1996 Terrapin Invitational
Questions by George Washington

1.  After teaching at Riga, where he measured the affinity coefficients of
many acids, he was appointed professor of chemistry at Leipzig in 1887,
promoted Arrhenius' electolytic dissociation theory, and discovered a
dilution law.  FTP, who was this physical chemist who invented a process for
making nitric acid by the oxidation of ammonia, and was awarded the 1909
Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on catalytic reactions?
Answer:  Friedrich Wilhelm _Ostwald_

2.  The author of _The Nature of the Judicial Process_ and _The Paradoxes of
Legal Science_, among his innovations while serving as a judge on New York's
Court of Appeals include the doctrine of promissory estoppel in the 1927
_Allegheny College_ case and the implied warranty rule in the 1916 _Mac-
Pherson_ case.  FTP, identify this judge, who was later named to the Supreme
Court by President Hoover in 1932 and served until his death six years later.
Answer:  Benjamin L. _Cardozo_

3.  This playwright died at the court of Archelaus, king of Macedonia, around
406 BC, and was satirized in Aristophanes' _Thesmophoriazusai_.  His works
include _Hercules Furens_, _Hecuba_, and the satyr play _Cyclops_.  FTP, who
is this latest of the three Greek tradegians, author of _Ion_, _Alcestis_,
and _The Trojan Women_?
Answer:  _Euripides_

4.  In 1745, he married Margaret Burr, the illegitimate daughter of the
fourth duke of Beaufort.  He copied Dutch landscapes as a youth and learned
the art of rococo decoration under Gravelot and Hayman. His _Mr. and Mrs.
Andrews_ has been called "the most English of English paintings."  Other
early works include _The Charterhouse_ and the Rubens-esque _Peasants
Returning From Market._  FTP, identify this British landscape artist,
commissioned for a portrait of the King and Queen in 1781, best known for
"The Blue Boy." 
Answer:  Thomas _Gainsborough_

5.  He married the Creole Anita Riveira de Silva while he was a guerilla
fighter and privateer in Brazil.  Also a leader of the Uruguayan independence
movement, he had escaped to South America after being condemned to death in
Genoa in 1834 while serving in the Piedmontese Navy.  FTP, who was this
Italian best known for his guerilla conquest of Sicily and Naples as the
leader of the "Red Shirts"? 
Answer:  Giuseppe _Garibaldi_

6.  His autobiography has 3 volumes: _Happy Days_, _Newspaper Days_, and
_Heathen Days_, and his other works include _Ventures into Verse_ and _Damn:
A Book of Calumny_.  He published studies of George Bernard Shaw and
championed writers like Sinclair Lewis and Joseph Conrad.  With George Nathan
he founded the magazine _Smart Set_ and _The American Mercury_, which he
co-edited for nine years.  FTP, identify this 1920s icon and Baltimore
native.
Answer:  Henry Louis _Mencken_

7.  This state's first known inhabitants were of the Abenaki tribe. The first
European settlement here was on Isle LaMotte in 1666. Other early settlements
include the Dutch town of Pownal and the English Fort Dummer, and its motto
is "Freedom and Unity."  Most of its western border of this 45th largest
state is a large lake named after the French explorer who discovered it. 
FTP, identify this state, whose name is from the French for "green mountain."
Answer:  _Vermont_

8.  The total radiation energy per unit of time emitted by a heated surface
per unit area varies with the fourth power of its absolute temperature.  In
concert with the Second Law of Thermodynamics, you can determine temperature
dependency for blackbody radiation.  The preceding was the application of,
FTP, what law of physics, named for the two Austrian scientists who
discovered it? 
Answer:  _Stefan-Boltzmann_ Law

9.  Clarence Norris was pardoned in 1976 after fleeing parole 30 years
earlier.  Heywood Patterson was convicted of manslaughter in Michigan three
years after escaping prison in 1948.  Eight of the nine received death
sentences, but the pesky Supreme Court kept reversing the convictions.  FTP,
identify the Alabama town in which nine black men allegedly raped two white
women in 1931.
Answer:  _Scottsboro_, Alabama (names such as "Scottsboro Boys" and
"Scottsboro Nine" are acceptable)

