UNC - Toss-Ups

MLK Weekend Tournament - January 15-16, 1994

1) The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, Helena, Vile Bodies, Tactical Exercise, Black Mischief, Put Out More Flags, Sword of Honor, The Loved One, Scoop, Decline and Fall, A Handful of Dust are works by this English novelist who was famous for satires of fashionable London society and young intellectuals of the 1920's.  FTP name this author of Brideshead Revisited.         

Answer: (Evelyn) WAUGH

2) Dependencies of this nation include Peter I Island, located off Antarctica; Bouvet Island, located in the South Atlantic; Queen Maud Land, section of Antarctica; Jan Mayen Island, located in the Arctic Ocean; and Svalbard, also located in the Arctic Ocean.  FTP name this european country whose large cities include Stavanger, Bergen, Trondheim, and Oslo.          Answer: NORWAY

3) First, there is an isothermal expansion of a gas at temperature T1.  Second, there is an adiabatic expansion to temperature T2.  Third, there is an isothermal compression at temperature T2.  Finally, an adiabatic compression to the original state of the gas completes the cycle.  FTP identify this cycle which postulates a heat engine working at maximum thermal efficiency, and you identify the Frenchman who devised it.        

Answer: CARNOT (cycle)

4) Bound to a rock by ten chains, he was tortured by drops of venom from a serpent overhead.  Only his wife took pity on him and held a bowl to catch the falling drops.  However, the bowl would fill and she would have to empty it.  Then, the venom would fall directly upon him, and he would cry out in pain. Such was his punishment for the fashioning of a single arrow. It was a special arrow which was made of mistletoe, the only object in the world which had not sworn to protect Balder, the Norse god of light, wisdom and righteousness.  FTP name this enemy of the Aesir who directed the blind god Hoder to kill his brother Balder.         

Answer: LOKI

5) Of all the founding fathers, few have rivalled the number of high offices held by this man.  During his 27 years of service to the country, he was Minister to Spain during the Revolution, Secretary for Foreign Affairs under the Articles of Confederation, President of the Continental Congress, second governor of New York, and New York Chief Justice.  He co-authored the Treaty of Paris and the Federalist Papers, and he was the principal author of the first New York State Constitution and the 1794 treaty with England.  FTP name this man who is most famous for his appointment as the first Chief Justice of the United States.         

Answer: (John) JAY

6) During his lifetime he composed symphonies, concertos, song cycles, and a Broadway musical, 1973's Cyrano.  He also wrote plays, film scripts, television scripts, opera librettos, translations, articles, and book reviews, but he was most famous for his novels.  His works includes memoirs such as Little Wilson and Big God and You've Had Your Time.  His novels include: Earthly Powers, MF, Inside Mr. Enderby, and The Clockwork Testament.  FTP name this recently deceased English author of A Clockwork Orange.         

Answer: (Anthony) BURGESS

7) A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.  FTP identify this amendment in the U.S. Bill of Rights.         

Answer: SECOND or TWO

8) At the court of Henry I, Elsa is accused by Count Friedrich of Telmarund of having murdered her brother Gottfried.  A strange knight arrives on a boat drawn by a swan, and offers to marry and defend Elsa on the condition that she never ask him his name.  Friedrich is deprived of former status and plots revenge.  The knight is accused of being an evil magician who conceals his identity for evil reasons; however, Elsa assures the knight of her confidence.  Later, she asks the fateful question and the knight sadly returns to his quest of the Holy Grail.  FTP name this Wagner opera which contains the famous "Wedding March"     

  Answer: LOHENGRIN

9) Leontyne Price in 1964, Hank Aaron in 1974, Sammy Davis Jr. in 1967, Robert C. Weaver in 1961, Langston Hughes in 1959, Duke Ellington in 1958, Andrew Young in 1977, Alex Haley in 1976, Medgar Evers in 1962, Ralph Bunche in 1948, Rosa Parks in 1978, and Martin Luther King Jr. in 1956.  FTP all these individuals have won what medal given by the N.A.A.C.P. for highest achievement by an African-American.         

Answer: SPINGARN (medal)

10) The action covers 24 hours.  Rodrigo declares his love for Chimena, fights his first duel to avenge his father's honor, kills Chimena's father, wins a trial by combat, loses and regains the favor of his king and lady, and repels a national invasion by the Moors.  FTP name this Pierre Corneille play, a stage adaptation of a popular Spanish epic.         

