Packet for Quesadilla by the Military-Industrial Complex Joshua Solomin & Alan Taber Tossups: 1. Boy meets girl's stalker, boy meets girl, boy meets girl's fiance, boy meets girl, boy asks girl to marry him, girl runs off with stalker. Repeat. As you might guess, any guy this clueless deserves the title the author gives him. FTP, name this work by Dosteovsky, starring Natasha, Aglaya, and Myshkin. A: the _Idiot_ 2. This devout Quaker was excommunicated when he accepted a command in the Rhode Island militia in 1775. He later rose to become quartermaster general of the army at Valley Forge, and finished his career as commander of the army of the south. FTP, name him. A: Nathaniel _Greene_ 3. "On the side of a hill, a sprinkling of leaves/ Washed is the ground with so many tears/ A soldier cleans and polishes a gun/ War bellows, blazing in scarlet battalions/ Generals order their soldiers to kill/ And to fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten." So go the final two verses of, FTP, what song, sung by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, which is usually heard in the background of their song "Scarborough Fair"? A: _Canticle_ 4. The primary dedication of this book begins, "To the Inhabitants of SPACE IN GENERAL". While some say that it was intended as a satire of Victorian England's society and an expression of the author's political stances on education for women and lower classes, it has obvious implications for modern art, computer graphics and modeling, modern physics, and our understanding of the physics of dimensions. FTP, name this book by Edwin A. Abbott, narrated by A Square. A: _Flatland_, A Romance of Many Dimensions 5. < I hope you listened closely to that clip of music- the important parts of it were the ambient sounds of the room that you're playing this round in. FTP, identify the piece that clip was taken from, a 1952 composition illustrating the oft-unnoticed music evident in our daily lives, composed by John Cage. A: _4'33"_ (accept either "Four, Thirty-Three", or "Four Minutes Thirty Three Seconds") 6. Both Libya and Iraq donated fighters to the cause. Countries as far away as Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, and Algeria all sent men and equipment. Even more disastrous for Israel at the beginning, though, was that Egypt and Syria decided to mount their surprise attack on October 6, 1973, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. FTP, name the war. A: _Yom Kippur War_ 7. Tim Johnson, Dan Coats, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Alphonse D'Amato, until 1996 Paul Coverdell-- but now Max Cleland, and most emphatically, Ernest Hollings. All of these people share, FTP, what attribute, which means that if they are on the same committee as the other senator from their state, and if that other senator is of the same party, then the one with this attribute will never be committee chairman? A: _junior Senator_ of the US [yes, I know that's cruel. :) ] 8. The original director of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, this Pakistani physicist, along with his American colleague Steven Weinberg, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 for his work using gauge symmetry to propose a unification theory. FTP, name him. A: Abdus _Salam_ 9. This man was the chief arms procurer for the Algerian Liberation Front until his capture by French forces. Sentenced to life in prison, he was released when Algeria was made independent in 1962. Upon his release, he was elected premier, and ruled until deposed by his ally Houari Boumedienne in 1965. FTP, name him. A: Ahmed Ben _Bella_ 10. This discipline, first proposed by the German anatomist Franz Joseph Gall in the late 17th century and then further elaborated by his disciple Johann Spurzheim, claimed that certain areas of the brain controlled certain parts of the body, and furthermore that character traits were also to be found by contours of the skull. FTP, name this false science of the brain. A: _phrenology_ 11. Transylvania 6-5000, Beetlejuice, Fletch, Tootsie, The Accidental Tourist, Earth Girls are Easy, Tootsie, The Fly (1986), and A League of Their Own all share, FTP, what actress once married to Jeff Goldblum, perhaps best known for her role in Thelma and Louise? A: _G_eena _Davis_ 12. RBMK-1000 type nuclear reactors were designed to produce around 3200 MW of thermal power. However, if the nuclear reaction drops below 700 MW, it becomes unstable and difficult to control. When an inexperienced night shift, not knowing this, caused a drop to about 30 MW, they tried to raise the output by completely