1997 MLK Invitational Blind Round by Carol Guthrie #2 =0D 1. Proposed by a Connecticut Senator in the Army Appropriations Bill, it was finally abrogated in 1934. The only vestige of it left is the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay. This 1901 rider made US intervention in Cuba almost mandatory. FTP, name this "amendment." Answer: Platt Amendment =0D 2. The western part of this country is covered by sandstone plateaus, bordered by escarpments, such as the cliff of Banfora. Its northern part is dominated by rocky hills and granite domes. Among its distinct ethnic groups are the Bobo, Lobi, the Gourma, Mossi, and Fulani. Its river network consists chiefly of the Comoe and the Volta. FTP, name this country, formerly known as Upper Volta. Answer: Burkina Fasso =0D 5. His first interest in books came when he read an article in The Memphis Commercial Appeal denouncing H.L. Mencken as a fool. He had never heard one white man call another white man a fool and so desperately wanted to know what Mencken was writing. His readings led him to realize he had to leave the South, and so he moved to Chicago where he became associated with realist authors such as Nelso Algren and James Farrell. FTP, name this African American author of White Man, Listen!, Uncle Tom's Children and Native Son. Answer: Richard Wright =0D 6. His 1945 suicide attempt failed as he was nursed back to health to face trial as a military criminal. Found guilty, an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court was denied, and he was hanged December 23, 1948. In 1940, he was appointed ministry of war in the cabinet of Fumimaro Konoye. FTP, name this Japanese military figure who reigned as a virtual dictator during World War II. Answer: Hideki Tojo =0D 7. During World War II he was director of research of the Substitute Alloy Materials lab,\ and while working as a part of the Manhattan project, his group provided the fundamental information for the separation of the fissionable isotopes of uranium, 235 and 238. His major fame, however, came before the war as he was awarded the 1934 Nobel prize for chemistry. FTP, name this U.S. chemist who discovered the heavy hydrogen isotope deuterium. Answer: Harold Urey =0D 8. Spartans sacrificed dogs to him, and he was a Theban ancestral deity through his daughter Harmonia (wife of Cadmus) and through the dragon whose teeth Cadmus sowed to created the Theban race. His appearance in battle was often inglorious; he was bound and imprisoned by the Aloadea for 13 months, wounded by Heracles while trying to avenge his son Cycnus's murder, bested by Athena in the Iliad, and wounded by the mortal Diomedes. FTP, identify this Greek mythological figure, son of Hera and Zeus, brother of Eris, father of Deimos and Phobos, and counterpart of Rome's Mars. Answer: Ares =0D 9. In 1524, at the age of 13, he went to Florence where he studied under Andrea del Sarto and Michelangelo. His most important paintings are considered to be the wall and ceiling paintings in the great hall of the Palazzo Vecchio. However, he is better known for his writings, particularly his Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Architects, Painters and Sculptors. FTP, name this art historian. Answer: Giorgio Vasari =0D 10. In 1977, he came to Washington, D.C., in the guise of a Panamanian diplomat in the entourage of General Omar Torrijos, the President of Panama, and he was photographed standing behind the General and President Carter at the signing of the Panama Canal Treaty. This is just the sort of intrigue one expects from his novels, although his later works like Monsignor Quixote and Doctor Fischer of Geneva; or, The Bomb Party left readers puzzled. FTP, name this writer, who is better known for such works as Travels with My Aunt and Our Man in Havana. Answer: Graham Greene=0C11. Germinus of Rhodes, writing in the 1st century B.C. described it using the example of the coinchoid and hyperbola. Its precise formula states that "if a curve, c, has an infinite branch and if there is a straight line, a, such that the distance PP prime to a from a point P on c approaches zero as a limit, as P moves toward infinity, then it is a. FTP, what is this term from geometry used to refer to a line which continuously approves a curve, but which does not meet it within a finite distance. Answer: asymptote =0D 12. Salatis, Beon, Apachnas, Apophis, Hannas and Asses were six of the kings of this ancient people whose name means "shepherd kings." Josephus identifies them with the Israelites and said that in the days of King Timaeus they invaded Egypt from the east. FTP, name these invaders who controlled Egypt Answer: Hyksos =0D 13. The Persians called it by a name meaning "green hand" and fed it to their cats. It later spread to China, where it was known as the "Persian herb" and was eaten by people. Its use then migrated to India and Burma, where it was known as the "China flower." This vegetables popularity in the West resulted from Catherine de Medici's