Wahoo War of the Minds 1997

Round Nine


1.  The quantum-mechanical analog of its spin part was first described by
Goudsmit and Uhlenbeck in 1925.  Eigenstates of the orbital part are
described by the letters s, p, d, and f.  Classically, it can be described as the
product of mass, speed, and di
stance to an axis of rotation.  FTP, what is this quantity whose
conservation enables ice skaters to dazzle us with fast spins?

Answer: angular momentum

2.  Manjusri personifies wisdom, Kshitigarba (SHEE-tee-gar-ba) helps the
dead, Avalokitesvara (a-VAH-loh-keets-VAHR-a) is also known as the goddess
of mercy, and Maitreya waits in the Tushita heaven to be reborn as a
messiah.  Along with the arhant and pr
atyeka, it is the third of the traditional ways of achieving enlightenment.
  FTP, identify this term, which is used to describe anyone who could
enter nirvana, but who stays behind to help others achieve perfection, such as
Gautama Buddha.

Answer: bodhisattva

3.  It records the journey of the author and his cousin, Quincy Adams
Shaw, from April to September of 1846.  They hear of a war between the Sioux,
led by =D2The Whirlwind,=D3 and the Snakes, but are disappointed when it is
called off, and the author abandons
 Shaw to join an Oglala hunting trip.  FTP, identify this historical
narrative, written by Francis Parkman and taking its name from the path he took
from St. Louis to Fort Laramie.

Answer: The Oregon Trail

4.  It first appeared in 1849, following the signature on the Girlhood of
Mary Virgin.  Although their Academy exhibition was a great success, the
group broke up soon after, as Collison, Woolner, and Hunt moved away.  FTP,
identify this school of British=20
painting, which thought that the Italian painter whose name they used was
overrated, and which included John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel
Rossetti.

Answer: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

5.  He invented a new gunpowder and was credited with the development of
mezzotint.  Taken prisoner at Lemgo during the Thirty Years War, he was
imprisoned at Linz before returning to England in 1642.  FTP, name this son of
Frederick V, the =D2mad cavalier=D3
 who was dismissed after Bristol, ending his three year run as commander
of the horse during which he fought at Newbury, Naseby, and Marston Moor.

Answer: Prince Rupert

6.  Because his father, Cronus, wanted to hide his affair with the nymph
Philyra from Rhea, he slept with her in the form which gave rise to this
creature's shape.  The husband of Chariclo and father of Endeis, he was
poisoned with the blood of the Hydra,
 and gave his immortality to Prometheus to escape the pain.  FTP, identify
this archer, healer, and teacher of Asclepius, Achilles, and Jason, the
best known of the centaurs.

Answer: Chiron

8.  He was reporting on the war for the San Francisco Chronicle when he
was captured by the Boers and deported.  Returning to America, he began
working for The Wave, a magazine which published his The Joyous Miracle, A
Man=D5s Woman, The Third Circle, and M
oran of the Lady Letty.  FTP, identify this American novelist, who died in
1902 after a failed appendix operation, best known for The Pit, The
Octopus, and McTeague.

Answer: Frank Norris

9.  He changed his name to Frank Cujo in 1983, but changed it again after
the release of Stephen King's novel.  A middleweight champion in the
Professional European Karate Association, he was sued in 1989 for gouging the eye
of an extra during a sword fig
ht for the film Cyborg.  FTP, identify this actor, best known for
Bloodsport, Kickboxer, and this year's Maximum Risk, nicknamed "The Muscles from
Brussels."

Answer: Jean-Claude Van Damme

10.  In humans, they characterize body temperature, urine formation,
oxygen consumption, cell division, endocrine secretions, and the sleep cycle. 
They are built in to the central nervous system, but are influenced by
=D2zeitgebers=D3 such as the Earth=D5s mag
netic field and the rising and setting of the sun.  When disturbed, they
enter =D2free-running=D3 periods ranging from 21 to 27 hours apiece, but in
general operate on a daily cycle.  FTP, what are these rhythms, whose name
comes from the Latin for =D2approxima
tely a day=D3?

