1998 QuESADILLA One Tossups by "No One Knew John Was Like The Ivy" Doug Bone, Richard Mason, Maribeth Swiatek 1. In the early years of life, it assists in the production of immunoglobulin A antibodies and the development of B lymphocytes. It works to expose white blood cells to foreign substances in the gastrointestinal tract. Animal research did little to reveal its function, since it is not present in domestic mammals. For 10 points, what organ was long thought to have no significant purpose and thus routinely discarded during abdominal surgery? Answer: _appendix_ 2. The losers failed to receive help from the British, who would not risk hostilities with a neutral nation while at war against revolutionary France. The spoils given the victors in the Treaty of Fort Greenville by the Miami chief Little Turtle included parts of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan. For ten points, name this August 20, 1794 battle in which the Northwest Indian Confederation was defeated by the forces of General Anthony Wayne. Answer: Battle of _Fallen Timbers_ 3. The Pandar and the Bawd lament that they only have three whores in their brothel, and send their servant Boult to find new talent. They purchase the beautiful Marina from pirates, but to their dismay she is so virtuous that she reforms all of their customers. Marina is sent to use her charms to end the grief-stricken silence of a visitor to Mytilene, who turns out to be her own father, and the title character of, for ten points, what play by William Shakespeare? Answer: _Pericles_, Prince of Tyre 4. His bridge hand contains the entire suit of spades as he plays cards on the train to Santa Rosa. He appears in a newspaper ad for Reduco, the Obesity Slayer. He winds the clock in a songwriter's apartment. He watches the acrobats in a Moroccan marketplace. For 10 points--who thus appears in the movies ~Shadow of a Doubt~, ~Lifeboat~, ~Rear Window~, and ~The Man Who Knew Too Much~? Answer: Alfred _Hitchcock_ 5. This philosopher of the Han period rejected the notion that man's actions influence the workings of the natural universe, and stated that, although man was noble and intelligent, he had no exceptional position in the universe. For ten points, who was this intellectual, never popular in China, unlike his namesake band, which urged everyone to have fun tonight? Answer: _Wang_ Ch'ung 6. Its President Isayas Afewerk rejected suggestions his nation withdraw troops to pre-May 6 regions near the town of Badme. This follows OAU mediation efforts after spring fighting against Ethiopia by--for 10 points--what nation independent from Ethiopia for less than a decade? Answer: _Eritrea_ 7. In violation of Presidential Executive Order 9066, the plaintiff remained in San Leandro, California, also violating Civilian Exclusion Order No. 34 of the U.S. Army. Justice Black argued that the need to protect against espionage outweighed his rights and that compulsory exclusion, though constitutionally suspect, was justified during circumstances of "emergency and peril" in, for ten points, what 1944 case which restricted the rights of Americans of Japanese descent? Answer: _Korematsu_ v. United States 8. Consider the sequence 0, 3, 6, 12, 24, etc. Add four to each number, and divide by ten, making the first seven numbers in the sequence 0.4, 0.7, 1.0, 1.6, 2.8, 5.2, and 10.0. In 1766 Johann Daniel Titius found this sequence interesting, but nothing was known to correspond to the fifth number until the 1801 discovery of Ceres. For ten points, name this empirical rule for determining the orbital radii of planets, usually named not after Titius but after the man who popularized it. answer: _Bode's Law_ or _Titius-Bode Law_ 9. After extensive research and a six-week stay in the province under dispute, it found the Japanese guilty of advanced aggression and the Chinese to blame for their anti-Communist propaganda. For ten points name this investigative team led by a British earl whose 1932 report on the Japanese invasion of Manchuria caused Japan to resign from the League of Nations. Answer: _Lytton_ Commission 10. She was not afraid of mice, loved winter, snow, and ice, and said 'pooh-pooh' to the tiger in the zoo. Indeed, nobody knew so well how to frighten Miss Clavel. For ten points name this smallest of the creations of Ludwig Bemelmans. Answer: _Madeline_ 11. At 15, he produced his first work, 'By George,' which was condemned by family friend Oscar Hammerstein as 'the worst thing I ever read.' His later efforts improved, taking inspiration from unexpected sources such as Swedish comedy, Victorian penny dreadfuls, Greek playwrights, impressionist paintings and presidential assassins. For ten points, name this winner of five Tony awards, including one for 'Into the Woods'. Answer: Stephen _Sondheim_ 12. A July 29 "car-jacking" near Anyarsu Village made world news, as government troops ended a six-day sit-in on the road from Yangon by--for 10 points--what National League for Democracy leader and famed Burma opposition leader? Answer: Aung San _Suu Kyi_ 13. The Siachen Glacier sits astride the 450-mile-long line of control, and over a hundred people were killed as shelling intensified in early August. Tensions have risen since May nuclear tests by both India and Pakistan, which