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1998 Western Invitational Tournament VI - The Buzz-erkeley Bowl
Tossups by Berkeley Z and Georgia Tech (Jason Hong and Jim Dendy) 


1. It was established on the site of 1902 gold strike and was named after 
Theodore Roosevelt's vice-president. The construction of the Alaska Railroad, 
major highways, and the northernmost airport in North America helped make it the 
transportation center of the Alaskan interior. For 10 points, identify this city 
located at the intersection of the Tanana and Chena rivers in central Alaska. 
Answer: Fairbanks 


2. He is known for his comprehensive economic and sociological analyses of a 
variety of issues, including population control in Nation and family; developing 
nations in Rich Lands and Poor; and political and economic problems in southern 
Asia in Asian Drama. An astute observer of the United States, he conducted a 
monumental study of America’s racial problems in his best-known work An American 
Dilemma. For 10 points, who is this Swedish economist and winner of the 1974 
Nobel Prize in Economics?
Answer: Gunnar Myrdal 


3. In 1876, every Prussian bishop was in prison or exile, and about one third of 
the parishes had no priest. Pope Pius IX condemned this assault on the Church, 
and the struggle actually unified and strengthened the church. For 10 points, 
what was this attack by Bismarck in the late 19th century on the Catholic Church 
in Germany?
Answer: Kulturkampf 


4. He lived the classic bohemian life: on the edge of starvation, pursuing their 
various arts, looking for an audience, haunting the cafes and beer gardens of 
Vienna. He was supported mainly by his friends, including Johann Vogl, who 
became the first lieder specialist singing this composer’s “Der Erlkonig”, or 
“The Erl King”. For 10 points, who is this composer of incidental music to 
Rosamunde, Death and the Maiden, as well as the Unfinished symphony?
Answer: Franz Schubert  


5. Its probable author was Turoldus, whose name is introduced toward the end of 
the poem. Its opening is set during the conquest of Spain at which time all but 
Saragossa has been conquered and ends with the execution of the traitorous 
Ganelon. For 10 points, what is this masterpiece of the chanson de geste which 
transforms the historical skirmish at Roncevalles into a heroic battle against 
the Saracens. 
Answer: Chanson de Roland or The Song of Roland 


6. Their name was suggested in 1891 by Irish physicist George Johnstone Stoney. 
They were shown by Jean Baptiste Perrin to be charged particles in 1896 and in 
1897 were shown to be deflected by electic and magnetic fields by a British 
physicist who adopted Stoney's name. For 10 points, identify these first 
subatomic particles to be discovered. 
Answer: electrons 


7. Born Sean Aloysius O’Feeney, he received the Presidential medal of Freedom 
shortly before his 1973 death. For 10 points, name this first person to be given 
the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the winner of four 
Academy Awards for directing such films as The Quiet Man and The Grapes of 
Wrath.
Answer: John Ford 


8. Between 1865 and 1869, it issued millions of food rations to both blacks and 
whites, treated 450,000 people in its hospitals, and helped establish the first 
free black schools. Created in 1865 under the War Department, what for 10 
points, was this feederal agency established to aid former slaves and destitute 
whites after the Civil War. 
Answer: Freedman's Bureau 


9. He is named at the beginning of literary and sacred writings to ensure that 
the writer will encounter no obstacles. In some versions of the myth, he is the 
scribe of the Hindu epic the Mahabarata, which was dictated to him by the sage 
Vyasa. For 10 points, name this son of Shiva and Parvati whom you can often see 
in the Simpsons in Apu’s shop.
Answer: Ganesa (or Ganesh or Ganapati) 


10. Suffering from an eye condition that causes him to be almost blind in bright 
light, he can only write during certain times each day. A civil servant in the 
Ministry of Culture, he first got literary attention for his three-part novel 
The Trilogy. During the 1970s, he a, and Bolivia. 
Answer: Paraguay 


14. It was believed by its creator to be an injunction to be obeyed as a moral 
duty and he wrote "so act, that the moral of they doing shall, at thy will, 
become universal law". For 10 points, identify this necessary and absolute moral 
law which was believed to be the rational foundation for moral conduct by the 
German philosopher Immanual Kant. 
Answer: categorical imperative 


15. Ceyx, the king of Trachis, disregarded the entreaties of his wife, a 
daughter of Aeolus. He sailed to Ionia to consult the oracle, but was 
shipwrecked and died. His wife saw him in a dream, and leaped into the sea to 
kill herself, but the gods, taking pity, changed her and her husband into 
kingfishers. For 10 points, who is this person whose name represents days of 
happiness and prosperity?
Answer: Halcyone 