10.  An early influence on him was a Jewish violinst named Edward Remenyi,
who taught him Gypsy music. After hearing his Handel Variations, Richard
Wagner admitted that "They show what may still be done with the old forms,
provided that someone appears who knows how to treat them," which is high
praise considering that this composer signed a Manifesto in 1860 attacking
the "Music of the Future" of which Wagner was a leader.  FTP, who is this
composer of four symphonies, _Hungarian Dances_, the _Academic Festival
Overture_ and _A German Requiem_?
Answer:  Johannes _Brahms_

11.  Born in Brunswick to poor parents, the Duke of Brunswick paid for his
education at the Collegium Carolinum and the University of Gottingen.  He did
work on the theory of errors of observation, the curvature of surfaces, and
proved a circle could only be divided into n parts with a compass and
straightedge only if n is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a
non-negative power of 2.  He also gave six proofs to the law of quadratic
reciprocity and four different proofs of the fundamental theorem of algebra. 
FTP, identify this mathematician, the author of _Disquisitiones Arith-
meticae_. 
Answer:  Carl Friedrich _Gauss_

12.  In Mecca, they were the rival subclan to Muhammed's Hashemites.  Still,
they embraced Islam and quickly became prominent in the Muslim Empire.  Their
leader defeated Ali and his Shi'a followers, seized the caliphate, and moved
the capital to Damascus. FTP, identify this dynasty overthrown at about 750
by the Abbasids.
Answer:  The _Umayyad_s or _Ommayad_s

13.  He was a technical writer for Boeing before leaving to write fiction
like _Low-Lands_ and _The Secret Integration_.  Born in Glen Cove, NY, in
1984 he published _Slow Learner_, which contains a revealing essay on his
acknowledged influences.  FTP, who is this American creator of the characters
Oedipa Maas and Herbert Stencil in _The Crying of Lot 49_ and _V._?
Answer:  Thomas _Pynchon_

14.  By the end of the battle, the Duke of Orleans and the Marshal Jean
Bociquaut had been captured, and Charles d'Albret, who had led the first
French battalion, was killed.  The weight of their armor and the very
difficult movement over wet plowed fields left most of the French knights
exhausted before they had even come within range of the English archers. 
FTP, what was this battle in the Hundred Years' War in which Henry V defeated
a much larger French force?
Answer:  _Agincourt_ 

15.  At the beginning of this phase of mitosis, the centromeres that had
previously held the chromatids togethers have just broken apart, and the two
new chromosomes begin to move away to opposite spindle poles.  By the late
period of this phase, the cell contains two groups of chromosomes that are
widely separated, and cytokinesis often begins.  FTP, what is this stage of
mitosis between metaphase and telophase?
Answer:  _Anaphase_

16.  William Morris, Matthew Arnold, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow all wrote
poems about him.  He lived at Breidhablik, one of the mansions of Asgard. 
His faithful wife Nanna joined him on his funeral pyre, for which his huge
ship was used.  FTP, name this Norse god of light, slain by a twig of
mistletoe.
Answer:  _Balder_

17.  In 55 BC war, this man was misled by a treacherous guide and was utterly
defeated in the plains of Mesopotamia and later slain after being beguiled
into a conference with Surenas.  A supporter of Sulla in the civil war
against Gaius Marius, he was made consul with Pompey in 72.  FTP, who was
this member of the first triumvirate who as praetor one year earlier had put
down the Spartacist revolt?
Answer:  Marcus Licinius _Crassus_

18.  Tommy Morgan played the harmonica, Jim Keltner played the drums, and
Alan Kendall played lead guitar on their album, _Life in a Tin Can_. 
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in September 1996, their most
popular songs include "Saved by the bell", "Don't throw it all away" and "How
can you mend a broken heart".  FTP, name this group whose principal members
were Maurice, Robin, and Barry Gibb.
Answer:  The _Bee Gees_

