From imorgan@umr.edu Tue Sep 17 10:55:35 1996 Received: from umr.edu (hermes.cc.umr.edu [131.151.1.68]) via ESMTP by hermes.cc.umr.edu (8.7.5/L.4.15) id KAA02699; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 10:51:02 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [131.151.6.163] (imorgan.math.umr.edu [131.151.6.163]) via ESMTP by hermes.cc.umr.edu (8.7.5/R.4.17) id KAA02690; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 10:51:01 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 10:52:19 -0600 To: cbowl@umr.edu X-UIDL: 842978901.003 From: Ilene Morgan Subject: Pitt Victoria's Secret Status: RO TEAM D Tossups - Pitt Victoria's Secret 1. The magnitude of this is related to both physical size and age. Generally, its higher in children than adults, higher in men than women. In adults, the brain, heart, liver and kidneys are most responsible for its value. FTP, give the 3 letter term for this so-called "metabolic cost of living" abbreviated BMR. A: Basal metabolic rate 2. The work that gravity does on an object depends only on its initial and final heights; the work done by a spring depends only on its initial and final displacement. Both are examples, FTP, of what type of force, a force independent of path of motion. A: Conservative force 3. Robert McKormick, a surgeon, was actually the assigned naturalist aboard this British ship. However, a traveling companion of Captain Fitzroy made somewhat better scientific use of the voyage. FTP, name the ship on which Charles Darwin made his landmark voyage. A: H.M.S. Beagle 4. The concept was introduced by Vannevar Bush in a 1945 article titled "As We May Think." Earlier attempts at implementation, notably Doug Englebart's "Augment" and Ted Nelson's "Xanadu", never caught on, especially compared to Tim Berners-Lee's implementation, the World Wide Web. FTP, name this writing form, the "HT" in HTTP and HTML. A: hypertext 5. In 1971, no Pulitzer Prize for fiction was awarded. This was because the fiction committee's choice for the award was rejected as a cryptic, dirty novel by the general committee. FTP, name the novel which should have won, which begins "A screaming comes across the sky," the masterpiece of Thomas Pynchon. A: Gravity's Rainbow 6. A novel mentioning the star of its future film adaptation might seem unlikely, but this 1949 novel does: " 'Fifty operations in less than a minute' Frankie Majcinek (MAH-chin-eck) boasted - and there it was, a regular Sinatra jazzbow with collar attached..." FTP, name this Nelson Algren tale of Heroin addiction, adapted into a 1955 movie starring Frank Sinatra. A: The Man with the Golden Arm 7. "The Problem of Thor Bridge," The Greek Interpreter," "The Crooked Man," The Naval Treaty," "A Case of Identity," "The Man with the Twisted Lip," "The Red-Headed League," "The Valley of Fear," and "The Sign of the Four," are among, FTP, the stories which feature what fictional detective? A: Sherlock Holmes (prompt on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle if detective isn't said) 8. Its first appearance was in the story La Hojarsca or The Leafstorm in 1955. In 1962 En Mala Hora, or In Evil Hour this village appeared again. But this fictional locale, founded by the Buenda family, is best known for its appearance in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's best known novel. FTP, name this locale of One Hundred Years of Solitude. A: Macondo 9. It was first described about a woman, held hostage in a bank in Sweden, who remained faithful to the theif during his imprisionment. FTP name this unnatural close relationship that ocasionally develops between a hostage and his or her captor. STOCKHOLM SYNDROME 10. The Tiflis (now Tblisi) Theological Seminary hasn't produced any notable leaders in religious thought; but it did produce one quite notable leader. A young Georgian seminarian, Iosif Dzhugashvili, secretly read Marx while there, and became a convert. FTP, give the assumed name of the leader for whom Volgograd used to be named. A: Josef Stalin 11. Its name is derived from the Slavic for "Forest Dwellers on the Plain", the plain being the basin of the Elbe. This capital of Saxony has been divided between the Altstadt, old city, and Neustadt, new city. But after February 13th and 14th, 1945, it came close to becoming no city at all. FTP, name this target of Anglo-American firebombing. A: Dresden 12. He succeeded to the throne at the age of 3 but was forced to abdicate 3 years later due to republican revolt. In 1932, At the age of 26 he retook the throne, as the ruler of Manchoukuo, the puppet state of the Japanese. FTP, name him, "The Last Emperor" of China. A: Henry Pu Yi (accept also Hsan Tung) 13. Many citizens of Quebec believe that they would be better off as a separate country. This accord written in 1987 gave the province of Quebec special rights, including laws to allow Quebec to safeguard