Answer: circadian rhythms

11.  On March 10, 1952, he overthrew president Prio Socarras, assuming the
titles of premier and chief of state, while leaving the presidency vacant.
 On the eve of elections in 1954, his only opponent, Ramon Grau San
Martin, withdrew, and he was declared
 president.  FTP, identify this general, who had served as elected
president from 1940 to 1944, and who fled after the capture of Santa Clara on
January 1, 1959, leaving Fidel Castro in control of Cuba.

Answer: Fulgencio Batista

12.  It was written after Francis Grose asked the poet to write an
account, in return for permission to use an engraving of Alloway Kirk in a book. 
The title character starts out in a tavern with Souter Johnnie, but passes
a witches=D5 sabbath on his way h
ome, and is pursued across the bridge of the Doon by Auld Nick himself. 
FTP, identify this narrative poem of 1791, written by Robert Burns.

Answer: Tam O=D5Shanter


13.  The problem of how domestication arose was addressed in the 1930's by
archaeologist Gordon Childe.  He suggested that climatic changes after the
Ice Age resulted in a drying=20
of the climate, forcing people, plants, and animals into ever smaller
regions; this resulted in closer contact between them and to the exploitation
of the others by man.  FTP, name=20
this early theory, now generally rejected, variously named after either
the small regions, the climate change, or the close contact.

Answer: Oasis theory or Propinquity theory or Desiccation theory

14.  He was made a brigadier general at the beginning of the War of 1812,
and died when a powder magazine exploded during the assault on York. 
Arrested by the Spanish in Santa Fe, he returned east in 1810, publishing An
Account of Expeditions to the Sour
ces of the Mississippi.  FTP, identify this explorer, commissioned by
James Wilkinson to explore the upper Mississippi, whose second expedition to
Colorado and New Mexico led to his sighting of the mountain that now bears
his name.

Answer: Zebulon Pike

15.  He never married, possibly because he worked with such odiferous
compounds, and did research at Heidelberg until his death.  His first work, on
the cacodyl group of compounds, proved the compound radical theory of
organic molecules; however, his work
 with the toxic chemicals cost him an eye and almost led to his death from
arsenic poisoning.  FTP, name this German chemist, who invented a
zinc-carbon primary cell and the filter pump, discovered cesium and rubidium with
Kirchhoff, and who is best known
 for the gas burner named for him.

Answer: Robert Bunsen

16.  This mostly mountainous nation is bordered on the south by the Gulf
of Chiriqui.  One of its larger cities is Santiago near the Arzuero
Peninsula=2E  Darien National Park lies along its entire eastern border.  FTP, name
this country most important for=20
its narrowness, and thus for the canal running through it.

Answer: Panama

17.  While her first short stories, collected in Face to Face and The Soft
Voice of the Serpent, were quite successful, she struggled with her early
novels, such as The Lying Days and A World of Strangers.  Following the
tight structure of The Late Bourge
ois World, she moved into her mature period, characterized by A Guest of
Honor and The Conservationist.  FTP, identify this author of Burger's
Daughter and July's People, a Nobel Prize winner from South Africa.

Answer: Nadine Gordimer

18.  On April 10, five Englishmen had been killed and a woman beaten in
riots against the Rowlatt Acts.  Three days later, General Reginald Dyer
ordered his Gurkhas to fire on an unarmed gathering until they ran out of
ammunition, killing 379 and wounding
 over 1200.  FTP, identify this 1919 event, which led Gandhi to call a
halt to his civil disobedience campaign.

Answer: the Amritsar massacre


19.  He worked as a London clerk before an inheritance allowed him to
study medicine at St. Mary=D5s.  After serving in the Army Medical Corps in
World War I, he began to investigate the possibilities of lysozyme as an
antibacterial agent.  FTP, name this b
acteriologist, who in 1928 left a dish of staphylococci uncovered, leading
to the discovery of penicillin.

Answer: Alexander Fleming

20.  He committed suicide after escaping to the island of Calauria, in the
wake of the Athenian concession to Antipater's demand to hand over leading
patriots.  His political reputation was sullied by the probably false
accusation that he accepted a bribe
 from Harpalus, treasurer to Alexander the Great.  FTP, name this man, who
in 346 was part of the Athenian delegation negotiating peace with the
Macedonians, an orator best known for the Olynthiacs, the Philippics, and for
his solution of speaking with pe
bbles in his mouth to remedy his speech problems.