19.  This man's epitath is Latin for "He broke the barriers of the heavens." 
After abandoning a career in music, he concluded that double stars are held
together by gravitation and that they revolve around a common center.  He
also discovered the the Saturnian satellite Mimas and the Uranian satellites
Titania and Oberon.  FTP, who was this astronomer who had earlier gained fame
in 1781 for discovering Uranus?
Answer:  Sir Frederick William _Herschel_

20.  Alas, poor Fredrick, since his birthday is February 29, has only seen
five birthdays and only served five years of his 21-year contract.  So he
tells the Pirate King that General Stanley is not in fact an orphan.  This
scene is a key turning point in, FTP, what operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan,
featuring the song "I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major General"? 
Answer:  The _Pirates Of Penzance_

Along with Maslow he is considered a father of humanistic psychology.  He
first suggested the idea of non-directed, or clientcentered
psychotherapy in 1945's "Counseling and Psychotherapy." FTP,
identify this famous psychologist, best known for his 1961 work "On
Becoming A Person."
Answer:  Carl _Rogers_

An insane uncle Frank eagerly awaits a radio contest announcement,
a struggling musician tries to save her house from becoming a
seafood restauraunt, and our hero, all the while drawing pictures
of evil fuzzy bunnies, saves the day by winning a boat race.  This
is a synopsis of, FTP, what 1980s classic film, starring Demi Moore
and John Cusack?
Answer:  "_One Crazy Summer_"

This novel ends as a young man hitchhikes across America still seeking the
place where the American dream of riches and fame will be fulfilled. Sketches
of real people like Henry Ford, Isadora Duncan, and the Wright brothers
intrude on the main story of Charley Anderson, a returned war hero, who
marries an heiress, has an affair, becomes involved in land fraud, and dies
in an accident. FTP, what is this novel by John Dos Passos, the third book in
the USA trilogy?
Answer:  The _Big Money_

The only child of an army officer, at age 14 he sent his first 
extent poem, "La Mort," to Victor Hugo.  During the Franco-Prussian war he
did guard duty in Paris and served as press-officer for the Communards.   He
expressed his love for the 16-year-old Mathilde Maute is expressed in his _La
Bonne Chanson_, but his love for another person whom he shot in the wrist is
better known.  FTP, identify this symbolist poet of  _Sagesse_ and _Fetes
Galantes_ who had an unhappy liaison with Arthur Rimbaud?
Answer:  Paul _Verlaine_

The grandson of Cretheus and Tyro and brother of Bias, as a small boy, he
chanced upon a dead female serpent which he gave a solemn funeral and whose
young he looked after. He discovered how to cure the sexual impotence of
Iphiclus, and cured the mad daughters of Proteus, for which he was given one
of the daughters and two-thirds of the kingdom of Argos.  FTP, who was this
ancestor of Polyidus (poli-eye-dus) who could heal the sick and understood
the language of animals after the young snakes purified his ears?
Answer:  _Melampus_

1996 Terrapin Invitational Tournament
Questions by George Washington

1. 30-20-10-5, name the author from a list of works. 
1.  _False Dawn_ and _Twilight Sleep_
2.  _The Custom of the Country_ and _The Valley of Decision_
3.  _The House of Mirth_
4.  _Ethan Frome_
Answer:  Edith Newbold Jones _Wharton_

2. Identify these B terms from biology FTP each.
a) A fluid-filled sac that aids lubrication in some joints.
Answer: _bursa_
b) A defensive adaptation in which a nonpoisonous organism has the 
appearance of a poisonous species.
Answer: _Batesian_ mimicry
c) A cup-shaped structure of the nephron of a kidney that encloses the
glomerulus.
Answer: _Bowman's_ capsule

