Vanderbilt A - Toss-Ups
MLK Weekend Tournament - January 15-16, 1994
1. Born in 1861 in England, this philosopher developed a monumental metaphysics while teaching at Harvard. He attempts to undo the damage wrought on philosophy by the dualism of Rene Descartes in his books Process and Reality and Scienc and the Modern World. FTP, identify thisco-author of Principia Mathematica who is perhaps best known for suggesting that all of philosophy is merely footnotes to Plato.
Answer: Alfred North Whitehead
2. Born in 1810, he did much to make known the early music of Chopin and Brahms. Though he wrote orchestral and chamber music, he best expressed his ardent romanticism inhis piano work and lieder, most of the latter composed in 1840, when he married Clara Wieck, a leading pianist. FTP, name this major German composer.
Answer: Robert Alexander Schumann
3. This borough was chartered in 1207 on the Mersey river 3 miles from the Irish Sea. In the 18th century it was a major slave-trading port and its extensive docks are nowamong Europes finest. With a population a little over half a million, this industrial city is Britains second largest port. FTP, name this city perhaps most famous for spawning amusical craze in the 1960s.
Answer: Liverpool
4. In 1976 she wrote about her participation in the womens movement in It Changed My Life. HerThe Second Stage charts the movements course. In 1971 shehelped organize the National Womens Political Caucus and her 1963 book, which challenged attitudes which had led women to become housewives and mothers at the expense of more ambitious careers, was called The Feminine Mystique. FTP, identify this founding president of the National Organization for Women.
Answer: Betty Friedan
5. He wrote Phaenomena, on spherical geometry, and Optics, treating vision and perspective. This Alexandrians most famous work is still the basis of much of geometry even though its fifth postulate can not be proven. FTP, identify this author of Elements.
Answer: Euclid
6. The most infectious guitar riff heard on MTV in quite some time comes from a band whose lyrics include things like The bong in this Reggae song.They followed up their breakthrough smash with Divine Hammer ... another song off the CD Last Splash. FTP, name these performers of Cannonball.
Answer: The Breeders
7. Languages spoken there include French, Fon, Mina, Yoruba, and Dendi. Yes, Dendi. Its religions include Animist, Muslim, Roman Catholic, and Protestant. It is a long and narrow country extending some 450 miles from the Gulf ofGuinea to the Niger river. FTP, identify this country surrounded by Togo, Niger, Nigeria, and Burkina Faso which has its capital at Porto Novo.
Answer: Benin
8. Born in 1898, he was an expert on business law and served as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Appointed to the Supreme Court in 1939, he favored a broad exercise of court poowers and was an ardent defender of civil rights and free speech. He wrote some 30 books, many defending nature and wilderness. FTP, identify this man who sat onthe High Court until 1975 making his the longest term in history.
Answer: William Orville Douglas
9. 6 C-O-2 plus 6 H-2-0 plus light yeilds C-6-H-12-O-6 plus 6-O-2 is the overall process. In detail, it may be divided into the light reaction and the dark reaction. FTP, identify this process by which green plants convert the energy of sunlight into chemical energy which is then stored as carbohydrate.
Answer: Photosynthesis
10. During crucial stages, Leon Trotsky headed the Russian Delegation. It required, among other things, full demobilization of all Russian armed forces, the surrender of all Russian claims to the territories west of aline running from Riga to the northwest corner of the Ukraine, and the evacuation of all districts seized during the war from Turkey. FTP, what was this treaty signed on March 3, 1918?
Answer: The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
11. This Italian-born inventor and physicist shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with K.F. Braun. On learning of Hertzian waves in 1894, he set to work devising a wireless telegraph. In 1899 he succeeded in sending a signal across the EnglishChannel and on December 12, 1901 he successfully received a signal in Newfoundland that had been sent from Cornwall. FTP, identify this man who thus brought on the age of transatlantic radio communication.
Answer: Guglielmo Marconi
12. Adopted at 17 by his uncle Antoninus Pius, he succeeded him as emperor in 161 AD. Before then, during his distinguished career in public service, he wrote Meditations -- his personal philosophy of stoicism. FTP, identify this Roman emperor who died in 180.