its culture. FTP, what is the name of this accord, which later failed passage? A: Meech Lake Accord 14. Speakers for this event included Maya Angelou and Cora Masters Barry - even though they couldn't actually participate fully, even if they wanted to. FTP, name this all-guy October 16th event, organized by Rev. Benjamin Chavis Jr. and Louis Farrakhan. A: The Million Man March 15. In one case, he and his cohorts beat three prisoners unconscious and then forced a fourth to bite off the others' testicles, UN officials claim. FTP, name this alleged Bosnian War criminal, the first and only Serb apprehended so far for crimes against humanity. A: Dusan Tadic 16. Arthur Lee Washington - Interstate Flight and Attempted Murder; Donald Eugene Web - Interstate Flight, Murder, Attempted Burglary; Leslie Isben Rogge - Bank Robbery, Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, and Fraud by wire. These three men, and seven others, are the current members of a select group - selected by the FBI that is. FTP, name this list of very bad guys. A: The FBI Ten Most Wanted (Fugitive) List. 17. The byname of the the European cooperative research agency; the stockade at which Australian Gold Miners rebelled in 1854; a Californian variety of lemon; and towns on the Humboldt River in Nevada and California, all share this six letter term. FTP, discover this word associated with Archimedes and the state motto of California. A: Eureka 18. The Arrhenius definition of acids and bases classifies them according to their dissociation products. Arrhenius was a great chemist, and was probably a pretty good speller. FTP, spell Arrhenius. A: A-R-R-H-E-N-I-U-S 19. The winter Olympics are held in St. Moritz, the summer in London. Hamlet wins the best picture oscar. Mohandas Gandhi is assassinated. Citation wins the triple crown. Israel gains its independence. And Harry Truman pulls off a stunning last minute upset of Thomas Dewey in, FTP, what year? A: 1948 20. It's largest lake is Lake Kossoul; it's highest peak Mount Nimba; its flag consists of a vertical orange, white, and green stripe; it is bordered by Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, and Mali; depending on who you ask its capital is either Yamoussoukro or Abidjan; and the name of this country is in French, most emphatically so. FTP, name it. A: Cote D'Ivoire (prompt on Ivory Coast) 21. Fans of this director needn't buy expensive stereophonic VCR's for home entertainment - as all of his movies have used monural sound, the director claims he doesn't trust stereo. He also didn't trust his ability after making his first feature, Fear and Desire, of which he destroyed all the prints except one. FTP, name this directory of The Killing, Paths of Glory, The Shining, and A Clockwork Orange. A: Stanley Kubrick 22. She was a big fan of Hawaii Five-O, which is where she picked up part of her stage name. The pride of Steubenville, Ohio, she's recorded "Somebody to Love" with the Ramones and appeared in "Hollywood Boulevard II". But she really owes her fame to work done before coming of age, namely 80-plus porn films. FTP, name this pornstar-cum-actress. A: Traci Lords 23. His first close call came on April 10, 1985 after his spikes got caught on the second-base bag in a game against Texas, spraining his left ankle. The second came on June 6, 1993, when the grass gave way under his feet during a brawl at the mound with the Mariners. FTP, name this man who survived both scares and made history on September 6, 1993 by beating Lou Gehrig's record for consecutive games played. A: Cal Ripken Jr. 24. The Parthenon in Athens has 85 marble columns in a style developed around 600 b.c., in which the column shaft is fluted and the capital is very plain. FTP, what is the name of this popular Greek style? A: Doric 25. This painter's live-in companion, Hendrickje Stoffels, was censured by the church for living in sin. Nevertheless, he is known for a number of allegorical and religious paintings, including "The Return of the Prodigal Son" and "Peter Denying Christ." FTP, name this Dutch painter also known for "The Night Watch." A: Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn 26. It first appears in Summa Theologiae, and can be summarized as: every cause is the effect of some prior cause; we can't have an infinite series of causes, so there must be a first; this first cause is God. FTP, name that argument. A: The Cosmological Argument or Prime Mover 27. Upon realizing that he had slain his own son, this hero went to battle with the sea itself, where he died. FTP, name this mythological hero of the Ulster cycle. A: Cuchulainn (coo-hull-ain) 28. Two answers required. In "Fantasia", these 2 prehistoric creatures battle it out during Stravinsky's "Right of Spring." FTP, name them. Tyrannosaurus Rex and Stegosaurus TEAM D - BONI - Pitt Victoria's Secret 1. Time for some good 'ol Rocky Horror