Tossups – round 1 dennis haskins open 2002 ut-chattanooga
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1. Born with the name Araminta, a more “American” name was given by a later owner. This native of Maryland’s eastern shore settled for a time in St. Catherines, Ontario, and would have joined John Brown at Harper’s Ferryhad it not been for a serious fever. She served Union forces as a cook and nurse in South Carolina and was said to have done some spying, as she knew how to move furtively and had many connections with slaves. FTP name this woman who led at least 300 slaves to freedom from 1840 through 1861. Answer: Harriet Tubman
Answer: Easy Bake Oven3. Using his own invention, the convergent eyepiece for the telescope, he explained that Saturn’s appearance was caused by a broad ring that surrounded it. In 1655 he also discovered Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Another of his contributions was the theory of the pendulum. FTP name this astronomer and physicist, who most importantly asserted that light was the motion of waves rather than particles. Answer: Christian Huygens
4. His first literary appearance came in the Tirso de Molina drama The Libertine of Seville and the Stone Guest. Moliere’s play about him introduced his wronged wife, Elvire. The scene where he is dragged into hell by a statue is included in Shaw’s Man and Superman. FTP name this legendary profligate and lover, subject of a Byron poem and a Mozart opera. Answer: Don Juan [accept Don Giovanni] 5. The fastest win was in 1980 by Buddy Baker. It was first run in 1959, but it wasn't until 1979 when it reached a national audience on CBS, when a last-lap crash between Cale Yarborough & Donnie Allison allowed Richard Petty to win. Won most recently by Ward Burton, it has long been the first race of the Winston Cup series. FTP, what is this premier NASCAR race run in Florida? Answer: Daytona 500 6. It is believed to consist of mainly pyroxene, olivine and garnet. It is about 1750 miles thick and is solid, except for a partially molten region called the asthenosphere, which is about 40 to 250 miles below the Earth's surface. FTP name this layer of the Earth which makes up about 67 percent of the Earth's mass and lies between the outer core and the lithosphere or crust. Answer: mantle 7. After the title figure’s story is told, a rebuttal is offered by a franklin. In the prologue to this literary work the narrator, named Alison, tells how she feigned injury to force her fifth husband to yield control of the marriage to her. She then goes on tells of a knight of King Arthur who will be pardoned for ravaging a maid if he can discover “what women most desire”. FTP, what is this famous Canterbury Tale? Answer: the Wife of Bath’s Tale 8. The very first proposition in Euclid's "Elements" proves that one of these can be constructed. The first step of the Koch snowflake fractal uses one and extends the middle third of each side. The stars Sirius, Betelgeuse, and Procyon form one in the winter sky. FTP--name this polygon with angles of sixty degrees. Answer: equilateral triangle [prompt on triangle] 9. He took part in the expedition led by Cabral that discovered Brazil in 1500, but he drowned when his ship foundered. In 1487 he led three ships to India and back, opening the long-sought sea route there. FTP name this Portuguese navigator, the first Westerner to sail around the Cape of Good Hope. Answer: Bartholomeu Diaz 10. Nicknamed Padfoot, he often appears as a gigantic black dog. Upon his conviction for the murder of thirteen persons in broad daylight with a single curse, he was confined to his most infamous residence. Later, we learn that he was framed by Peter Pettigrew, a treacherous servant of Voldemort. FTP, identify this godfather of Harry Potter, the title character in the third book of the series. Answer: Sirius Black (accept either first or last name), or the Prisoner of Azkaban 11. He collaborated with dancer Merce Cunningham and artist Marcel Duchamp among others, and he drew on such unlikely sources as the I Ching (which inspired his piano piece Music for Changes.) He is best known for experiments with random chance music such as Imaginary Landscape #4, a 1951 work for 12 radios tuned randomly. FTP name this American composer, whose other works may make you long for the total silence of his 4 Minutes, 33 Seconds.Answer: John Cage 12. During this U.S. president’s administration, the GATT agreement was signed by the major world powers, Tom Clark and Fred Vinson were appointed to the Supreme Court, the Philippines gained their independence, the 11-month Berlin airlift took place, NATO was formed, the Taft-Hartley Act passed, and the Marshall Plan was instituted. FTP, name this president whose term began just over 3 months before the dropping of two atomic bombs. Answer: Harry S. Truman 13. His literary career began when his wife challenged him to write a better book than the one he was reading. Though Precaution did not sell well, his second novel, The Spy, allowed him to quit farming. At age 34 he published the first American sea tale, The Pilot, and the first of his most famous series of novels about the American wilderness and pioneer life. FTP, name this author of The Pioneers, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, and The Last of the Mohicans. Answer: James Fenimore Cooper 14. The target of voracious class-action lawyers due to its deep pockets, MetLife recently settled out of court, paying $20 million for its completely legal and benign role in supporting this product. Once prized as a fire retardant and insulator, it has spawned more lawsuits than any other product in the history of personal-injury litigation. FTP, name this product banned in the 1970s due to its potential to cause cancer if inhaled. Answer: asbestos 15. Founded in 1535, its original name was Ciudad de los Reyes (City of the Kings). A powerful earthquake in 1746 killed about 10 percent of its population and destroyed most of the older structures, excluding a stone bridge over the Rimac River, which still stands. It and its chief port Callao were occupied by Chilean troops during the War of the Pacific. It is the capital of the country whose president until recently was Alberto Fujimori. FTP, name this largest city in Peru. Answer: Lima 16. It doesn’t matter if you force it to rewind to the start of the tape rather than backing up one space. It doesn’t matter if the tape is bi-infinite or infinite only in one direction. It can be abstracted to multiple heads or multiple tapes, but these are equivalent to a single tape or a single head by Dovetail’s principle. They have a namesake speedup principle, and Cook showed that you can reduce CNF-Sat problems to these devices. FTP identify this computer science abstraction that can model any possible computation. |