Matt Bruce's Boni from BU BONUS 1 30-20-10, given excerpts from a musical work, name it. For 30: [=== PLAY TAPE ===] For 20: [=== PLAY TAPE ===] For 10: [=== PLAY TAPE ===] Answer: _GUGLIELMO TELL_ (or _WILLIAM TELL_) Overture by Gioacchino Rossini [To audio operator: If the team gets it off the 30 or 20, remember to play the other clue or clues now, before proceeding to the next tossup.] BONUS 2 Name these stream-of-consciousness novels F15PE, or five points if you need the author. 1. (15) The narrators spend most of their time observing the Ramsays, an upper-middle-class British couple on vacation with a houseful of children and guests. Mrs. Ramsay, the heart of the group, devotes her life completely to her family -- a fact they realize only after she dies. (5) Virginia Woolf Answer: _TO THE LIGHTHOUSE_ 2. (15) The narrators of this novel are mostly members of a lower-class Southern family. Mrs. Bundren resents her family, and gets revenge on them after her death, but the only character to realize this -- Darl -- is the one believed to be insane. (5) William Faulkner Answer: _AS I LAY DYING_ BONUS 3 Name the person, 30-20-10. (30) His short stories published in 1995 include The City; The Village; The Land; and The Astronaut's Suicide. (20) In 1986, his daughter was killed by U.S. agents. (10) Recently, the State Department prohibited Louis Farrakhan from accepting money from this world leader. Answer: Moammar _KHADAFY_ BONUS 4 No longer content to sing about "when the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard," a grammy-winning artist has had her latest album banned from a discout chain because of her lyrics to the effect that children buy guns there. 1. FTPE, name the singer and the franchise. Answers: Sheryl _CROWE_; _WALMART_ 2. Crowe is not the first pop musician to deal with alleged censorship. FTP, what rap group's 1988 song "Mary, Mary," makes pointed references to Tipper Gore? Answer: _RUN DMC_ BONUS 5 FTPE, name these Gilbert and Sullivan operettas from brief synopses. 1. Frederick wishes to leave his cohorts but cannot because he was born on February 29, and has not yet reached his 21st birthday. Answer: The _PIRATES OF PENZANCE_ (or the _Slave of Duty_) 2. Nanki-Poo wishes to marry Yum-Yum but cannot because she is engaged to Ko-Ko. Answer: The _MIKADO_ (or _Town of Titipu_) 3. The half-fairy Strephon wishes to marry Phyllis but first needs the approval of the Lord Chancellor. Answer: _ILOANTHE_ (or the _Peer and the Peri_) BONUS 6 An obscure Oklahoma school, Southeastern State University, has produced two well-known athletes. Name them on a 15-10-5 basis; the moderator will tell you when you get one right, and will read only the part of the next clue that applies to the other athlete. a) The first averaged 6.5 points, 4.3 rebounds and 15 minutes per game in his 1986 rookie year. The second was drafted in the 23rd round of the 1979 Major League Baseball draft and called up from Richmond in 1981. b) The first was once traded for Sean Elliott. The second was once traded for Len Barker. c) The first made the New York Times best-seller list this year. The second has a female namesake on that list. Answer: Dennis _RODMAN_ and Brett _BUTLER_ BONUS 7 France, late 1820s. Answer these questions from French history for the stated number of points. 1. F5PE for name and number, what Bourbon king, then known as Count de Artois, had fled France the day after the Bastille fell, 35 years before he would take the throne? Answer: _CHARLES_ the _TENTH_ 2. Charles X's ordinances censoring the press and changing election laws were named after, FTP, what month? Answer: _JULY_ 3. Who replaced Charles X on August 2, 1830? Answer: Louis _PHILIPPE_ BONUS 8 Complete these literary conjunctions FTP each; five points if you only know one part. 1. In these two Tennessee Williams plays, a gay man is devoured by starving children, and a woman who dreams of purity is driven to spinsterhood. Answer: _SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER AND SMOKE_ 2. The first part is a George Bernard Shaw play set in Bulgaria; in the second, Mark Twain exposes the hypocrisy of a small town in his story about a money bag full of lead. Answer: _ARMS AND THE MAN THAT CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG_ (Do NOT accept "The Man Who..." -- "The Man That..." may be grammatically incorrect, but every reference I have lists the title exactly that way.) 3. A Tom Stoppard play involving Shakespearean characters meets a Nikolai Gogol tale involving fraud and cemetery plots. Answer: _ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD SOULS_ BONUS 9 Name these children's book characters F15PE. 1. He outwits several tigers who covet his fancy clothes, but who eventually turn into butter. Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkney have rewritten the Helen Bannerman story about him to remove offensive characterizations. Answer: Little Black _SAM_bo 2. This Victor Appleton character has developed the electric gun, a combination biplane and blimp, and, in the 1980s, hyperspace travel to alternate universes. Answer: Tom _SWIFT_ BONUS 10 FTPE, identify these seemingly unrelated scientific terms. 1. A procedure to analyze a simple solution by gradually adding another solution to it using a volumetric burette. Answer: _TITRATION_ 2. An infinite collection of "tiles", each of exactly the same size, shape, and orientation, that perfectly fits an n-dimensional space. Answer: _TESSELATION_ 3. A faster-than-normal heartbeat. Answer: _TACHYCARDIA_ BONUS 11 You don't need to buy the Brooklyn Bridge to ace this bonus. (Note to moderator to groan exhaustedly.) FTP each: 1. The designer of the bridge died one year into the construction; therefore his son took over the work. What was their common surname? Answer: _ROEBLING_ (John and Washington) 2. Before John Roebling began work on the Brooklyn Bridge, he built a similar suspension bridge in what Ohio city? Answer: _CINCINNATI_ 3. Finally, what Ohio-born poet dedicated his monumental "The Bridge" to the Brooklyn Bridge? Answer: Hart _CRANE_ BONUS 12 The only satellite in our solar system known to have a substantial atmosphere is the second largest moon. 1. For 15 Points each, name the first and second largest in descending order; you will receive 5P each if you need the planets around which they orbit. 2. For 5 Points each: The largest orbits Jupiter; the second largest orbits Saturn. Answers: _GANYMEDE_ and _TITAN_ BONUS 13 For the stated number of points, identify the following about show business ventures that are coming to Boston. 1. For 5 point, what MTV staple will spend the next year in Boston, probably on Newbury Street? Answer: The _REAL WORLD_ 2. For the first time in about ten years, a Broadway hit is coming directly to Boston, to its Schubert theater in November. For 10 points each, name the show and its the author. Answer: _RENT_ by Jonathan _LARSEN_ 3. For a final five points, this ABC series is set in a far less happening place than Boston, but it does have a choice time slot between "Ellen" and "Grace Under Fire." Answer: _TOWNIES_ BONUS 14 How well do you know your plastids? Name, FTP each: 1. Plastids filled with starch. Answer: _AMYLOPLASTS_ 2. Plastids containing yellow, orange, or red pigments. Answer: _CHROMOPLASTS_ 3. The internal proteinaceous {Pro-teen-AY-shuss} matrix through which the inner membrane folds. Answer: _STROMA_ BONUS 15 In 1905, a Swedish chemist suggested that life on Earth originated from spores of bacteria that could survive the low temperatures of interstellar space and were moved by the physical pressure of starlight. For 15 points each: 1. Name the scientist. Answer: Svante _ARRHENIUS_ 2. What ten-letter word describes this theory? Answer: _PANSPERMIA_ BONUS 16 1. FTP for the exact year or five points if you're in the right decade, when did U.S. Marines first directly intervene in Nicaragua? Answer: _1912_ (5 points for between "1910" and "1919") 2. FTP, name the guerilla leader who opposed the second U.S. intervention and briefly led the country after the Marines left in 1933. Answer: Augusto Caesar _SANDINO_ 3. For 5 points, name the man who overthrew Sandino and established the regime that lasted until 1979, and the woman whose popular election eleven years later ended the Sandinista era. Answer: Anastasio _SOMOZA_ Garcia; and Violetta _CHAMORRO_ BONUS 17 A December 1995 plane crash in South America killed all but four of the 163 passengers on board. FTP each, 1. What airline? Answer: _AMERICAN_ Airlines 2. What Colombian city was the intended destination? Answer: _CALI_ 3. Investigators now blame the