Answer: EL CID

11) The last name's the same: Jules Henri was a French mathematician, cosmologist, and scientific philosopher who was best known for his contributions to pure and applied mathematics, and celestial mechanics.  His Analysis Situs (1895) founded topology as a branch of mathematics.  Raymond Nicolas Landry, first cousin to Jules Henri, was a strongly nationalist conservative French statesman who served three times as premier (1912, 1922-24, 1926-29) and once as president (1913-20).  In 1923 he ordered the French occupation of the Ruhr.  FTP give the common last name of these two Frenchmen.         

Answer: POINCARE

12) His most famous works include Children's Corner, a piano suite; Games, a ballet; The Sea, a tone poem; Suite Bergamasque, a piano suite; Pelleas et Melisande, an opera; and Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, a tone poem.  FTP name this French composer.  

Answer: (Claude) DEBUSSY

13) "Our country!  In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be right; but our country, right or wrong!"  This is a quote from a man who served as navy commissioner until his death in a duel.  FTP name this American naval hero of the Barbary Coast War and the War of 1812 who was sent to subdue Algiers in 1815.         

Answer: (Stephen) DECATUR

14) No pair of identical particles can simultaneously occupy the same quantum state.  This applies to electrons, protons, and neutrons and accounts for the shell configurations of extranuclear electrons and for the shell structure of nuclei themselves.  In terms of the atom, this means that at most two electrons may occupy the same orbital, the two having opposite spin.  FTP name this principle for which an Austrian-born scientist won the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physics.         

Answer: PAULI EXCLUSION PRINCIPLE

15) She is a harsh, remorseless woman and a revolutionary fanatic.  She compiles a list of aristocrats and enemies of the Revolution, encoded in the stitches of her knitting.  It is her sister whom the marquis de St. Evremonde attacks, and in her revenge she is instrumental in having Charles Darnay sentenced to the guillotine because he is related to the marquis.  FTP name this Charles Dickens character in A Tale of Two Cities.         

Answer: (Madame) DAFARGE

16) The name comes from an English missionary nun who aided St. Boniface in Germany.  Although she was actually believed to be a protectress against magic, her May 1 feast day became associated with the pagan traditions earlier assigned to that day.  May 1 marked the beginning of the agricultural season, so the witches held rendezvous with the devil the night before to celebrate their own increase in activity.  FTP by what more familiar name is this witches sabbath known?         

Answer: WALPURGIS NIGHT       (If Witches Sabbath is given, prompt for more info)

17) He abandoned a career in law and turned to painting in the Fauvist style and, eventually, to increasingly abstract forms. It may be as early as 1910, depending on a disputed date of a watercolor, that he developed non-objective art.  His treatise "Concerning the Spiritual in Art", published in 1912, urged that painting can approach the state of pure music.  He often used titles such as "fugue" or "improvisation" to stress the correspondence with music.  FTP name this Russian-born leader of thr Blue Rider movement.         

Answer: (Vassily) KANDINSKY

18) Not like the brazen giants of Greek fame, with conquering limbs astride from land to land; here at our sea washed, sunset gates we stand, a mighty woman with a torch, whose flame is the imprisoned lightning, and her name, Mother of Exiles..."Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.  Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp to the golden door.  FTP name this poem by Emma Lazarus which is engraved at the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.         

Answer: THE NEW COLOSSUS

19) In this year Bobby Orr wins the Conn Smythe trophy, Riva Ridge wins the Belmont Stakes and the Kentucky Derby, A.J. Foyt wins the Daytona 500, Stan Smith and Billie Jean King win Wimbledon, Jack Nicklaus wins the Masters, Kareem-Abdul Jabbar wins his first NBA MVP award, Oakland beats Cincinnati to win the World Series, Bobby Fischer wins the Chess World Championship over Boris Spassky, and Dallas beats Miami in Superbowl VI.  FTP name the year all these events took place.         

Answer: 1972

20) He was one of the earliest and most influential thinkers of the philosophic school of idealism.  The exponent of a theory of philosophical immaterialism based on the proposition that to be is to be perceived; he maintained that material objects are ideas in our minds, with no independent existence, and that, therefore, the whole of reality consists of ideas in the mind of God.  FTP name this 17th & 18th century Irish-born English bishop and philosopher whose most famous works include Alciphron and Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision.         

Answer: (George) BERKELEY

21) Born in Urbino as Donato d'Agnola, this artist and painter worked mainly at Milan and then at Rome for the papacy.  One of his paintings, Christ at the Column, is considered a masterpiece, but his great fame rests upon his achievements as an architect.  One fine example of his work is the Tempietto, a circular temple erected in Rome on the spot where Peter was allegedly crucified.  In 1506, he began to execute his design for the new basilica that became the modern St. Peter's.  FTP name this rival of Michaelangelo who was rumored to have secured Michaelangelo the long and tortuous task of decorating the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.         

