(Message inbox:20) Received: from pop-3.iastate.edu (pop-3.iastate.edu [129.186.6.63]) by pop-2.iastate.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA06592 for ; Thu, 2 May 1996 18:47:38 -0500 (CDT) Received: from dartvax.dartmouth.edu (mailhost.dartmouth.edu [129.170.16.4]) by pop-3.iastate.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA23526 for ; Thu, 2 May 1996 18:47:35 -0500 (CDT) Received: from vixen.Dartmouth.EDU (vixen.dartmouth.edu [129.170.208.15]) by dartvax.dartmouth.edu (8.7.5.1+DND/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA07778 for ; Thu, 2 May 1996 19:47:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-id: <17921058@vixen.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 02 May 96 19:47:33 EDT From: College.Bowl@Dartmouth.EDU (College Bowl) Subject: NHAP : BU "A" Packet To: topquark@iastate.edu New Hampshire Anti-Primary : Boston University Dr. Pepper Tossups 1: Giovanni Schiaparelli made a famous mistake in studying it. In 1965, Mariner 4 photographed it, and in 1976, a Viking spacecraft landed there. Soon, the Pathfinder probe will explore it. The invaders came from here in "The War of the Worlds." FTP name this 4th planet from the sun. A: MARS 2: Pheidias sculpted a statue of its namesake inside its cellar. Iktinos and Kallikrates were its architects. It is named for one of the epithets of the patron goddess of its city, who was famously virginal. FTP, what sits atop the Acropolis? A: PARTHENON (_parthenos_="virgin") 3: A logarithm is the exponent that indicates the power to which a number is raised to produce a given number. FTP, spell logarithm. A: L-O-G-A-R-I-T-H-M 4: A Russian Jew, he was harassed by the Communist regime and was sentenced to 5 years hard labor in the Arctic Circle in 1964. After his exile in 1972, he came to the U.S., where he won the 1981 MacArthur Award, the 1986 National Book Award, and the Nobel Prize for literature in 1987. FTP, identify this man, named poet laureate of the United States in 1991. A: Joseph BRODSKY 5: This is the name of a TV character portrayed by the director of the film "Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored," that is, Tim Reid, who played this co-worker of Johnny Fever on "WKRP in Cincinatti." FTP name this character who shares his name with an insectivorous plant. A: VENUS FLYTRAP 6: Through the mid-1800's, the Hospital of St. Mary of Bethelem was the most renowned of the English insane asylums; Londoners visted the hospital to gawk at the patients. The cruel conditions prompted Thomas Swift to give the place this nickname, which has remained in the language meaning a wildly chaotic scene. FTP, give this name, the title of a 1946 film with Boris Karloff. A: BEDLAM 7: Names sound the same: Businessman, and 12th century poet. Former football team owner, and Persian. Teller of off-color jokes, and translated by Fitzgerald. Liked it so much he bought the company, and "A loaf of bread, and thou." Remington Microscreen, and the Rubayyat. FTP give the last name of either Victor or Omar. A: KIAM or KHAYYAM 8: The subject of Marquis James' 1929 Pulitzer-winning biography "The Raven", this governor of Tennessee resigned when his first wife left him after just two months in 1829. He moved west and was known by the Indians as "Big Drunk" before marrying a Cherokee woman. FTP name this man who later became the first governor of Texas. A: Sam HOUSTON 9: This archipelago comprises 844 islands in the Koro Sea in the South Pacific, lying 1300 miles north of Auckland, New Zealand. FQTP, name this member of the British Commonwealth, home to Superfly Snuka, and to P.T. Barnum's "mermaid." A: FIJI 10: Except for Michael Jordan's return, the number 45 hasn't been in the news since 1763. That's when #45 carried meaning in the ideology of early British radicalism. FTP name this author of "North Briton" who was expelled three times from the House of Commons, and whose surname is the middle name of a man who leaped onto the stage at Ford's Theater. A: John WILKES 11: This once-proud racing team hasn't won a Formula One constructor's title since1983 and hasn't had a member win the driver's championship since 1979. Frustrated by its lack of success, it unveiled its newest model, the F310, in January, and spent a reported $48 million over two years to sign two-time driver's champion Michael Schumacher. FTP, name this Italian car company. A: FERRARI 12: "In the land of Uz, there lived a man... (who) was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. He had seven sons and three daughters... He was the greatest man among all the people of the East." His great piety made him a prime choice for the subject of a bet between God and Satan. FTP name this man renowned for his patience. A: JOB 13: An unsuccessful attempt of his had exploded and knocked him unconscious, but in1897, he completed his first successful prototype, which had one cylinder, and 25 