passion for it. Cooks at her court experimented heavily with various ways to use this leafy green vegetable, so much so that Catherine's Italian hometown became an adjective used to describe dishes with this food. FTP, name this product eaten straight from the can by Popeye. Answer: spinach =0D 14. Her psychologist father said that in movement there is truth, so she took up dance. In 1920, she debuted with Denishawn, but left to start her own company in 1929, in which back motility and costume movement became key in Archaic Hours and Appalachian Spring. FTP, name this American dancer and choreographer. Answer: Martha Graham =0D 15. In English literature the form was particularly popular during the Restoration and the 18th century, as exemplified in works of Thomas Brown, John Wilkes, and John Dryden. And although the term did not come into use until the 17th century, examples of the form are found as early as the 3rd century BC in the Frogs and Clouds of Aristophanes. A frequent refrain in 17th-century French satirical poems, the term literally means "let us gulp down!" and has come to identify a virulent satire that is a gratuitous and somewhat unjust attack on an individual. FTP, give the literary term that is now associated with Harvard and Chevy Chase. Answer: lampoon =0D 16. He was the Rider of the Clouds, deity of rain and storm, associated with the goddesses Little Lightning, Little Dew and Little Earth. His chief enemy is Mot, god of the rainless season and the nether world. His rebirth is brought about by Anat, who cuts Mot to pieces, burns, grinds, and sows him in the fields. FTP, identify this ancient near eastern deity, whose name is Semitic for "lord" or "owner", and whose worship was strongest among the Caananites. Answer: Baal =0D 17. She was born in 1903 in the first incorporated black town in America, Eatonville, FL. Some of her lesser known works include a collection of short stories, Spunk, and an autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road. FTP, name this Barnard College alumna who studied with Franz Boas and whose best known work is Their Eyes Were Watching God=2E Answer: Zora Neale Hurston =0D 18. If MSW oscillations between species of this kind of subatomicparticles occur, they might increase nucleosynthetic yields in Type II supernovae. Such oscillations might also serve to explain the strange results detectors like Sudbury and Kamiokande have reported in recent years. FTP, name these almost ethereal particles postulated by Pauli to conserve momentum in =FE-decay. Answer: neutrinos =0D 19. It was the Bolscian capital, and was conquered by Rome in 341 BC. Augustus was proclaimed "father of the Roman nation" there, and Caligula and Nero were born here. A seaside resort located on a peninsula jutting into the Tyrrhenian sea, it is roughly 38 miles south of Rome. FTP, name this city, site of a January 22, 1944 Allied invasion which turned bloody due to German resistance. Answer: Anzio =0D 20. Subplots include the love life of Harriet Smith, who falls in love with Robert Martin but is persuaded to consider Mr. Elton as a suitor. This idea fails when Mr. Elton falls in love with the title character, and her subsequent attempts to charm Frank Churchill are also unsuccessful. However, when the title character finally realizes that Mr. Knightley is her true love, the happy ending ensues. FTP, name this Jane Austen novel. Answer: Emma =0C21. The region is named for a mountain range that runs along the border between Poland and the Czech Republic. It was traditionally part of Bohemia and, prior to 1945, had for centuries been the home of a largely German-speaking population. FTP, name this region of then northern Czechoslovakia which was annexed to Germany by the Munich Pact in 1938. Answer: Sudentenland =0D 22. In 1925 he was jailed for mail fraud in connection with his misuse of funds intended to establish a steamship company. He was deported to Jamaica in 1927 and died in relative obscurity in 1940. An ignominious fate for this brilliant oratorand founder of the newspaper Negro World. FTP, name this most influential black leader of the 1920's, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Organization. Answer: Marcus Garvey=0C1997 MLK Invitational Blind Round by Carol Guthrie =0D 1. While not analogous to the Old Testament Apocrypha, there is some New Testament apocryphal literature, most which was never regarded as acceptable by orthodox Christians. FTP each, answer these questions concerning that literature. a. One of the better known apocryphal works of the New Testament, it is a semi-Gnostic account of the oriental adventures and death of an apostle. It includes the Gnostic "hymn of the pearl." ANS. Gospel of Thomas b. Actually probably dating from the 4th century, this collection of letters was supposed to have been exchanged by Paul and the contemporary Stoic philosopher-politician after whom their named. ANS. Seneca c. This apocryphal act of an apostle describes he adventures and martyrdom