removing the reactor's control rods. This caused, FTP, what worst-ever nuclear accident in April 1986? A: _Chernobyl explosion_ (accept equivalents) 13. "Of Reformation Touching Church Discipline", "The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce", "Il Penseroso", "Aeropagitica", "The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates" were all written, FTP, by what Puritan writer better known for Samson Agonistes and Paradise Lost? A: John _Milton_ 14. This object is the closed non-orientable surface with Euler characteristic 0. There exist two immersed (self-intersecting) images of it which are not homotopic, both standard and figure-8 immersion. It may be obtained by joining opposite ends of a cylinder with a twist, or by attatching two Mobius bands along their boundary circles. FTP, identify this object, a bottle without a discrete inside or outside. A: _Klein bottle_ 15. "We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude." So spoke this Virginian, governor of that state in 1779. FTP, name this political scientist who shook the world with his declaration that "all men are created equal". A: Thomas _Jefferson_ 16. He was the 17th overall selection the year he was drafted. He appeared in his first all-star game in his third season--the first all-star for his team in four years--and was an all-star starter the year after. All this, despite not having any college playing experience. FTP, name this NBA star, traded from Seattle to Cleveland before the 97-98 season. A: Shawn _Kemp_ 17. He was both a physician and a physiologist, which helped him incorporate the methods of laboratory science into his studies of the nature of human consciousness. In fact, he is credited with founding the first formal psychology lab, in Germany, in 1879. FTP, name this "father of psychology", the founder of structuralism. A: Wilhelm _Wundt_ (correctly pronounced "Voont") 18. He spent most of the rest of the WWI at home, due to "trench fever". Thus, he was able to devote more time to his writing, and soon achieved professorships in English at the Universities of Leeds and Oxford. It was at Oxford that he was able to follow up his interests in mythologies and languages that he would put to excellent use in his writing. FTP, name this author, whose first names were John Ronald Reuel. A: J. R. R. _Tolkien_ 19. He was a professor at the University of Jena for almost 40 years, during which time he virtually founded the modern discipline of mathematical logic, and his development of a second-order predicate calculus revolutionized formal proofs. FTP, name this man who, around 1892, was the first to suggest that expressions of language have both a sense and a reference. A: Gottlob _Frege_ 20. This artist of "Let's Walk Together", "Gospel Singer" and "Contribution of the Negro to American Democracy" was, at the time of his election to the National Academy of Design in 1972, the second African American ever to be so honored. FTP, name this painter, best known for the book of his work entitled "Images of Dignity" A: Charles _White_ 21. The Indian nuclear tests have been in the news lately. Unsuprisingly, the Hindu Nationalist Party named their medium range missile after the old Hindu god of fire. FTP, name him. A: _Agni_ 22. This author of The Penitentiary System of the United States and its Application in France and The Old Regime and The Revolution advocated reform of the French judiciary and political system until forced out of political life with the accession of Napoleon III. FTP, name this French aristocrat best known for his study of Democracy in America. A: Alexis _de Tocqueville_ 23. The Assassins hid out in the rocky crags of these mountains just south of the Caspian Sea and north of the central Iranian plateau. Their highest peak is Mt. Damavand at 18,934 feet. FTP, name this chain which Alexander the Great crossed to invade Persia. A: _Elburz Mountains_ 24. His new book, a novel set in Atlanta, is scheduled to come out in the very near future- and it is reputedly scheduled for a first edition printing of one million copies, despite it being only his second major novel. However, it's not novels that he's been known for. FTP, name this author whose stellar nonfiction includes "The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test" and "The Right Stuff". A: Tom _Wolfe_ Boni 1. Identify the Leon Uris work from a main character, FTPE: a. Ari Ben Canaan A: _Exodus_ b. Haj Ibrahim A: _The Haj_ c. Abraham Cady A: _QB VII_ 2. FFP, what was the name of the German school of design, architecture, and applied arts that existed in Germany from 1919 to 