3. For five points each, identify the first woman cabinet member of the US,
the position she held, and the president she served under.
Answers: Frances _Perkins_, Secretary of _Labor_, Franklin Delano _Roosevelt_
Now for five points each, identify the second female cabinet member, the
position she held, and the president she served under.
Answers: Oveta Culp _Hobby_, Secretary of _Health, Education, and Welfare_,
Dwight David _Eisenhower_

4. For 5 points each, given the major American city, identify the mayor. 
a)  Baltimore, Maryland
Answer:  Kurt _Schmoke_  
b)  Indianapolis, Indiana
Answer:  Steven _Goldsmith_
c)  Denver, Colorado
Answer:  Wellington _Webb_
d)   San Fransisco, California
Answer:  Willie _Brown_
e)  Cleveland, Ohio
Answer:  Michael _White_
f)  Boston, Massachusetts
Answer:  Thomas _Menino_

5. Identify the German Nobel Prize winners who wrote the following works for
ten points each, five if you need another work and the year he won.
1.  10 pts:  _History of Rome_
5 pts:  _The Roman Provinces_, won in 1902
Answer: Theodor _Mommsen_
2.  10 pts:  _Tonio Kroger_ and _Joseph and His Brothers_
5 pts:  _Buddenbrooks_, won in 1929
Answer: Thomas _Mann_
3.  10 pts:  _Absent Without Leave_ and _Group Portait With Lady_
5 pts:  _The Clown_, won in 1972
Answer: Heinrich _Boll_

6. Identify the oxidation state of sulfur in each of the following 
compounds FTP each. 
1.  sodium sulfite
Answer:  _+4_
2.  hydrogen sulfide
Answer:  _-2_
3.  sulfuric acid
Answer:  _+6_

7. As we all know, the Doors' first album was self-titled.  During their
short life, they recorded five more studio albums.  For five points each with
a bonus five all correct, name them.  Do not include any live albums or
greatest hits compilations. 
Answer:  _Strange Days_, _Waiting For The Sun_, _Morrison Hotel_, The _Soft
Parade_, _L.A. Woman_

8. Answer these questions about the leadership of Zaire for the stated number
of points. 
1.  5 pts:  He assumed power in two coups, in 1960 and 1965.  He has yet to
relinquish his presidency and is an infamously corrupt dictator. 
Answer:  Joseph _Mobutu_ Sese Seko
2.  10 pts:  He headed Katanga province and led a secessionist movement there
in 1960; he later assumed a position in the government. 
Answer:  Moise _Tshombe_
3.  15 pts:  This first president of the former Belgian Congo was forced to
cooperate with Marxist Patrice Lumumba until Mobutu's first coup. 
Answer:  Joseph _Kasavubu_

9.  FTP each, name the following Lord Byron works.
1.  His first poetic drama, its hero sells himself to the Prince of
Darkness and lives in solitude in the Alps.
Answer:  _Manfred_
2.  This poem in four cantos describes events and people associated
with many European places.  It satisfied the popular craving for 
travel literature of Byron's day.
Answer:  _Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_
3.  A Byron poem depicts the annihilating plague that struck down
the invading army of this Assyrian king in Palestine during the 7th century
BC.
Answer:  The Destruction of _Sennacherib_

10.  Identify these economic terms for ten points each.
a) An index which measures the prices of a fixed "market basket" of some 300
consumer goods bought by a typical consumer.
Answer: _Consumer Price Index_ or _CPI_
b) A tax whose average tax rate rises as income increases, thus claiming a
larger absolute amount and larger proportion of income as income increases.
Answer: _progressive_ tax
c) Two goods who are used in tandem and jointly demanded, like CDs and cd
players. The price of one good and the demand for the other are inversely
related.
Answer: _complementary_ goods

11.  Identify these types of trees that are taught in any introductory level
computer science class FTP each.
a) An ordered tree with at most two children for each node.
Answer: _binary_ tree
b) Developed by two Russians, it is a type of binary search tree in which the
balance of a node is either -1, 0, or 1.
Answer: _AVL_ tree or _Adelskii-Landis_ tree
c) Used to represent 2-3 trees, this is a tree in which nodes and edges are
one of two colors depending on the number and color of its children.
Answer: _red-black_ tree