crash on a computer-coding quirk by which Cali has, in many databases, the same one-letter code as what nearby city? Answer: _BOGOTA_ BONUS 18 1. FTP, what historical figure was originally name Sophie Fredericke Augusta? Answer: _CATHERINE_ the _GREAT_ (or _CATHERINE II_) 2. F5PE, give the ordinal number that refers to Catherine the Great, and any year of her reign as Empress. Answer: _SECOND_ (II); and accept between _1762_ and _1796_ 3. FTP, what is the English name of the society she established in 1765 to encourage modernized agriculture and industry? Answer: _FREE ECONOMIC_ Society BONUS 20 The United States Constitution prohibits the granting of titles of nobility by the United States. 1. For 5 points each, what article and section contain this provision? Answer: Article _ONE_ (1), Section _NINE_ (9) 2. The Continental equivalent to this is "Baron." FTP, what oldest title and rank of English nobles is only third in precedence? Answer: _EARL_ 3. This name referred to an individual who held land directly from the sovereign. FTP, what title, lowest on the ladder of peerage, came to England with the Norman invasion? Answer: _BARON_ BONUS 21 Bored by this year's political party conventions? For 15 point, name these other conventions, neither of them related to elections. 1. Delegates from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Virginia held this meeting from September 11-14, 1786. The original purpose was to discuss the regulation of interstate commerce, but too few states were represented to carry this out. Answer: _ANNAPOLIS_ Convention 2. Twenty-six delegates from five New England states held this meeting to protest inept Democratic-Republican management of the War of 1812. Many historians believe that the actual aim of the conference was secession. Answer: _HARTFORD_ Convention BONUS 22 "See, I have a rhyme assisting my feeble brain, its tasks ofttimes resisting." 1. This is a mnemonic to remember, for ten points, what mathematical constant? Answer: _PI_ 2. Based on the number of letters in each word, the first sentence in this bonus helps you remember the digits of pi. FTP if exact and 5P if within five, what is the longest possible such mnemonic? Answer: _31_ (accept "26 to 36") 3. Finally, FTP, recite different complete, grammatically correct sentence, up to ten words long, which gives at least the first five digits of pi. It cannot begin "See, I have a rhyme" Answer: Moderator's Judgment (_MAY I HAVE A DRINK_ is acceptable, but do NOT take anything that starts "See I have a rhyme...") [The first ten digits of pi are 3.141592653.] BONUS 23 Answer these questions about lotteries and death FTP each. 1. Ten days after the TWA crash, what was the winning number in Connecticut's July 27 lottery? Answer: _800_ 2. What was the surname of Tessie, the woman stoned to death in the Shirley Jackson short story _The Lottery_? Answer: _HUTCHINSON_ 3. One won $16 million in the Pennsylvania lottery eight years ago, but is so down on his luck that he recently sued for the right to sell his future payments. The other, an aviator, died in a 1935 crash. What surname do they share? Answer: _POST_ (Buddy and Wiley) BONUS 24 1. In 1980, the economist who wrote "The Ultimate Resource" bet an ecologist and fellow author $1000 that the price of any natural resource chosen would fall between 1980 and 1990. He won. FTPE, name both of the scholars involved. Answer: Julian _SIMON_ and Paul _EHRLICH_ (economist and ecologist, respectively) 2. In the pages of National Review this year, the author of _Alien Nation_, one of the few recent British immigrants ever to have the nerve to criticize U.S. immigration policy, enraged Simon by making public an incident in which Simon had thrown a drink at someone with whom he disagreed. FTP, name this nativist. Answer: Peter _BRIMELOW_ BONUS 25 For the first two parts of this bonus, given a Milesian {my-LEE-zhean} philosopher, tell what he believed to be the fundamental "stuff" of the world FTPE. 1. Thales {THAY-lees} Answer: _WATER_ 2. Anaximenes {an-ax-em-MEN-ees} Answer: _AIR_ 3. Anaximander thought that the four traditional "elements" were fundamentally opposed. For a final ten points, what name did he give to his postulated fifth element, out of which the others were made? Answer: _APEIRON_ {ah-PIE-ron} (or the _INDEFINITE_)