From satriani@wam.umd.edu Mon Jan 27 21:22:04 1997 Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 18:42:00 -0500 (EST) From: AP Prince of Eternia To: zuckerma@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu Subject: Maryland B (name TBA) Toss-Ups (fwd) Resent-Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 19:02:26 -0500 (EST) Resent-From: David Zuckerman Resent-To: Trivia Club Hi, Dave. Here are the toss-ups for the JCV. The bonuses are completed, but I have to type those in as well. I will get those to you by midnight. I will be representing Maryland B; Khon will be representing Maryland C. We don't have team names yet, but we will let you know what they are by the time we see you at NAQT this weekend. So without further adieu: 1997 Juan Carlos Viscarra Memorial Tournament Maryland B (name TBA) Packet Toss-Ups by Adam Fine 1. He was a good friend of Charles Dickens, occasionally rivaling Dickens in the creation of character and mood and excelling him in handling plot. He was also considered by some to have been the first English author of detective and mystery novels. For ten points, name the novelist of _The Haunted Hotel_, _Heart and Science_, and _The Moonstone_. Answer: Wilkie _Collins_ 2. It is not generally known that he and his deputy Sandy Berger held their Rotisserie League Baseball draft in the Situation Room of the White House. He is more well-known for helping steer the President through crises in Haiti, Bosnia, and Africa. For ten points, name President Clinton's National Security Adviser, the designate to head the CIA. Answer: Anthony _Lake_ 3. This battle was fought in North Carolina between some 4400 Americans under Natahnael Greene and 2200 British under Charles Cornwallis. Losses were light in the five-hour battle, but the engagement is said to have led General Cornwallis to abandon the Carolinas to the Americans. For ten points, at what March 15, 1781 battle were the Americans victorious? Answer: _Guilford Court House_ 4. He changed his name in order to avoid confusiuon with trumpet player Max Kaminsky. In 1949 he began a decade-long stint as a writer and occasional performer on Sid Caesar's TV programs. He gained popularity in 1960 with the recording of "The 2000-Year Old Man," and in 1965 co-created the successful spy-spoof series "Get Smart." For ten points, name the director, screenwriter, and actor, making his major film debut in 1968 with "The Producers." Answer: Mel _Brooks_ 5. Examples of it include not hitting the boss who makes us angry but hitting the children when we get home and also choosing a partner who resembles the chooser's mother. Found in dreams and hysterical symptoms, paralysis can result from repressed memories of a sexual nature, and one image can symbolize another. For ten points, identify this defense mechanism, defined as "emotion transferred from a dangerous object which can retaliate to a safe one which cannot." Answer: _Displacement_ 6. This book won universal acclaim for its sympathetically authentic picture of Chinese life. It describes the rise of Wang Lung, a Chinese peasant, from poverty to the position of a rich landowner, helped by his patient wife, O-Lan. For ten points, identify this 1931 novel, Pearl Buck's masterpiece. Answer: __The Good Earth__ 7. It was settled by the Slavs in the 6th century AD. The kigdom was converted to Christianity by Cyril and Methodius in 863, but then was taken by the Magyars. A part of Hapsburg Bohemia until 1918, it was made part of Czechoslovakia, forming a province with Silesia. For ten points, name this region of the Czech Republic, its chief city Brno. Answer: _Moravia_ 8. His father was a mycologist and Dante student. Educated at Ringwood, Salisbury, and Midhurst, he studied law at Exeter College, Oxford, but discovered a taste for geology. In his foremost treatise, he taught that the greatest geological changes might have been produced by forces still at work. For ten points, what Scottish geologist made this claim in _Principles of Geology_ (1830-33)? Answer: Sir Charles _Lyell_ 9. He was the apprentice of the painter Squarcione for six years in Padua. Influenced by both Squarcione and Donatello, he painted _The Assumption_ and _Four Scenes from the Life of St. James_, both frescoes destroyed during World War II. Among his surviving works include the St. Zeno Altarpiece and _The Triumphs of Caesar_, which he painted for the Gonzaga family. For ten points, what Italian artist married the daughter of Jacopo Bellini in 1453, painting _The Agony in the Garden_, based on a Bellini drawing? Answer: Andrea _Mantegna_ 10. Casey Singleton works for Norton Aircraft in California. When an accident occurs on a Norton jet, it's her job to figure out what went wrong, aided by a gruff, profane, but lovable gang of engineers. She is up against corporate intriguers, angry union members, and Jennifer Malone, a cynical producer for "Newsline," a TV newsmagazine. This is the plot of, for ten points, what latest novel by Michael Crichton? Answer: __Airframe__ 11. The son of an elderly and distinguished barber-surgeon, he became organist at Halle Cathedral in 1697. He then worked as a violinist and harpsichordist at the Hamburg Opera, associating himself with composer Johann Mattheson. In 1706 he went to Italy, where he received acclaim for the oratorio _La Ressurrezione_. For ten points, identify the German composer who would become Kapellmeister at Hanover before leaving for London in 1712, where he would create the _Birthday Ode for Queen Anne_ and _Water Music_. Answer: George Frideric _Handel_ 12. Its lead rapper was a middle-class boy from Queens who began as Kurtis Blow's onstage deejay. Selected collectively as one of _People_ magazine's "25 Most Intruiging People," they were declared "Kings of Queens." What rap group, for ten points, consisted of Joey Simmons, Darryl McDaniels, and "Jam Master Jay" Mizell, making black Kangol hats and Adidas shoes fashionable? Answer: _Run-DMC_ 13. He led an army purposely reduced to only 300 by eliminating all who were afraid and all who drank from a stream instead of lapping the water from their hands. This strategy worked; despite such a small force, he delivered his people from the Midianites. For ten points, name this Hebrew liberator and reformer, one of the Judges of Israel. Answer: _Gideon_ 14. It can be manufactured by heating sodium formate and then adding sulfuric acid. Used in industry to make inks, dyes, and polishes for metals, it is found in pure form in some toadstools. For ten points, identify the weak organic acid, consisting of whote crystals, its formula (COOH2) * 2H2O. Answer: _Oxalic acid_ 15. Born in 155 BC, he fought with distinction in Africa and in Gaul, defeating the Cimbri and Teutones. He instituted important reforms of the Roman army, and became the first to ever serve as consul seven times, between 108 and 101. For ten points, who was this popular general and rival of Sulla? Answer: _Marius_ 16. First held in 1905 for men and 1922 for women, Rodney Heath and Mall Molesworth were its first winners repsectively. It was held twice in 1977 and not at all in 1986, as the tournament was moved from January to December and back to January again. Roy Emerson won six times on the men's side, while Margaret Court won an amazing 11 women's titles. For ten points, identify the Grand Slam tennis tournament, where top-seeded Steffi Graf was eliminated by Amanda Coetzer last month. Answer: The _Australian Open_ 17. A lesser-known Sarpedon, Rhadamanthus, and Minos were her children. Agenor was her father according to mythological tradition, though the _Iliad_ mentions her as the daughter of Phoenix. For ten points, who was this woman carried off to Crete by Zeus in the form of a white bull? Answer: _Europa_ 18. Born in 1844, he lived a tragic and disordered life. He abandoned his young wife and in 1872 began an unhappy liaison with the young poet Rimbaud. Despite this existence, grace, delicacy, and musical suggestiveness characterized his own poetry. For ten points, who was this Frednch Symbolist poet of _Sagesse_ (1881) and _Fetes galantes_ (1869)? Answer: Paul _Verlaine_ 19. Apple Computers recently announced that it was buying his company, NeXT Software Inc., for $400 million, bringing him in to help buttress the combined company against competitor Microsoft. For ten points, who is this computer man who helped found Apple in 1976 with Steve Wozniak before leaving eleven years later in a bitter dispute? Answer: Steve _Jobs_ 20. He wrote two books: _What is Life_? (1946) and _Science and Man_ (1958). Born in Vienna in 1887, he became professor at Stuttgart, Breslau, Zurich, and at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. He made contributions to the field theory, but he is best known for orginating the study of wave mechanics as part of the quantum theory with his celebrated wave equation. For ten points, name the Austrian physicist, co-winner of the 1933 Nobel Prize and bane of cats everywhere. Answer: Erwin _Schrodinger_ 21. Campaign manager of Senator Lyndon Johnson, 1948. Secretary of the Navy, 1961-62. Secretary of the Treasury, 1971-72. Special