16. It was built by Giovannino de’Dolci between 1471 and 1484 for Sixtus IV. A 
rectangular brick structure, artists such as Ghirlandio and Botticelli have 
painted frescoes for it. Its most famous frescoes, commissioned by Julius II, 
have twelve larger than life size prophets and sibyls surrounding them. For 10 
points, what was this papal chapel in the Vatican best known for its scenes from 
the Old Testament painted by Michaelangelo?
Answer: Sistine Chapel 


17. It has four strings tuned to notes ranging from two C's below middle C to 
the a below middle C and its range extends over more than four octaves. The 
earliest surviving ones were made by the violinmaker Adnrewa Amati and until the 
18th century it was considered a supporting rather than a solo instrument. For 
10 points, identify this stringed instrument whose virtuosos have included 
Gregor Piatigorsky, Msitslov Rostropovich and Pablo Cassals. 
Answer: cello 


18. In 1948, he published a long novel, Remembrance Rock, that recapitulates the 
American experience from Plymouth Rock to World War II. HE wrote four books for 
children, Potato Face, and three other books with Rootabaga in the title. For 10 
points identify this American poet and author of Smoke and Steel and The People, 
Yes. 
Answer: Carl Sandburg 


19. In a poll of congressmen conducted by a leading national newsmagazine in 
1948, this Senator from Ohio was named “the best possible choice” for the 
Presidency. He stood at the forefront of opposition to the New Deal and the Fair 
Deal policies, but lost the Republican nominations in 1940, 1944, and 1948. For 
10 points, identify this conservative known as “Mr. Republican”.
Answer: Robert Taft 


20. It maintained that what really mattered in history was not the coming to be 
or passing away of cities and empires, but the individual’s entrance into heaven 
or hell. The world should never be the central concern of Christians, for the 
true Christian was a citizen of a heavenly city that could not be pillaged by 
barbarians. For 10 points, what is this defense of Christianity in the wake of 
the sack of Rome, written by St. Augustine?
Answer: City of God 


21. The first national one met during the Peninsular War against Napoleonic 
rule, and from the 12th to 19th centuries each region of Spain had these 
representative assemblies. These assemblies share their name with a Spanish 
Conquistador who founded the city of Vera Cruz and, with the help of the 
Tlaxcalans, defeated the Aztecs. FTP, what is this common name?
Answer: Cortes 


 

1998 Western Invitational Tournament VI - The Buzz-erkeley Bowl
Bonuses by Berkeley A and Georgia Tech (Jason Hong and Jim Dendy) 


1. In this tournament, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
1. A modern version of this concept states that the contribution to the entropy 
of a system by each aspect that is in internal thermodynamic equilibrium tends 
to zero once this state has been achieved.
Answer: Absolute zero
2. This law states that the state of an otherwise isolated closed system is 
chaned by the performance of work, and that the amount of work needed depends 
only on the change effected and not on the means by which the work is done.
Answer: First Law of Thermodynamics
3. This law states that two closed systems in thermal equilibrium with a third 
one are in thermal equilibrium with each other.
Answer: Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics 


2. Name the following characters from the Iliad for ten points each:
1. Calchas declared that he would have to return Chryseis in order to end the 
pestilence that plagued the Greeks
Answer: Agamemnon
2. Agamemnon took this female from Achilles in order to replace Chryseis, which 
led Achilles to sit out the war for a time
Answer: Briseis
3. While Achilles sat out the war, this "dear friend" took his place in battle 
by wearing his armor, but was eventually killed by Hector
Answer: Patroclus 


3. Answer the following about events in Native American history.
1. Published in 1881, this 457-page work carefully documented disclosure of the 
Government’s misconduct of Indian affairs. For five points, name this work by 
Helen Hunt Jackson
Answer: A Century of Dishonor
2. Chief Big Foot and his ragged, hungry band stopped near Pine Ridge and were 
ordered to halt by the US 7th Cavalry. The next morning, more than 200 men, 
women, and children were killed in this last incident of Indian Wars. For ten, 
name it.
Answer: Wounded Knee
3. After Jackson’s book A Century of Dishonor was published, a campaign for a 
reversal of Government policy began. In 1887, Congress passed this act awarding 
citizenship to Indians who renounced tribal allegiance, as well as homestead 
rights to reservation lands. For fifteen, name it.
Answer: Dawes Severalty Act 


4. Identify the following about modeling and solving complex systems.
    1. In a stochastic environment, a transition model is said to have this 
    property if the transition probabilities from any given state depend only on 
    the state and not on any previous history.
    Answer: Markov Property (first-order Markov Property)
    2. Two common ways of solving these types of problems are the simplex 
    algorithm and Karmarkar’s algorithm. Usually, they consist of maximizing 
    some function given multiple constraints.
    Answer: Linear Programming
    3. There is an entire class of algorithms for which it is currently unclear 
    if they can be solved in a practical amount of time. These include knapsack 
    and the travelling salesman problems.
    Answer: NP-Complete (or non polynomial complete) 


