1996 ACF Nationals
Questions by ACFNTC #3A

1. FTP each, answer these questions about a major British governmental crisis.
1. Which Secretary of War was forced to resign in 1963 after lying about his affair with a teenage showgirl? 
		Answer: John Profumo
2. Who was the teenage showgirl, who was also involved with a Soviet naval attache?  
		Answer: Christine Keeler
3. Which British prime Minister resigned later in 1963 due to a series of scandals and poor health?  
		Answer: (Maurice) Harold Macmillan

2. Identify these Egyptian dieties associated with Set for the stated number of points.
1. 5: The son of Isis and Osiris, he defeated Set and assumed his father's throne.  
		Answer: Horus
2. 10: She was the sister and wife of Set.
		Answer: Nepthys
3. 15: This was the name which the Greeks associated with Set.  It also refers to a son of Tartarus and Gaia.
		Answer: Typhon

3. A group of poets at Vanderbilt University formed the core of the Fugitives and Agrarians of the 1920's and 30's.
1. What Vanderbilt professor edited the magazine The Fugitive and later founded and edited The Kenyon Review.  His essay collections include God Without Thunder and The World's Body.
		Answer:  John Crowe Ransom 
2. A student of John Crowe Ransom, his poems include "Ode to the Confederate Dead" and "The Mediterranean".  He wrote biographies of Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson.
		Answer: John Orley Allen Tate
3. What 1930 manifesto of 12 essays was the best known publication of the Agrarians?  
		Answer: I'll Take My Stand

4. Identify the following equations for the stated number of points each.
1. In its original formulation, a statement unaltered by the theory of relativity, it holds that the force acting on a particle is the time derivative of the particle's momentum.
		Answer: Newton's Second Law
2. FTP, this equation named for one of the winners of the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics holds that the second partial derivative of a quantum mechanical wave function with respect to position is a function of the partial derivative of the wavefunction with respect to time and the product of the wavefunction and the potential acting on the system.
		Answer: Schrodinger Wave Equation
3. F15P, it holds that dot product of the gradient operator and current plus the partial derivative of charge density with respect to time equals zero.
		Answer: Equation of Continuity

5. 30-20-10 name the actress.
1. She portrayed Eleanor Roosevelt in the television films Eleanor and Franklin in 1976 and Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years in 1977.
2. She has four Academy Award nominations for roles in The Great White Hope, All the President's Men, Kramer vs. Kramer and Testament.
3. She currently serves as chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts.  
		Answer: Jane Alexander

6. Identify these twentieth century art critics FTP each.
1. Appointed Curator of Painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1906, he sponsored two exhibitions in 1910 and 1912.  Introducing Londoners to the art of Cezanne, Van Gogh, and Matisse, he coined the term "Post-Impressionism."  Identify this man who sponsored the Omega Workshops with fellow Bloomsbury Group members Grant and Vanessa Bell.
		Answer: Roger Fry
2. Although many of his attributions are no longer accepted today, he was the foremost Renaissance scholar of his day.  The author of Venetian Painters of the Renaissance and Sunset and Twilight, he left his Florentine villa I Tatti to Harvard University.
		Answer: Bernard Berenson
3. A central figure in vorticism, he was the vociferous editor and principal contributor to the magazine Blast.  Literary works he wrote include The Human Age and The Apes of God.
		Answer: Percy Wyndham Lewis

7. Answer the  following questions about 19th century American history for 10 points each.
1. 5 pts: This organization was founded in 1867 to assist farmers to adapt and cope with life on the plains. They lobbies state legislatures to pass laws regualting freight rates.
Answer: Grange (if they say patrons of husbandry, prompt for more info)
2. 10 pts: What other name is given to the Grange?
		Answer: Patrons of Husbandry
3. 15 pts: Name the department of agriculture clerk who formed the Grange.
		Answer: Oliver H. Kelley

