Chicago - Toss-Ups

MLK Weekend Tournament - January 15-16, 1994

1)  Born in London in 1850, he was apprenticed as a cigarmaker, and in the United States he became the president of the Cigarmaker's Union.  His written works include "Labour in Europe and America", "American Labor and the War", and "Seventy Years of Life and Labor".  For ten points, name this main figure of the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada, who became its president when it was reorganized as the AFL in 1886.

Answer: Samuel GOMPERS

2) Born in 1854, his poetry is characterized by dramatic and imaginative  vision, particularly in the realm of hallucination.  All of his known  poetry was written before he was 20 and the rest of his life was spent as  a trader in Africa.  For ten points, identify this French symbolist whose  works include The Drunken Boat and A Season in Hell.

Answer: Arthur RIMBAUD

3)  Among the epitaphs are those of Anne Rutledge, Petit the Poet, Lucinda Matlock, The Village Atheist, and Fiddler Jones.  Many of the  portraits are interrelated, so that 19 family histories are presented, showing frustrated ideals, petty intrigues, monotonous lives, and  occasional exalted experiences.  For ten points, name this work first published in "Reedy's Mirror" by Edgar Lee Masters.

Answer: SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY

4)  He struck out 13 times in a row as a rookie, as center fielder for the Chicago White Stockings.  He stole 71 bases in 1888.  In 1894, after his batting average fell to .250, he became a full-time assistant to Wilbur Chapman, and later became famous.  He noted the fact that sawdust was used to quiet people's feet, so he coined the term "sawdust trail", that trail which led to salvation.  For ten points, name this evangelist who intro- duced histrionics, harangue, and gymnastics to the art of giving a sermon.

Answer: Billy SUNDAY

5)  A long time after his death, there is still confusion about who actually killed him.  By prior arrangement, the honor was supposed to have gone to Peter Ermatov, but at least two members of the execution squad, Yakov Yurovsky and Mikhail Medvedev, seem to have tried to usurp Ermatov's place in history by shooting him first.  Another person who may have killed him was Imre Nagy, the future Hungarian leader, who was then a soldier in the Siberian Red Army and a volunteer member of the firing squad.  If this wasn't confusing enough, there is now speculation that his executioners may have bungled the job so badly that two of his children, Alexei and  Anastasia, escaped.  For ten points, name this last tsar of the Russian  Empire.

Answer: NICHOLAS II

6)  You know that Aristotle opened the Lyceum and Plato founded the Academy,  but this philosopher is known for his school called the Garden.  In his  works he attempted to rid man of the feeling of anxiety, superstition, and  the dread of death.  For ten points identify this philosopher on whose works Lucretius based his De Rerum Natura.

Answer: EPICURUS

7)  This Polish-born Dutch physicist took the ideas of Roemer and Amontons and replaced alcohol in thermometers with mercury, making the first modern thermometer in 1714.  He changed Roemer's scale such that 90 degrees re- presented blood heat and 30 degrees represented freezing.  For ten points, name this man who then tweaked the scale such that the blood heat was 98.6 degrees.

Answer: Daniel Gabriel FAHRENHEIT

8)  She claimed to have seen the spirit of Demosthenes.  In 1868, she and her sister, through promises of spiritual help, influenced Vanderbilt to set them up as the first professional woman stockbrokers.  In 1872, she and her sister published the first English translation of the Communist Manifesto in their journal.  For ten points, name this woman who in 1871 appealed for women's sufferage to the Senate Judiciary Committee, and who was supported by Anthony and Stanton.

Answer: Victoria Claflin WOODHULL

9)  If you have a viral disease, you are unlikely to have another one at the same time.  An apparent explanation for this was provided in 1957 by Isaacs and Lindeman, who identified a polypeptide consisting of approxi- mately 150 amino acid residues that protected the body against secondary attacks.  This substance then became the stuff of miracle cures, despite its huge cost.  For ten points, name this substance which became a cause celebre in the world of cancer research about a decade ago.