Answer: Marcus Aurelius
13. Born on the Grand River in SOuth Dakota, his given name was Tatanka Yotanka. Although he fought against Crow Indians when he was 14, his claim to fame was as amedicine man and chief. FTP, who was this chief of the Sioux noted for aking medicine during Little Bighorn?
Answer: Sitting Bull
14. In September 1704, after a quarrel with his privateer captain, he chose to be put ashore on one of the uninhabited Juan Fernandez islands. He was then rescued in 1709. FTP,identify this Scottish sailor whose life as a castaway inspired Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe.
Answer: Alexander Selkirk
15. He, at the same time as Archibald Scott Couper, recognized the quadrivalency of carbon and its ability to form long chains. This German chemist is regarded as the father of modern organic chemistry. He actually began structural organicchemistry with his inference of the structure of benzene. FTP, name him.
Answer: Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz
16. This Venetian composer of the early 18th century wrote vocal music, sonatas, and some 450 concertos mostly for violin which helped establish the 3-movement form of theconcerto. His work has a sparkling clarity, strong rhythms, and a wealth of melody. FTP, identify this man also known for his concerti grossi, the most famous of which is Four Seasons.
Answer: Antonio Vivaldi
17. Born in 1873, his main works are a six-volume novel cycle on the rise of man entitled The Long Journey and a series of more than 100 tales entitled Myths.FTP, name this Danish winner of the 1944 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Answer: Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
18. In 1783 he formed a brief coalition with Charles James Fox. This was one year after he resigned from his previous job. He had been a tool of George III, answering the Boston TeaParty with the Intolerable Acts. FTP, name this British Tory prime minister whose policies precipitated the break with the American colonies.
Answer: Frederick North
19. Distributed in the high bleak plateaus and mountains of Central Asia, this animal is a member of the Bovidae family. It ranges from the lower valleys to 20,000-footlevels, feeding on coarse grasses. It is usually black and shaggy and about the size of common oxen. FTP, what is this horned hairy animal with a rather short and odd sounding name?
Answer: Yak or Tibetan Ox
20. The duality of mans nature, particularly with regard to the artist, is a recurrent theme in his work, with a later emphasis on symbolism and psychoanalyticinsights. He wrote Demian and The Glass Bead Game before winning the Nobel Prize in 1946. FTP, name this German born Swiss poet and novelist who is most famous for Siddhartha and Steppenwolf.
Answer: Hermann Hesse
21. The musical form of the opera was enriched by the Romantics and eventually given greater depth by Verdi and Wagner, but in between, in Italy, a more stylized form evolved. The three great Italian masters Bellini, Donizetti, and Rossini developed, FTP, what form of opera?
Answer: bel canto
22. Everyone knows that the animal with the longest gestation period is the elephant at almost two years. The rest of the top five includes the zebra at 365 days, the camel at 406 days, the giraffe at 425 days, and this animal at 450 days. It lives in Sub-saharan Africa and its scientific name is Diceros bicornis. FTP, identify this endangered species with white and black varieties.
Answer: Rhinoceros (accept black rhinoceros on early buzz)
During the 14th century he adopted the hitherto frivolous verse form ghazal and used it to express a sensuality and gaiety heightened by the philosophical Muslimmysticism of sufism. FTP, identify this a courtier at Shiraz and great Persian lyric poet.
Answer: Shams ud-Din Mohammed Hafiz
25. Begun in 1959, it took 14 years to complete and cost more than 14 times the original estimate. In 1966, before it was completed, the architect resigned leaving the locals to complete it. It looks like a series of curved sails or seashells draped over a concrete structure. FTP, what is this structurewhich celebrated its 20th anniversary recently and is an Australian center for the arts?
Answer: Sidney Opera House
26. Born Josif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili to a Georgian village shoemaker is 1879, he joined the Georgian Social Democratic Party in 1901. He became its Tiflis organizer in 1905 and in 1912 Lenin coopted him onto the Bolshevik central committee. This is the early career of, FTP, what eventual dictatorial ruler of the Soviet Union?