12. Given a building in New York City, identify the architect for the stated
number of points. 
1.  5 pts:  The Guggenheim Museum
Answer:  Frank Lloyd _Wright_
2.  10 pts: The Chrysler Building
Answer:  William _van Alen_
3.  15 pts:  Trinity Church
Answer:  Richard _Upjohn_

13.  Given a few characters from a Charles Dickens novel, identify it FTP
each.
a) Newman Noggs, Wackford Squeers
Answer: _Nicholas Nickleby_
b) Nell Trent, Daniel Quilp, Kit Nubbles
Answer: The _Old Curiosity Shop_
c) Mr. Bronlow, Mrs. Maylie, Mr. Sowerberry
Answer:  _Oliver Twist_

14. 30-20-10, name the composer from a list of works. 
1.  A disastrous attempt at an adaptation of Shakespeare's "Measure for
Measure" called _The Ban on Love_.
2.  The opera _The Fairies_, and a treatise _Oper und Drama_
3.  The opera _Tristan and Isolde_
Answer:  Richard _Wagner_

15.  Answer these questions about the Great Western Schism for the 
stated number of points. 
1.  For 10 points, which pope started the whole mess by moving the
seat of the papacy from Rome? 
Answer:  _Clement V_
2.  For 5 points each, to what city did Clement move the papal
seat, and in what year, within five? 
Answer:  _Avignon_, _1308_ (accept 1303-1313)
3.  For ten points, the election of which pope in 1417 ended the Great
Western Schism? 
Answer:  _Martin V_

16. Identify these glacial sedimentary landforms FTP each.
a) Usually found in clusters and around 25-50 meters high, these are large
streamlined hills of till and bedrock that parallel the direction of ice
movement.
Answer: _drumlins_
b) Often exploited commercially, these are small hills of sand and gravel
dumped near or at the edge of the ice.
Answer: _kames_
c) Often steep-sided and occupied by ponds or lakes, these are hollows formed
when a melting block of ice is partly buried by sand and gravel.
Answer: _kettles_

17. Given a work, identify the Latin American author, FTP each. 
1.  _The Labyrinth Of Solitude_
Answer:  Octavio _Paz_
2.  _Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair_
Answer:  Pablo _Neruda_ or Ricardo Eliecer Neftali _Reyes_
3.  _The Death of Artemio Cruz_
Answer:  Carlos _Fuentes_

18. Answer these questions about the disastrous Athenian campaign in Sicily
during the Peloponnesian Wars, FTP each. 
1.  The Sicilian campaign was going well enough until what general
was returned to Athens to stand trial for impiety? 
Answer:  _Alcibiades_
2.  Alcibiadies fled to Sparta and persuaded the Spartans to aid
the defense of what major Sicilian city? 
Answer:  _Syracuse_
3.  Name any year of the three years during which the Sicilian
campaign took place. 
Answer:  _415-413 BC_

19. Answer these questions relating to the explosive nitroglycerin for the
stated number of points. 
1.  To make nitroglycerin, you combine glycerol with, for 5 points each, what
two acidic compounds? 
Answer:  _nitric acid_ and _sulfuric acid_
2.  The high freezing point of nitroglycerin can present a problem, usually
solved by mixing it with, FTP, what common active ingredient in radiator
coolant?
Answer:  _ethylene glycol_
3.  As the Oklahoma bomber found out, what compound, most often used as
fertilizer, can act as a substitute for nitroglycerin in bomb making?
Answer:  _ammonium nitrate_

