Georgia State II - Toss-Ups

MLK Weekend Tournament - January 15-16, 1994

1 Two answers required.  Two 16th century European countries, threatened by neighbors such as: the Ottoman Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, Russia and Hungary decided that it was in their best interests to combine.  In 1569, the Union of Lublin created a single political unit which, for a time, protected them from conquest.  For 10 points, name these two nations on the Baltic Sea.

ANSWER:   Poland and Lithuania

2 Many of the parts of the inner ear are named for their shapes, such as the hammer, the anvil and the stirrup.  Another part,  containing the spiral organ which transfers sounds to the 8th cranial nerve, is named because it resembles a snail.  For 10 points, name this organ.

ANSWER: the cochlea

3 In Douglas Adams' "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," Dolphins, the second most intelligent life-form on our planet, made numerous attempts to warn humans of the impending destruction of the Earth, to no avail.  Their last message to man, provides the title to the fourth work in the "Hitchhiker Trilogy." For 10 points, what was this fond farewell?

ANSWER:   So long, and thanks for all the fish.

4 It was made in Alexandria, Egypt between 280 and 130 BC Tradition holds that it was produced for Ptolemy II in 70 days by a group of 72 scholars.  Its name comes from the Latin word for seventy.  For ten points, what do we call this early Greek version of the Old Testament?

ANSWER: The Septuagint

5 99% of this island is owned by Castle & Cooke, a subsidiary of the Dole Food Company.  Once known as "the pineapple island," today it is marketed as "the private island," because of its secluded resorts.  For 10 points, name this island, located 10 miles west of Maui.

ANSWER:   Lanai

6 This 1975 Edwin Torres novel is so replete with street slang and Spanish and Italian phrases, that it comes with a glossary of terms.  It is the story of the adventures of a New York Puerto Rican drug dealer, trying to stay out of jail and get out of trouble with the Mafia.  For 10 points name this work, which, in 1993, provided a cinematic vehicle for Al Pacino. ANSWER:   Carlito's Way

7 Louis Le Vau began working on this project in 1661, building on the existing structures.  Jules Mansard took over in 1678, remodeling the main building and adding north and south wings.  Charles Le Brun was responsible for the furnishings, and André Lenôtre designed the gardens.  For 10 points, identify this architectural wonder and monument to the "Sun King."

ANSWER: Versailles

8 He is so popular with his fans, that it took less than three hours to sell more than 63,000 tickets for his March 5 through March 13, 1994 shows at Radio City Music Hall.  Some might say, however that those who failed to get tickets are the lucky ones. For 10 points, who is this popular star, often seen with his sidekick, Baby-Bop.

ANSWER:   Barney

9 After the death of his parents, he married Zenobia, his mother's nurse, to prevent being left alone on his family's New England farm.  But, it wasn't until the arrival of his wife's cousin, Mattie Silver, that he learned the meaning of romance.  For 10 points who is this Edith Warton character, permanently disfigured by a sledding accident?

ANSWER:   Ethan Fromme

10 English translations of Giovanni Schiaparelli's studies of Mars claimed that the planet's surface was criss-crossed with canals.  A wealthy amateur astronomer, wanting to see the Martians who built these canals, left Boston in 1894 to build an observatory on Mars Hill, in Flagstaff, Arizona.  For 10 points, who was this man, whose initials form the symbol for the ninth planet.

ANSWER: Percival Lowell

11 A colonel in the Continental Army, during the Revolution, he set up an informal military court on his property.  Although, he imposed the death penalty on only one occasion and most hangings were by the thumbs, his name has been lent to the most severe form of vigilante justice.  For 10 points, who is this man, whose brother founded a Virginia city.

ANSWER:   Charles Lynch (His brother John founded Lynchburg)

12 While Lorena Bobbitt carried out her act of vengeance very swiftly, this woman of Greek mythology waited ten years for her husband to return from the Conquest of Troy before killing him and his mistress, Cassandra. For 10 points, who was this tragic character, who murdered Agamemnon because he had sacrificed their daughter, Iphigenia, to appease the Gods?