8. Given a line of verse, identify the metrical foot FTP each. [Reader: stress syllables in bold font]
1. "I am MON/arch of ALL / I surVEY... / I am LORD / of the FOWL / and the BRUTE"
		Answer: anapest
2. "The SUN, / a SNOW-/blown TRAV/eller, SANK / From SIGHT / beNEATH / the SMOTH/ering BANK"
		Answer: iambus
3. "THIS is the / FORest pri/MEval, the / MURmuring / PINES and the / HEMlocks..."
		Answer: dactyl

9. Identify the following astronomical phenomena associated with stellar evolution F15P each.
1. When a low mass star like our sun evolves and burns most of the hydrogen in its core, hydrogen starts to burn in the shell of gas just outside of the core and the core starts to collapse.  When the pressure and the temperature in the core becomes sufficiently high, another element ignites there and is consumed very rapidly, perhaps within an hour.  What name is given to this rapid fusion event that occurs under degenerate conditions?
		Answer: Helium Flash
2. As the luminosity of a low mass star increases, it may lose mass as parts of its atmosphere are driven into space by radiation pressure.  What term, something of a misnomer, is given to these ejections that are sometimes seen surrounding young white dwarfs?
		Answer: Planetary Nebulae

10. Identify these composers from their opera on a 10-5 basis.
1. 10: His Bastien und Bastienne was commissioned by Franz Mesmer.
5: His La Clemenza di Tito is based on a libretto by Pietro Metastasio.
		Answer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
2. 10: L'Etoile du Nord was his first comic opera.
5: His Les Huguenots was condemned by Wagner and Schumann.
		Answer: Giacomo Meyerbeer or Jakob Beer
3. 10: His Suor Angelica forms the middle part of the series of one act opera called Il Trittico.
5: His Turandot, unfinished at the time of his death, was finished by Franco Alfano.
		Answer: Giacomo Antonio Michele Secondo Maria Puccini

11. FTP each, identify the authors of these similarly titled works.
1. Letters from an American Farmer (1782)
		Answer: Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur a.k.a. J. Hector St. John
2. Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. (1802-3)
		Answer: Washington Irving
3. Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies (1768) 
		Answer: John Dickinson

12. FTP each, answer these questions about Lesotho.
1. By what name was Lesotho known prior to its independence in 1966?
		Answer: Basutoland
2. What is the capital of Lesotho?
		Answer: Maseru
3. Around 1820 the ruling dynasty was established by a former commoner who organized the Sotho people.  FTP, what was his name, the same taken by the king who died in 1996.
		Answer: Moshoeshoe

13. Identify the following Biblical folk for the stated number of points. 
1. 5 pts: This tax collector of the port of Capernaum wrote one of the four gospels.
		Answer: Matthew
10 pts: The fifth judge of Israel, he led an army of 300 men to victory over the Midianites.   
		Answer: Gideon
3. 15 pts: The son-in-law of Annas, he was the high priest of the Sanhedrin who accused Jesus of blasphemy and delivered him to Pontius Pilate.
	Answer: Caiaphas
14. Writers are often incorporate real-life events into their fiction. On a 10-5 basis, identify these battles, which were included in the following works.
1. 10 pt: This battle is the subtitle of the Walter Scott novel	Marmion.
5 pt: King James IV of Scotland was killed at this 1513 battle.
		Answer: Flodden Field                       
2. 10 pts: In A Farewell to Arms, Frederic Henry, after	
erating from wounds, returns to the front just in time to participate in this battle.
5 pts: This 1917 battle took place along the Italian-Austrian border.
		Answer: Caporetto
c. 10 pts: Though unnamed in the novel, this is the battle in which Henry Fleming is participating in The Red Badge of Courage.
5 pts: Stonewall Jackson was mortally wounded at this May 2-4, 1863 battle.
		Answer: Chancellorsville