Answer: INTERFERON

10) His relationship with his housekeeper Hendrickje Stoeffels after the death of his wife Saskia van Uylenborch in 1642 made him socially unpresentable even though by that time his paintings and etchings  were highly sought after.  For ten points identify this 17th century painter of Syndics of the Cloth Guild, Pilate washing his Hands, and the Nightwatch.

Answer: REMBRANDT van Rijn (1606-1669)

11) Its highest point is the Maxwell Montes.  Its lowest is a rift valley, the Diana Chasma.  It has one major lowland basin, the Atalanta Planitia, and two major highlands, the Aphrodite Terra and the Ishtar Terra.  The at- mosphere is 4% nitrogen and 96% carbon dioxide.  For ten points, name this place explored recently by the mechanical Magellan.

Answer: VENUS

12) A graduate in pure mathematics from Trinity College, Dublin, and a champion weight-lifter, he is these days commemerated in a club at his alma-mater. His first book published in 1879 is "The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland".  He married Florence Balcombe, stealing her away from Oscar Wilde.  And he was heavily influenced by stories of the 1832 Irish cholera epidemic.  For ten points, name this author who began writing "The Undead" in 1890, publishing it in 1897 as "Dracula".

Answer: Bram STOKER

13) He claimed to be "the best gadget salesman in America".  As a lawyer, he went up against Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., and he helped to reorganize the corruption-plauged Ohio Edison.  He backed Al Smith in 1928 and FDR in 1932, but after seeing how the New Deal treated utility holding companies, he started a grass-roots movement.  Oren Root circulated a petition on his behalf, and he siad "if the nomination were given to me without strings, I'd have to accept it."  For ten points, who accepted the 1940 GOP nomin- ation?

Answer: Wendell WILLKIE

14) Typically printed on a papyrus roll 90 feet long, its proper title is The Coming Forth By Day.  It consists of magic spells, incantation, poems, and phrases that the soul is supposed to recite in order to exonerate it- self, such as "I did not steal," "I did not kill," and "I did not lie." For ten points, name this religious work that was placed in the tombs of ancient Egyptians.

Answer: THE BOOK OF THE DEAD

15) First and last name are required here.  As a promising young composition student in the 1870s, he was briefly taken in as a protege by  Wagner and served as stage manager for the original production of Parsifal.  His only great success came almost by accident, when his sister asked him to write some incidental music for a play she was writing based on a Brothers Grimm fable.  He became so carried away with this project that he turned it into a full-length opera, which today is recognized as the greatest opera ever written for children.  For ten points, name this composer of Hansel and Gretel, whose colorful name is now used as the stage name of singer Arnold Dorsey.

Answer: ENGLEBERT HUMPERDINCK

16) So general is it that it includes the law of mass action enunciated by Goldberg and Waage, and it can be used with some success to study human behavior.  It can be stated as "Every change of one of the factors of an equilibrium brings about a rearrangement of the system in such a direction as to minimize the original change."  For ten points identify this principle most often applied to chemistry.

Answer: LE CHATELIER'S Principle

17) "The Nazarene" with Bessie Love.  "The Medieval Story", about the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.  "The Fall of Babylon", which featured sets that Industrial Light and Magic would be proud of.  And "The Mother of the Law", starring Mae Marsh.  These four stories were linked by images of Lillian Gish and the movie as a whole was called by Pauline Kael "perhaps the greatest movie ever made and the greatest folly in movie history".  For ten points, name the 1916 D. W. Griffith film.

Answer: INTOLERANCE

18) It consisit of three major islands: Njazidja, Nzwani, and Mwali.  The  fourth island of the group, Mayotte, chose to remain a French colony.   For ten points identify this African island nation with ist captial at Moroni.

Answer: COMOROS

19) He emerged from the complete obscurity of a small vicarship in Yorkshire with the publishing of his first book in 1738.  For ten points identify this author of Sermon's of Mr. Yorrick, A Sentimental Journey and Tristam Shandy.