Answer: Demosthenes





Boni:

1.  Identify the following plays by Henrik Ibsen, for the stated number of
points.=20
1.  5 points:  The main character of this play is Solness, an architect
afraid of being outdone by the younger generation.
Answer: The Master Builder
2.  10 points:  The title character of this 1882 work, Dr. Stockman, is
persecuted by his fellow townspeople because he wants to shut down the baths.
Answer: An Enemy of the People
2.  15 points:  This 1873 historical play is based on the life of Julian
the Apostate.
Answer: Emperor and Galilean

2.  Name the architects FTP each.
1.  This architect designed the Villa Rotuna, begun around 1567.
Answer: Andrea Palladio
2.  This Federal style architect designed the state houses of Maine and
Massachusetts.
Answer: Charles Bulfinch
3.  He designed the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851.
Answer: Joseph Paxton

3.  Identify the following uprisings from world history, for the stated
number of points.
1.  5 points:  More than 20 million people died between 1850 and 1864 in
this Christian rebellion against the Manchu dynasty.
Answer: Taiping rebellion
2.  10 points:  This revolt of the French nobility and parliament against
Mazarin lasted from about 1649 to 1653, but failed as the crown bought off
most of the nobles.
Answer: the Fronde
3.  15 points:  This revolt against British taxation in the Carolinas was
led by the man it is named after.  The rebels held power for two years, but
were defeated in 1679.
Answer: Culpeper's rebellion

4.  FTP each, answer these questions about the analysis of electric
circuits.
1.  A kind of generalized resistance, it is called reactance in capacitors
and inductors.  At junctions between transmission lines, this quantity
must be matched, but when connecting load elements in series, it should be low
at an output and high at an in
put.
Answer: impedance
2.  This theorem states any two terminal network of resistors, capacitors,
inductors, and signal sources is equivalent to a single complex impedance
in series with a single signal source.
Answer: Thevenin=D5s theorem
3.  These circuit elements can be mathematically described using the
h-parameter model, but it is simpler to combine the Ebers-Moll equation with
qualitative considerations.
Answer: transistors

5.  Identify the twentieth century American poets from works on a 10-5
basis.
1.  10 points:  "The Ivy Crown" and Asphodel, That Greeny Flower
5 points:  Paterson
Answer: William Carlos Williams
2.  10 points:  The Man With the Blue Guitar and "The Idea of Order at Key
West"
5 points:  "The Emperor of Ice Cream"
Answer: Wallace Stevens
3.  10 points:  "Luke Havergal" and The Man Who Died Twice
5 points:  "Richard Cory"
Answer: Edwin Arlington Robinson

6.  Given the election and the candidate, identify the party which that
candidate ran under, FTP each.
1.  William Henry Harrison in 1836
Answer: Anti-Masonic
2.  John Bell in 1860
Answer: Constitutional Union
3.  Horatio Seymour in 1868
Answer: Democratic

7.  Identify the following S-initialed economists FTP each.
1.  This MIT professor won the Nobel Prize in 1970, and helped to make
economics a rigorous mathematical discipline in works like Foundations of
Economic Analysis.
Answer: Paul Samuelson
2.  This Austrian came to America in 1932 and is best known for The Theory
of Economic Development, Business Cycles, and Capitalism, Socialism and
Democracy.
Answer: Joseph Schumpeter
3.  The author of Models of Man and The Shape of Automation, he won the
Nobel Prize in 1978 and is best known for his work on administrative science
and large-scale information processing.
Answer: Herbert Simon

9.  Identify the following treaties of the nineteenth century, for the
stated number of points.
1.  5 points:  This 1848 treaty settled the Mexican-American War by
providing for the sale of most of the west.
Answer: Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo
2.  10 points:  This 1878 treaty, which superseded the treaty of San
Stefano, ended the Russo-Turkish War, creating an independent Bulgaria and
recognizing the independence of Rumania and Serbia.
Answer: Treaty of Berlin
3.  15 points:  This 1895 treaty ended the first Sino-Japanese War and
forced China to recognize Korean independence.
Answer: Treaty of Shimonoseki