15. Identify these pioneers in broadcasting who worked at the same company on a 10-5 basis.
1. 10: He served as director of the U.S. Information Agency from 1961 to 1963.  After a pioneering WWII radio broadcast from a liberated Nazi concentration camp, this American said "If I have offended any of you, I am not in the least sorry."
5: In 1948 his Hear It Now radio program became the See It Now TV news program.  On the March 9th, 1954 broadcast he attacked Joseph R. McCarthy's investigatory techniques.
		Answer: Edward (aka Egbert) Roscoe Murrow
2. 10: In 1979, he wrote As It Happened.
5: In 1928, after six years in the family cigar business, he purchased a network of radio stations.  He was president of CBS between 1928 and 1946 and served as board chairman until 1983 and again from 1986 until his death.
		Answer: William 'Bill' Samuel Paley
3. 10: Ray Bradbury writes of him:  "He taught us then not only how to open our mouths, but how to insert bright pebbles beneath our tongues so that we might fire forth a sentence not only worth listening to but thinking about."  Blacklisted during the McCarthy era, he wrote the screenplay for "Lust for Life".
5: Other works include "The Plot to Overthrow Christmas" and a "Prayer for the Seventies".  His radio drama On a Note of Triumph aired on all three major networks on VE Day.  
		Answer: Norman Corwin

16. This bonus tests your knowledge of matrix  algebra.  Pencil and paper may be handy.  Consider the 2 by 2 matrix A having the elements 2 and -2 in the first row and 7 and 3 in the second row.
1. FTP what is the determinant of matrix A?
		Answer: 20 (computed as (2)(3)-(-2)(7))
2. Using Kramer's rule or any method you like, invert matrix A.  You get 5 points for each element of A inverse.  Read your answers in the order row 1, column 1; row 1, column 2; row 2, column 1; and row 2, column 2 and express them as ratios of whole numbers or decimals to the nearest one-hundreth.  
		Answer: 3/20 or 0.15; 1/10 or 0.10; -7/20 or -0.35; 1/10 or 0.10 (accept equivalent fractions)

17. For the stated number of points, identify these terms from anthropology.
1. 5: The belief that one's own culture is superior to all others.
		Answer: ethnocentrism
2. 10: The belief that people are descended from animals, plants or other natural objects and the association of symbols with these natural ancestors.
		Answer: totemism
3. 15: An object believed to carry a magical or spiritual force.
		Answer: fetish

18. 30-20-10, name the city:
1. This city of over 2 million on the Yangzi River is the capital of Jiangsu province and was the capital of imperial China from the 3rd to the 6th century and again from 1368-1421.
2. Sun Yat-Sen placed the nationalist capital there in 1912 and Taiwan still considers this mainland city their official capital.
3. When the Japanese captured it in 1937, the resultant killing and brutality was known as the "rape of" this city.  		
		Answer: Nanking or Nanjing

19. Given the name of an animal provide its genus-species name for the stated number of points.  For example, if I said man, you would say "Homo sapiens".
1. 5: Domestic dog						Answer: Canis familiaris
2. 5: Fruitfly							Answer: Drosophila melanogaster
3. 10: Chimpanzee						Answer: Pan troglodytes
4. 10: Lion							Answer: Panthera leo

20. Note these terms from Islam: dawah, hijab, imam, kafir, mullah, shari'ah and zakat.  For five points each and a five point bonus for all correct, which is defined as:
1. a religious scholar						Answer: mullah
2. required tithing						Answer: zakat
3. a nonbeliever							Answer: kafir
4. a woman's head covering					Answer: hijab
5. missionary sharing of Islam with nonbelievers			Answer: dawah

Literature: Agrarians, feet, Letters, (1)
History: British scandal, Lesotho, radio personalities, (1)
Science: random physics equations, stellar evolution, Matrix algebra, genus-species
Art/Music: opera composers, art critics
Philosophy/Mythology/Religion: Egyptian deities, (1)
Social Science: anthro terms
Geography: Nanking
Film: Alexander
Trash/Current Events/General Knowledge: terms from Islam