BONUS 1 Since this tournament is called a bonspiel, we had to include a bonus about curling. [Hand out plan of curling rink.] 1. We've written down four terms: hack, tee, house, and hog line. For 5 points each, show me each of these features on the rink. Answers: (May have to ask to be specific on what's being indicated) Hack: the two little rectangles near the top end of the rink (they're footholds) Tee: the *center* of the concentric rings House: the region with concentric rings Hog line: The line crossing the rink near the *bottom* of the page. [Reminder to moderator: Answers to bonus parts should be read unless otherwise indicated, but you may skip giving answers to this one if it's too complicated.] 2. If the two teams' stones are indicated by A and B on the diagram, then FTP, which team has won, and by how many points? Answer: Team _B_ by _2_ points (both required) [If anyone's curious: The winning team is the team with the closest stone to the tee. The number of points it gets is the number of its stones that are closer to the tee than the closest stone of the opposing team.] BONUS 2 Since this is the opening round, your first audio question is about famous overtures. For 5 points apiece, from each excerpt name the overture and its composer. Hint: They were all composed by Germans in the 19th century. [To the audio equipment operator: The end of every excerpt is indicated by an alarm clock.] 1. [=== PLAY TAPE ===] Answer: _LEONORE_ III by Ludwig van _BEETHOVEN_ 2. [=== PLAY TAPE ===] Answer: _FINGAL'S CAVE_ or the _HEBRIDES_ by Felix _MENDELSSOHN_ 3. [=== PLAY TAPE ===] Answer: _TANNHAUSER_ ["TAN-hoy-zer"] by Richard _WAGNER_ BONUS 3 FTP each, name these men who all had offices in this building back in 1958. 1. This mathematician and ex-prodigy created the field of cybernetics, which he defined as "the science of control and communications in the animal and machine." Answer: Norbert _WIENER_ (He wrote two autobiographies, titled _I am a Mathematician_ and _Ex-Prodigy_.) 2. He founded the subject of information theory with his 1948 article "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", in the Bell System Technical Journal. Answer: Claude Elwood _SHANNON_ 3. Paranoid schizophrenia would soon force him to leave MIT, but in 1994 he shared a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his 27-page MIT Ph.D. thesis on Non-Cooperative Games. Answer: John Forbes _NASH_, Junior BONUS 4 30-20-10, name the newspaper. For 30 points: Karl Marx worked for it as its European correspondent from 1851 to 1862. For 20 points: It was founded in 1841 by Horace Greeley, who edited it until his death. For 10 points: In 1924 it merged with the New York Herald. Answer: _NEW YORK TRIBUNE_ BONUS 5 Answer these questions about explorations of the wreck of the Titanic FTP each. 1. This researcher was at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution when he led the group that discovered the Titanic, and he led the first dives on the wreck. Answer: Robert "Bob" _BALLARD_ 2. The first manned dive on the Titanic was carried out by this submersible, operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and rated to a depth of 4500 meters. Answer: _ALVIN_ 3. On September 1st, of what year did they rediscover the wreckage. Answer: _1985_ BONUS 6 Just as the U.S. has states like Alaska and Hawaii that are not contiguous with the rest of the country, France has a number of overseas departments scattered around the world. Identify these departments for 10 points each. 1. The most populous of the overseas departments, this island in the Indian Ocean has been part of France since 1642. Answer: La _REUNION_ 2. Divided into the twin islands of Grande-Terre and Basse-Terre, this Caribbean department is home to the dangerous volcano Soufriere. Answer: _GUADELOUPE_ 3. Located 10 miles off the Newfoundland coast and occupied by the French since 1604, this department is the last remnant of the French North American colonial empire. Answer: _SAINT-PIERRE_ and _MIQUELON_ BONUS 7 Answer these questions about Turkish rivers, for ten points each. 1. The Menderes ["MEN-dare-ESS"] River flows westward into the Aegean Sea. What is its better-known Latin name, which has become a verb in English? Answer: _MAEANDER_ or _MEANDER_ 2. The Go:ksu ["GUHK-soo"] River claimed the life of a European king in 