Answer: Lawrence STERNE

20) Chekhov and Dvorak die, and Graham Greene, Marlene Dietrich, and Salvador Dali are born.  The Abbey Theater and the Rolls-Royce company are founded,  and Rutherford postulates the basic theory of radioactivity.  War breaks  out between Japan and Russia, and work begins on the Panama Canal.  No  world series is played, but a world's fair and a summer Olympics are held  in St. Louis.  For ten points, all of this occurred in what year, in which  Theodore Roosevelt defeated Alton B. Parker for the presidency?

Answer: 1904

21) One of his earlier economic studies was The High Price of Bullion, published in 1810.  Born in 1772, he decided to devote himself to the study of political economics after reading The Wealth of Nations. For ten points, identify this English economist, author of Principles of Political Economy and Taxation.

Answer: David RICARDO

22) He was first elected to the Senate in 1950 after a campaign in which the principal issue was an allegation made by his Democratic opponent, Helen Douglas, that he was soft on communism.  Though the attacks by Douglas, a political neophyte, were groundless and clumsily directed, he was forced to respond in kind, and eventually emerged the victor in a rather nasty race. For ten points, name this Republican from California, who after serving  just two years in the Senate was elected Vice- President.

Answer: Richard M. NIXON

23) Those who unwittingly engaged in this activity include Thetis, Tamara, and Harpargus.  Those who did so only to save their own lives include several Uruguayan soccer players and some members of the Donner party.  Those who  did so for the sheer fun of it all include Jean-Bedel Bokassa, Alfred  Packer, and Jefferey Dahmer.  For ten points, identify this illicit dining  experience.

Answer: CANNIBALISM

24) With principle cities of Arad, Elat and Beersheba, this region covers approximately 5140 square miles.  It is bordered by the Wadi, Arabah, the Sinai peninsula and the Judean hills.  For ten points name this desert in southern Israel.

Answer: The NEGEV

Chicago - Bonuses

MLK Weekend Tournament - January 15-16, 1994

(30) 1)  Let's play the Central Asian Republic game, a favorite for those of all ages.  First, for ten points, Tamerlane's capital of Samarkand is in which former Soviet republic?   UZBEKISTAN

All Central Asian republics have Turkic languages except one, which uses Persian (or Farsi).  Which one, for ten points?

TAJIKISTAN

For five points each, the Aral Sea is shared by which two republics?

KAZAKHSTAN and UZBEKISTAN

(30) 2)  I'll name six vertebrate hormones; all you need to do is identify the  secreting gland.  You'll get to answer one at a time.  Ready?  Estro-  gen; insulin; thyroxin; epinephrine; ACTH; and oxytoxin.

OVARIES, PANCREAS, THYROID, ADRENAL (medulla), (anterior) PITUITARY,  and (posterior) PITUITARY

(30) 3)  Now to test your knowledge of the birth of Ireland, for the stated  number of points per part.  First, for five points, name the 1916 rebellion led by P.H. Pearse  and the Irish Republican Brotherhood.

EASTER Rebellion

Second, for ten points, give the name of the Irish party which organ-  ized a Parliament of their own in Ireland in 1919, the Dail Eireann.  If you need a hint, it is the name of the political wing of the IRA.

SINN FEIN

Third, for fifteen points, this leader of the Sinn Fein was arrested,  then he escaped from prison, and denounced Ireland dominion status.  Arrested after the creation of the Irish Free State, he was later  elected President in 1932.  If you need a hint, his surname is not  very Irish.

Eamonn DE VALERA

(20) 4)  Identify the U.S. president who appointed each of the following Chief Justices to the Supreme Court for five points apiece.

1. Harlan Stone                 A:  FDR

2. Morrison Remick Waite        A:  GRANT

3. Charles Evans Hughes         A:  HOOVER

4. Frederick Vinson             A:  TRUMAN

5. Edward White                 A:  TAFT

6. William Taft                 A:  HARDING

(30) 5)  Identify the author from works on a 30-20-10 basis.  

30: The Vegetable, or from President to Postman, and Taps at Reveille.  

