Philly Experiment III: No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service
                     Preliminary Round 8
       Packet by:  She Blinded Me With Colvin Science
Toss-Ups

1.  The first chapter of this work was completed and
published separately as "The Stoker."  In the story a young
European, Karl Rossman, is a social misfit who has been
rejected by his family and has encountered numerous
difficulties in his attempts to settle down.  For ten
points, identify the novel, published posthumously by Max
Brod, 13 years after Kafka wrote it.
Answer:  _Amerika_

2.  Born in 1884, he founded the first radio magazine,
_Modern Electrics_.  In that magazine in 1911, he serialized
his own story of "scientifiction," _Ralph 124C 41+:  A
Romance of the Year 2660_.  For ten points, name this
"father of science fiction," publisher of _Amazing Stories_
and namesake of the awards at the World Science Fiction
Convention.
Answer:  Hugo _Gernsback_

3.  Founded in the 7th century by al-Yaman, a Berber
Christian, this kingdom became part of the Mali Empire and
was a Muslim state from the 11th century onward.  In 1493,
Askia Muhammad founded a new dynasty, and, based in the
trading cities of Gao and Timbuktu, it became the most
important empire in West Africa.  For ten points, give the
name of this great empire which fell to the Moroccans in
1591.
Answer:  _Songhai_ Empire

4.  A graduate of Dartmouth college, he made his name as a
Cincinnati lawyer who defended escaped slaves.  He helped to
found the Free Soil and Republican parties, serving as a
U.S. Senator from 1849 to 1855.  As
Lincoln's secretary of the treasury, he financed the war
through private financiers, though he was forced to issue
"greenback" currency.  For ten points,  name this leader who
became the center of an anti-Lincoln cabinet faction, even
though Lincoln appointed him Chief Justice in 1864.
Answer:  _Salmon_ Porter _Chase_

5.  Discovered in 1803 by British chemist Smithson Tenant,
it is used to make nibs for fountain pens and bearings for
machinery.  At 22.4 grams per cubic centimeter, it is the
second densest metal after osmium.  For ten points, what is
this element, found in a layer of rock 65 million years old,
with atomic number 77?
Answer:  _Iridium_

6. He served in the U.S. Coast Guard until he was 24 years
old.  While employed as a manufacturer's  agent in
Cleveland, he won the 1954 U.S. Amateur Golf championship.
He went on to win four Masters tournaments in consecutive
even-numbered years, and overcame a seven-stroke deficit to
Mike Souchack to win the 1960 U.S. Open.  For ten points,
who is this first millionaire golfer, rivaled in the 1960s
by Jack Nicklaus?
Answer:  Arnold _Palmer_

7.  A railway ferry joins this town across the Oresund with
its sister town in Sweden.  Located on the island of
Zealand, it curently has a population of about 57,000.
However, it is more famous for its past, due to Kronborg
Castle, built in the 16th century.  For ten points, identify
this Danish seaport, the setting of Shakespeare's _Hamlet_.
Answer:  _Helsingor_ (or Elsinore)

8.  From the Arab for "square house," it is said to have
been built first by Adam, who received pardon there two
hundred years after his expulsion from Paradise.  Rebuilt by
Ishmael and Abraham after the flood, in the
northeast corner it contains the Hajar-al-Aswad, a famous
black stone.  For ten points, supply the name of this
holiest shrine of the Muslims, located in the center of the
Great Mosque at Mecca.
Answer:  _Kaaba_

9.  This movement originated in the mid-1950s with the
Independent Group.  Prominent figures were the critic
Lawrence Alloway, who coined its name, and the artists
Paolozzi and Hamilton.  For ten points, name the art
movement which used American mass-produced consumer goods as
its basis, exemplified by the work of Lichtenstein and
Warhol.
Answer:  _Pop Art_

10.  Marie Antoinette was his onetime singing pupil, and she
brought him to the Paris Opera in the 1770's.  After
composing two dozen Italian-style operas, he tired of its
tale conventions, reforming opera by getting rid of castrato
singers, absurd plots, and ornamentation.  When he arrived
in Paris, his modest style contrasted with that of the
Italian Niccolo Puccini, causing a major musical feud.  For
ten points, identify this Austrian, creator of _Orfeo et
Eurydice_ and _Iphigenie en Tauride_, who preferred Salieri
over Mozart.
Answer:  Christoph Willibald von _Gluck_