Picture Show trivia. FTP, answer these questions. >From what planet did Dr. Frankenfurter and his comrades come? A: Transsexual What's the step in the Time Warp that "really drives you insane?" A: the pelvic thrust Who wrote "The Rocky Horror Picture Show?" A: Richard O'Brien 2. For ten points apiece, given a description of a physical law, name the scientist after whom it is named. a. The electric flux through an imaginary closed surface is equal to the net charge enclosed by the surface divided by the permittivity of free space. A: Karl Gauss b. The polarity of an induced emf is such that the induced current produces an induced magnetic field that opposes the change in flux causing the original emf. A: Heinrich Lenz c. The special angle of incidence at which the reflected light is completely polarized parallel to the surface with the refracted ray being only partially polarized is the arctangent of the ratio of the refractive indices of the materials. A: David Brewster 3. FTP each, given the first line of a literary work, give the name of the work. "While everyone at court was busy with his own affairs a man mysteriously took up his post behind the Place de Greve in the house which we once saw besieged by D'Artagnan on the occasion of a riot." A: The Man in the Iron Mask "Sing Goddess the anger of Peleus' son Achilleus." A: The Illiad "Hapscond's Texaco sat on number 93 just north of Arnette a pissant four street burg about 110 miles from Houston." A: The Stand 4. For ten points apiece, identify these respiratory terms. a. The volume of air in the lungs at the end of a normal respiration. A: Functional Residual Capacity b. The volume of air entering the lungs during a normal inspiration. A: Tidal volume c. The maximal volume of air that a person can expire after a maximal inspiration. A: Vital Capacity 5. Ray Bradbury wrote: "Richard Bach with this book does two things: he gives me flight, he makes me young." a. For ten points, name the novel to which he refers. A: Jonathan Livingston Seagull b. For another ten points, Richard Bach was greatly influenced by what author of The Little Prince? A: Antoine de St-Exupery 6. For 10 points each name the Shakespearean play, the speaker, and the speaker's love, of the following quote: "That a woman conceived me, I thank her; that she brought me up, I likewise give her most humble thanks; but that I will have a recheat winded in my forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick, all women shall pardon me because I will not do them the wrong to mistrust any, I will do myself the right to trust none; and the fine is, for which I may go to the finer, I will live a bachelor." A: Much Ado About Nothing, Benedick, Beatrice 7. The Glass family appears in a number of the works of J.D. Salinger. For ten points apiece, given an event in the life of the Glass family, name the story or novel in which it occurs. a. In a thinly-veiled autobiographical rant, the author tries to come to terms with the loss of his brother Seymour Glass. A: Seymour: An Introduction b. Franny Glass has a nervous breakdown A: Franny and Zooey c. Seymour Glass goes swimming, then commits suicide. A: A Perfect Day for Bananafish 8. 30-20-10 Name the play from lines. 30: "Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct when to die." 20: "I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy." 10: Final line: "On the contrary, Aunt Augusta, I've now realized the vital BLANK BLANK BLANK BLANK" A: The Importance of Being Earnest 9. Poor Poland. In the 18th century it was partitioned by the same three powers not once, not twice, but three times. a. First, for 5 points apiece, name the three countries which just couldn't keep their borders straight. A: Russia, Austria, Prussia b. For another 5 points apiece, in which years was Poland carved up? A: 1772, 1793, 1795 (accept 1773 for 1772) 10. Atten-shun! For 5 points apiece, name the 3 U.S. presidents who attended a U.S. military service academy. For another 5 points each, name the particular academy that each attended. A: Ulysses Grant, West Point (accept U.S.Military Academy), Dwight Eisenhower, West Point (see above note), James Carter, Annapolis (accept U.S.Naval Academy) 11. In the English civil war, the Roundheads faced off against the Cavaliers. For 5 points apiece, and an extra 5 for all 5, say whether the following people were Roundheads, Cavaliers, or neither. a. Oliver Cromwell A: Roundhead b. King Charles I A: Cavalier c. Sir Thomas Fairfax A: Cavalier d. William Pitt A: Neither e. John Pym A: Roundhead 12. For 5 points apiece, place these pieces of US Antitrust legislation in order from earliest to latest year enacted: Celler-Kefauver Antimerger Act, Clayton Antitrust Act, Federal Trade Commission Act, Robinson- Patman Act, and Sherman Antitrust Act. A: Sherman (1890), Clayton (1914), FTC (1914), Robinson-Patman (1936),Celler-Kefauver (1950). (Clayton and FTC may be swapped, they passed the same year). 