ANSWER: Clytemnestra

13 In the Middle East, this period of human culture began around 10,000 BC, while the people of Britain did not advance to this stage for another 7,000 years.  Immediately following the Magdalenian stage of the Paleolithic, it is characterized by an economic transition between food gathering and settled agriculture.  For 10 points, name this period, which saw the development of the bow and arrow.

ANSWER: the Mesolithic

14 One of the poorest nations in this hemisphere, its name is a Spanish word meaning "depth," and its capital city's name means "silver hill" in the local Native American tongue.  Its currency, the "lempira" is named for an Indian chief who died fighting the conquistadors.  For 10 points, name this country, the second largest of Central America's republics.

ANSWER: Honduras

15 According the Norton Anthology of Fiction, it is "a literary work in which the characters and their situations clearly represent general qualities and types-as, in an animal fable, each animal may represent a type of human personality." For 10 points what is this type of work, so well illustrated by Orwell's Animal Farm ?

ANSWER: allegory

16 In 1969 Charles Cockrell was knighted for the invention of a new mode of transportation.  Its development began in 1950, when he reversed the motor on his wife's vacuum cleaner and installed it so that the air would blow beneath a small boat, thereby reducing the friction between boat and water. For 10 points, identify the craft he invented, commonly seen today ferrying passengers at high speed across the English Channel.

ANSWER: hovercraft

17 In order to pay off the financial obligations of the first Bayreuth (bi-ROYT) festival, Wagner composed an opera about one of King Arthur's knights.  Having previously told the story of Lohengrin, a knight of the Holy Grail, it was only natural to tell the story of his father, who heals Amfortas' wound with the sacred spear he has recovered from the magician Klingsor.  For 10 points, identify this opera, Wagner's last.

ANSWER: Parsifal

18 When French astronomer Charles Messier decided to catalog all of the star clusters and nebulae in the night sky, he started with a faint patch of gas located in the constellation Taurus. This glowing cloud is the remains of a supernova which exploded in the year 1054.  For ten points what is the common name for this body, designated Messier 1?

ANSWER: the Crab nebula

19 Descartes espoused the traditional concept of body and soul.  The problem with this dualism was the lack of a site for communication between body and soul.  Descartes figured that since the soul was unitary, no bilaterally body structure could be the correct site.  He therefore chose a small organ of the brain which had no known function.  For 10 points, what cone-shaped organ did he choose?

ANSWER: the pineal gland

20 After serving in the army during the Franco-Prussian war, he apprenticed himself to family friend, Gustave Flaubert, in order learn the art of fiction.  In 1880 a short story, "Ball of Fat," contrasting the patriotism of a prostitute with the amorality of the middle-class, made him famous.  A prolific writer, he succumbed to the ravages of syphilis at the age of 43.  For 10 points who was this author of Bel Ami ?

ANSWER: Guy de Maupassant

21 The only U.S. President who has maintained his entire cabinet for a full four year term, he had attended Bowdoin College with Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, before serving in the US Senate and in the Mexican War.  For 10 points, name who was this New Hampshire native?

ANSWER: Franklin Pierce

22 Director Robert Altman has an eye for distinctive personalities.  One of his favorites seems to be the singer/songwriter who played an inept detective in "The Player," portrayed an angry baker in "Short Cuts" and will appear in Altman's next film, "Prêt-à-Porter."  For 10 points, name this, the man who married Julia Roberts.

ANSWER: Lyle Lovett

23 Napoleon's forces defeated the Prussians at the Battle of Jena, the day after this man completed his most important work at the University there. When the university closed, he moved on to positions at Nuremberg, Heidelberg and Berlin, where he died of cholera in 1831.  For 10 points, identify this author of Phenomenology of Spirit .

ANSWER: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

24 Note the following countries: Egypt, France, Argentina, Viet Nam and Great Britain.  The most populous of these nations has approximately 70 million citizens.  You'll earn 10 points for correctly identifying it.

  ANSWER: Viet Nam

25 A January 1994 study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has shown that a family of chemicals called "HFCs" can replace chlorofluorocarbons in applications such as air conditioning, with little risk to the Earth's ozone layer. For 10 points, what does the abbreviation "HFC" stand for?

