BYU's Fun Themed Tossups. Guess the theme and win a prize. 1. Gibreel Farishta protrayed this character in films six times in The Satanic Verses, and Gibreel was such a hit that female fans asked him to keep the mask on while having sex. Shortly after the character Gibreel portrayed was born, he was visited by Shani and decapitated just as Shani had feared. Vishnu advised Shani to replace his head with the head of the first living creature Shani came across in order to save his life. FTP, name this Hindu god, whose head was replaced with the head of Oirabath, the king of the gods and Indra's elephant. ANSWER: Ganesh 2. The United States has 110, while Canada has 22. When one in Colorado had an employees restroom with a pipe leak, all nearby neighborhoods were evacuated and pandemonium ensued. But don't worry: by 2050, at current consumption rates, their fuel supply will have become too scarce to be worth mining. FTP, "share noble" knowledge with us by naming this device, one of which is the most famous inhabitant of Three Mile Island. ANSWER: nuclear power plant (accept equivalents) 3. In the last chapter, he is revealed to be the son of Mr. Summer, a visiting cleric, and the spinster Bridget Bilfil, even though his whole life he has believed himself to be the son of Mrs. Jenny Waters, with whom he has a brief love affair. His true love, Sophia Western, is based on the author's wife, while his foster father, Squire Alsowrthy, is named after the Eton schoolmate to whom the book is dedicated. FTP name the hero of the 1794 novel subtitled "A Foundling," by Henry Fielding. ANSWER: Tom Jones 4. One planned in Nevada will contain a 5.2-mile stretch that will cost $380 million dollars to build. The one in Sydney's Darling Harbor is award-winning, has three stations in the city, four in the harbor and has a service every four minutes. The extension proposed in Seattle would have 40 miles of track and 22 stations. FTP, name this type of mass transit, which in Disneyland replaced the Viewliner, opening in June 1959 and connecting Disneyland Hotel with Tomorrowland. ANSWER: monorail 5. A first incident started when Amelia Boynton was thrown in jail here for trying to urge local African-Americans to register to vote. Later things turned ugly as the local sheriff punched a civil rights protester in the face on national TV and 770 were arrested in an illegal march. On Sunday a group of 500 peaceful marchers were attacked and scattered by an armed posse while attempting to leave town. FTP, name this port on the Alabama River named for a heroine of Gaelic ballads, a focal point of the civil rights movement in 1965 and the eventual jumping off point for Martin Luther King Jr's, march on Montgomery. ANSWER: Selma 6. Sir Joseph Porter is expected shortly and the sailors are busily scrubbing the floor awaiting his arrival when the work starts. It turns out that one of the sailors, Ralph, is in love with the captain's daughter Josephine. With help from Deadeye Dick, the lover's plans to elope are stopped, and after a strange course of events Ralph becomes a captain in place of Corcoran who said the "damn" word and marries Josephine anyway. FTP, name the opera being described, which opened May 28, 1878, also known as "The Lass that Loved a Sailor," written by Gilbert and Sullivan. ANSWER: HMS Pinafore 7. It started simply, with a glass window in front, a heater and a thermostat. Its inventor later added walls of celotex and a tunnel at the end of a flight of stairs. At various times it included a telegraph receiver key, and a ten foot strip of light spruce on tightly stretched wires. Eventually it assumed a more familiar two-foot wide form with a lever that dispensed food pellets. FTP, name this invention which allowed far more precise study of rats than a maze and which bears the name of its inventor, a paragon of behavioral psychology. ANSWER: Skinner Box (prompt on B. F. Skinner) 8. He said, "I'm just realizing something. A lot of people work overtime to buy another pair of pants when they already have four. Why do they need another pair? Pride. When I wanted something, I went after it and got it." The last thing that he went out and got was suggested to him by Wayne Gretzky, who was familiar with the career of Minnie Minoso. FTP, give the name of this 801-goal