SNEWT: Son of QOTC, 1997
Tossups by Pitt Tramps

1) He traveled all over Europe with his close friend Horace Walpole who, in
1751, convinced him to publish his most famous poem.  He won fame in the
mid 1750s for such works as "The Progress of Poesy" and "Sonnet on the
Death of Richard West," and in 1757, he refused an appointment as poet
laureate.  For ten points, name this author of "Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard."

Answer: Thomas _GRAY_

2) In the late 18th century, French finance minister Jacques Necker coined
this term when he announced that the ability of the government to obtain
credit was contingent upon the creditors' feelings about the royal
administration.  For ten points, give this two-word phrase, the title of a
famous book by journalist Walter Lippman, which means the general feeling
of the populace on any particular issue.

Answer: _PUBLIC OPINION_

3) They are about a micrometer long and composed of a double membrane which
surrounds a liquid matrix.  Because they resemble aerobic bacteria,
scientists believe they evolved from a symbiotic relationship between
aerobic bacteria and ancestral eukaryotic cells.  For ten points, name
these organelles that convert nutrients into ATP.

Answer: _MITOCHONDRIA_ or _MITOCHONDRION_

4) Freedom of the seas.  Freedom from fear and want.  All peoples may
choose their own form of government and not have boundary changes imposed
upon them.  All nations deserve access to the Earth's natural resources.
Humanity should renounce the use of force in international relations, and
all nations should disarm after Germany's defeat.  For ten points, the
United States and Great Britain announced these common principles in what
declaration, signed by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill off the
coast of Newfoundland in 1941.

Answer: the _ATLANTIC CHARTER_

5) Evil minions of Don Dorcha, the Dark Lord, kidnap the Little Spirit and
break her flute.  Good thing bare-chested Irish Dance champion Michael
Flatley is there to save the day!  This is the paper-thin plot of, for ten
points, what show that former Riverdance star Flatley wrote, choreographed,
and now stars in?

Answer: _LORD OF THE DANCE_

6) It begins near Kalene Hill in Zambia, meanders in an S shape across
Zambia and Angola, and cuts through Mozambique to the Indian Ocean.  It
passes through the 175-mile long Lake Kariba and forms the great cataract
of Victoria Falls.  For ten points, name this African river that forms the
border between Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Answer: _ZAMBEZI_ River

7) Every year on August 23rd, his worshipers celebrated his chief festival
by tossing small fish into an open flame.  He was originally the early
Italian god of the volcano, and in classical Rome, his was the principal
cult of Ostia.   For ten points, name this Roman deity of fire whose Greek
counterpart was Hephaestus.

Answer: _VULCAN_

8) In 1782, he slipped away from Wurttemberg to see his first play, "The
Robbers," produced in Mannheim.  When he returned home, the duke imprisoned
him for traveling without permission, but he escaped and lived under
assumed names for the next eight years until his friend Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe found him a teaching post at the University of Jena.  For ten
points, name this German poet, dramatist, historian, and philosopher most
famous for his three-part work "Wallenstein" and his "Ode to Joy."

Answer: Frederich von _SCHILLER_

9) Born Theophylactus, he became pope in 1032, but was so immoral that a
Roman faction drove him from office.  In 1045, he pulled strings and was
reinstated as pope, but his godfather, John Gratian, disgusted by his loose
morals, bribed him to abdicate.  Three years later, he won the Papal throne
a final time, but was soon driven from Rome again.  For ten points, name
this pontiff, the last of the Tuscalan popes, who was legitimately elected
to the papacy three times.

Answer: Pope _BENEDICT IX_

10) It weighed 30 tons, covered 1500 square feet, and contained more than
18,000 vacuum tubes.  J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly designed it at
the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering,
and in 1946, the U.S. Military purchased it to help calculate ballistic
firing tables.  For ten points, name this calculating machine that had no
memory but is still considered the first successful digital computer.

Answer: _ENIAC_ or _ELECTRONIC NUMERICAL INTEGRATOR AND CALCULATOR_

11) Tokanohama, "The Noble Flower," is the only other current grand
champion, so their bout is saved for the end of every tournament.  Born in
Honolulu, his given name is Chad Rowan, but he wrestles under a name which
translates to "The Dawn." For ten points, name this 460 pound sumo
wrestler, the only American ever promoted to the highest rank of yokozuna.