ANSWER: hydrofluorocarbon s

26 By 1991, he had risen to number 62 on Forbes magazines, list of the world richest people, but in December of 1993, he was shot to death on a rooftop in the city of Medellin (meh-deh-YEEN), center for a drug cartel, which at one time, supplied 80% of the United State's cocaine.  For 10 points, who is this man?

ANSWER   Pablo Escobar

27 They are, or appear to be, a clown, a harlequin and a monk. The clown plays a clarinet-like instrument, the harlequin plays guitar and the monk holds sheet music and seems to sing.  The difficulty in exact identification is that the painting is in the cubist style.  For 10 points identify this 1921 Pablo Picasso work.

ANSWER: Three Musicians

28 Ross Perot predicted that the enactment of NAFTA would result in the loud "sucking sound" of American jobs heading south of the border.  The first sounds coming from Mexico, however, were those of gunfire.  Native Americans were in revolt over the accords, because they believe that their corn and coffee economy will suffer.  For 10 points, in what southern Mexican state was the fighting concentrated?

ANSWER: Chiapas

Georgia Tech I - Toss-Ups

MLK Weekend Tournament - January 15-16, 1994

1  Cast Party. For 10 points each, identify these movies from lists of their leading actors.

1) Tom Berenger, Glenn Close, William Hurt & Meg Tilly

ANSWER: The Big Chill

2) Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon & Michelle Pfeiffer

ANSWER: The Witches of Eastwick

3) Clint Eastwood, Donald Sutherland, Gavin MacLeod & Carroll O'Conner

ANSWER: Kelly's Heroes

2 You'll earn 10 points for identifying each of these Thermodynamics terms from its description.

1) The heat content of a substance or of a reaction, the letter "H" is its symbol.

ANSWER: enthalpy

2) Symbolized by the letter "S," it is the energy unavailable for work, the disorder of the system.

ANSWER: entropy

3) The enthalpy minus the entropy, its symbol, the letter "G" is in honor of Josiah Gibbs.

ANSWER: Gibbs free energy

3 You'll earn five points for each of these foreign heads of state that you can identify.

1) Ireland's Prime Minister ANSWER   Albert Reynolds

2) Canada's Prime Minister ANSWER   Jean Cretian

3) Japan's Prime Minister ANSWER   Morihiro Hosokawa

4) Syria's President ANSWER   Hafez Assad

5) Egypt's President ANSWER   Hosni Mubarak

6) Bulgaria's Prime Minister ANSWER   Zhelyv Zhelev

4 Identify the composer after the first clue for 30 points, after the second for 20 and after the third for 10.

1) A native of Hamburg, as a boy he supplemented his family's income by playing piano in the dancehalls of the slum district where he grew up.

2) Composer of 4 symphonies, the death of his mother compelled him to him to complete A German Requiem .

3) The death of the love of his life, Clara Schumann, inspired Four Serious Songs .

ANSWER: Johannes Brahms

5 For five points apiece, given selected players from an NBA roster, name the team.

1) Xavier McDaniel & Ed Pinckney ANSWER: Boston or Celtics

2) Larry Nance & Gerald Wilkins ANSWER: Cleveland or Cavaliers

3) Don MacLean & Rex Chapman ANSWER: Washington or Bullets

4) Wayman Tisdale & Bobby Hurley ANSWER: Sacramento or Kings

5) Jamal Mashburn & Popeye Jones ANSWER: Dallas or Mavericks

6) Rony Seikaly & Matt Geiger ANSWER: Miami or Heat

6 For ten points each, answer these questions about Shakespeare's classic tale of indecision, Hamlet.

1) The play opens on the battlements of a Danish castle.  What is its name?

ANSWER: Elsinore

2) According to Hamlet, what is "the paragon of animals?"

ANSWER: man

3) Hamlet's stepfather was Claudius, who was Hamlet's mother?

ANSWER: Gertrude

7 The flags of many countries bear distinctive features, for 10 points each, identify the nation:

1) ...in the Caribbean with a three-pointed spear in its center.

ANSWER: Barbados

2) ...in Europe with a two-headed eagle on a red background.

ANSWER: Albania

3) ...in Asia, with a spinning wheel in its center.