scorer, six time Hart trophy winner, 21-time all-star, and four-time Stanley Cup winner with Detroit, who quite recently became the only hockey pro to skate in six decades. ANSWER: Gordie Howe 9. It was discovered in 2 pieces by a Greek peasant and shipped to the Louvre in 1821, where it was badly received by many: Renoir called it "the big gendarme." It is named for the Aegean island where it was found, and scholars speculate that the missing portions include a depiction of the golden apple given her by Paris. FTP name the marble statue sculpted in ancient Antioch, the world's best-known armless statue. ANSWER: Venus de Milo (or Venus of Meles) 10. In his later days he was described by a co-worker as, "withdrawn, bitter and angry," and he refused many publicity opportunities and jobs offered to him. He began his career as a test pilot, later made a five-hour space walk as pilot of Gemini 12, and even walked on the moon. This was not enough for him, as he left NASA to rejoin the Air Force in 1971 because of what he called their "sad mistake." FTP, name this astronaut, who is eclipsed in fame by his Apollo 11 companion, the only one to precede him on the moon. ANSWER: Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin 11. This film won the Saturn Award for 1981's best horror film. One of its most famous lines is translated as "Although one will rise early, it won't dawn sooner," in the Spanish version, "Don't postpone something that can be done today," in the German, "He who wakes up early meets a golden day," in the Italian, and "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" in the English. FTP, name the Kubrick film that tells the story of Jack, Danny, and Wendy Torrence, and their stay at the Overlook Hotel, based on a novel by Stephen King. ANSWER: The Shining 12. When he rose to the throne in 936 upon the death of his father he faced war on three fronts and numerous ducal rebellions. With the help of his brother, Bruno the Archbishop of Cologne he forged an alliance with the church that allowed him to create a unified German state and replace the hereditary dukes of Swabia, Franconia and Bavaria with friends or family members. He was equally successful in foreign policy defeating the Franks, Magyars, and Poles, with his greatest military victory coming at Lechfield in 955, and in 962 he was crowned Emperor by the Pope. FTP, name this uniter of Germany, the only medieval German king to be styled "The Great." ANSWER: Otto I (Prompt for a number on Otto the Great). 13. Your fingernail is a 2, and so is your toenail. Though it was originally a German invention, a U.S. pre-1981 penny rates a 3. Your window glass, regardless of nationality would score somewhere around 5 and an Olympic diver would not score at all. Of course as any woman could tell you, diamond gets a perfect ten. It's not Parcheesi but rather FTP, what scale invented in 1922 by a German scientist to measure mineral hardness . ANSWER: Moh's scale. 14. He was a noted publisher who edited the St. Louis Observer and the Alton Observer. He was also a popular preacher who received his training at Princeton and had strong Methodist leanings. But he is most famous for his work as an abolitionist organizing the Illinois Anti-Slavery Society. FTP, name this Reverend who became a martyr in November 1837 when he was killed by a pro-slavery mob that was trying to destroy his printing press. ANSWER: Reverend Elijah Lovejoy 15. In one unauthorized ending to this work, a cat writes of his stalking of the title character, eventually pouncing and leaving the title character in "a heap of plumage, and a little blood and gore." Supposedly inspired by the author's visit to Centre County, while staying at the Eutaw House, this poem tells the story of a student's lament over his lost love and him sort of weirding out over an animal in the house. The rhyme pattern is abcbbb where the 'b' rhymes with the cat's described "gore," "Lenore" and "nevermore." FTP, name this title animal, mascot of the NFL team that moved from Cleveland to a town that strangely also rhymes with the b from above, Baltimore. ANSWER: "The Raven" 16. Under the Franks, it began as the city of Bruges and its immediate environs, and saw later overlordship of the Austrians, Spanish, Dutch, and Belgians. However its ancient