20:  All the Sad Young Men, and Flappers and Philosophers  

10:  The Beautiful and The Damned, and Tender is the Night

F. Scott FITZGERALD

(30) 6)  A baseball bonus.  Given the year and the league and team, name the  home run champion, for five points each.

1) 1912, AL, Philadelphia              Franklin "Home Run" BAKER

2) 1930, NL, Chicago                   Hack WILSON  

3) 1950, NL, Pittsburgh                Ralph KINER  

4) 1952, AL, Cleveland                 Larry DOBY  

5) 1963, AL, Minnesota                 Harmon KILLEBREW  

6) 1990, NL, Chicago                   Ryne SANDBERG

(30) 7)  Identify the prophets, for 10 points apiece.  First, he lent his name to the first and longest of the books of the  Major Prophets in the Bible.  He preached under four kings of Judah,  and urded Hezekiah to recognize the power of Assyria.

ISAIAH

Second, from the Hebrew for "God strengthens", he preached to the  Jews of the exile, flourishing around 590 B.C.E.  He is the third of the major prophets.

EZEKIEL

Last, his subject was the sins of the northern kingdom of Israel in  the second half of the 8th century B.C.E.  Name this first of the  so-called minor prophets.

HOSEA

(25) 8)  For five points apiece and a five point bonus for all correct identify  the occupations of the following titular characters given their name  and the author that created them.  For example, if I said Dr. Charles  Primrose and Oliver Goldsmith you would say The Vicar of Wakefield.

1. Edmond Dantes, Alexander Dumas      THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO

2. Khlestakov,  Nikolai Gogol          THE INSPECTOR GENERAL  

3. Prince Myshkin, Feodor Dostoevski   THE IDIOT  

4. Daniel Dravot, Rudyard Kipling      THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING

5. Michael Henchard, Thomas Hardy      THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE

(30) 9)  Name the director from a list of films 30-20-10.

30: Heat and Dust, Shakespeare Wallah

20: The Bostonians and The Europeans

10: A Room with a View and Howard's End

James IVORY

(30) 10) A question about hydrocarbons.  If a hydrocarbon contains only single  carbon-carbon bonds, it is called what, for five points?

SATURATED

Now I will describe two saturated hydrocarbons, and you will name them  for five points apiece.  The first is two CH_3 groups joined by a  single bond, and the second is two CH_3 groups connected by single  bonds to a single CH_2 group.

 ETHANE and PROPANE

Last, for five points, what is needed to replace a hydrogen atom in order to turn a hydrocarbon into an alcohol?

 -OH or HYDROXYL group

(25) 11) Americans have not really contributed a whole lot to the world as   operatic composers, but America has been the setting for a handful  of important operas.  Given the name of a composer and a brief description of the plot, identify these two American-set operas - ten  points for the first and fifteen for the second.    Written by Puccini, it is set during the California gold rush of 1849.

THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST

Written by Verdi, it is a dramatization of the 1792 assasination  of King Gustav III of Sweden.  The identities of the characters  are changed and the scene is shifted to Boston for political reasons.

A MASKED BALL (Un ballo in maschera)   

(20) 12) Not all artists were starving artists- those who could find  themselves a royal patron often did quite well for themselves   financially.  Given an artist, then, name the monarch for whom he   served as official court painter.  Five points each.

1) Titian        CHARLES V of the Holy Roman Empire (Chas. I of Spain)  

2) Van Dyke      CHARLES I of Britain  

3) Velazquez     PHILIP IV of Spain  

4) Goya          CHARLES IV of Spain

(30) 13) Identify these European nations from their highest peaks each of which have at least ten letters, and the third largest city in that nation. Five point bonus for all correct.