ANSWER: India

8 In 1797, the young American nation launched its first three naval frigates, from Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston. You'll earn 10 points each for giving the names of these three vessels.

ANSWERS: the United States , the Constellation and the Constitution

9 For 10 points apiece, identify these essential minerals.

1) Important in the development of the reproductive organs, this element allows acuity of taste and smell.  A deficiency may be indicated by the presence of white marks within the fingernails.

ANSWER: zinc

2) Needed only in trace amounts, this element is important in physical and mental development and in metabolism.  Children who fail to receive enough may develop cretinism.

ANSWER: iodine

3) Important for a healthy nervous system and a regular heart rhythm, a lower than normal level of this element is called "hypokalemia."

ANSWER: potassium

10 The 78 cards of a tarot (TAIR-oh) deck are divided in two arcana.  The minor arcanum of 56 cards corresponds to playing cards and is similarly divided into four suits.

1) For 5 points each give the names of the four suits of the minor arcanum.

ANSWERS: 1. cups or chalices  2. swords  3. coins  4. wands or staffs

2) The major arcanum is composed of 22 trump cards numbered from zero to 21. For 10 points, what figure is seen on the trump card number zero?

ANSWER: the Fool

11 Byron and Shelley both believed that John Keats died of a broken heart, affected by a review published anonymously by John Wilson Croker, which criticized one of Keats' poems.

1) For 10 points, what poem did Croker review?

ANSWER: Endymion

2) Regardless of his fellow poets' beliefs, Keats died from a cause other than a broken heart. For 10 points, what disease took his life at the age of 26?  

ANSWER: tuberculosis or TB

3) For 10 points, what Shelley poem, subtitled "An Elegy on the Death of John Keats," is an attack on the cruelty of critics?

ANSWER: Adonais

12 The pre-Columbian natives of South America were primarily divided into three peoples, for 10 points, each identify the tribes:

1) Living in the region north of the Amazon to the West Indies, they were devastated by European diseases and slavery.  They may be the source of the syphilis which first struck Europe shortly after Columbus' return.

ANSWER: the Carib s

2) They lived in the mountainous regions from what is now Ecuador to northern Chile.  It is estimated that their population of 20 million was halved as a result of the Spanish conquests.

ANSWER: the Inca

3) The predominant race of the majority of South America, they lived from Bolivia to the northeast, east and southeast. They form the basis of most of South American Indian society.

ANSWER: the Arawak

13 For 30 points, identify the year, after the first clue for 30 points, after the second clue for 20 and after the third for 10.

1) Nitroglycerine is developed by Sobrero, the Oregon boundary is set at the 49th parallel.

2) The Bear flag of the Republic of California raised at Sonoma, Elias Howe invents the sewing machine.

3) The Mexican War begins as Zachary Taylor seizes territory in Texas.

ANSWER: 1846

14 For 10 points each, identify these sculptures.

1) It is also known as "Aphrodite of Melos."

ANSWER: the Venus de Milo

2) Rodin sculpted a larger-than-life image of this French author wrapped in a cloak.

ANSWER: Balzac

3) Horatio Greenough sculpted this American leader draped in a robe, as if he were a god of antiquity.

ANSWER: George Washington

15 Identify each of these U.S. states from its motto for 10 points, if you need a nickname, you'll get only 5 points.

1) motto: "Wisdom, Justice, Moderation"

nickname: "Empire State of the South"

ANSWER: Georgia

2) motto: "Liberty and Independence"

nickname: "Diamond State"

ANSWER: Delaware

3) motto: "State sovereignty-national union"

nickname: "Prairie State"

ANSWER: Illinois

16 Identify this work after the first clue for 30 points, after the second for 20 or after the third for 10.

1) Subtitled "Lonesome No More," in its introduction, Kurt Vonnegut says it is the most autobiographical novel he will ever write.

2)  Dr. Wilbur Daffodil-11 Swain, the former and last President of the United States tells of a time when the Earth's gravity is as changeable as the weather.

3) Dedicated to the memory of Laurel and Hardy, its title is a reference to their style of humor.