1933? A: Staatliches _Bauhaus_ Also FFP, name the man who founded the Bauhaus, a German architect. A: Walter _Gropius_ FTPE, name the other two men to head the Bauhaus after Gropius resigned in 1928. One of them was a fairly obscure Swiss architect who was chairman until 1930, and the other was a less obscure German-born American architect whose term as director lasted until the Nazis forced the school to close in 1933. A: Hannes _Meyer_, Ludwig _Mies_ van der Rohe 3. Answer these questions about the Dreyfus Affair, FSNOP. FFP, what was the name of the French Army major who, at the end, appeared to actually be the guilty person? A: C.F. (Walsin-) _Esterhazy_ FFP, at which infamous French penal colony was Dreyfus sentenced to life imprisonment? A: _Devil's Island_ FTP all-or-nothing, a French novelist wrote an open letter to the media accusing the army of covering up evidence pointing toward Dreyfus' innocence, and shielding Esterhazy. Name both the novelist and the name given to the letter he wrote. A: Emile _Zola_, _J'Accuse_ FTP, name the French Army major who, after it was discovered that he forged nearly all of the evidence against Dreyfus, committed suicide in August 1898. A: Hubert Joseph _Henry_ 4. Identify the baseball player given a nickname FFPE. a. Charlie Hustle A: Pete _Rose_ b. Big Cat A: Andres _Galarrga_ c. Three-finger A: Mordechai _Brown_ d. Big Train A: Walter _Johnson_ e. Little Poison A: _Lloyd Waner_ (prompt on just "Waner") f. Black Jack A: Jack _McDowell_ 5. How well do you know your golds? FSNOP, given the alloying element, name the kind of gold. a. for 10: platinum A: _white_ b. for 20: silver and zinc or cadmium A: _green_ 6. Identify these dead Nigerians FTPE. a. The Army general who was Nigeria's dictator from 1993 until he had a fatal heart attack on June 8th (my birthday!). A: Sani _Abacha_ b. The opposition leader, jailed by Abacha for the last four years, for being the apparent winner of annulled presidential elections in 1993. He died of a heart attack in early July just before being released from prison. A: Moshood _Abiola_ c. A Nigerian author and leader of the minority Ogoni people; he was executed by Abacha's government in November 1995 for his protesting of Abacha's oil drilling and selling policies. A: Ken _Saro-wiwa_ 7. Most everyone's heard about Moses, Isaiah, and Elijah. But for 5 points, which prophet made an axe float, healed a poisonous pottage, multiplied a widow's oil, and parted the Jordan? A: _Elisha_ FTP, name the Syrian general who was cured of his leprosy by Elisha. A: _Naaman_ F15P, name Elisha's servant who corruptly took a reward from Naaman and was then punished by becoming a leper himself. A: _Gehazi_ 8. Identify the character from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy from description, FTPE. a. The triple-breasted whore of Eroticon Six. Some people say her erogenous zones start some four miles from her actual body. A: _Eccentrica Gallumbits_ b. Author of the controversial trilogy of philosophical blockbusters Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes and Who is this God Person Anyway? A: _Oolon Colluphid_ c. A mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you. A: the _Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal_ 9. Send in the clones... FTPE: a. At which university have some 50 adult mice been successfully cloned, a task until recently thought impossible? A: University of _Hawaii_ b. From which type of cell, thousands of which surround an egg cell were the mice cloned? A: _cumulus_ cells c. Fittingly, what was the name of the first mice clone successfully produced? A: _Cumulina_ 10. Identify these Japanese figures recently in the news FTPE: a. Prime Minister of Japan up until late July, he proved unequal to the task of ending Japan's economic troubles. A: Ryutaro _Hashimoto_ b. The former Foreign Minister just selected to be the new Prime Minister of Japan. A: Keizo _Obuchi_ c. A former Prime Minister, who was just appointed to head Japan's Finance Ministry for the second time in his political career. A: Kiichi _Miyazawa_ 11. 30-20-10 Name the author from the works 30: The Black Tulips, The Viscount Bragellone 20: Henri III, Twenty Years After 10: The Man in The Iron Mask, The Count of Monte Cristo A: Alexandre _Dumas pere_ 12. Answer these questions on empires, F15PE a. These Indo-Aryans were the first society to use iron, which gave them a decided advantage in maintaining their empire from 2000 to 1000 BC in between the Egyptians to their south and the Babylonians to the East. A: _Hittites_ b. This American Empire started in 1000BC and continued until the arrival of the Conquistadores in 1542AD. Surviving ruins include Chichen Itza, Tikal, and Palenque. A: _Mayans_ 13. Name the inventor given his inventions, after one for 30, or 2 for 15. 