11. This scientist shares his middle name with a book title
by Virginia Woolf.  He studied atomic physics at the
University of California, and tried to split atoms by
bombarding them with hydrogen ions.  He worked with
accelerators, inventing one that sent ions round and round
in a spiral, later called the cyclotron.  For ten points,
name this winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics for whom
element number 103 is named.
Answer:  Ernest Orlando _Lawrence_

12.  "National Lampoon's Animal House," "Friday the 13th,"
"Diner," "She's Having a Baby," "The Big Picture," "He Said,
She Said,""Tremors,"and "Flatliners."  These films have a
common actor.  For ten points, who is this star of
"Footloose" who can be connected to almost any actor in
three movies?
Answer:  Kevin _Bacon_

13.  Her state chancellor was Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz.  Her
husband was Francis Stephen of Lorraine.  Her sons included
Joseph II and Leopold II.  FTP, name this daughter of Holy
Roman Emperor Charles VI, whose succession was secured only
by the Pragmatic Sanction and the War of Austrian
Succession.
Answer:  _Maria Theresa_

14.  Although he is a millionaire, his life lacks purpose.
A World War II veteran, he is trice-married and goes to
Africa in the hopes of finding himself.  Accompanied by
Romilayu, his guide, he encounters tribes called the Arnewi
and Wariri, and after blowing up their cistern in an attempt
to rid it of frogs, he succeeds in ridding the country of
drought by lifting a heavy cloud-goddess statue.  FTP, name
this 1959 seriocomic novel by Saul Bellow.
Answer:  _Henderson the Rain King_

15.  He won Academy awards four times for directing feature
films, and two more times for World War II documentaries.
He began directing in 1917 and made his debut with a
western, "the Tornado".  He explored his Irish roots in "How
Green Was My Valley", and captured the spirit of the
American West in "The Grapes of Wrath".  FTP, name this
director, born Sean Aloysius O'Feeney, of "The Informer" and
"The Quiet Man."
Answer:  John _Ford_

16.  Probably drafted by Archbishop Langton, it promised
that "No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or
dispossessed except by the legal judgement of his peers."
It called for one standard of weights and measures, and
guaranteed the clergy the freedom to elect bishops.
However, most of its provisions dealt with technical
problems of feudal law.  FTP, what was this document foisted
by the barons on King John?
Answer:  The _Magna Carta_






17.  He had fifty ceremonial names, one of which was the Old
Testament "Baal".  The son of El and Damkina, he created the
sky from the body of Tiamat after defeating her in battle.
This victory was commemorated as the New Year's Feast.
After arranging heaven and earth, he sacrificed Tiamat's
husband Kingu, from whose blood came man  FTP, name this god
of the spring sun and head of of the Babylonian pantheon.
Answer:  _Marduk_

18.  In 1949, he formed the Convention People's Party,
taking as his slogan the phrase, "Self Government Now."  In
1950, he was jailed for his role in calling labor strikes,
but he was elected to Parliament while still in prison.
When he was released, he took the title of Leader of
Business in the Assembly, and was elected Prime Minister in
1956.  FTP, name this "Gandhi of Africa", the first Prime
Minister of Ghana.
Answer:  Kwame _Nkrumah_

19.  While travelling in Europe in 1921, he noticed the
unusual opalescence of the clear water of the Mediterranean,
and tried to explain this as a backward scattering of light
by water molecules, an explanation similar to the one
Rayleigh applied to the color of the sky.  He discovered
that in conjunction with the diffusion of light through a
transparent material, there are changes in the wavelength.
FTP, who is this man whose effect won him the Nobel Prize in
Physics in 1930?
Answer:  Chandrasekhara Venkata _Raman_

20.  Condemned to death by the Inquisition, his sentence was
commuted to a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, which he undertook
but died on the way back.  Born in Brussels, his great work,
_De Humani Corporis Fabrica_, or "On the Makeup of the Human
Body" contained excellent descriptions and drawings of the
bones and nervous system, repudiating Galenism.  FTP, name
this court physician to Charles V, one of the first
dissectors of human cadavers.
Answer:  Andreas _Vesalius_
Bonuses

