1996 ACF Nationals
Questions by ACFNTC #5A

1. He was born in 1778 in Yapeyu, located in what was then the Viceroyalty of La Plata and is today part of Argentina.  In 1814, he began to train an army to fight the Spanish.  Just three years later he dealt the Spanish a decisive defeat in Chile and in 1818, saw his lieutenant Bernardo O'Higgins become president.  On July 28, 1821 he was named protector of Peru.  FTP name this man who, in 1822 requested the aid of Simon Bolivar because of further Spanish aggression.  
Answer: Jose de San Martin 

2. From 1869 to 1913 he taught at the University of Halle.  Much of his early work dealt with the Fourier Series which eventually led to a development of a theory of irrational numbers.  His major work is entitled Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers in which he outlines the basic foundations of set theory.  FTP name this mathematician.  
Answer: Georg Cantor

3. Golden Legend,  Queen Pedauque, The Red Lily,  Patroologia, The Mummer's Tale, Balthasar,  The Well of St. Claire,  My Friend's Book,  Thais,  The Gods are Athirst,  Sylvester Bonnard,  and The Revolt of the Angels.  FTP these are all works by what author better known for his  Penguin Island. 
Answer: Anatole France

4. He devised the Sprechstimme technique which translates literally as "speak-sing" and involves combining  a song's melodic contours and the indeterminacy of speech.  Along with Anton von Webern he helped to systematize atonal pointillism.  FTP name this composer of Pierrot Lunaire  and father of the twelve-tone style.
Answer: Arnold Schoenberg

5. The word appears in the titles of books by Roderick Chisholm, Martin Heidegger, Max Scheler, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.  It was introduced in 1764 by J. H. Lambert to refer to the "Theory of Appearance."  The term was used by Peirce, Hartmann, Kant and Hegel.  In its most common usage, however, it refers to a philosophical method that involves "bracketing" questions of existence in order to investigate the essences of elements of human experience.  For ten points, name this term associated with Edmund Husserl and his followers.
        Answer: Phenomenology

6. The Szostak-Stahl model and the Meselson-Radding model describing this phenomenon both account for inaccuracies in the original model proposed by Holliday.  The former does so via a double strand gap repair and the latter via formation of both symmetric and assymmetric heteroduplexes.  FTP name this event which involves the production of a new combination of alleles during mitosis or meiosis as a result of crossing over or conversion.
Answer: Recombination

7. Speaker of the House for much of the late Reconstruction period, he was prevented from running for the 1876 Republican Presidential nomination by the "Mulligan Papers".  A two-time Secretary of State under Garfield and Harrison, he was disrailed in a later bid for the presidency by over-zealous supporters.  FTP name this man who may have lost New York because of the characterization of the Democrats as the party of "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion" in 1884.
		Answer: James G. Blaine

8.  Hjalmar Ekdal has been living in ignorant bliss for about fourteen years, not knowing that his daughter Hedvig is really the illegitimate child of the Elder Werle who also swindled Hjalmar's father, ruining the latter's reputation.  Then, Werle's son Gregors shows up and attempts to "save" Hjalmar by telling him the truth resulting in disaster.  FTP name the disturbing Henrik Ibsen play described above which has absolutely nothing to do with ferocious waterfowl.
Answer: Wild Duck

9. The last name's the same.  Owen was an American physicist involved in the Manhattan Project.  Thomas Crowder was a geologist and educator who founded the Journal of Geology.  Joseph was the patriarch of a British political family.  Wilton played basketball.  Neville was the son of the aforementioned Joseph who foolishly believed he had achieved "peace in our time."  FTP give the common name.
Answer: Chamberlain

10. After World War I he took up ceramics, but abandoned it in 1923 when he wrote and produced a film for his wife, Catherine Hessling, who had formerly been a model for his father.  He directed his first film, The Whirlpool of Fate, in 1924, and his 1932 film, Boudu Saved from Drowning, served as the inspiration for Down and Out in Beverly Hills. In 1938 his film, Grand Illusion, became the first foreign language film to be nominated for an Oscar as Best Picture.  FTP name this French filmmaker, son of a famous French Impressionist painter.
		Answer: Jean Renoir