13. Given an OJ Simpson joke, give the punchline, for 10 points apiece. [Note to moderator: word-for-word not necessary, close is good enough] a. What's the difference between O.J. Simpson and John Elway? A: "One drives a slow white Bronco. The other is a slow, white Bronco." (or variation) b. What's black and white and red all over? A: "O.J. paying a visit to his ex-wife" c. What's the difference between OJ and Christopher Reeve? A: "O.J.'s gonna walk..." 14. Friends, Romans, College Bowlers, lend me your ears. For ten points apiece, answer these question on severed or missing ears. a. Jeffrey Beaumont finds a severed ear in a field; madcap adventures ensue. Name the film. A: Blue Velvet b. In Slavic mythology, the mischevious forest spirit appearing as a man, but with no eyebrows, eyelashes, or right ear. A: leshy c. The British Captain who brandished his own severed ear before Parliament in 1738, claiming it had been cut off by the Spanish coast guard, fomenting a war with Spain. A: Robert Jenkins 15. Answer these questions on haberdashery - Roman Catholic style. a. For 5 points, name the stiff square cap with 3 or 4 ridges across the crown, worn by clergymen. A: biretta b. Birettas are not only stylish, they're also color-coded for your convenience! For 5 points apiece, what color biretta would a priest, bishop, and cardinal wear, respectively? A: black, purple, red c. Finally, for ten points, name the big pointy cap worn by bishops A: miter 16. Oppressed people of the world, unite! For 5 points apiece, please name the country given the name of the original inhabitants of the land. a. The Maori (MOW-ree) A: New Zealand b. The Ainu (I-KNEW) A: Japan c. the Firbolg (fear-bolg) A: Ireland d. The Picts A: Scotland 17. The saying "A dog is man's best friend" apparently extends to the world of cartoons. For ten points apiece, name these animated canines. a. Scooby Doo's cognitively challenged cousin. A: Scooby Dum b. The Blue Falcon's sidekick, nicknamed "Dog Wonder" A: Dynomutt c. Johnny Quest's diminutive but scrappy little pooch. A: Bandit 18. For 5 points apiece, given a classic TV sit-com, name the city where it takes place. a. One Day at a Time A: Indianapolis, IN b. Happy Days A: Milwaukee, WI c. Mork and Mindy A: Boulder, CO d. Alice A: Phoenix, AZ e. Amen A: Philadelphia, PA 19. With the college football season well underway, we may need a little reminder about the upcoming bowl season. For 5 points apiece, identify the college football bowl game (no sponsors necessary) that takes place in: a. Honolulu, Hawaii A: Aloha Bowl b. Shreveport, Louisiana A: Independence Bowl c. Anaheim, California A: Freedom Bowl d. Memphis, Tennessee A: Liberty Bowl e. Atlanta, Georgia A: Peach Bowl 20. 30-20-10 Name the artist. 30: Close to his death, he produced a number of works in conjunction with also soon-to-die Jean-Michel Basquiat. 20: He directed such films as "Blue Movie," "Sleep," and "Empire" 10: In 1968 he was shot at "The Factory" by one of his hangers-on. A: Andy Warhol 21. Name the composers of these two operas centered around the Shakespearean character Falstaff, for ten point apiece. a. "Falstaff" A: Giuseppe Verdi b. "The Merry Wives of Windsor" A: Otto Nicolai For an extra ten points, give the name of the 15th century leader of the Lollards, upon whom the character of Falstaff was based A: Sir John Oldcastle 22. 30-20-10 name the man. 30: Some speculate that he was actually the astrologer T'ai-Shih Tan. 20: The T'ang dynasty claimed his as an Imperial ancestor; legends about his birth included his being carried by his mother for 72 years. 10: He may never have existed, but is credited with writing the Tao te Ching. A: Lao-Tzu 23. For 5 points apiece, and an extra 5 for all four, given a cult leader, name the cult. a. Shoko Asahara A: Supreme Truth or Aum Shinrikyo b. Reverend Jim Jones A: The People's Temple c. Yahweh Ben Yahweh A: The Temple of Love d. Joseph DiMambro A: The Order of the Solar Temple 24. 30-20-10 Name the man 30: His first book, A Fragment on Government, was a criticism of William Blackstone's Commentaries. 20: His skeleton, dressed in his own clothes and adorned with a wax head, may be seen in a glass-fronted case at University College, London. 10: He was the earliest, and chief, proponent of Utilitarianism. A: Jeremy Bentham 25. Answer these questions on everybody's favorite god - Dionysos - for the stated number of points. a. For 5 points, name Dionysos' mortal mother, who died when she saw the true form of Zeus in all its glory. A: Semele b. For ten points, name the Minoan princess, dumped by Theseus, who by some accounts married Dionysos. A: Ariadne c. Finally, for 15 points, name the Theban king who was torn to pieces by big D's lady followers when his attempts to spy on their rites were discovered. A: Pentheus