of this man while in India. ANS. Bartholomew =0D 2. Identify these people associated with the French Revolution a. Throughout 1796, this political agitator attempted to overthrow the Directory and set up a communist "republic of equals," activities which led to his arrest and execution in 1797. ANS. Francois Noel Babeuf b. A Girondist sympathizer, she is famous for stabbing the Jacobin supporter, Jean Paul Marat, while he bathed. ANS. Charlotte Corday c. This popular finance minister's firing on July 11, 1789 by Louis XVI helped spark the assault on the Bastille. ANS. Jacques Necker =0D 3. Name the following characters from children's literature, given a brief description, 5 pts. each, 30 for all correct. a. This neurotic badger is the creation of Russell and Lillian Hoban. In various books, she copes with traumas such as bedtime, a new sibling, and dietary restrictions, while making up songs for every occasion. ANS. Frances b. In the various books bearing his name, he gets a job, flies a kite, learns the alphabet, and goes to the hospital. He has one major personality trait, the revelation of which would make this question ridiculously easy. ANS. Curious George c. In the first book that bears her name, this French schoolgirl has a bout of appendicitis which makes her the envy of her classmates. She is the creation of Ludwig Bemelmans. ANS. Madeline d. Though the circumstances of his demise are never revealed, this cute little ghost, created by Robert Bright, lives in the attic of the Whittaker's house in New England where he cavorts at night with his friends Herman the Cat and Miss Oliver the Owl. ANS. Georgie e. Though not as famous as a certain feline, this Dr. Seuss-created elephant is the hero of two books in which he displays his pchydermal paternal instincts, one in which he saves the citizens of Whoville, and one in which he hatches an egg. ANS. Horton =0D 4. The periodic table beyond the actinide series is largely the responsibility of two research groups. Answer the following about these guys who just love to slam nuclei together. a: First, for 5 points each, where are these two research groups located, one in the US and one in Russia. Answer: Dubna and Cal, Berkely b. The two groups never can agree on names. For five points for each name, what are the four different names suggested for elements numbers 104and 105. Answer: 104: kurchatovium and rutherfordium 105: nielsbohrium and hahnium =0D 5. Given information about the inspiration for a Romantic poem, name it, 10 pts. each. If you need the author, you'll only get 5 pts. a. 10=FEIt is from a group of poems called =FEHebrew Melodies=FE and was intended to be set to music. The woman in question is Lady Wilmot Horton, whom the author had seen at a ball, attired in mourning with spangles on her dress. 5=FELord Byron Answer: =FEShe Walks in Beauty=FE b. 10=FEIt was inspired by an actual experience in the Scottish Highlands, where the author and his sister Dorothy saw a woman working alone in the fields. 5=FEWilliam Wordsworth Answer: =FEThe Solitary Reaper=FE c. 10=FEIt was written during the summer of 1797, when the author was living between Porlock and Lynton, and seems to have been a bad reaction to =FEmedication.=FE 5=FESamuel Taylor Coleridge Answer: =FEKubla Khan=FE=0C6. Answer these questions about the drive for Irish independence. a. He led the early 19th century push for Catholic Emancipation and his election to Parliament compelled the duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel to ratify the Emancipation act of 1829, which admitted Catholics to parliament and most public offices. ANS. Daniel O'Connell b. This agitator for Home Rule won Gladstone and the Liberal party over to his side, but was somewhat discredited when he was named corespondent in a divorce suit because of his relationship with Kitty O'Shea. ANS. Charles Stewart Parnell c. A member of the Sinn Fein, he organized the guerilla warfare that forced the British to sue for peace. With Arthur Griffith he set up the Irish Free Stat, and was assassinated in 1922. ANS. Michael Collins =0D 7. Given a major work by an architect, name them, 5 points each. a) US Customs House, NYC (1907) Answer: Cass Gilbert b) Banqueting House in Westminster (1622) Answer: Inigo Jones c) Mile High Center, Denver Answer: IM Pei d) Pompidou Center, Paris Answer: Richard Rogers e) The President's Palace, Brasilia Answer: Oscar Niemeyer f) The Louvre Answer: Pierre Lescot =0D 8. Identify this scientist, 30-20-10. 1. Lavoisier followed this scientist's suggestion that the mixtures of air and hydrogen should be sparked over mercury (and not water) and identified the resultant compound to be water, in 1782. 2. His inventions include the candle flame collector of atmospheric electricity, a famous "inflammable air" electric pistol, and the electrophorus. 