horsepower. Powdered coal, peanut oil, and whale oil, have been tried as fuels in engines of this type, although the best is a fuel similar to kerosene. FTP name either the inventor or his eponymous engine, used in locomotives and trucks. A: Rudolf DIESEL 14: Its famous enormous dome is located above 40 windows, so that it looks as if it is suspended in air. Now a museum, it was once the central cathedral of the Eastern Orthodox church. FTP name this Istanbul landmark, whose name means literally "Holy Wisdom." A: HAGIA SOPHIA 15: The Stolen White Elephant, The Mysterious Stranger, Personal Recollections of Jaon of Arc, The American Claimant, What is Man?, Life on the Mississippi, and The Prince and the Pauper, were all written by FTP whom? A: Mark TWAIN or Samuel CLEMENS 16: His parents were servants at the American Embassy in Australia. He enrolled in the Chinese Opera Research Institute in Hong Kong, but his fame came from another area of show biz. He carries a hole in his skull the size of a quarter from a failed stunt while filming "Armor of God" in 1986. FTP name this actor who starred in "A Rumble in the Bronx". A: Jackie CHAN 17: One of his lesser-known works is "Tractatus Theologico-Politicus." He argued for Pantheism, and set out his arguments in the form of geometric proofs. He didn't hold a professorship, instead making a living by grinding lenses. FTP name this Dutch philosopher, best known for "Ethics." A: Baruch or Benedict de SPINOZA 18: He sailed the Atlantic in 1784 as part of a commission to negotiate trade agreements with European states. He later succeeded Benjamin Franklin as Minister to France. While there, Sally Hemings allegedly conceived the first of seven children she had by him. He was portrayed in this affair with a slave by Nick Nolte in a recent film. FTP name this third president. A: Thomas JEFFERSON 19: Its name comes from the Gaelic term for "water of life" and it is usually bottled by a 40%-60% water ratio. It is produced mostly in the US, Canada, Ireland, and Scotland. FTP name this spirit, one of whose brands is Jack Daniel's. A: WHISKEY 20: Tomorrow is the Second Sunday of Easter, but it has another name, taken from the phrase "like new-born babies." FTP, what is the name for this Sunday, the first two words of the Vulgate translation of First Peter 2:2 which is the same name as a Victor Hugo title character. A: _QUASIMODO_ 21: Adopted March 30, 1870, it declared that the right to vote could not be denied "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." FAQTP, which Amendment ot the Constitution was this? A: _FIFTEENTH_ 22: Jakob was an 18th century German playwright, and friend to Goethe. Kay was a supporting actress on the TV series "Reasonable Doubts." But the most famous is Heinrich, whose work is seminal in self-inductance and electromotive force. FTP give the common last name. A: LENZ 23: Dan Rather "looks like he's making a hostage tape." Senator Al D'Amato wrote a book called "it takes a village idiot." Hillary Rodham Clinton's Whitewater memos include the line "Bank needs check and statement. Told them both were in the mail. Ha ha ha." All this at the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association dinner, according FTP to whom? A: Don IMUS 24: The mechanism for reducing psychic tensions, that motivates the individual to gratify basic instincts or drives, is known in Freudian psychology FQTP as what? A: PLEASURE PRINCIPLE (NOT the Id.) 25: Beavis and Butthead would call this 1990 release by the Lightening Seeds "college music" because its title is the same as that in many translations of the city founded in Aristophanes's "The Birds." FQTP name it. A: CLOUDCUCKOOLAND New Hampshire Anti-Primary : Boston University Dr. Pepper Bonuses BONUS 1: 30 pts FTPE, identify these sexually transmitted diseases. Easily treated with antibiotics, it has no latency period, and on recovery the patient is usually immune for life. A pregnant woman giving birth will transmit it to the baby about 65% of the time. A: CHLAMYDIA It causes deceptively painless canker sores all over the body, much like measles. In advanced stages, it causes gross malformations by eating away at skin and bones all over the body. A: SYPHILIS Caused by either of two viruses of the same family, it causes the lymph nodes to swell up, and the skin and eyes to turn yellow as a result of liver damage. A: HEPATITIS (DO NOT ACCEPT "HEPATITIS A or B" BONUS 2: 30 pts FTPE, answer these questions about letters. A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y are vowels in English, but another letter, usually a consonant, is used as a vowel in a few words of Welsh extraction. FTP, name it. A: W In Old English, there existed a letter whose sound was that of the first consonant in the words "that" and "the." FTP, name it. A: THORN Pencil and paper ready. In the Greek alphabet, the letter xi (ksee) represents the same sound as our letter X. FTP, show me a capital xi. A: Should be three horizontal parallel lines, the top and bottom ones equal in length, and the middle shorter than those. Should look like this: _____ ___ _____ BONUS 3: 30 pts 30-20-10, name the author. 