cities such as Cambrai, Arras, and Ypres are better known as battlefields than as the one time homeland of Rogier and the Van Eykes. FTP, name this region with a name that means "flooded" and whose fields name a famous John McCrae poem. ANSWER: Flanders 17. He was a patient in an Ojala, California mental hospital, when a nurse persuaded him he had been "chosen by God" to co-lead her "Human Individual Metamorphosis" movement. That group died when UFOs failed to land in 1975, but he led a splinter group that moved to San Diego, where he was chemically castrated and met with tragedy in 1997. FTP give the nickname of Heaven's Gate leader Marshall H. Applewhite, a nickname he shares with a deer, a female deer. ANSWER: Do (accept Applewhite on early buzz) 18. He was first taken to sea by his uncle Captain Maurice Suckling on a voyage to the Falklands, and fell in love with the ocean. Though he was a great naval commander he never attained the rank of full Admiral dying as a Vice Admiral. He served aboard vessels such as the Carcass and Seahorse and commanded the Hinchbrook and the Boreas. He participated in the Battle of Cape St. Vincent and won the Battle of Copenhagen by disobeying a command to retreat. FTP, name this British admiral and "Columnist" who is most famous for his final battle, fought commanding HMS Victory at Trafalgar. ANSWER: Horatio Nelson 19. This state contains two thousand McDonald's, and Swartzwelder County. Its flag has three horizontal bands, green above white above red. Near its most famous city there is a gorge, and a speedway and inside its most famous city runs the Michael Jackson Expressway, a retirement castle and a nuclear power plant. FTP, identify this unnamed state that is not Massachusetts or Illinois, whose two most famous towns were founded by Shellbyville Manhattan and a guy with the first name Jebediah. ANSWER: the state that contains Springfield or the state where the Simpsons live (accept equivalents) 20. Her last name is Johnson, and she also appears, along with her brother's bartender pal Pete, in a companion novel called George's Mother. Her drunken parents disown her when she leaves home to live with Pete, and she is forced to turn to prostitution and finally commits suicide in the East River. FTP name this title character of 22-year-old Stephen Crane's first novel, a "girl of the streets." ANSWER: Maggie 21. It was nearly named Applause, The Coach, and Esprit, but when it was finally released on January 19, 1983, it bore the name of Steve Jobs' illegitimate daughter. It featured a cool visual interface lifted from the Xerox Alto, but its slow Motorola chip and hefty $10,000 price tag led to a famous demise in which thousands were buried in a Utah landfill. FTP, name Apple's disastrously unpopular predecessor to the Macintosh, which the computer press nicknamed "Let's Invent Some Acronym." ANSWER: Lisa 22. Xenophanes, our oldest source on him, criticizes him for weakening Greek religious beliefs. Herodotus ascribes dozens of lost works to him, including "The Taking of Oechalia" about a labor of Heracles, and a mock epic called "The Battle of the Frogs and Mice." Aristotle praised him for introducing dactylic hexameter and stock phrases to epic poetry. FTP, name the possibly mythical ancient author, whose two extant works are often attributed to a beggar-bard of Chios. ANSWER: Homer 23. He is the patron saint of tanners--somewhat morbidly, because he was flayed and skinned alive. This happened after he baptized Polemius, a king of India, and destroyed the idol Baldach. It is said his bones were later identified by a Sicilian monk because they glowed in the dark. FTP name this "apostle to India," the disciple who Christ miraculously spotted under a fig tree, who St. John calls Nathanael. ANSWER: Bartholomew (accept Nathanael on early buzz) 24. H.G. Wells, Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll. Joan of Arc, Ramses II, and Tiberius. The Boston Strangler, Jack the Ripper, and Billy the Kid. Kurt Cobain, CPE Bach, and Paul McCartney. Reagan, Bush, and Clinton. Escher, Picasso and even LeRoy Neiman all share, FTP, what sinister trait, with Bart and Homer Simpson and Ned Flanders. ANSWER: being left-handed or left-handness Get it? All the answers are sort of related to The Simpsons! Oh, for fun. Boni 