3. This Italian's most famous invention was that of the first electrochemical battery., the SI unit of electrical potential difference is named for him. Answer: Alessandro Volta =0D 9. Given these short descriptions, identify the short story, 10 pts. each. If you need the author, you'll only get 5 pts. a. 10=FE =FEIn a lifeboat circled by sharks, tantalized by glimpses of land, a reporter scrutinizes Fate and learns about comradeship.=FE 5=FEStephen Crane Answer: The Open Boat b. 10=FE =FEIt was a parent's worst nightmare: a child struggling for his life. and then the disturbing anonymous phonecalls began.=FE 5-Raymond Carver Answer: A Small, Good Thing c. 10=FE =FEProud, imperious Miss Grierson defied the town from the fortress of her mansion. Who could have guessed the secret that lay within?=FE 5=FEWilliam Faulkner Answer: A Rose for Emily =0D 10. Name the now-extinct animal, given a brief description and the year it became extinct, 10 pts. each. a. This flightless bird could neither run nor climb. With its lack of defenses and the lact of respect it received because of its physical ineptitude and ridiculous name, is it any wonder it became extinct in 1681. ANS. Dodo b. Sailors often mistook these nearly neckless, pink sea mammals for mermaids. Given that these critters were around 25 feet long and plump, sailors must've thought mermaids were mighty full-figured gals. These aquatic creatures became extinct in 1768=2E ANS. Steller's Sea Cow c. This diving bird, a member of the penguin family, met its doom in 1844 when museum directors offered a price for stuffed specimens of the already near-extinct animal. ANS. Great Auk =0D 11. Answer the folowing about the wonderfully inbred family tree of the Greek gods for 10 pts each. a. She is the mother by Zeus of Artemis and Apollo. Answer: Leto b. Leto was Zeus' cousin as Leto was the offspring of the Titan Coeus and what other Titan? Answer: Phoebe c. Zeus' unions with his sister Hera resulted in Ares, Hephastus, and this goddess of youth. Answer: Hebe 13. Hopefully, your answers to this bonus will flow readily. Answer the following about fluid dynamics for 10 pts. each. a. This states that stress in a fluid in mechanical equilibrium is a scalar, completely described by an invariant, isotropic pressure. Answer: Pascal's Theorem b. What do we call a point in a fluid where the condensation of the fluid jumps discontinously from one value to another? Answer: shock front c. What is the dimensionless quantity given by the product of the specific heat at constant pressure and the shear viscosity divided by the thermal conductivity? Answer: Prandtl number =0D 15. Given a list of characters, identify the play for 10 pts. If you need the author of the play, you'll get 5 pt. a. 10 pt: Gwendolyn, Ceciy, Algernon, and Jack 5 pt: Oscar Wilde ANS. The Importance of Being Earnest b. 10 pt: Walter Lee, Ruth, Beneatha, Travis, and Lena 5 pt: Lorraine Hansberry ANS. A Raisin in the Sun c. 10 pt: George, Martha, Honey, Nick 5 pt: Edward Albee ANS. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? =0D 16. Given some of the conductors of a major US symphony orchestra, name the orchestra, 10 pts each. a. Frederick Stock, Fritz Reiner, and Georg Solti Answer: Chicago Symphony Orchestra b. Otto Klemperer and Zubin Mehta Answer: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra c. Leopold Stokowski and Eugene Ormandy Answer: Philadelphia Orchestra =0C17. Answer the following questions about the works of P.G. Wodehouse for 10 points each. 1. Name the perfect English butler and member of the Drones Club who is a man of infinite resource in many stories and novels by Wodehouse. Answer: Jeeves 2. Identify Jeeves' master, whom he is always extricating from some farcical predicament. Answer: Bertie Wooster 3. A lesser known Wodehouse character is Lord Emsworth, a doddering old man whose obsession is raising the "Empress of Blandings". What type of creature is the Empress? Answer: a pig =0D 18. Given a year and a discovery or achievement, name the intrepid explorer credited with the feat, 5 pts each. a. reaching Brazil, 1500 Answer: Pedro Cabral b. rounding Cape of Good Hope, 1488 Answer: Vasco de Gama c. traces Congo to the Atlantic, 1875 Answer: Henry Stanley d. discovers mouth of the Amazon, 1499 Answer: Amerigo Vespucci e. first ascent of Mont Blanc, 1787 Answer: Horace Saussure f. founds Buenos Aires, 1536 Answer: Pedro de Mendoza =0D 19. Given the proper name of a star you tell me the Englishtranslation of the usual Latin name of the constellation containg the star,10 pts each. a. Arcturus Answer: Herdsman(Bootes) b. Capella Answer: Charioteer(Auriga) c. Fomalhaut Answer: Southern Fish(Piscis Austrinis) =0D 20. Given the name of less-than-wildly-popular professional sports team, living or dead, identify the league they compete, or competed, in for 5pts each. a. Tampa Mutiny Answer: Major League Soccer b. Rochester Knighthawks Answer: Major Indoor Lacrosse League c. Birmingham Fire Answer: World League of American Football d. Colorado Rapids Answer: Major League Soccer e. Michigan Panthers Answer: United States Football League f. Orlando Predators Answer: Arena Football=0C