Answer: BRAMANTE

22) Bordered on the south by Angola and Zambia, on the north by Central African Republic and Sudan, on the west by Congo, on the east by Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi.  FTP identify this equatorial nation whose capital is Kinshasa.         

Answer: ZAIRE

23) In this year at the Oscars, "You Light Up My Life" won best

song, Jason Robards and Vanessa Redgrave won Best supporting Actor and Actress for Julia, Richard Dreyfuss won Best Actor for The Goodbye Girl, Woody Allen won Best Director for Annie Hall, Vilmos Zsigmond won Best Cinematographer for Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and John Williams won Best Original Score for Star Wars.  FTP in what year?         

Answer: 1977

24) It was composed in 1804 and was written in homage to Napoleon as evidenced by its original name "Sinfonia grande: Buonaparte.  However, Beethoven withdrew the planned dedication when Napoleon assumed the title of Emperor.  FTP identify this symphony often called Eroica.         

Answer: (Beethoven's) THIRD (Symphony)     (If "Eroica" is given, prompt for more info)

        

UNC - Bonuses

MLK Weekend Tournament - January 15-16, 1994

1) (30 pts) Identify these six terms from chemistry and physics from the clues provided for 5 points each.  A hint: all begin with the letter A.   

i) The condensation of gases, liquids, or dissolved substances on the surfaces of solids.

Answer: ADSORPTION   

ii) A reversible thermodynamic process executed at constant entropy.

Answer: ADIABATIC   

iii) The metric prefix for one quintillionth.

Answer: ATTO   

iv) The property shown by certain elements of being capable of existence in more than one form.

Answer: ALLOTROPY   

v) An oxide when combined with water gives an acid or base.

Answer: ANHYDRIDE   

vi) A liquid mixture of two or more components in which the composition of the boiling vapor has the the same composition as the liquid

Answer: AZEOTROPE  

2) (30 pts) Given an opera work, name the composer, for 10 points each.

if the 10 point clue is missed, a 5 point clue will be given.   

i) 10 - The Telephone      5 - Amahl and the Night Visitors

Answer: (Giancarlo) MENOTTI   

ii) 10 - La Cenerentola       5 - William Tell

Answer: (Giacchino) ROSSINI   

iii) 10 - The Elixir of Love        5 - Lucia di Lamermoor

Answer: (Gaetano) DONIZETTI  

3) (30 pts) Given the second most populous city of a country,   name the capital for 5 points each.

i) Mombasa Answer: NAIROBI

ii) Basra    Answer: BAGHDAD

iii) Marrakesh     Answer: RABAT

iv) Salonika       Answer: ATHENS

v) Jeddah   Answer: RIYADH

vi) Cali    Answer: BOGOTA  

4) (30 pts) Given a Pulitzer Prize winning work in Poetry, name the author, for 5 points each.

i) Annie Allen         Answer: (Gwendolyn) BROOKS

ii) Turtle Island      Answer: (Gary) SNYDER

iii) Pictures From Breughel   Answer: (William Carlos) WILLIAMS

iv) Conquistador       Answer: (Archibald) MACLEISH

v) What's O'Clock      Answer: AMY LOWELL

vi) Lord Weary's Castle       Answer: ROBERT LOWELL  

5) (30 pts) Given the burial place, name the U.S. president that is buried there, for 5 points each plus 5 bonus for all correct.

i) Charlottesville, Virginia Answer: (Thomas) JEFFERSON

ii) Kinderhook, New York   Answer: (Martin) VAN BUREN

iii) Lancaster, Pennsylvania      Answer: (James) BUCHANAN

iv) Concord, New Hampshire        Answer: (Franklin) PIERCE

v) Hyde Park, New York     Answer: FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT  

6) (30 pts) Identify the author from a list of works 30-20-10

30 - Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine, Kangaroo, The Virgin and the Gipsy   

20 - The Captain's Doll, The Man Who Died, The Prussian Officer  10 - Women in Love, The Plumed Serpent, The Rainbow     

Answer: D.H. LAWRENCE  

7) (30 pts) Given a film, identify the Academy Award winning director, for 5 points each.

i) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest   Answer: (Milos) FORMAN

ii) Rocky    Answer: (John) AVILDSEN

iii) Terms of Endearment   Answer: (James) BROOKS

iv) Ordinary People        Answer: (Robert) REDFORD

v) Rain Man         Answer: (Barry) LEVINSON

vi) Gandhi          Answer: (Richard) ATTENBOROUGH  

8) (30 pts) Identify the Supreme Court case from a description, for 5 points each.

i) 1819 ruling upholding the constitutionality of the national bank.  John Marshall wrote, "the power to tax involves the power to destroy"   

Answer: McCULLOUGH v. MARYLAND

ii) 1986 ruling that the constitutional right to privacy does not protect homosexual relations.  