1. Identify the following literary works named for a specific psychological disorder. You will receive 10 points if you can name the work from the title affliction, 5 if you need the author. (10) This rare affliction consists of scars left over from a domineering Jewish mother and an adolescent obsession with masturbation. (5) Philip Roth ANSWER: Portnoy's Complaint (10) This title condition, the author tells us, consists of the despair of not recognizing one's spiritual inner self or not being able to surrended that inner self up to God. (5) Soren Kierkegaard ANSWER: Sickness unto Death (10) The title affliction is suffered by sexually frustrated Isadora Wing as she travels to Europe for a psychoanalytic congress. (5) Erica Jong ANSWER: Fear of Flying 2. Given the description of a classical pianist, name them, 10-5-15. (10) Born in Athens, Greece, and considered one of the greatest pianists of this century, this woman is especially famous for her performances of romantic concertos. She is the namesake of one of the world's largest piano competitions, which is held in Utah. ANSWER: Gina Bachauer (5) This tall, lanky, youthful Texan caused a sensation both in the USSR and the US by winning the coveted First Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow. ANSWER: Van Cliburn (15) When this recently deceased Russian pianist and First Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition juror saw that politics might be keeping Cliburn from the Gold, he gave Cliburn a 25 out of 25 and all the other competitors 0. He is perhaps most famous as a performer for his performances of Schumann, Brahms and other romantic composers. ANSWER: Sviatoslav Richter 3. Given a clue, name the medieval Roman Pontiffs for the stated number of points. (5) For five points, you get two words: First Crusade. ANSWER: Urban II (5) For five more points: he became legendary for excommunicating German emperor Henry IV and making him walk barefoot through the mountains as penance. ANSWER: Gregory VII. c. For ten points: at the Easter Synod of 1049, he formalized the decree of celibacy for all clergy members. ANWER: Leo IX d. Finally, for ten well-deserved points, he was driven from Rome by rival Sylvester III, then accepted money to renounce his claim in favor of another rival, Pope Gregory VI, but lost out when all three of the rivals were deposed by the German emperor. ANSWER: Benedict IX. 4. Please don't be offended if we ask some questions about Uranus. 1. FFPE: On May 1, 1998, the discoverers of two new Uranian moons proposed what two Shakespearean names for their new discoveries? ANSWER: Caliban and Sycorax 2. FFPE: what two other moons of Uranus already bore names from the same play in which Caliban and Sycorax are mentioned? ANSWER: Ariel and Miranda 3. Two of Uranus' moons, including the third largest, do not bear Shakespearean names at all. What author created the characters these moons are named for? ANSWER: Alexander Pope (Umbriel and Belinda) 5. Identify these 20th century artists with geographic last names, FTPE. 1. She is best known for her 1979 work The Dinner Party, a huge triangular table with places set for 999 famous women, from Hatshepsut to Georgia O'Keefe, all filled with fun vaginal imagery. ANSWER: Judy Chicago (prompt on Judy Cohen) 2. This pop artist calls his famous sculptures of the word "LOVE" "one-word poems." ANSWER: Robert Indiana (prompt on Robert Clark) 3. Among this pop artist's distinctive works are "Whaaam!" and "Oh, Jeff...I Love You, Too...But..." ANSWER: Roy Lichtenstein 6. Given some dialogue from a movie scene that contains Bach's Goldberg Variations, name the film FTPE. 1. First soon-to-die cop:"SOB demanded a second dinner. Lamb chops extra rare." Second soon to die cop: "Wonder what he wants for breakfast, some damn thing from the zoo." ANSWER: The Silence of the Lambs 2. One German soldier plays the piano and two stand at the door. "Is that Bach?" "I think it is Mozart. Ja, it is Mozart." ANSWER: Schindler's List 3. Hana is playing Bach and Kip comes and asks her to stop because the Germans have put bombs in the piano. Hana replies, "Maybe they just go off if you don't play Bach." ANSWER: The English Patient 7. Given a naval battle and a year name both the victorious commander and his flagship at the beginning of the battle for five points each. 1. The Nile, 1798 ANSWER: Horatio Nelson, HMS Agamemnon 2. Jutland, 1916 (Hint: the British won) ANSWER: John Jellicoe, HMS Iron Duke 3. Midway, 1942 ANSWER: James "Jack" Fletcher, USS Yorktown. 