1.  ESPN SportsCenter's Stuart Scott likes to mention
LLCoolJ's "Doin' It" at least once per show when a baseball
player hits a home run.  For instance, "Represents the
Rockies, he was raised in Wyoming" would describe Larry
Walker.  Let us play this game with Top 20 women's tennis.
Given an original country and current home, identify the
tennis player for ten points each.
1.  Represents the USA, she was raised in Yugoslavia.
Answer:  Monica _Seles_
2.  Represents France, she was raised in the U.S.
Answer:  Mary _Pierce_
3.  Represents Switzerland, she was raised in
Czechoslovakia.
Answer:  Martina _Hingis_

2.  Answer these questions regarding the work of William
Faulkner for the stated number of points.  Don't worry; you
won't have to spell that long unpronounceable county name.
1.  For 10 pts., Faulkner's great-grandfather was the model
for this leading character of _The Unvanquished_.
Answer:  Colonel John _Sartoris_
2.  For 10 pts., identify Faulkner's 1942 collection of
short stories with the common theme of the hunting ritual,
and for 5 more points, name its most famous story, involving
the hunt for Old Ben.
Answers:  _Go Down, Moses_; _"The Bear"_
3.  For a final 5 pts., who was the cook for the Compson
family who is the subject of the last section of _The Sound
and the Fury_?
Answer:  _Dilsey_

3.  30-20-10-5 identify the dramatist:
30:  A tradition about him is that at the age of 90 he was
hauled into court by his son Iophon as too senile to manage
his own affairs.  He responded by reading a choral ode he
had just written.
20:  Born near Athens, he was a priest of Asclepius, and
also the chorus leader when the victory over Xerxes at
Salamis was celebrated in 480 BC.
10:  He defeated Aeschylus in a playwrights' contest at age
27.  Some surviving plays include _The Women of Trachis_ and
_Philoctetes_.
5:  The Oedipus Trilogy.  `Nuff said.
Answer:  _Sophocles_

4. Answer the following questions regarding post-World War
II Japanese history for the stated number of points.
1.  For 5 points, in what year was the constitution adopted,
renouncing the right to wage war?
Answer:  _1947_
2.  For 15 points, economic reforms limited the power of
this class of wealthy Japanese families who bought into the
chief industries in the 1880s.
Answer:  _Zaibatsu_
3.  For 10 points, in 1972 the United States returned this
Ryukyu island to Japan, though it was agreed that the U.S.
could maintain military bases there.
Answer:  _Okinawa_

5.  (30) Identify these cases during the era of laissez-
faire constitutionalism for the stated number of points.
1.  For 5 points, this 1905 case struck down a statute
limiting the weekly hours of bakers.
Answer:  _Lochner v. New York_
2.  For 10 points, in 1895 the Court ruled in this case that
a sugar company's monopolistic practices involved
manufacturing, not interstate commerce, and did not violate
the Sherman Antitrust Act.
Answer:  _U.S. v. E.C. Knight Company_
3.  For 10 points, this 1908 decision, featuring the famous
Brandeis brief, declared a law limiting daily employment
hours of female workers constitutional.
Answer:  _Muller v. Oregon_
4.  For a final 5 points, who was the Chief Justice who
presided over all of these cases?
Answer:  Melville _Fuller_

6.  Name these characters from the Iliad and other stories
about the Trojan War, 10 each:
1.  He endured a festering snake-bite for ten years on the
island of Lemnos, until he was healed by the Greek doctor
Machaon.
Answer:  _Philoctetes_
2.  This man was so furious when Odysseus was awarded the
armor of the dead Achilles, that he planned a night-attack
on Agamemnon and Odysseus, but went mad and killed a flock
of sheep instead.
Answer:  _Ajax the Greater_ or _Greater Ajax_ or _Telemonian
Ajax_ or _Aias_ the _son of Telemon_
3.  Odysseus tried to get out of going by feigning insanity
and sowing his fields with salt.  But he failed to deceive
this man, who placed Odysseus' son Telemachus in the way of
the plow.  Name this clever servant of
Agamemnon who was also held to be the inventor of checkers
and dice games.
Answer:  _Palamedes_