30: Regenerative amplifier, 1912, used to amplify weak radio signals 15: Frequency modulation circuit, used to transmit radio signals with much less interference and distortion than AM signals. A: Edwin Howard _Armstrong_ 14. You can talk about your men like Gideon, you can talk about your kings like Saul, but when you need a job done right, it's Joshua on call. FSNOP, answer these questions about Joshua and his deeds. a. F10P: Who was the only other spy to say, along with Joshua, that the land of Canaan could be taken by the Israelites. A: _Caleb_ b. F20P: Name the Canaanite tribe that deceived the Israelites and forged an alliance with them, whom Joshua later made servants of. A: _Gibeonites_ 15. You've had Travels with Gaius, but now it's time for Travels with Kemezis. He's on a mission to document changes in Roman strategy after Varus's loss of the three legions in AD 9. First, FTP, where did this battle take place? A: _Teutonberg Wald_ Second, for ten points each, on what two rivers did the Romans then stabilize their northeastern boundary? A: _Rhine and Danube_ 16. How well do you know your early airplane pilots and designers? a. FTP, name this Dutch born airplane designer who developed a synchronization method for firing machine guns through propellers that allowed single seat airplanes to fight? A: _Fokker_ b. F5P, this top German ace flew his Fokker Triplane to 80 victories versus Allied pilots before being shot down over the trenches on a strafing run. A: _von Richtofen_ or _Red Baron_ c. For 15 points, name the top American ace of WWI with 26 kills. Later demoted for insubordination when his plans for a long range bomber force were denied. A: Eddie _Rickenbacker_ 17. Given college, give team name, FSNOP. a. For 5: George Washington University A: _Colonials_ b. For 10: George Mason University A: _Patriots_ c. For 15: William Penn College A: _Statesmen_ 18. Given the chemical composition of the rock and its type, name it FTPE. a. Sodium based feldspars predominate, with crystals too small to be seen easily, igneous. A: _basalt_ b. A mix of plagioclase feldspars and potassium feldspar, with some quartz and micas as well, crystals generally 3 or more millimeters wide, igneous. A: _andesite_ c. All quartz, all the time, sedimentary A: _sandstone_ 19. Name the artist from works, 30-20-10 30: The Arena Chapel Frescoes, the first ever grisailles 20: Life of St. Francis in the Upper Chapel at Assisi, the Navicella 10: The Mourning of Christ and the campanile of Florence A: _Giotto_ 20. Identify these figures from anthropology FTPE. a. This founder of the functionalism school of anthropology had his interest sparked in the field by reading Frazer's "The Golden Bough". A: Bronislaw _Malinowski_ b. This man put his own theories of cultural diffusion to the test, by sailing across oceans the same way ancient travelers could have done it. A: Thor _Heyerdahl_ c. Student of Franz Boas and teacher of Mary Leakey, she researched different patterns of culture and behavior around the world. A: Ruth _Benedict_ 21. Given the quote from Atlas Shrugged, give the character who spoke it, 15 points each. a. "What's the generosity of loving a man for his virtues? What do you give him? Nothing. It's no more than cold justice. No more than he's earned." A: _James Taggart_ (both names required) b. "I swear--by my life and my love of it--that I will neither live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." (The person who said that quote first.) A: John _Galt_ 22. Answer these questions about the Watergate scandal FTPE: a. All-or-nothing, who were the two Attorneys General fired by Nixon in the Saturday Night Massacre, and the acting AG who actually fired the special prosecutor, as Nixon wanted? A: Elliot _Richardson_, William _Ruckelhaus_, Robert _Bork_ b. All-or-nothing, name the two people who acted as special prosecutors in the investigation. A: Archibald _Cox_, Leon _Jaworski_ c. Finally, how many days before the House was due to vote on impeachment charges did Nixon resign from office? A: _10_ days (August 9 - August 19, 1974) 23. Name the works from their first line, FTPE. a. It was love at first sight. A: _Catch-22_ b. 124 was spiteful. A: _Beloved_ c. It was Wang Lung's wedding day. A: _The Good Earth_ 24. Given a state nickname, give the state FTPE. a. the Palmeto State A: _South Carolina_ b. the Centennial State A: _Colorado_ c. the Bay State A: _Massachusetts_