30) His first play, "Cromwell," was so bad that he was advised to try anything but writing. He is known for his massive coffee consumption. 20) Like one of his characters, Eugene de Rastignac, he reluctantly started law school, but never finished. 10) This French author wrote "The Human Comedy," which consists of nearly 100 completed novels. A: Honore de BALZAC BONUS 4: 30 pts For the stated value, answer these questions about two things that don't go together, Islam and beer. Name, FTP, the kind of beer which Samuel Adams makes with honey, and whose name comes from the English manual laborers who preferred it. A: PORTER FTP, name the brand of beer which features three interlocking rings, and three large X's on its can. A: BALLANTINE After Muhammed's death, the Muslims split into two sects. The majority group argued that the prophet's successor should be appointed by election and consensus, while their opponents believed that the successors should come from Muhammed's family. F5PE, name these rival sects, respectively. A: SUNNI and SHIA or SHI'ITE (IN THAT ORDER) BONUS 5: 30 pts "(He) has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous." This quote is from FTP what Shakespeare play? A: JULIUS CAESAR For five more points, which conspirator is being referred to here? A: CASSIUS Come to think of it, the description also applies to the murderer of two old women in Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment." F5PE, give his first, middle, and last names. A: RODION (or RODYA) ROMANOVICH RASKOLNIKOV BONUS 6: 30 pts FTPE, provide the following conjunctions. Boccaccio's masterpiece with an actor who portrays a character who borrows his dad's vintage automobile for a day-trip to Chicago. A: DECAMERON FRYE The MC for the rap group "Public Enemy" with a show with Mulder and Scully. A: TERMINATOR X-FILES The 1962 Supreme Court decision which established the principle of "one man, one vote" with the science of making maps. A: BAKER V. CARRTOGRAPHY BONUS 7: 20 pts Identify the following philosophers FTP if from a quote, F5P if on the title of the work from which the quote is taken. 10: "In the beginning, all the world was America." 5: The Second Treatise of Civil Government. A: John LOCKE 10: "Better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied." 5: Utilitarianism A: JOHN Stuart MILL or _J.S. MILL_ BONUS 8: 30 pts 30-20-10, identify the novel from quotes, where (blank) is the works's title. 30) "(blank) did not exist, he was positive of that, but it made no difference. What did matter was that everyone thought it existed, and that was much worse, for there was no object or text to ridicule or refute." 20) "'Didn't they show it to you?' Yossarian demanded, stamping his feet about in anger and distress. 'Didn't you even make them read it?' 'They don't have to show us (blank)' the old woman answered. 'The law says they don't have to.'" 10) "'Sure there's a catch,' Doc Daneeka replied. '(blank). Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.'" A: CATCH-22 BONUS 9: 20 pts A bishop is on trial for heresy for ordaining the homosexual Barry Righter as a deacon. F5P, name the denomination in which this trial is taking place, and F15P, name the bishop. A: EPISCOPAL, William RIGHTER BONUS 10: 30 pts FTPE identify the homophonous antonym pair whose members mean: Something spoken, or something heard. A: ORAL, or AURAL To elevate, or to tear down. A: RAISE or RAZE To burst out, or to burst in. A: ERUPT, or IRRUPT BONUS 11: 30 pts Answer the following about Spanish artists who painted on the horrors of war. Picasso is famous for his "Guernica," which shows a town being bombed during the Spanish Civil War. FTP, name this town. A: GUERNICA He did a series of etchings called "The Disasters of War," but is best known for a painting which shows a group of Spaniards about to be executed by a French firing squad. The painting's title is a date. FTPE name the artist and work. A: Francisco GOYA, THIRD OF MAY BONUS 12: 25pts During the recent elections in Taiwan, two U.S. aircraft carriers were deployed off the Taiwanese coast. Ten points for one, 25 points for both, name them. A: U.S.S. _INDEPENDENCE_ and U.S.S. _NIMITZ_ BONUS 13: 30 pts FTPE, answer these questions about independent black and white comic books. This creator's fantasy book "Bone" follows the adventures of Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone. A: JEFF SMITH This Dave Sim comic chronicles the life of an aardvark whose occupations have included barbarian, Prime Minister, and Pope. A: CEREBUS This comic by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell details the events preceding and following the Jack the Ripper murders. A: FROM HELL