known practicioners include Arnold of Villanova, Zosimus, Rhazes, and Geber.

3. It revolved around the efforts to turn base metals into gold.

Answer: alchemy

14. (30 points) Identify these Oscar-winning directors from a non- Oscar film for 10 points, given an Oscar winning film for 5 points.

1. 10 pts: Blithe Spirit (1945)   5 pts: The Bridge on the River Kwai

Answer: David Lean

2. 10 pts: Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)      5 pts: You Can't Take it With You

Answer: Frank Capra

3. 10 pts: Some Like It Hot       5 pts: Stalag 17

Answer: Billy Wilder

15. Identify the French mathematician after a description is given for the stated number of points.

1. For 5 points, this man developed the branch of mathematics called analytic geometry.

Answer: Rene Descartes

2. For 10 points, he worked out mathematical treatments of the motions of systems containing more than 2 bodies, and is best known for the multipliers that bear his name.

Answer: Joseph Louis Lagrange

3. For 15 points, this man preceeded Gauss in coming up with the method of least squares, recast the books of Euclid in an improved form, and made important contributions to a branch of calculus that dealt with elliptical integrals.

Answer: Adrien Marie Legendre

16. (30 points) 30-20-10-5 Identify this mythological group.

1. In Macbeth at the discovery of Duncan's murder, Macduff mentions them saying "Approach the chamber and destroy your sight with a new blank".

2. They were sisters of the Graeae.

3. The daughters of Ceto and Phorcys, the two immortal ones were named Euryale and Stheno.

4. Medusa was the most famous of these three sisters.

Answer: Gorgons

17. (30 points) For 5 points each, name the parents of the following Biblical figures.

1. Samuel

Answer: Elkanah and Hannah

2. John the Baptist

Answer: Zechariah and Elizabeth

3. Benjamin

Answer: Jacob and Rachel

18. Give the authors of the following works of American literature for the stated number of points.

1. For 5 points, The Iceman Cometh     Answer: Eugene O'Neill

2. For 10 points, Winterset            Answer: Maxwell Anderson

3. For 15 points, The Snow Image       Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne

19. Answer the following questions about Texan independence for the stated number of points.

1. For 5 points each, what two men were the joint commanders of the Alamo when it was besieged by the Mexican army?

Answer: Jim Bowie and William Travis

2. For 10 points, the forces at what Texan fort were massacred on March 27, 1836, exactly 3 weeks after the battle of the Alamo?

Answer: Goliad

3. For 10 points, at what April 21, 1836 battle was Santa Anna captured?

Answer: San Jacinto

20. Given characters in a Verdi opera, name it.  10 points apiece.

1. Ramphis, Amneris, Radames            Answer: Aida

2. Count Monterone, Sparafucile, Gilda   Answer: Rigoletto

3. Don Alvaro, Padre Guardiano, Leonora Answer: La Forza del Destino (The Force of Destiny)