7.  In honor of the University of Maryland's mascot, this
bonus deals with the turtle.  Answer the following for ten
points each.
1.  For 10 points each, name the two parts of a turtle's
shell, one covering the back and the other the belly.
Answers:  _Carapace_ and _Plastron_
2.  For 10 points, the common musk turtle, having a
particularly strong and foul odor, is often called by this
name.
Answer:  _Stinkpot_

8.  Time to play geography from Hel-sinki!  Answer these
questions about Finnish geography for the stated number of
points.
1.  For 5, Helsinki is a port on which gulf?
Answer:  Gulf of _Finland_
2.  For 10, northern Finland, Sweden, and Norway contain
this region inhabited by a people of Finnic origin.
Answer:  _Lappland_
3.  For 15, this city in Fnland ranks third in population,
3000 less than Espoo.
Answer:  _Tampere_

9.  Remember in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" when
the cult in Pankot Palace made sacrifices to Kali?  This
bonus is all about this destructive wife of Shiva.  For ten
points each:
1.  This religious group strangled their victims in order to
offer sacrifice to Kali.
Answer:  _Thugs_
2.  In this work by Thomas Mann, she becomes both Durga and
Parvati, her benign aspects.
Answer:  _The Transposed Heads_
3.  Sanskrit for "power and energy," it is the dynamic,
energizing aspect of a god, personified by Shiva's consorts,
including Kali.
Answer:  _Shakti_

10.  As usual, the Jewish holiday of Tisha B'Av fell in the
month of July.
1.  For 15 points, what does the holiday commemorate?
Answer:  _Destruction of the Temples_
2.  For 5 points, when does one have to fast on Tisha B'Av?
Answer:  _Sunrise to Sunset_
3.  For 10 points, what is the next holiday on the Jewish
calendar?
Answer:  _Rosh Hashanah_

11.  Given a description of an artist, identify him for ten
points each.  All of the artists have the same first name.
1.  Son of a well-to-do banker, he studied in the same
school as Zola.  He exhibited in the Salon des Refuses of
1863 before taking part in the Impressionist exhibition in
1874.  In 1895 a dealer named Vollard gave him
a one-man show.
Answer:  Paul _Cezanne_
2.  Brought up chiefly in Peru, he served in the French
merchant marine.  He then developed a style called
"Synthesism," exemplified in his _Jacob Wrestling with the
Angel_.
Answer:  Paul _Gauguin_
3.  This Swiss painter mader contact with the Blau Reiter
artists in 1911.  He taught at the Bauhaus from 1920 to
1931, where he painted _A Young Lady's Adventure_.
Answer:  Paul _Klee_

12.  The recent church fires in the southern United States
have sparked the need for a government crackdown.
1.  One famous NFL player is the pastor of a church that was
destroyed.  For 5 points, who is this Green Packers
defensive lineman?
Answer:  Reggie _White_
2.  Reggie White's church is located in, for 10 points, what
city, a principal venue of academic competition?
Answer:  _Knoxville_, Tennessee
3.  In late June a church was burned down in a small town on
Maryland's Eastern Shore.  For 15 points, name the town
which shares its name with a major German city.
Answer:  _Berlin_

13.  Given a famous TV address, identify the TV family that
lives or lived  there for five points each with a bonuse
five for all correct.
1.  9674 Jeopardy Lane, Chicago
Answer:  The _Bundys_ ("Married...with Children")
2.  714 Delaware Street, Lanford, Illinois
Answer:  The _Connors_ ("Roseanne")
3.  000 Cemetery Lane, Cemetery Ridge
Answer:  The _Addams Family_
4.  704 Houser Street, Queens, New York
Answer:  The _Bunkers_ ("All in the Family")
5.  1313 Mockingbird Lane
Answer:  The _Munsters_