Answer: BOWERS v. HARDWICK

ii) 1962 ruling which involved reapportionament of unequal election districts.  

Answer: BAKER v. CARR  

9) (30 pts) Given a famous sculpture name the artist for 5 points apiece.

i) Gattamelatta    Answer: DONATELLO

ii) Colleoni       Answer: VERROCHIO

iii) The Tomb of Pope Julius II Answer: MICHAELANGELO

iv) The Gates of Paradise on the Florentine Baptistery       

Answer: GHIBERTI

v) The Gates of Hell      Answer: RODIN

vi) Bird in Space         Answer: BRANCUSI  

10) (30 pts) Given a track and field event, name the current world record holder as of September, 1993 for 5 points each. Hint: The nationality of each record holder will be given.

i) Women's 100 and 200m dash - U.S. Answer: GRIFFITH-JOYNER

ii) Pole vault - Ukranian       Answer: (Sergei) BUBKA

iii) Men's 800 and 1000m run - U.K.    Answer: (Sebastian) COE

iv) Men's Long Jump - U.S.      Answer: (Mike) POWELL

v) Decathelon - U.S.     Answer: (Dan) O'BRIEN

vi) Triple Jump - U.S.   Answer: (Willie) BANKS  

11) (30 pts) Given the name of a war, supply the name of the treaty which ended the war for 5 points apiece.

i) The Thirty Years War     Answer: (Peace of) WESTPHALIA

ii) The War of Spanish Succession Answer: (Treaty of) UTRECHT

iii) The War of Austrian Succession Answer: (Treaty of) AIX-LA-CHAPELLE

iv) The Great Northern War   Answer: (Treaty of) RYSTADT

v)  War of the League of Augsburg Answer: (Treaty of) RYSWICK

vi) Seven Weeks War         Answer: (Peace of) PRAGUE

12) (30 pts) Given the name of an African politician, identify the country which he governed.

i) Kwame Nkrumah        Answer: GHANA

ii) Julius Nyerere      Answer: TANZANIA

iii) Leopold Sedar Senghor     Answer: SENEGAL

iv) Ahmed Ben Bella     Answer: ALGERIA

v) Idi Amin      Answer: UGANDA

vi) Jean Bedel Bokassa Answer: CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC  

13) (30 pts) Given a list of characters, name the Shakesperean play in which they all appear 30-20-10.    

30 - Friar Francis, Borrachio, Leonato, Margaret, Ursula    

20 - Dogberry, Don Pedro, Don John    

10 - Claudo, Hero, Beatrice, Benedick         

Answer: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING  

14) (30 pts) Given the names two U.S. senators, name the state they represent for 5 points each.

i) Carol Mosely Braun, Paul Simon      Answer: ILLINOIS

ii) Richard Lugar, Daniel Coats        Answer: INDIANA

iii) Kay Bailey Hutchison, Phil Gramm Answer: TEXAS

iv) Lynn Yeakel, Arlen Specter Answer: PENNSYLVANIA

v) Bob Graham, Connie Mack      Answer: FLORIDA

vi) John Glenn, Howard Metzenbaum Answer: OHIO  

15) (30 pts) Given the name of an island or island territory, identify the country which governs it for 5 pts each.

i) Mindinao     Answer: PHILIPPINES

ii) Tenerife    Answer: SPAIN

iii) Timor      Answer: INDONESIA

iv) Bonaire     Answer: NETHERLANDS

v) Isle Royale Answer: UNITED STATES

vi) Montserrat Answer: UNITED KINGDOM  

16) (30 pts) Given a famous structure, name the architect who designed it for 5 points each.

i) Guggenheim Museum       Answer: (Frank Lloyd) WRIGHT

ii) Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C.         Answer: (Cass) GILBERT

iii) The Brooklyn Bridge   Answer: (John) ROEBLING

iv) La Familia Sagrada     Answer: (Antonio) GAUDI

v) Whitehall Palace        Answer: (Inigo) JONES

vi) Gateway Arch in St. Louis     Answer: (Eero) SAARINEN  

17) (30 pts) Identify the scientific effect described, for 10 points each.

i) This effect deals with the scattering of light by colloidal particles or large molecules in suspension.

it shows that the daytime sky is blue because of the Rayleigh scattering of impingent sunlight by dust and other colloidal particles in the air.         