20.  Identify the 19th Century French painter responsible for each of the
following works for 5 points each.
1.  _The Luncheon of the Boating Party_
Answer:  Pierre Auguste _Renoir_
2.  _Olympia_
Answer:  Edouard _Manet_
3.  _The Burial of Atala_
Answer: Anne-Louis _Girodet_ (or Girodet-Trioson)
4.  _The Death of Sardanapalus_
Answer: Eugene _Delacroix_
5.  _The Card Players_
Answer:  Paul _Cezanne_
6.  _The Harbor of La Rochelle_
Answer: Jean-Baptiste-Camille _Corot_

21. Identify these ancient dynasties of various empires, FTP each. 
1.  This Chinese "dynasty" had only one real Emperor, Shih Huang-Ti, but he
was very important, since he was the first to unify the whole of China and
oversaw the construction of the Great Wall. 
Answer:  The _Ch'in_ Dynasty
2.  This dynasty ruled much of India from the state of Magadha from the early
fourth to the late sixth century. 
Answer:  The _Gupta_ Dynasty
3.  This Babylonian dynasty's most famous emperor was Nebuchadnezzar II, who
built the famous Hanging Gardens.
Answer:  The _Chaldean_ Dynasty

Identify these terms associated with samurai FTP each. 
1.  From the Japanese for "way of the warrior," it was the
elaborate code of conduct for the samurai class.   
Answer:  _bushido_
2.  Meaning "large private land," this term referred to large
feudal landholders who were patrons of samurai. 
Answer:  _daimyo_
3.  Meaning "way of the sword," it is a style of fencing using a
two-handed wooden sword and is still practiced in Japan and around
the world. 
Answer:  _kendo_

Identify the American political figure, 30-20-10. 
1.  A Princeton alumnus and a Harvard law graduate, his first job was as a
consultant to the U.S. Department of Labor. 
2.  More responsible than anyone else for the passage of California's
Proposition 103, his latest book is titled _No
Contest_. 
3.  One of his previous books, _Unsafe At Any Speed_, started a revolution in
safety regulations. 
Answer:  Ralph _Nader_

Identify the invertebrate phyla given a description of some of
their unique traits, 15 points each. 
1.  Named for the transverse rings of the body, most of these
coelomate animals have bristles, or setae. 
Answer:  _Annelida_  or _Annelids_
2.  Usually possessing pentaradial symmetry, these vertebrates have
calcite skeletons and generally have advanced nervous systems. 
Answer:  _Echinodermata_ or _Echinoderms_

30-20-10, identify the playwright from a list of works. 
1.  "The Archbishop's Celing" and "The Misfits"
2.  "The Price" and "After The Fall"
3.  "All My Sons" and "The Crucible"
Answer:  Arthur _Miller_

Identify these figures from the Smithsonian "Enola Gay" exhibit
incident, 15 points each. 
1.  This ousted head of the Air and Space Museum has written a new
book, titled "An Exhibit Denied," about the controversy. 
Answer:  Martin _Harwit_
2.  He became Secretary of the Smithsonian at the height of the
controversy; Harwit partially blames him for the trouble. 
Answer:  I. Phillip _Heymann_

Answer these questions about Argentinian leaders not named Peron,
for the stated number of points. 
1.  5 pts:  Name the current president of Argentina. 
Answer:  Carlos Saul _Menem_
2.  10 pts:  Name Menem's predecessor, the first civilian president
since the military coup of 1976.
Answer:  Raul _Alfonsin_
3.  15 pts:  This general was the last military dictator; he
resigned in disgrace in 1983 after the disastrous Falklands War. 
Answer:  Leopoldo _Galtieri_

For the stated number of points, identify the authors of these works often
associated with the "Angry Young Men"
of 1950's British literature. 
1.  5 pts:  The play _Look Back In Anger_
Answer:  John _Osborne_
2.  5 pts:  The novel _Lucky Jim_
Answer:  _K_ingsley _Amis_
3.  10 pts:  The novel _Saturday Night and Sunday Morning_
Answer:  Alan _Sillitoe_
4.  10 pts:  The autobiography _Angry Young Man_
Answer:  Leslie Allen _Paul_
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