    5. 30-20-10 Identify this figure from film. 
    1. His first film was The Man From Hell's River and throughout the 1920's he 
    was Warner Brother's biggest star until his death in 1932. 
    2. He was rescued from a World War I trench by Captain Lee Duncan. Other 
    films include Clash of the Wolves, Frozen River, and Jaws of Steel. 
    3. This male German shepherd was the preeminent animal star of the silent 
    movie period. 
    Answer: Rin-Tin-Tin 


    6. Answer the following questions about Vasily Kandinsky on a 5-10-15 basis
    1. For 5 pts, this Russian painter cofounded what association of artists in 
    Munich whose aim was demonstrating how the "inner desire of the artist 
    expresses itself in different ways"
    Answer: Blaue Reiters
    2. For ten points, name his friend and cofounder of the Blaue Reiters
    Answer: Franz Marc
    3. And for fifteen points, name his basic course on the theory of form that 
    was published while he taught at Bauhas
    Answer: Point and Line to Plane 


    7. Identify the authors from works, 15-10-5
    1st 15 pts: Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell
    1st 10 pts: The History of Peter the Great and Tour through the Whole Island 
    of Great Britain.
    1st 5 pts: Moll Flanders, Robinson Crusoe
    Answer: Daniel Defoe
    2nd 15 pts: King of Alaska and One for the Road
    2nd 10 pts: The Birthday Party and The Room
    2nd 5 pts: The Caretaker and The Homecoming
    Answer: Harold Pinter 


    8. 30-20-10 Identify the following European author. 
    1. In The Beloved Returns, he takes up the story of the heroine of Goethe's 
    Sorrows of Young Werther. 
    2. His shorter works inlcude Early Sorrow, Tonio Kroger, and Mario and the 
    Magician. 
    3. He is best known for his long novels including Buddenbrooks and Doctor 
    Faustus. 
    Answer: Thomas Mann 


    9. Answer the following physics questions for 15 points each. 
    1. What SI unit is measured as Joules per coulomb? 
    Answer: volt
    2. How much work is done in moving a charge of 5 coulombs through a 2 
    centimeter gap with a potential difference between the two sides of 5 volts? 

    Answer: 25 joules 


    10. Identify the following about the Ems Dispatch
    1. For five points, and within 2 years, what year was the Ems dispatch sent?
    Answer: 1870
    2. For another five points, the Ems dispatch precipitated what war?
    Answer: Franco-Prussian War
    3. For ten points, what king sent the dispatch in 1870?
    Answer: King William I of Prussia
    4. For five points, who was the receiver of the Ems dispatch that King 
    William I sent?
    Answer: Otto von Bismarck
    5. For a final five points, King William I ordered a relative to withdraw as 
    a candidate for what nation's throne?
    Answer: Spain 


    11. Answer the following questions about the atonal music for the stated 
    number of points. 
    1. What Austrian American composer created the setting of macabre stories he 
    called Pierot Lunaire? 
    Answer: Arnold Schonberg
    2. In Pierot Lunaire, the vocalists use what Schonberg called speech voice 
    or speech song in German. For 10 points, name either of these terms. 
    Answer: Sperchstimme or Sprechgesang
    3. For a final 10 points, what two Old Testament brothers appear in the tile 
    of his most massive work, which draws upon all his musical styles. 
    Answer: Moses and Aaron 


    12. Identify the following about Buddhism:
1. For 5 pts, what state of supreme bliss is achieved by following the 8 fold 
path?
Answer: Nirvana
2. For 10 pts, what India ruler compiled the Tripitaka that now serves as the 
scripture of Buddhism?
Answer: Asoka
    2. Besides the eight-fold path, Buddhism also has the Three Treasures, or 
    the tritatna. For five points each, name each of the them.
Answer: Buddha (himself), the law (or dharma), and the order of monks (sangha) 


13. Answer the following about things that really don’t have much to do with one 
another, ten points each.
1. During wartime research on the atomic bomb, American physicists who were 
bouncing neutrons off uranium nuclei described the uranium nucleus as "big as a 
[blank]." Physicists working on the Manhattan project adopted this name for a 
unit equal to 1024 square centimeters, and it eventually became a standard unit 
in particle physics.
Answer: Barn
2. Opposed to the classical teachings of the Academy, this group of French 
landscape painters made their center at this location, in the forest of 
Fontainebleau. Their members include Corot and Millet, as well as Theodore 
Rousseau and Charles Daubigny.
Answer: Barbizon
3. In one episode of South Park, this police officer resigned because he 
couldn’t read the clues the chicken violator was leaving for him.
Answer: Barbrady 