BONUS 14: 25 pts Atoms differing greatly in this tend to form ionic bonds, while those nearly equal in this quantity tend to form covalent bonds. F5P, name it. A: ELECTRONEGATIVITY Now FTPE, name the element of greatest, and of lowest, electronegativity. A: FLUORINE, FRANCIUM BONUS 15: 30 pts FTPE, answer these questions about the decline of affirmative action. In 1978, the Supreme Court ordered the University of California to admit him to medical school. A: Allan BAKKE In October 1994, a federal appeals court threw out a scholarship program to which only blacks were eligible, at this university. A: University of MARYLAND In November, Californians will vote on this, which would bar reverse discrimination in state universities, and in government. A: CALIFORNIA CIVIL RIGHTS INITIATIVE, or _CCRI_ BONUS 16: 25pts "I am the first statistical engineer," he said, because his machine tabulated the 1880 census 8 times faster than his nearest competitors. F15P, name this man who founded the Tabulating Machine Company, and FTP by what name is that company now known? A: Herman HOLLERITH, International Business Machines (_IBM_) BONUS 17: 30 pts Were you paying attention on Opening Day? In the following April 1 games, the winning pitcher was the starter for the victorious team. FTPE, tell who got the W in each game. Minnesota over Detroit. A: Brad RADKE Los Angeles over Houston. A: RAMON MARTINEZ Texas over Boston. A: Ken HILL BONUS 18: 30 pts 30-20-10, name the office in the Roman Catholic Church. 30) When someone is proposed for canonization or beatification, the holder of this office, formally established in 1587 by Pope Sixtus V, is responsible for critically examining the life and miracles of the candidate. 20) The name for the office comes from the fact that this person must present all possible unfavorable facts about the candidate. 10) In common parlance, we play this office when we argue something we might not really believe. A: ADVOCATUS DIABOLI or DEVIL'S ADVOCATE BONUS 19: 30pts Identify these figures from the Mexican independence movement, 10 points each. Priest of the town of Dolores, he and his cohorts issued the Grito de Dolores, on Setptember 16, 1810, Mexican Independence Day. He was forced to flee after a defeat, and was captured and later shot the following July. A: Miguel _HIDALGO_ y Costilla. Another priest, he assumed leadership of the revolution following the execution of Hidalgo, leading the Mexicans to victories at Oaxaca and Acapulco. A: Jose Maria _MORELOS_ y Pavon A Mexican aristocrat, he originally fought against revolution. He later changed sides and overthrew the viceroy of Spain. Later, he proclaimed himself emperor but was overthrown by Santa Anna. A: Augustin de _ITURBIDE_ BONUS 20 30 pts F5PE, 20 for all three, give the term for two each of the following. For example, if I said "shoes," you'd say "pair." Horses. A: TEAM Oxen. A: YOKE Partridges. A: BRACE BONUS 21: 30 pts For the stated value, answer these questions about New Hampshire. The state has a far higher number of legislators in its lower house per capita than any other state. FTP, and 5 for being within 100, how many people sit in the NH legislature's lower house? A: 400 (5 pts. for 300-500) FTP, what New Hampshire based newspaper has the highest circulation in the state? A: The MANCHESTER UNION-LEADER Dartmouth College has its origins in More's Indian Charity School, originally in Lebanon, Connecticut. FTP if within 5, F5P if within 10, name the year in which Dartmouth College was established in Hanover, NH. A: 1769 (Source: Dartmouth WWW home page) [Editor's note: Like we at Dartmouth needed to be told this!] BONUS 22: 30 PTS Identify the notes in the following chords for the stated number of points. For example, if I said C major, you would say C E G. For five points, F minor a: _F, A flat, C_ For ten points, C 7 a: _C, E, G, A sharp_ (accept B-flat for A-sharp) For fifteen points, B minor diminished 5 a: _B, D, F, A_ BONUS 23: 30 pts Given the name of a book made into a film, FTP name the author. "Even Cowgirls get the Blues." A: Tom ROBBINS "The Remains of the Day." A: Kazuo ISHIGURO "Jumanji." A: Chris VAN ALLSBURGH BONUS 24: 25 pts FTPE, answer these questions about comparative linguistics.. The most commonly used criterion to determine whether to call two varieties of language "languages" or "dialects" is the "mutual (blank) criterion." FTP, fill in the blank. A: INTELLIGIBILITY A dialect is a variety of a language spoken by a subset of that language's speakers, but F15P, what is the term for a variety of a language spoken by an individual? A: IDIOLECT BONUS 25: 30 pts A little over two weeks ago, syndicated political cartoonist Paul Conrad published a cartoon depicting a man being crucified, raising considerable controversy. F15PE, name the man hanging from the cross, and the group whose name a crown of thorns was arranged to spell. A: Bob DOLE CHRISTIAN COALITION