8. Identify these Canadian provinces or territories from a description of their flags, FTPE. 1. A Union Jack on top of ocean waves and the top half of a setting sun. ANSWER: British Columbia 2. The seal on this flag includes mountains, prairies, a wild rose (the provincial flower) and even a beaver (the provincial animal). ANSWER: Alberta 3. This flag includes a Viking ship, for its prominent shipbuilding history, and a red lion, symbol of the German duchy for which it is named. ANSWER: New Brunswick 9. Answer these questions about seemingly unrelated writers 5-10-15. (5) This philosopher's third critique is on judgment. And, all right, the first two are on pure and practical reason. ANSWER: Immanuel Kant (10) This author's works include The Trumpet Major and The Mayor of Casterbridge. ANSWER: Thomas Hardy (15) He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973 and is the author of Night on Bald Mountain, Happy Valley, The Tree of Man and The Solid Mandala. ANSWER: Patrick White 10. Given a date and approximate location, name the volcano that blew its top. Five points each and a bonus 5 for all correct. 1. May 1980, Washington State ANSWER: Mt. St. Helens 2. June 10, 1991 Luzon, The Philippines ANSWER: Mt. Pinatubo 3. March 1982 Chiapas, Mexico ANSWER: El Chichon 4. AD. 1169, Sicily ANSWER: Mt. Etna 5 1480 B.C., the Aegean Sea ANSWER: Thera (accept Santorini). 11. Name these women from French literature FTPE. 1. This vulgar former prostitute is unfaithful to Charles Swann after he marries her in the first volume of Remembrance of Things Past. ANSWER: Odette (de Crecy) 2. Speaking of courtesans, this former Parisian music-hall performer wrote Gigi. ANSWER: Colette 3. This fictional waif is the daughter of Fantine, who dies after being accused of prostitution. ANSWER: Cosette 12. Name the chemical element, 30-20-10. (30) It was the first element discovered spectroscopically, by Kirchoff and Bunsen in 1860, who named it for its bright blue spectral lines. (20) It is the most alkaline element except for francium. Uses include forming the electronic image in TV cameras, and perhaps someday serving as a valuable deep-space rocket fuel. (10) Atomic number 55, it is used in the most accurate form of atomic clock. ANSWER: cesium 13. Identify the phrase, 30-20-10. (30) The phrase probably originates in C.S. Lewis' The Magician's Nephew, where it is used to describe the first things to "leap out of the darkness" when Narnia is created. (20) It was coined by speechwriter Peggy Noonan, who included in its ranks "the Knights of Columbus, the Grange, Hadassah," and other volunteer groups. (10) George Bush first used it in his 1988 acceptance speech at the GOP convention, where it was used as a metaphor for "a brilliant diversity spread like stars in a broad and peaceful sky." ANSWER: a thousand points of light 14. A river runs through them. FTPE identify these great movies about trips on a river. 1. This 1972 film about a nightmarish river trip was advertised with the tagline "This is the weekend they didn't play golf." ANSWER: Deliverance 2. In the only film Charles Laughton ever drected, two orphans flee downriver from their evil stepfather, Robert Mitchum, who has the words "LOVE" and "HATE" tattooed on his knuckles. ANSWER: The Night of the Hunter 3. Martin Sheen and a very young Laurence Fishburne are among the passengers in this 1979 trip upriver, whose stops include a fishing-boat massacre and a riot at a USO show. ANSWER: Apocalypse Now 15. Identify the Oscar Wilde work, 5-10-15 (5) This novel tells the story of a young man that purchases eternal youth for the price of his soul. A portrait tracks his moral degradation while his countenance stays unblemished. ANSWER: The Picture of Dorian Gray (do not accept "Portrait") (10) Subtitled, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, the three act play tells the story of Jack Worthing and his invented brother that gives him an excuse to travel to London on occasion. ANSWER: The Importance of Being Earnest (15) This comedy in four acts recounts the title character's jealousy