14.  Before he committed suicide, Abbie Hoffman was one of
Matt Colvin's idols...OK, well, maybe not, but he's
interesting question material anyway.  Answer the following
about him, stated number of points.
1.  For 10:  Hoffman was arrested during a cocaine deal, and
went underground.  He next emerged under the alias Barry
Freed, leaing the fight to save what River?
Answer:  The _St. Lawrence_
2.  For 5:  In his belief that conflict between generations
was the catalyst of social change, Hoffman echoed the ideas
of what author of _One Generational Man_?
Answer:  Herbert _Marcuse_
3.  For 10:  Hoffman's career as a radical can be traced
back to his days with what sit-in organizing group founded
by Ella Baker in Greensboro, North Carolina?
Answer:  The _Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee_ or
_SNCC_

15.  With the exception of John Paul II, every pope has been
a dead white male.  So, let's see if you know the minutiae
of European history. Name these popes, 10 each.
1.  This second pope shares his name with the music tutor of
Hercules.  No, he did not have a security blanket.
Answer:  _Linus_
2.  This pope crowned Frederick Barbarossa as Holy Roman
Emperor, and took the drastic measure of excommunicating
Rome during the uprising fomented by Arnold of Breschia.  He
was born in Abbots Langley, near St. Albans.
Answer:  _Adrian IV_ or Nicholas _Breakspear_
3.  This pope's standoff with Henry IV resulted in the
emperor doing penance at Canossa in 1077.
Answer:  _Gregory VII_ or _Hildebrand_

16.  Identify the following electrical devices, 10 each:
1.  Consisting of two adjacent coils of wire wound around a
single core of magnetic material, it is used to couple two
or more AC circuits by employing the induction between the
coils.
Answer:  A _Transformer_
2.  A device inserted into a circuit that permits current to
pass in only one direction, blocking its flow in the other
direction, used to convert AC to DC.
Answer:  A _Rectifier_ or _diode_
3.  A device for storing electric charge, consisting of two
metal plates separated by a nonconducting layer called the
dielectric.  A Leyden jar is an example.
Answer:  A _Capacitor_

17.  Twenty percent of the 150 points available on
literature bonuses in this round will hinge on your ability
to answer the following about Ntozake Shange before she
fades back again into obscurity, 10 each.  Let's
hope you've been following the flamewar.
1.  Despite the fact that she was born in Trenton, New
Jersey, her name is Zulu for "she who comes with her own
things" and "she who walks like a lion."  This is not
because her parents were trying to preserve their
African roots.  No, like fellow writer Leroi Jones, she
changed her name. For 10 points, give her original name.
Answer:  Paulette _Williams_
2.  Shange's most famous colection of poems is entitled "For
colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow
is enuf."  For 10 more points, spell "enuf" as it appears in
the title.
Answer:  ENUF
3.  The Western tradition isn't good enough for Shange when
she wants to spell "enough" or name herself, but she used
Greek roots to come up with the name of her most famous
literary form, a form of narrative poetry presented with
dance.  What is this word?
Answer:  _Choreopoem_

18.  Name the composers of these musical works, 10 each:
1.  Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Answer:  Ralph _Vaughan Williams_
2.  Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Answer:  Sergey _Rachmaninoff_
3.  Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Answer:  Johannes _Brahms_

19.  The theory that the solar system formed from a spinning
cloud was advanced in the 1755 work, "General Natural
History and Theory of the Heavens."  Answer the following,
10 each:
1.  Who wrote "General Natural History and Theory of the
Heavens"?
Answer:  Immanuel _Kant_
2.  What French scientist also developed a similar theory
independently of Kant, in his Treatise on Celestial
Mechanics, in which he "had no need of that hypothesis" of
creation suggested by Napoleon?
Answer:  Pierre Simon de _LaPlace_
3.  What is the two-word term applied to theories such as
those of Kant and LaPlace, wherein the solar system is
formed from a spinning cloud?
Answer:  The _Nebular Hypothesis_

20. Given a list of moons, identify the planet on a 15-5
basis.
1.  For 15:  Elara, Ananke, Pasiphae
For 5:  Io, Callisto, Ganymede
Answer:  _Jupiter_
2.  For 15:  Thalassa, Despina, Galatea
For 5:  Triton, Nereid
Answer:  _Neptune_