continue to battle sporadically over--for 10 points--what disputed region? Answer: Jammu and _Kashmir_ 14. Paul Bartells runs one for endangered rhinos in South Africa, which he describes as 'wildlife insurance.' In 1997, Tasmanian lesbians, denied access to most, finally won the right to have one of their own. Robert Klark Graham founded one in Escondido for Nobel Prize winners and Mensa members, to which the only publicly known contributor is William Shockley. The latter's first 'production' was named Victoria Kowalski. For ten points, what are these reproductive repositories? Answer: _sperm bank_s 15. A massive attack on Borka strengthened rebels in its Panjshir Valley, as government forces mass to retake the key northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif from anti-Taliban rebels in--for 10 points--what nation? Answer: _Afghanistan_ 16. The alpha variety is used to manufacture pins, screws, and cartridge cases and can generally be worked cold; the beta variety is less ductile but stronger due to a higher zinc content and must be hot-worked. Adding lead leads to easier machining and small amounts of tin or aluminum improve resistance to corrosion by seawater. For ten points name this alloy of copper and zinc used to make candlesticks, buttons and musical instruments. Answer: _brass_ 17. Brisbane, Australia in 2001 will host--for 10 points--what usually quadrennial athletic competition previously held in Moscow, Seattle, St. Petersburg, and New York, often derided as Ted Turner's attempt to start the Olympics? Answer: Goodwill Games 18. The celebrated author of "The Dynamics of an Asteroid," at the age of twenty-one he wrote a treatise on the binomial theorem which won him the mathematical chair at a small English university. Forced to resign when dark rumors gathered around him, he moved to London, in order to sit motionless, like a spider in its web, but that web had a thousand radiations, and he knew well every quiver of them. For ten points, identify this organizer of half that is evil in London, the Napoleon of crime. Answer: James _Moriarty_ 19. After riots at an Italian anarchist rally, this band's percussionist was hospitalized for injuries to her face. Hours later in the tour bus, she fell off her bunk and returned to the hospital, soon after sneezing with such force that she popped her eye out of the socket. But don't cry for her, next door neighbor, as Alice Nutter sings in, for ten points, what band's hit single which suggests that she'll get knocked down, but she'll get up again? Answer: _Chumbawamba_ 20. The simple one Jack Kilby built in 1958 used wire bonds which were bigger than the components. Fairchild engineers then developed the planar process, burying active elements in a silicon dioxide layer and using photodefined aluminum metal lines. Later innovations included silicon nitride surface passivation, low cost plastic packaging and size reduction of the lithographic patterns. For ten points name this invention which allows millions of devices to be patterned on a single silicon wafer. Answer: _integrated circuit_ or _IC_ 21. The mathematician Jacobi said of this man, "It is often more convenient to possess the ashes of great men than to possess the men themselves during their lifetime." Indeed, the French treasurer general kept the bones of his right hand as a souvenir when supervising the move of the ashes from the country where he died. This man's skull rests in the Museum of Man and his heart under the floorboards of the church of St. Germain des Pres. For 10 points--name this philosopher who caught pneumonia in 1650 while tutoring Queen Christina of Sweden. Answer: Rene _Descartes_ 22. Death. A train. A tepee. The Mir space station. A bust of George Washington. A microwave. A tetherball. Jay Leno's chin, indirectly. A scimitar thrown by Miss Ellen. Three Middlepark Cowboys, and a Santa pavilion at the mall. For ten points, what do all these things have in common? Answer: Oh my God, they killed _Kenny_! (McCormick) -- you may prompt on 'South Park' 23. In 1776 he wrote to his step-mother that he had survived a "cannonading" as fierce as one directed at George Washington. He had drawn the furious attacks because of the controversial chapters fifteen and sixteen of his recently published book, which were viewed as an assault on Christianity. For ten points, identify this man who wrote, "I have described the triumph of barbarism and religion," in his book ~Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire~. Answer: Edward _Gibbon_ 24. In 1617 he read the works of St. Augustine ten times over, and was particularly fascinated by those treatises attacking the Pelagian heresy that man can obtain salvation through his own efforts. He then began his great work, the "Augustinus", which upheld the Augustinian doctrine of original sin and condemned certain teachings of the Jesuits. For ten points, identify this Flemish bishop whose posthumously published doctrine was condemned by three popes but defended by Blaise Pascal's "Provincial Letters." Answer: Cornelius Otto _Jansen_ (accept: Cornelius _Jansenius_) 25. Carmen Policy left the San Francisco 49ers and immediately joined a group seeking to operate--for 10 points--a 1999 NFL expansion franchise in what city? Answer: Cleveland