adviser to the President, 1973-74. For all these accomplishments, this man is best remembered for an event in 1963, when he held another office. For ten points, name the former Texas governor wounded when John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas. Answer: John Bowden _Connally_ Jr. 22. The Ubangi River in this country drains north to Lake Chad. Opem, well-watered savanna covers most of the area, and it is bordered by Chad on the North, Cameroon on the West, Congo and Zaire on the South, and Sudan on the East. For ten points, name the country of 240,324 square miles, its capital at Bangui. Answer: _Central African Republic_ 23. She has been portrayed on television by Margaret Rutherford. An old lady who has lived all her life in the English village of St. Mary Mead, she finds criminals through their resemblance to someone she has known in the village. For ten points, identify this amateur crime solver, a character in _The Murder at the Vicarage_ and 15 other works by Agatha Christie. Answer: _Miss_ Jane _Marple_ 24. A symphony in five movements, it reflects the opium-induced hallucinations of a young musician. First, he recalls when he first saw his beloved; second, he sees her dancing at a ball; third, he is calmed by a scene in the fields; fourth, he murders his beloved and is executed at the guillotine; finally, his corpse becomes the centerpiece of a witches' sabbath. The work is haunted by a melody the composer described as an idee fixe, representing the beloved. For ten points, identify the Romantic symphony, written in 1830 for Harriet Smithson by Hector Berlioz. Answer: _Symphonie fantastique_ 25. They are mined in India, Zimbabwe, Russia, and North Carolina, but the highest quality of these gemstones come from the largest producer, Colombia. Most of them are a variety of the mineral beryl, except for the Oriental type, which are a form of corundum. For ten points, identify these rich green gemstones. Answer: _Emeralds_ 26. It is a lyric poem written in tercets and a closing quatrain, characterized by two refrain lines. Originally a round-song of farm laborers, its name comes from the Latin for "farm." For ten points, identify the type of poem, exemplified by Oscar Wilde's "Theocritus" and Dylan Thomas's "Do not go gentle into that good night." Answer: _Villanelle_ 27. The name for this game comes from the term coined for new recruits at the Woolwich Military Academy. British army officer Neville Chamberlain invented the game in 1875, adding a set of colored balls to the 15 red balls used in pyramids and devising a scoring system based on "potting" the balls in a red-color-red sequence until all the reds have been cleared. For ten points, identify this game, a hybrid of pool and pyramids. Answer: _Snooker_ 28. The two main groups of painters of this art style include a 1950s English group known as the Kitchen Sink school, and a turn-of-the-century American group known as The Eight. For ten points, identify the style used to describe paintings of the life and environment of the lower middle and working classes of the 20th century; its proponents including Middleditch, Glackens, and Hopper. Answer: _Social Realism_ 29. When this 44-year old father of three was an undergraduate at Cal Tech in the 1970s, he hung around the blackjack tables of Las Vegas, getting so good at counting cards that he was thrown out of several casinos. Such calculated gambling has paid off, for as the director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York, he has developed a strategy to almost eliminate HIV from the blood of recently-infected patients. For ten points, name the doctor, _Time_'s Man of the Year for 1996. Answer: Dr. David _Ho_ 30. It was sparked by the selection of Ultraroyalist Jules de Polignac to head the government. To overcome opposition to Polignac in the Chamber of Deputies, Charles X dissolved the Chamber, changed the electoral system, and censored the press. Riots broke out in Paris, forcing Charles to abdicate, and he was replaced by Louis-Philippe. For ten points, give the name of the 1830 French revolt, a victory for the upper bourgeoisie. Answer: _July Revolution_ (prompt on early buzz with "1830 Revolution") ---------------------------------------------------------------- Adam "AP" Fine, Class of 1998 ! "I am but mad north- MAQT Secretary and Semi-Guru ! by-northwest; when the Protector and Servant ! wind is southerly, I of Demigoddesses Everywhere ! can tell a hawk from a Member, Joe Satriani Fan Club ! hand-saw." ----------------------------------------------------------------