ANSWER:   Slapstick

17 You'll earn 5 points for each metal you can identify from its ore and a 5 point bonus if identify all five.

1) galena ANSWER: lead

2) hematite ANSWER: iron

3) cinnabar ANSWER: mercury

4) bauxite ANSWER: aluminum

5) blue vitriol ANSWER: copper

18 Identify this author after the first clue for 30 points, after the second for 20 points and after the third for 10.

1) Born in 1802, at age 17 he and his brother Abel began publishing a journal called "Le Conservateur Littéraire."

2) Volumes of poetry by this man who was banished from France by Louis Napoleon include: "Autumn Leaves," "Songs of Twilight," "Inner Voices" and "Rays and Shadows."

3) The title of one of his most popular novels may be translated "The Wretched Ones."

ANSWER: Victor Hugo

19 The Greek phrases describing two clashing early Christian beliefs differed in spelling by only one letter, leading to the modern expression "not one iota of difference."

1) For 10 points, in the year 325, what Byzantine emperor called for the conference to settle the argument about Jesus' relationship to God the Father?

ANSWER: Constantine I or Constantine the Great

2) For an additional 10 points, the conference decided to follow the belief that Jesus is "one in being" with God the Father.  What is this doctrine called?

ANSWER: the Nicene Creed (also: Homo-ousion )

3) The conference declared that the beliefs of the faction led by a theologian from Alexandria were heresy.  For 10 points, what was the name of this faction?

ANSWER: Arian ism ( also: the followers of Arius or Homoi-ousion )

20 For five points each identify the highest point in each of these U.S. states.

1) Kentucky ANSWER: Black Mountain

2) Idaho ANSWER: Borah Peak

3) Kansas ANSWER: Mount Sunflower

4) Tennessee ANSWER: Clingmans Dome

5) New Hampshire ANSWER: Mount Washington

6) Alaska ANSWER: Mount McKinley

21 You'll earn five points for identifying these captains of industry and a five point bonus if you get all correct.

1) Chairman of the Board for Walt Disney

ANSWER:   Michael Eisner

2) Chairman of the Board for Microsoft

ANSWER:   Bill Gates

3) QVC Network CEO

ANSWER: Barry Diller

4) IBM's Chairman

ANSWER: Louis V. Gerstner

5) Sony's Chairman

ANSWER: Akio Morita

22 For 10 points each, answer these questions about the Missouri Compromise.

1) What Kentucky Senator sponsored the bill?

ANSWER: Henry Clay

2) In what year was the legislation passed?

ANSWER: 1820

3) In what year was the legislation repealed?

ANSWER: 1854

23 Insects are often separated on the basis of wing structure.  For 10 points each give the name of the class of insects which...

1) ...means "sheathed wing" and comprises the beetles.

ANSWER: coleoptera

2) ...means "scaly wing" and includes moths and butterflies.

ANSWER: lepidoptera

3) ...means "half wing" and includes true bugs like stink bugs.

ANSWER: hemiptera

24 Lost Lyrics.  For 10 points, given a lyric, name the song.  If you need the artist, you'll only earn 5 points.

1) lyric: "We were barely 17 and we were barely dressed."

artist: Meat Loaf

ANSWER: Paradise by the Dashboard Light

2) lyric: "Young man, there's a place you can go."

artist: The Village People

ANSWER: The Y.M.C.A.

3) lyric: "I got me a Chrysler, its as big as a whale."

artist: The B-52s

ANSWER: The Love Shack

25 Note the following faiths: Roman Catholic, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist and Protestant.  For each of the following continents, choose the faith with the most adherents and earn five points. If you get all five correct, you will earn five bonus points.

1) Asia ANSWER: Hindu

2) South America ANSWER: Roman Catholic

3) Europe ANSWER: Roman Catholic

4) North America ANSWER: Protestant

5) Africa ANSWER: Moslem

26 For ten points each, identify these 1993 best-sellers from a description.

1) Peter Hoeg's story of an Inuit woman who believes that a boy's suicide is murder.

ANSWER: Smilla's Sense of Snow

2) Diana Ross's autobiography.

ANSWER: Secrets of a Sparrow

3) Robert Waller's follow-up novel to "The Bridges of Madison County."

ANSWER: Slow Waltz at Cedar Bend