1190. Who was this Crusade leader? Answer: Emperor _FRIEDRICH I_ or _FRIEDRICH BARBAROSSA_ or _FREDERICK I_ or _FREDERICK BARBAROSSA_ 3. If you stood at the point where the borders of Turkey, Syria and Iraq intersect, you would be standing in what river? Answer: _TIGRIS_ or _DICLE ["DEEJ-leh"] BONUS 8 30-20-10, name the scientist. For 30: His paradox is succinctly stated as "Where are they?", with the "they" being intelligent extraterrestrials. He noted that if "they" exist, they are probably far ahead of us technologically and hence we should have met them already. For 20: He reputedly was able to compute an estimate of almost anything on the back of a standard business envelope. At Alamagordo, he accurately estimated the magnitude of the first A-bomb blast from observing how the shock wave scattered small pieces of paper. For 10: He oversaw the construction of the first atomic pile at the University of Chicago, and with Leo Szilard, co-held the patent for the nuclear reactor. A top prize of the U.S. Department of Energy is named after him. Answer: Enrico _FERMI_ BONUS 9 For 5 points each, name the six wives of King Hanry the Eighth of England. Answers: _CATHERINE_ of _ARAGON_ Anne _BOLEYN_ Jane _SEYMOUR_ _ANNE_ of _CLEVES_ Catherine _HOWARD_ Catherine _PARR_ BONUS 10 30-20-10, identify the American state from some demographic trivia. 30: Of all 50 states, it has the highest proportion of adults who have finished high school. 20: Its death rate, at less than half the national average, is the lowest of any state. 10: Since becoming a state, it has ranked last in population in every census but one. Answer: _ALASKA_ BONUS 11 In the early 1970s, a sociolinguist conducted a famous experiment on the effect of "social prestige" on different pronunciations of English in New York City. The experiment involved going to three different department stores and in each one, asking for directions to a department on a particular floor. 1. For 5 points, to what floor did he ask directions? Answer: the _FOUR_th floor (also pronounced "FOH-ath floh-a") 2. For 10 points, who was the sociolinguist who conducted this experiment? Answer: William _LABOV_ 3. In the high-prestige store, Labov was usually directed to the "fourth floor", in the low-prestige store, he was usually sent to the "foh-ath floh-a", and in the middle-ranked store, answers were mixed. For 5 points each, name the three stores. Answers: _SAKS_ Fifth Avenue _MACY'S_ S. _KLEIN_'s BONUS 12 30-20-10, name the university. 30: The songwriter Tom Lehrer is currently a professor in its mathematics department. 20: It is the only school in the U.S. with a degree program in "History of Consciousness". 10: Its mascot is also the official mollusk of the state. Answer: _U_niversity of _C_alifornia at _S_anta _C_ruz (mascot: the banana slug) BONUS 13 Identify each character from Beowulf from a description, for 10 points each. 1. The monster who attacks the mead-hall of the Danes. Answer: _GRENDEL_ 2. The king of the Danes whose mead-hall Grendel attacks. Answer: _HROTHGAR_ 3. The king of the Geats ["YEA-ats"] at the beginning of the poem, of whom Beowulf is a thane. Answer: _HYGELAC_ BONUS 14 For ten points each, identify these World War I generals. 1. He was supreme commander of the allied forces during the final months of the war. Answer: Ferdinand _FOCH_ 2. He was the general in charge of the 1916 British offensive at the Somme. Answer: Sir Douglas _HAIG_ 3. He was the Russian general responsible for the 1916 eastern front breakthrough that forced Germany to divert forces from Verdun, Austria to give up its campaign in northern Italy, and prompted Romania to enter the war on the side of the allies. Answer: Alexei Alekseyevich _BRUSILOV_ BONUS 15 In religious art, the four Evangelists are often depicted with their winged symbols. Write down the following list of symbols: an eagle (pause), a lion (pause), a man (pause), and an ox (pause). Now for 5 points each, name, in order, the Evangelist associated with each of these symbols. Answer: _JOHN_, _MARK_, _MATTHEW_, _LUKE_ These symbols are believed to derive from the four beasts in a vision described by an Old Testament prophet, and another vision related in a book of the New Testament. For five points each, name these two books of the Bible. Answers: _EZEKIEL_ and _REVELATION_ BONUS 16 Answer the following questions about group theory. For ten points apiece, what is the size of the smallest group that is... 1. ... not cyclic? Answer: _4_ 2. ... not abelian? Answer: _6_ 3. ... not simple? Answer: _4_ [The groups are (1) the Klein 4-group, (2) the symmetric group on 3 letters, and (3) the Klein 4-group again.] BONUS 17 Identify these offices in the Roman Republic for the stated number of points. 