Answer: _AKEBONO_ (Accept Chad _ROWAN_ on an early buzz.)

12) Biographer Lytton Strachey.  Economist John Maynard Keynes.  Painters
Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant.  Critics Roger Fry, Clive Bell, and Desmond
MacCarthy.  And writers E.M. Forster and Virginia and Sydney Leonard Woolf.
For ten points,these figures help make up what early 20th century social
circle devoted to artistic and intellectual experimentation and named for a
residential district in London where most of its members lived?

Answer: the _BLOOMSBURY GROUP_

13) In 1846, a Democratic Representative from Pennsylvania attached this
amendment to a House appropriations bill.  The House passed the bill with
the amendment in 1847, but the Senate refused to consider the amendment and
passed a different version of the appropriations bill.  For ten points,
name this famous amendment which would have banned slavery in the territory
annexed from Mexico in the Mexican War.

Answer: the _WILMOT PROVISO_

14) Symptoms first appear when the affected person is six months old and
include swelling of the hands and feet and enlargement of the abdomen and
heart.  The disturbances in blood flow associated with this disease often
cause infections and leg ulcers.  For ten points, name this hereditary
condition, found primarily in blacks and people of Mediterranean descent,
in which red blood cells change shape when the amount of oxygen in the
blood is reduced.

Answer: _SICKLE-CELL ANEMIA_

15) First it was a book that Doctor Richard Hornberger wrote under the
pseudonym of Richard Hooker in his Maine office while he waited for
patients.  Then Ingo Preminger bought the film rights and had Ring Lardner
Jr. write the screenplay to the popular 1970 movie version.  Finally, in
1972, the television show premiered and ran for 11 years.  For ten points,
name this institution, the story of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical
Hospital in the Korean War.

Answer: _MASH_

16)  In 1808, he founded the periodical the "Examiner" which published some
of John Keats's earliest works.  13 years later, in Italy, he founded the
journal "The Liberal" whose contributors included Percy Shelley and Lord
Byron.  For ten points, name this literary critic, essayist, and Romantic
poet whose most famous works include the "Story of Rimini" and "Abou ben
Adhen."

Answer: Leigh _HUNT_

17) Neo-Impressionist painters used this technique to give certain parts of
their paintings heightened luminosity.  They replaced traditional
brushstrokes with carefully applied dots which seemed to blend together
into one color when viewed at a distance.  For ten points, name this late
19th century style of painting originated by Paul Signac and Georges Seurat.

Answer: _POINTILLISM_

18) When the Revolutionary Tribunal executed his father, he fled France and
became a hero to the Orleanist Party.  After Napoleon's abdication, he
returned home, and he took the throne of France in 1830 when the July
Revolution deposed Charles X.  For ten points, name this Citizen King who
ruled France until 1848.

Answer: _LOUIS PHILIPPE_

19) She won election to Congress by 984 votes, but her Republican opponent
still contends that hundreds of ballots were cast by ineligible voters,
including people who were not citizens.  For ten points, name this
representative of California's 46th District who defeated Bob Dornan in
1996.

Answer: Loretta _SANCHEZ_

20) In 1593 he wrote "A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of Saint
John," the first important Scottish interpretation of the Bible.  However,
his most famous works are "Rabdologia" which describes mechanical systems
that he invented to perform arithmetical computations and "Canonis
Descripto" in which he published the first table of logarithms.  For ten
points, name this mathematician who discovered logarithms and popularized
the use of the decimal point.

Answer: John _NAPIER_

SNEWT: Son of QOTC, 1997
Boni by Pitt Tramps

1) For ten points a piece, name the planet.

a) This planet has the fastest rate of rotation.  One day on this planet is
only ten hours long.

Answer: _SATURN_

b) This planet has the thinnest atmosphere, which is one
five-hundred-trillionth the thickness of Earth's.

Answer: _MERCURY_

c) This planet has the smallest orbital eccentricity.

Answer: _VENUS_

2) Name these people associated with Apple Computers for the stated number
of points.