Answer: Joseph Stalin
27. 13. This US lawyer and statesman was twice a delegate to the Continental Congress and as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 he was largely responsiblefor concessions to slaveholders. In 1776 he helped frame South Carolinas constitution and was governor from 1779-82. FTP, name this man who in 1795 he was nominated by Washington to for Chief Justice, but was not confirmed by the Senate.
Answer: John Rutledge
(His brother Edward was also a delegate and SC governor)
19. The last names the same: Anton was a Russian piano virtuoso and composer who founded the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1862 and served as its director. Arthurwas a Polish-born U.S. pianist who remained at the top of his form for over 70 years and was especially famous for his interpretations of Chopin. FTP, give me the shared last name.
Answer: Rubinstein
Vanderbilt A - Bonuses
MLK Weekend Tournament - January 15-16, 1994
1. The struggle between the British and French for supremecy in North America had many phases, most of which were reflections of European Wars. Given the name of an American war, you tell me the corresponding European war ... 5 points each with a 5 point bonus for all 4.
1) King Williams War Answer: War of the League of Augsburg or War of the Grand Alliance
2) Queen Annes War Answer: War of Spanish Succession
3) King Georges War Answer: War of Austrian Succession
4) The French and Indian War Answer: Seven Years War
2. Inspired by the earlier work of Leibniz, he tried to show that all mathematical truths could be derived logically from a few simple axioms. After Russells criticism that his system allowed at least one paradox, he worte little more; but his work did influence later thinkers such as Peano, Russell, and Whitehead For 15 points,all or nothing, idenitfy this German logician sometimes called the father of mathematical logic.
Answer: Gottlob Frege
And for 15 points, tell me the philosophical movement partially insipred by Frege which holds that the only true things are those which can observed -- a claim which,of course, can not be observed.
Answer: Logical Positivism (more specific on positivism, but do not accept any variations of logical positivism)
3. Give me the incident and Ill give you the war boasted a New York newspaper publisher involved in a circulation war before the sinking of the Maine brought on war with Spain.
First, for ten points each, given the newspaper he owned, you name the publisher:
1) New York World Answer: Joseph Pulitzer
2) New York Journal Answer: William Randolph Hearst
Now, for ten more points, name the perjorative term coined to described their tactics. Answer: Yellow journalism
4. Years have gotten too easy so this question asks you to come up with the Nobel Prize winner in Literature from the country. Each answer is the country's only winner of the prize. 10 points each.
1) South Africa Answer: Nadine Gordimer
2) Guatemala Answer: Miguel Angel Asturias
3) Iceland Answer: Halldor K. Laxness
5. Every tournament needs at least one really bad lead-in so: This is for all you bridge fans out there. No, not the card-playing kind, but those whose hearts live forsuspense. Youll earn 5 points for each of the top 6 longest suspension bridges (according to the main span) you can name.
Answer: Verrazano Narrows, Golden Gate, Mackinac, Bosporous Straits, George Washington, and Salazar
6. Its time to play the Name Game! Ill give you clues to two answers that share a word and you give me the combined answer. For example, if I said anItalian composer of twelve-tone music including Epitaffo per Federico Garcia Lorca and a famous musical you might answer Luigi Nono Nanette. Ten points each. Ready?
1) Guns and Roses #1 hit meets Adolph Hitler work
Answer: Sweet Child of Mine Kampf (also accept You Could Be Mein Kampf)
2) Orson Wells film and a film about a traitors on a boat
Answer: Citizen Kane Mutiny
3) Autistic Dustin Hoffman role joins a musical about Don Quixote Answer: Rain Man of La Mancha
7. Identify the scientist from the discovery, ten points each.
1) In 1820 he discovered that a magnetized needle can be deflected by an electric current passing through a wire.
Answer: Hans Christian Oersted
2) His studies of the rays emitted by Uranium concluded that there were two types which he named alpha and beta.
Answer: Ernest Rutherford
3) He demonstrated that animal electricity could be produced using solely inanimate materials.
Answer: Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta
8. Rather than force Jim to stick one in for me, Ill break down and look up an opera question in my handy dandy Desktop Encyclopedia. For 5 points each, given an opera, you tell me the composer.