1) Haltiatunturi, Turku         A:  FINLAND

2) Grossglockner, Linz          A:  AUSTRIA

3) Hvannadalshnukur, Akureyi    A:  ICELAND

4) Galdhoppiggen, Bergen        A:  NORWAY

5) Kebnekajse, Malmo            A:  SWEDEN

(30) 14) You can't keep track of the Khans without a scorecard.  Or can you?  First, for five points, he was born Temujin and was the first of the  great khans.  His tomb is somewhere in Mongolia, which means it will  almost certainly never be found.

GENGHIS Khan

Second, for ten points, Ogadei Khan, on his way to the Levant, stopped  off and crushed the Iraqis like little grapes.  What famous order did  he destroy?

Ismaili Order of the ASSASSINS

Third, for fifteen points, this khan got within 60 miles of Venice in  the 1240's, but had to return on the death of the supreme khan back in  Karakorum.  Like good Farengi, the Venetians gave this khan all sorts  of information on Genovese ports and fortresses, which he subsequently  destroyed.

BATU Khan

(30) 15) Identify the operatic composer, given some of his works, 30-20-10.  

30: The tragic operas Il Furioso, Lucretia Borgia, and Torquato Tasso  

20: The comic operas Don Pasquale, La figlia del reggimento,      and L'Elisir d'amore.  

10: The English-set operas Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, and Lucia di Lammermoor.

Gaetano DONIZETTI

(30) 16) Identify the authors of the following works with the word "Bridge"  in the title for 5-10-15 points.  

1.  (5)   The Bridge of San Luis Ray       Thorton WILDER  

2.  (10)  The Bridge on the River Quay     Pierre BOULLE  

3.  (15)  The Bridge on the Drina          Ivo ANDRIC

(25) 17) Now to test your knowledge on the English Civil War, for five points  each.

1) In what year did the first civil war begin, within 2?  

1642  

2) What was the nickname of the royalist faction?

CAVALIERS  

3) What's the nickname of the parliament/puritan faction? ROUNDHEADS  

4) What court, established in 1487, was abolished by the Long     Parliament of 1641?                                    

STAR CHAMBER  

5) In what battle of July 1644 was Prince Rupert defeated by Cromwell after he had defeated Cromwell's Scottish     allies?   

MARSTON MOOR  

6) In what year, then, was Charles I finally beheaded?    

1649

(30) 18) 30-20-10, identify the art movement.  

30: Its Italian leader is responsible for the quotes "Burn the museums!" and "Drain the canals of Venice!"  

20: Founded in 1909, it was originally a literary movement, and its key artists were Balla, Boccioni, Carra, Russolo, and Severini.  

10: Its leader, Filipo Tommaso Marienetti, was a poet and the author of this movement's "Manifesto".

FUTURISM

(30) 19) Name the political theorist from a short description, for ten points  apiece.  First, born in 1729, he was the party secretary and chief man-of-ideas  of the Whig connection led by the Marquis of Rockingham, and he wrote  "Reflections on the Revolution in France" in 1790.

Edmund BURKE

Second, this man wrote "On Liberty" in 1859 and "Utilitarianism" in  1861.  Most of his life he was a clerk at the India House in London.

John Stuart MILL

Third, born in Germany in 1906, she wrote "The Human Condition" in 1958 and "The Origins of Totalitarianism" in 1951.

Hannah ARENDT

(30) 20) Name the pair of discoverers of the following innovations. The year they received the Nobel Prize is provided for your assistance. 5 points for each person you can name.

1. High-temperature superconductivity (1987)  

2. Scanning tunneling microscope (1986)  

3. Voltage multiplier and proton accelerator (aka generator) (1951)

BEDNORZ and MULLER, BINNIG and ROHRER, COCKROFT and WALTON

(30) 21) According to his producer, Sherwood Schwartz, this actor "could  play Hamlet, get booed off the stage, and then say `Hey, don't blame me- I didn't write this shit.'"  

20: Were he alive today, it is probable that this late actor would  prefer to be remembered for his roles in Broadway productions such as "Barefoot in the Park," or his appearances in serious TV programs such as "Roots."  

10: Unfortunately, this recent AIDS victim will probably always be remembered as Mike Brady from "The Brady Bunch."

 Robert REED