5 pts) Apple has hired this father of the Macintosh to serve as interim
CEO, a month after he sold off all his Apple stock.

Answer: Steve _JOBS_

10 pts) Jobs replaced this former CEO who Apple ousted in late July.

Answer: Gil _AMELIO_

15 pts) This CEO of Oracle Corporation claims he would have bought Apple in
March if inside information he had wouldn't have made the buyout illegal.

Answer: Larry _ELLISON_

3) For five points a piece, name the six wives of King Henry VIII in order
from his first wife to his last.

Answer: _CATHERINE OF ARAGON_, Anne _BOLEYN_, Jane _SEYMOUR_, _ANNE OF
CLEVES_, Catherine _HOWARD_, and Catherine _PARR_

4) 30-20-10.  Name the playwright from works.

30) American Blues; Clothes for a Summer Hotel
20) Night of the Iguana; Suddenly last Summer
10) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; The Glass Menagerie

Answer: Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" _WILLIAMS_

5) For ten points a piece, name the Impressionist painter from a pair of
his paintings.

a) The Absinthe Drinker; A Bar at the Folies-Bergere

Answer: Edouard _MANET_

b) Bridge at Bruges; Towpath at Pontoise

Answer: Camille _PISSARO_

c) The Seine at Bougival in Winter; Misty Morning

Answer: Alfred _SISLEY_

6) Name these African cities for the stated number of points.

5 pts) This Mediterranean city was Egypt's capital for 1000 years after a
Macedonian emperor founded it.

Answer: _ALEXANDRIA_

10 pts) This city, Sudan's only port on the Red Sea, lies 525 miles
northeast of Khartoum.

Answer: _PORT SUDAN_

15 pts) This city, the second largest in Libya, was named for the wife of
Pharaoh Ptolemy III.

Answer: _BENGHAZI_

7) The National Basketball Hall of Fame inducted 7 new members this year.

5 pts) For five points, name the inductee who led the NBA in scoring in the
1980s and spent most of his career with Denver.

Answer: Alex _ENGLISH_

10 possible pts) Now, for five points a piece, name the two legendary
coaches of Princeton and UTEP who were finally inducted after appearing
multiple times on the selection ballots.

Answer: Pete _CARRIL_ and Don _HASKINS_

15 pts) Finally, for 15 points, name either of the female players inducted
into the Hall of Fame, a former UCLA and a former AAU star.

Answer: Joan _CRAWFORD_ or Denise _CURRY_

8) Name these subatomic particles for ten points a piece.

a) James Chadwick identified it in 1932.  It has no charge and an atomic
mass of 1.0086654 atomic mass units.

Answer: _NEUTRON_

b) Paul Dirac theorized this antiparticle's existence in 1928, and American
Carl David Anderson experimentally proved its existence in 1932.

Answer: _POSITRON_

c) It has no charge and negligible mass.  American physicists Frederick
Reines and Clyde Lorrain Cowan Jr. proved its existence in 1956.

Answer: _NEUTRINO_

9) In the 1824 Presidential election, no candidate won a majority of
electoral votes, so the 12th Amendment required the House of
Representatives to pick the president from the three candidates who had
received the most electoral votes.

a) For five points a piece, name the three candidates who had won the most
electoral votes in the 1824 election.

Answer: Andrew _JACKSON, John Quincy _ADAMS_, and William H. _CRAWFORD_

b) Now, for five more points, what candidate finished fourth in the
electoral vote tally.

Answer: Henry _CLAY_

c) For a final ten points, with what two-word phrase did Jackson's
supporters describe Clay's swinging the election to Adams followed by
Adams' appointing of Clay as Secretary of State?

Answer: the _CORRUPT BARGAIN_

10) For ten points a piece, name the I'll give you the real name of French
author and you tell me his more famous pen name.

a) Jean Baptist Poquelin

Answer: _MOLIERE_

b) Francois Marie Arouet

Answer: _VOLTAIRE_

c) Louis Marie Julien Viaud

Answer: _PIERRE LOTI_

11) Name the contemporary Brit-pop band from a pair of songs for ten points
a piece.

a) "She's a Star" ; "Laid"

Answer: _JAMES_

b) "Charmless Man" ; "Girls and Boys"

Answer: _BLUR_

c) "Do You Remember the First Time" ; "Common People"

Answer: _PULP_

12) On September 25, the World Court announced an inconclusive ruling on a
Central European environmental dispute.