1) Orfeo ed Euridice Answer: Christoph Wm. von Gluck
2) Dido and Aeneas Answer: Henry Purcell
3) Einstein on the Beach Answer: Phillip Glass
4) Rienzi Answer: Richard Wagner
5) I Puritani Answer: Vincenzo Bellini
6) The Barber of Seville Answer: Gioacchino Rossini
9. Every good ACFer has memorized reams of lists of artists and paintings, but can you name the art movement from a list of its most famous proponents? 10 pointseach...
1) Victor Vasarely and Bridget Riley
Answer: Op Art
2) Franz Joseph Kline, Willem de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock
Answer: Abstract Expressionism
3) Dufy, Derain, Matisse, Braque, Roualt, and Vlaminck
Answer: Fauvism
10. You can call him William or you can call him Bill. If you're Republican you might even call one famous William Billary. For five pointseach identify these other famous Williams who are more than brain-dead (or Republican) ... they are completely dead.
1) He advanced the pragmatic theory of truth
Answer: James
2) He founded the Salvation Army
Answer: Booth
3) This Pilgrim succeeded John Carver as head of the Plymouth colony
Answer: Bradford
11. 30-20-10 Identify the writer
30 point clue) Her first collection of stories was the 1930 Flowering Judas
20 point clue) She won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for her Collected Short Stories
10 point clue) Ship of Fools is her only novel and in 1939 she penned Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Answer: Katherine Anne Porter
12. There may have been 42 presidents, but there have only been 16 ChiefJustices of the Supreme Court. For 5 points each name the 5 Chief Justices who served more than 15 years in that role.
Answer: John Marshall (34 years), Roger Taney (28 years), Melville Fuller (21 years), Earl Warren (16 years), Warren Burger (17 years)
13. Isnt it neat how most Almanacs have a few color pages in the middle with pictures of flags and things? I hope you were paying attention because, for 5 points each, name the countryfrom the description of its flag. HINT: all the countries start with the letter C.
1) Vertical strips from left to right colored blue, yellow, and red Answer: Chad
2) Diagonal yellow stripe separates red and green regions Answer: Congo
3) Horizontal stripes from top to bottom colored red, white, and blue with shield superimposed in middle A nswer: Croatia
4) Vertical stripes from left to right colored red, white, and green Answer: Cote dIvoire (accept Ivory Coast )
5) Vertical red stripes on either side with large red leaf superimposed on white middle Answer: Canada
14. Given a state, you tell me the only Vice President that hails from there. For example, if I said state of unconsciousness you would say Dan Quayle. 5 points each.
1) South Carolina Answer: John C. Calhoun
2) Minnesota Answer: Walter Mondale
3) South Dakota Answer: Hubert H. Humphrey
4) Maryland Answer: Spiro T. Agnew
5) Iowa Answer: Henry Agard Wallace
6) California Answer: Richard Nixon
15. I dont know about you, but I almost flunked Latin. I still regret not studying every time one of these translate the Latin phrase bonus questions comes up at atournament. Given an English translation, you tell me the famous Latin expression. 10 points each.
1) for the particular purpose or end at hand. Answer: ad hoc
2) for the time being Answer: pro tempore
3) an explanation or regulation concocted after the event Answer: ex post facto
16. Lets see how well you know your analogies, classical analogies that is. In the spirit of all those other analogy tests that we all did so well on this will be multiple choice. 5 points each with a bonus five for all three correct.
1) Jocasta is to Oedipus as Clytemnestra is to Electra, Anchises, Orestes, or Polyneices
Answer: Orestes
2) Ode is to Pindar as Pastoral is to Alcaues, Sappho, Simonides, or Theocritus
Answer: Theocritus
3) Zeno is to philosophy as Polybuis is to History, Medicine, Drama, or Poetry
Answer: History
17. 30-20-10 Name the element
30 point clue) It has an atomic weight of 167.26 and was discovered in 1843 by Mosander.
20 point clue) Its atomic number is 68
10 point clue) Its chemical symbol is Er
Answer: Erbium
18. Given a Nobel Prize, you tell me the first American to win in. 10 points will be yours if you can get it from just the name of the prize and you get 5 points if youneed the year.