over Mrs. Erlynne, who turns out to be the title character's presumed dead, divorced mother. The title character visits an admirer, Lord Darlington, and is saved from scandal by her mother's sacrifice. ANSWER: Lady Windermere's Fan 16. Identify the Biblical figure, 30-20-10. (30) Genesis 37 tells us he was the second son of Judah and the Canaanite woman Shuah. (20) His older brother Er was slain by God for his wickedness, leaving Er's wife Tamar a widow, so he married her, as was the weird custom. (10) Not eager to produce posterity for his dead brother, he and Tamar invented coitus interruptus, as he "spilled his seed on the ground." ANSWER: Onan 17. Given the year in which he won the Nobel prize and an accomplishment, name the economist FTPE. 1. 1971, for the development of national accounting measures such as GNP and his interpretation of American growth. ANSWER: Simon Kuznets 2. 1985, he won the prize for the development of the Life Cycle Savings Model and his work on financial markets. ANSWER: Franco Modigliani 3.. 1980, he used computerized econometric models to analyze the rise and fall of U.S. business activity. ANSWER: Lawrence Klein 18. Answer the following questions about Atalanta, from Greek mythology, FTPE. 1. Who won Atalanta's hand in marriage by cheating at a foot-race by using golden apples? ANSWER: Hippomenes (or Milanion) 2. Give the collective name for the three maidens from whose garden Aphrodite stole the apples. ANSWER: the Hesperides 3. What did Aphrodite do to punish Atalanta and Hippomenes after they desecrated her shrine? ANSWER: turned them into lions 19. Given a stock symbol from the New York Stock Exchange and from my portfolio, tell what company it represents 5-10-10-5. (5) MSFT ANSWER: Microsoft (10) IP ANSWER: International Paper (10) EK ANSWER: Eastman Kodak (5) MO ANSWER: Philip Morris 20. Answer the following about trades made around the trading deadline or around the salary cap in major league baseball FTPE. 1. Last year about this time, Seattle traded a then-hot prospect to Toronto for relievers Mike Timlin and Paul Spoljaric. This year, this player is hitting just .220 in only 173 at bats. ANSWER: Jose Cruz, Jr. 2. Perhaps a bit before the trading deadline, but certainly in a salary cap reduction move, Seattle acquired Randy Johnson, Brian Holman and Gene Harris from the Montreal Expos for pitcher Mike Campbell and what other major league pitcher? ANSWER: Mark Langston 3. Mike Piazza and Todd Zeile were traded to the Marlins for Bobby Bonilla, Charles Johnson and this other player, a veteran of 1394 games, who carries a .291 lifetime average and who suffers from Tourette's Syndrome. ANSWER: Jim Eisenreich 21. Given the IQ and a short clue about a Nuremburg trial defendant name hime FTPE. 1. 138, He promised that no bombs would ever fall on Germany. Ans: Hermann Goering 2. 129, A diplomat who negotiated the Nazi-Soviet Pact in 1939. Ans: Joachim Ribbentrop 3. 128, The head of Germany's building and armaments programs. Ans: Albert Speer 22. Identify the disease, 30-20-10. (30) It is actually a fungus called Ophiostoma ulmi, and it has killed over 77 million in America alone this century. (20) It actually hails from Asia, but its common name is derived from the nationality of the seven female scientists who first identified it. (10) It arrived on these shores when a 1930 freighter from France carried logs full of infected bark beetles to Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio. The government is currently battling the blight with specially cloned trees. ANSWER: _Dutch elm_ disease 23. Name the American 30-20-10: (30). He spent a great part of his lifetime advocating his American System which included high tariffs, the building of canals and railroads, and the creation of a third bank of the United States. (20) He was one of the architects of the Missouri Compromise and as Secretary of State worked to extend recognition to the newly independent states of South America. (10) This Kentucky native allegedly gained his state department job through a "corrupt bargain" with John Quincy Adams. ANSWER: Henry Clay 24. For a scandalously easy five points each name the six types of quarks in the current standard model of particle physics ANSWER: up, down, charm, strange, top (or truth), bottom (or beauty).