14. We now move from South Park to poetry. Answer the following about this 
quote: “Had we but World Enough and Time / This coyness, lady, were no crime”.
1. First, what poem is this quote from?
Answer: To His Coy Mistress
2. Second, for ten, who wrote “To His Coy Mistress”?
Answer: Andrew Marvell
3. Lastly, for fifteen, what Southern Poet wrote “World Enough and Time”?
Answer: Robert Penn Warren 


15. For 10 points each, identify the gland that produces the following hormones. 

1. calcitonin    Answer: thyroid 
2. oxytocin    Answer: pituitary 
3. glucagon    Answer: pancreas  


16. Identify the following national capitals given one clue for 10 points, for 5 
points given the nation. 
1st 10 pts: In 1434, it replaced Angkor Thom as capital of the civilization of 
that region. 
1st 5 pts: Cambodia 
Answer: Phnomh Penh
2nd 10 pts: It is located about 8 miles west of Callao, its nation's chief port 
and during the War of the Pacific, it was looted and occupied from 1881 to 1883. 

2nd 5 pts: Peru 
Answer: Lima
3rd 10 pts: It was formerly known as Lourenco Marques and is located on Delagoa 
Bay. 
3rd 5 pts: Mozambique 
Answer: Maputo 


17. Identify the graphic novels for ten points each.
1. Published in two parts, My Father Bleeds History and And Here My Troubles 
Began, it tells of Art Spiegelman's relationship with his father and of his 
father's experiences during the Holocaust.
Answer: Maus: A Survivor's Tale
2. Along with Maus and Watchmen, this is considered one of the three finest 
graphic novels. Written and penciled by Frank Miller in 1986, it tells of a 
retired Bruce Wayne who comes back from ten years of retirement to save Gotham 
City from the Mutants and others, eventually even fighting Superman.
Answer: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
3. Panned by critics as an "overrated and pretentious revenge fantasy," this 
1993 work by James O'Barr tells of Eric and Shelley, fiancées who are murdered 
by thieves on Devil's Night. Eric comes back from the dead as the title 
character and goes on his own killing spree.
Answer: The Crow 


18. Identify these terms from the field of artificial intelligence.
1. Hopfield, Boltzmann, and multilayer feed-forward perceptrons describe these 
kind of networked structures that try to mimic the brain. For five points, name 
them.
Answer: Neural Networks
2. For ten, this is a knowledge representation form that involves objects, 
relations on those objects (such as brother of or bigger than), and properties 
on those objects (such as red or round).
    Answer: First Order Predicate Logic
3. When searching game trees, this method maintains values for the best and 
worst paths, eliminating those that you or your opponent would never take. This 
algorithm effectively doubles the depth a computer can search in the same amount 
of time.
Answer: Alpha-Beta Pruning 


19. Identify these people in twentieth century Chinese history
1. A member of the Gang of Four arrested for planning a coup, she was the widow 
of Mao Tse-Tung
Answer: Jiang Qing
2. A founder of the Chinese Communist Party, he participated in the creation of 
the People’s Republic of China, acting as foreign minister and later premier
Answer: Chou En-Lai
3. Twice purged from power and twice rehabilitated, he was deputy premiere under 
Hua Guofeng. He later served as Communist party deputy chairman, and in 1982 was 
named to lead the newly created Central Advisory Committee
Answer: Deng Xiaoping 


20. Identify the following female Shakespearen characters:
1. The daughter of the deposed duke, she falls in love with Orlando in As You 
Like It
Answer: Rosalind
2. She is the lover of Duke Orsino of Illyria and twin sister of Sebastian in 
Twelfth Night
Answer: Viola
3. She is the ill-tempered young women courted, married, and “tamed” by 
Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew
Answer: Katherina
4. Disguised as a lawyer, this lover of Bassanio saves Antonio from Shylock in 
The Merchant of Venice
Answer: Portia
5. She is the wife of Oberon and the magically charmed lover of Bottom in A 
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Answer: Titania
6. The King of France marries her even though her father, King Lear, rejects her
Answer: Cordelia 


21. Identify the presidents who had the following cabinet members on a 10-5 
basis. 
1st 10 pts - Sec of War John C. Calhoun 
1st 5 pts - Sec of State: J.Q. Adams 
Answer: James Monroe
2nd 10 pts - Sec of Navy George Bancroft
2nd 5 pts - Sec of State James Buchanan 
Answer: James K. Polk
3rd 10 pts - Sec of War Henry Stimson
3rd 5 pts - Sec of State Philander Knox 
Answer: William Howard Taft
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