1a) Physics
1b) 1907 Answer: Albert A. Michelson
2a) Peace
2b) 1906 Answer: T eddy Roosevelt
3a) Economics
3b) 1970 Answer: Paul Samuelson
19. In high school my knowledge of literature consisted of guessing Steinbeck for every author question that came up, but that wont cut it incollege. For ten points each identify each of the following from John Steinbecks Of Mice and Men:
1) What were the full names of the two main characters who dreamed of one day owning their own farm?
Answer: Lennie Small and George Milton (10 points for each completely correct name)
2) Whose hand was completely crushed after he began a fight with Lennie that he could not finish?
Answer: Curley
20. The C&S Plaza and One Peachtree Center sure did dominate the skyline as we were driving into town this weekend, huh? Given the tallest building in a city, you tell methe name of the city.
1) One Liberty Place (61 stories) Answer: Philadelphia , PA
2) John Hancock Tower (60 stories) Answer: Boston , MA
3) Texas Commerce Tower (75 stories) Answer: Houston , TX
4) Transamerica Pyramid (48 stories) Answer: San Francisco , CA
5) USX Towers (64 stories) Answer: Pittsburgh , PA
21. Answer each of the following questions about George Orwells Animal Farm. 5 points each.
1) What is the name of the farm? Answer: Manor Farm
2) Who is the owner of Manor Farm? Answer: Mr. Jones
3) What is the name of the young boar modeled on Trotsky who writes the Seven Commandments on the barn wall?
Answer: Snowball
4) What is the name of the propagandist boar who can turn black into white?
Answer: Squealer
5) Who is the cynical donkey not fooled by all the lies?
Answer: Benjamin
6) What is the name of the raven who insists on otherworldly rewards, appearing to represent organized religion?
Answer: Moses
22. How much do you know about the African highlands. Youll receive 5 points for each of the areas you can correctly identify.
1) What is the name of the mountain range in Morocco and northern Algeria?
Answer: Atlas Mountains
2) Name the tall massif in southern Algeria. Answer: Ahaggar
3) Name the tall rock formation in northern Chad. Answer: Tibesti Massif
4) What mountain range is found in Ethiopia? Answer: Ahmar Mts
5) Name the mountain range on the southeastern coast of South Africa.
Answer: Drakensberg Range
23. Idenitfy each of these characters from Charles Dickens sentimental romance Oliver Twist. 10 points for each correct answer.
1) Who is Olivers benefactor? Answer: Mr. Brownlow
2) What is the thief trainers name? Answer: Fagin
3) Who is the workhouse official who named Oliver? Answer: Bumble
24. Theyre just cartoon characters! Created by some guy in California! Geez, its supposed to be satire. For ten points each answer these questions aboutMTVs sterling role models for impressionable youth, Beavis and Butthead.
1) Which one wears the AC/DC T-shirt? Answer: Butthead
2) Who created them? Answer: Mike Judge
3) Whats the name of the wuss that lives near them and wears a hair bands T-Shirt (Winger).
Answer: Stuart
26. 30-20-10 Identify this thing.
30 point clue) This village has a population of about 9,000 and is located in eastern Nebraska.
20 point clue) It was founded in 1917 as a community for homeless and abandoned boys.
10 point clue) It was founded by Father Flanagan.
Answer: Boys Town
27. 30-20-10 Identify the scientist
30 point clue) This German mathematical physicist lived from 1901-1976.
20 point clue) His use of mathematical matrices elucidated the properties of atoms.
10 point clue) This father of quantum mechanics won the Nobel Prize at the remarkably early age of 32.
Answer: Werner Karl Heisenberg
28. Lets say youre tripping on acid and floating 50,000 feet over a life-size map of Africa. You should have no trouble answering this question. For 5points for each 2, name all the countries that touch Zambia. Youll get a 10 point bonus for getting all 8.
Answer: Zimbabwe, Botswana, Manibia, Angola, Zaire, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique
30-20-10 Identify the writer.
30 point clue) He wrote the screenplay to African Queen
20 point clue) He was born in Knoxville, TN.
10 point clue) He wrote A Death in the Family.
Answer: James Agee