10.  Given some members of a famous football defensive unit, supply the
nickname given to the group FTP each.
1.  Mark Gastineau, Joe Klecko, Lance Mehl=09=09=09
Answer: The New York Sack Exchange
2.  Alan Page, Jim Marshall=09=09=09=09
Answer: The Purple People Eaters
3.  L.C. Greenwood, Joe Greene, Jack Ham=09=09=09
Answer: The Steel Curtain

11.  Pencil and paper ready.  Consider the two-by-two matrix whose first
row has entries 5, 2 and whose second row is 2, 5.  FTP each, identify the
following concerning the matrix.
1.  What is its determinant?
Answer: 21
2.  What is its trace, or spur?
Answer: 10
3.  Give either of its eigenvalues.
Answer: 3 or 7

13.  Identify the following concerning a Charles Dickens novel FTP each.
1.  Serialized in All the Year Round during 1861, the main character and
Estella stayed apart in the original version of the story, but Bulwer-Lytton
convinced Dickens to bring them together for a happier ending.
Answer: Great Expectations
2.  Name the main character of Great Expectations, an orphan who narrates
the novel.
Answer: Philip Pirrip or Pip
3.  Pip helps this convict, who is recaptured and taken back to The Hulks.
 Later, he is revealed to be both Pip's mysterious benefactor and
Estella's father.
Answer: Abel Magwitch

14.  Identify the following from the history of civil rights in America,
FTP each.
1.  It was formed during a sit-in at a lunch counter in Greensboro in
1960.  Ironically, it advocated direct militance, not nonviolence.
Answer: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee or SNCC
2.  In 1966, he became the leader of SNCC, and used his position to
promote the Black Power movement.
Answer: Stokely Carmichael
3.  Organized Black Power ended in 1968, when a coalition of the Black
Panthers, SNCC, and this group, abbreviated SOBU, disbanded.
Answer: Student Organization for Black Unity

16.  FTP each, identify these phyla.
1.  Including hydras, jellyfish, sea anemones, and coral animals, their
tentacles are armed with batteries of cells containing stinging capsules
called nematocysts.
Answer: Cnidaria or Coelenterata
2.  Members of this phylum are called ribbon worms, and are similar to
flatworms except for a small hydraulic proboscis used in the capturing of
prey.
Answer: Nemertea
3.  Smaller than many protozoa, members of this phylum are nonetheless
truly multicellular, with a digestive tract and other internal organs.  Their
name derives from the crown of cilia which draws a swirling vortex of water
into their mouths.
Answer: Rotifera

17.  Identify the musical work, 30-20-10.
1.  The text was adapted by the composer's friend Charles Jennens. 
Although it is two and a half hours long, it took the composer only 24 days to
write.
2.  The world premiere took place in Dublin on April 13, 1742.  When King
George II heard it a year later, he gave it a famous standing ovation.
3.  This Handel oratorio is divided into 3 parts: the coming, suffering
and death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Answer: The Messiah=20

18.  Identify the following concerning a contemporary playwright for the
stated number of points.
1.  10 points:  After her death from cancer at the age of 34, her husband,
Robert Nemiroff, completed her two last plays.
Answer: Lorraine Hansberry
2.  5 points:  Lorraine Hansberry's first play was this 1959 work, dealing
with a black family trying to escape the Chicago ghetto.
Answer: A Raisin in the Sun
3.  15 points:  The main character of this 1964 Hansberry play is a Jew
who rediscovers his belief in social justice after becoming disillusioned.
Answer: The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window

19.  Answer the following questions about Reconstruction FTP each
1.  In August 1866, President Johnson organized this political party in an
effort to offset the power of Congress's Radical Republicans.
Answer: National Union party
2.  It was established on March 3, 1865 to help former slaves make the
transition to their new lives.
Answer: Freedmen's Bureau
3.  After Grant refused, Johnson named, in violation of the Tenure of
Office Act, this man to succeed Edwin Stanton as Secretary of War.
Answer: Lorenzo Thomas

20.  Answer the following questions about Japan FTP each.
1.  It is Japan's largest island.
Answer: Honshu
2.  It is the smallest of Japan's four main islands.
Answer: Shikoku
3.  It is the largest city on Hokkaido.
Answer: Sapporo