1. For 5 points: there were two of these joint chief magistrates. Answer: _CONSUL_s 2. For 10 points: there were eight of these officials who were next to the consuls in rank and adjudicated legal disputes. Answer: _PRAETOR_s 3. For 15 points: there were four of these magistrates who supervised police, markets, festivals, and the care of temples and public buildings. Answer: Curulian _AEDILE_s BONUS 18 For ten points each, given a description, name the American utopian community. 1. Founded by Robert Owen in 1825 in Indiana, this cooperative community sponsored the first kindergarten, the first trade school, the first free library and the first community-supported public school in the U.S. Answer: _NEW HARMONY_ 2. This experiment in socialist communal living was led by George Ripley in Massachusetts. The main building burned to the ground just as its completion was being celebrated. As a result of this and other disasters, the community lasted only 6 years. Answer: the _BROOK FARM_ institute of agriculture and education 3. John Humphrey Noyes founded this commune in Vermont in 1841. Its most distinctive feature was the practice of "complex marriage" in which all husbands and wives were shared. Answer: _ONEIDA_ Community, or _PERFECTIONISTS_, or _BIBLE COMMUNISTS_ BONUS 19 Lord Eldon, Chancellor of England, recalled that he was asked only two questions for his degree examination at University College, Oxford, in 1770. For 15 points each, let's see if you too deserve a degree from Oxford. 1. The examiner in Hebrew asked, "What is the Hebrew for the place of a skull?" Answer: _GOLGOTHA_ 2. The examiner in History asked, "Who founded University College?" We should perhaps note that this particular king died some 350 years before the first recorded endowment at University College in 1249. Answer: King _ALFRED_ the Great BONUS 20 1. For ten points, what is the term used for a subatomic particle composed of an even number of quarks and antiquarks? Answer: _MESON_ 2. For 10 more points, name the lightest of the mesons, that are responsible for the longest-range portion of the strong nuclear force. Answer: _PION_s or _PI_ mesons 3. For a final 10 points, what other important class of mesons can decay into two or three pions or a muon and neutrino? Answer: _KAON_ or _K_ meson BONUS 21 The Lada, Shkoda and Trabant were not the only cars produced by the former Comecon countries. Name these other Communist automotive achievements, FTPE. 1. Based on an old Renault ["ray-NOH"] model, this car was built in Romania and shared its name with the ancient Roman province in the region of Romania. Answer: _DACIA_ 2. This East German car was named after the castle in Thuringia where a song contest took place in Wagner's Tannhauser ["TAHN-hoy-zer"], and where Martin Luther began his translation of the New Testament in 1521. Answer: _WARTBURG_ (Do not accept Wittenberg.) 3. Poland produced a smaller version known as the Polski type of this western European make of car, which is not known for being large to begin with. Answer: Polski _FIAT_ BONUS 22 Oxygen and silicon are the most abundant elements in the earth's crust. For 5 points each, name the next five most abundant elements in the earth's crust, by percentage weight. You'll get a 5-point bonus for putting them in the right order from most abundant to least. Answers: _ALUMINUM_ (8.13%) _IRON_ (5.00%) _CALCIUM_ (3.63%) _SODIUM_ (2.83%) _MAGNESIUM_ (2.60%) BONUS 23 For ten points each, identify the poem from an excerpt. 1. "But at my back I always hear Time's wing-ed chariot hurrying near" Answer: _TO HIS COY MISTRESS_, by Andrew Marvell 2. "Our two souls therefore, which are one Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion Like gold to airy thinness beat." Answer: A _VALEDICTION: FORBIDDEN MOURNING_, by John Donne 3. "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying." Answer: _TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME_, by Robert Herrick