Answer: TYNDALL

ii) The emission of electrons from a surface when struck by electromagnetic radiation such as light.      

Answer: PHOTOELECTRIC or PHOTOEMISSIVE

iii) The splitting of a spectral line into several symmetrically disposed components, which occurs when the source of light is placed in a strong magnetic field.  Discovered by the 1902 Nobel Prize winner in Physics.      

Answer: ZEEMAN  

18) (30 pts) Given the Latin name of a constellation, give its more familiar English name, for 5 points each.

i) Cygnus    Answer: SWAN

ii) Lupus    Answer: WOLF

iii) Aquila         Answer: EAGLE

iv) Camelopardalis        Answer: GIRAFFE

v) Cetus     Answer: WHALE

vi) Monoceros       Answer: UNICORN  

19) (30 pts.) Within 4 years identify the dates of these important events in early American history for 5 pts apiece.  

i) Cortez captures Mexico City and conquers Aztec empire  

Answer: 1522 (Accept 1518-1526)  

ii) Dutch colony of New Amsterdam founded, bought from the     

indians for about 24 dollars.  

Answer: 1622 (Acc. 1618-1626)  

iii) New Englanders massacre hundreds of Indians in Pequot War.  Harvard College established.  

Answer: 1636 (Acc. 1632-1640)  

iv) Marquette and Joliet paddle down the Mississippi to Arkansas.  Regular mail service begins between Boston and       New York.  Dutch forces recapture New York from English.  

Answer: 1673 (Acc. 1669-1677)  

v) Thousands die in King Philip's War between New Englanders and five Indian tribes.  

Answer: 1675 (Acc. 1671-1679)  

vi) Bacon's Rebellion overthrows government of Virginia and burns down Jamestown.  

Answer: 1676 (Acc. 1672-1680)  

20) (30 pts) Given a Pulitzer Prize winning work in Fiction, name the author, for 5 points each.

i) So Big         Answer: (Edna) FERBER

ii) Laughing Boy         Answer: (Oliver) LAFARGE

iii) Andersonville       Answer: (MacKinlay) KANTOR

iv) The Late George Apley     Answer: (John P.) MARQUAND

v) The Killer Angels     Answer: (Michael) SHAARA

vi) Ironweed      Answer: (William) KENNEDY  

21) (30 pts) Identify these geological terms which pertain to   glacial action.

i) General term for debris forms created by glacial deposition.  Types include terminal, medial and lateral.       

Answer: MORAINE

ii) The type of intermediate crystalline solid which is formed    as snow slowly converts to glacial ice.   

Answer: FIRN

iii) A floating sheet of ice of considerable thickness like     the Ronne, Ross, and Filchner.       

Answer: ICE SHELF

iv) Elliptical or ovoid hills formed parallel to the ice     flow, blunt on the up-glacier end and elongated down glacier     with a thinning tail.         

Answer: DRUMLINS

v) Glacial troughs now flooded by the sea.   

Answer: FJORDS

vi) Steepwalled, bowl-like depression formed by a valley     glacier.        

Answer: CIRC

22) (30 pts) Given 5 events from history, place them in chronological order from earliest to latest.  You will get 5 points for each event in the correct chronological slot plus a bonus 5 for all correct.   The events are: Treaty of Portsmouth ending Russo-Japanese War signed, William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech, U.S. retains control of Cuba by Platt Amendment, Massacre at Wounded Knee, N.A.A.C.P. founded.     

Answer: 1. WOUNDED KNEE (1890), 2. CROSS OF GOLD (1896),   3. PLATT AMENDMENT (1901), 4. TREATY OF PORTSMOUTH   (1905), 5. NAACP FOUNDED (1909)  

23) (30 pts) Given the name of a desert, name the country in which the majority of the area is located for 5 points each.

i) Thar      Answer: INDIA

ii) Taklimakan      Answer: CHINA

iii) Dasht-e-Kavir Answer: IRAN

iv) Rub al-Khali    Answer: SAUDI ARABIA

v) Gibson    Answer: AUSTRALIA

vi) Negev    Answer: ISRAEL  

24) (30 pts) Given a list of characters, name the work in which they all appear 30-20-10      

30 - Arthur Holmwood, Lucy Westenra      

20 - Dr, Van Helsing, Mina Murray      

10 - Jonathan Harker         

Answer: DRACULA