First, for ten points, this dispute concerns the right of a nation to
maintain a dam on what river, Europe's second longest?

Answer: _DANUBE_ River

Now, for 10 points a piece, first name the country who built the
controversial dam in the town of Gabcikovo and then name the neighboring
nation who claims the dam dried up its wetlands and wants it torn down.

Answer: _SLOVAKIA_ and _HUNGARY_

13) For 15 points a piece, name these African empires.

a) It was the first great medieval West African empire, and its capital was
Kumbi Saleh.  It lasted from the 7th to the 13th century and stretched from
the Sahara to the headwaters of the Senegal and Niger rivers.

Answer: _GHANA_

b) This empire eclipsed Ghana and flourished until the 16th century.  Its
greatest leader was Mansa Musa, and its capital was Timbuktu.

Answer: _MALI_

14) 30-20-10.  Name the German mathematician.

10) His father sent him to the University of Bonn in 1834 where he learned
fencing and drinking and left four years later with no degree.
20) In 1854, he gained sudden fame and a teaching post at Royal Polytechnic
School in Berlin when he published a paper expanding upon the work of
Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel.
10) Known as the father of modern analysis, he devised eponymous tests for
the convergence of series.

Answer: Karl _WEIERSTRASS_

15) Name these characters from Moliere's "Tartuffe" for ten points a piece.

a) Tartuffe convinces this dupe to give him his daughter to wed and the
title to his property.

Answer: _ORGON_

b) Tartuffe tries to seduce this woman, Orgon's second wife, while Orgon
listens from beneath a table.

Answer: _ELMIRE_

c) Orgon's excitable son, he conspires with Cleante to expose Tartuffe's
trickery.

Answer: _DAMIS_

16) Name the composers of these opera for ten points a piece.

a) The Barber of Seville

Answer: Gioacchino _ROSSINI_

b) Dido and Aeneas

Answer: Henry _PURCELL_

c) Les Troyens

Answer: Hector _BERLIOZ_

17) Name these scary sounding capes for ten points apiece.

a) Named for the treacherous waters that surround it, this cape extends
from the southern tip of Smith Island in South Carolina into the Atlantic
Ocean.

Answer: Cape _FEAR_

b) Bartolomeu Diaz named gave this name to the southern tip of Africa.
John II of Portugal renamed it the Cape of Good Hope.

Answer: Cape of _STORMS_

c) This cape, noted for its lush wilderness, extends from northwest
Scotland into the Atlantic Ocean.

Answer: Cape _WRATH_

18) Name the patron saints on these countries for ten points a piece.

a) Russia

Answer: Saint _NICHOLAS_

b) France

Answer: Saint _DENIS_

c) Hungary

Answer: Saint _STEPHEN_

19) From 1906 to 1917, two American anarchists published a magazine that
championed anarchy.

a) For ten points, name this monthly magazine, the most popular anarchist
publication of its time.

Answer: _MOTHER EARTH_

b) For ten points a piece, name the two publishers of "Mother Earth." One
was a Russian-born woman who was imprisoned for conspiracy to violate
conscription laws, and the other was a Polish-born man who tried to
assassinate Henry Clay Frick.

Answer: Emma _GOLDMAN_ and Alexander _BERKMAN_

20) Name the Lake District poet for ten points a piece.

a) His first published works were "An Evening Walk" and "Descriptive
Sketches" which he published in 1793.

Answer: William _WORDSWORTH_

b) He was a fan of 17th century German mysticism and wrote one of his most
famous fragments, "Kublah Khan," from a vision he had during a bad opium
trip.

Answer: Samuel Taylor _COLERIDGE_

c) With Coleridge, this author wanted to found a utopian community on the
Susquehana River.  But, when the opium wore off, so did the novelty of the
whole utopia idea, so instead he kissed George III's royal butt and became
poet laureate in 1813.

Answer: Robert _SOUTHEY_

21) 30-20-10.  Name the author from works/

30) Dangling Man
20) Mr Sammler's Planet
10) Herzog

Answer: Saul _BELLOW_