11. This man was born in 1856 near Manchester, England.  He was educated at both Owens College and Trinity College.  From 1905 to 1918 he was professor of natural philosophy at the Royal Institute of Great Britain.  He later served as President of the Royal Society and master of Trinity College.  FTP name this scientist who postulated the "plum-pudding" model of the atom and discovered the electron.
Answer: Joseph John Thomson

12.  His first broadway play, The Road to Rome, examined militarism, as did There Shall be No Night, which centered
on the Russian invasion of Finland. For 10 points, identify this author of such works as Roosevelt
and Hopkins,Reunion in Vienna, and Idiot's Delight who served as speech writer for FDR and whose most famous works are probably The Petrified Forest and Abe Lincoln in Illinois.
          Answer: Robert E. Sherwood

13. Called "the wisest fool in Christendom" by Henry IV of France, he died at Theobalds, his favorite home.  He had an over-large tongue which made him slobber over his food.  He was slovenly in dress, bawdy in speech, lazy, and favored effiminate males.  A great defender of the principle of divine right monarchy, he was the target of the foiled Gunpowder Plot.  FTP name this English monarch who succeeded Elizabeth I.
		Answer: James I

14. Having ascended Wearyall Hill, he is said then to have stabbed his staff into the earth.  Legend says it grew into the Glastonberry thorn or the Hawthorne.  An uncle of Jesus through Mary, he is said to have taken the Holy Grail to England.  FTP name this man who begged for Jesus's body after the crucifixion, so that it could receive a proper burial.
		Answer: Joseph of Arimathea

15. They can be synthesized, from Friedel-Crafts acylations, by ozonolysis of alkenes, or from oxidations of secondary alcohols.  Ylides can be added to them via the Wittig reaction, organometallics can be added by Reformatsky reaction, and hydrazones can be formed via Wolff-Kishner reduction.  FTP name this class of compounds which tautomerizes into an enol form and is often associated with aldehydes.  
Answer: ketones (note:  aldehydes can also be made by ozonolysis but NOT by Friedel-Crafts or oxidation of secondary alcohols)

16. A Christian monk named Philammon comes to 5th century Alexandria to save mankind from destruction for its sins.  He is seduced from his faith by a beautiful woman who teaches him to lofty principles of reason.  She ends up being killed in her lecture room by enraged Christians, who tear her body to pieces.  This is the plot of a Charles Kingsley novel which is closely based on the real life-and-death of a 5th century Neoplatonic philosopher. FTP name her and you've named the novel.
		Answer: Hypatia

17. According to Hesiod, she was the daughter of Phorcys and Ceto.  She inhabited a cave either in Sicily or the Pelopponese from whence base she devoured passers-by until killed by Argos.  Many monstrous offspring were attributed to her, included Cerberus, the Chimaera, and the Lernean hydra, all fathered by Typhon.  FTP identify this monster with the torso of a woman and a serpent's tail instead of legs.
		Answer: Echidna

18. Oil was discovered in the 1930's at Norman Wells, a part of this 1,120 mile long river.  Flowing generally northwest from the Great Slave Lake, it enters the Arctic Ocean through a vast delta.  Navigable only from June through October, it drains the orthern portion of the great plains.  FTP name this Canadian river.
		Answer: Mackenzie

19. Born in 1796, he used a parental allowance to leave business and study painting at the relatively late age of 26.  This creator of The Island of San Bartolomeo reputedly said that the secret of landscape painting is knowing where to sit down.  FTP name this French Realist painter whose most famous work is 1830's Chartres Cathedral.
		Answer: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

20. They were led by Feargus O'Connor, a charismatic Irishman who organized a mass demonstration in 1848 to present a huge petition of six demands to the English Parliament.  Among their goals were salaries and abolition of property requirements for members of Parliament, universal manhood suffrage, and the secret ballot.  FTP name this British political movement.
			Answer: Chartism or Chartists

21. Inspired by his father's political conservatism, this then 13-year-old poet wrote "The Embargo" (1808), in which he demanded the resignation of President Thomas Jefferson.  Probably his best known poem, written when he 17 years old, was published in the North American Review and opened with the line "To him who in the love of nature holds."  FTP name this author of "Thanatopsis."
		Answer: William Cullen Bryant