Tossups – round 1 dennis haskins open 2002 ut-chattanooga
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Answer: sphinx21. They mix anapestic and iambic meter and have five lines with a rhyme scheme of a-a-b-b-a. They were popularized by Edward Lear in his 1846 Book of Nonsense, and their first line usually ends in a place name. FTP what are these often ribald or profane short poems, many of which seem to be about men from Nantucket? Answer: limericks
Answer: operant conditioning 23. She recently confirmed that she married producer Robert Smith (not of the Cure!) with whom she has been recording her forthcoming album Full Moon. Her first album was released in 1995 after the sitcom she was on (Thea) was canceled. Hits like "I Wanna Be Down" were just a prelude to her 1998 album Never Say Never, which featured "U Don't Know Me" and the duet with Monica "The Boy Is Mine." FTP, name this fine girl, former star of Moesha. Answer: Brandy Norwood [accept either name] TOSSUPS – BACKUP ROUND #1 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2002 -- UT-CHATTANOOGA 1. Its commander was the Duke of Medina-Sidonia. Not all members of its crews spoke the same language, and its captains seemed ill at ease in the confined quarters of the English Channel, both crucial factors in its eventual destruction of the coast of Gravelines. Launched partly because of Phillip II’s outrage over the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, FTP, what fleet was destroyed by the English in 1588? Answer: the Spanish Armada2. More an ideology than an established religion, it’s beginnings are traced roughly to the 5th century BCE. Temples built for worship are public edifices designed for annual ceremonies. The keynote of its ethics is ren, variously translated as “love”, “goodness,” “humanity,” and “human-heartedness.” FTP name this ideology, a major social force in China from the 2nd century BCE until the mid-twentieth century, known for its golden rule, “Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself.” Answer: Confucianism (do NOT accept Confucius)
3. First established in September 1981, in RFC 791, RFC 1149’s implementation of this protocol with carrier pigeons was recently carried out by a Norwegian group. This protocol is the routing layer for messages, as almost all other protocols use this one for frame transmission between hosts. FTP, give the name of this protocol, which along with TCP is the standard for electronic communication. Answer: IP or Internet Protocol 4. The Richard Dreyfuss film Moon Over Parador owes a debt to this 1894 novel, which was followed by an 1898 sequel, Rupert of Hentzau. Its hero is Rudolf Rassendyll, an English gentleman who bears an uncanny resemblance to the king of Ruritania, whom he impersonates in order to save him from a treasonous plot. FTP name this Anthony Hope novel. Answer: The Prisoner of Zenda 5. It is a special property of planar, cyclic, conjugated systems having a configuration of (4n+2) conjugated pi electrons. The delocalization of those electrons gives these types of compounds special chemical stability. The most common one is benzene, which has six pi electrons. FTP what name is given to these compounds which have often have a pleasant odor? Answer: aromatics (acc. aromatic hydrocarbons) 6. She has been working with choreographers Lori Nichol and Sarah Kawahara since her October split with longtime coach Frank Carroll. Her autobiography is called Heart of a Champion. In 1994, she was World Junior Champion & placed 8th in the regular Championships. Her first US & World titles came in 1996. FTP, name this 2002 US Ladies Figure Skating champion, whose favorite colors are probably not silver and bronze. Answer: Michelle Kwan 7. Discovered by Dutch scientist Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes in 1911, occurring within two objects with this property is a disturbance of a crystal lattice creating an attraction so strong that it binds electrons together into Cooper pairs. Helium’s critical temperature to be 4.2 K, while compounds containing mercury can exhibit it at close to 125 K. This is, FTP, what low-temperature phenomenon, in which resistance in certain materials drops to zero? Answer: superconductivity 8. He excelled in depicting conflict between illusion and reality and the isolation of the individual not only from society, but also from himself. He explored these themes in such dramas as The Man with the Flower in His Mouth and Right You Are If You Think You Are. FTP name the winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature, best remembered for Six Characters In Search of An Author. Answer: Luigi Pirandello 9. Toward the end, his body was swollen grotesquely from dropsy, and this former president died in 1845, less than ten years after leaving office. In better days, he said that "the duties of public office are so plain and simple that men of intelligence may readily qualify themselves", thus justifying his innovation of the "spoils" system. FTP identify this "King Veto,” robbed of the presidency by 1824's "Corrupt Bargain,” who was also called "Old Hickory.” Answer: Andrew Jackson 10. He designed Chandigarh, a new capital for India’s Punjab region, which was appropriate because of the emphasis most of his works placed upon low-tech building methods for mass housing built by cheap, Third World labor. His design for the Notre-Dame-du-Haut chapel at Ronchamp, with its sweeping curves and roughly textured concrete, displays an abandonment of modernist purity thirty years before “post-modernism” came into vogue. FTP, people around the world devolving in vandalized blocks of box-like high rises can thank what Swiss-French architect? Answer: Le Corbusier (acc. Charles Edouard Jeanneret) 11. She was born in Decatur, Alabama, but raised in Chicago. She entered Stanford at age 16 on a scholarship, and earned degrees in Chemical Engineering and Afro-American studies. From there she went to Cornell School of Medicine and earned her MD. But her real claim to fame took place on September 12, 1992. FTP name the first African-American woman in space. Answer: Mae Jemison 12. William Whitehead, Henry James Pye, Alfred Austin, Thomas Shadwell, Colley Cibber, Sir William Davenant, Sir John Betjeman, Robert Southey, Ted Hughes, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and William Wordsworth. FTP, these people all held what post, whose earlier holders include Skelton, Spenser, and Chaucer? Answer: Poet Laureate of England 13. The second one began after the boarding of the British ship Arrow. The first resulted from the British desire to offset a negative currency flow to a nation which accepted only currency in most trades. In 1840, in response to the actions of Lin Zexu, 16 British warships sailed to the Pei Ho river and attacked Canton. The second ended with the Treaty of Tianjin, while the first ended with the Treaty of Nanking, which gave Hong Kong to the British. FTP, identify these wars, named for the material the British exported into China to offset the currency flow. Answer: Opium War(s) 14. Born in 495 BCE, little is known of his life, except that he stopped at Athens when he was 65 and probably met the young Socrates. His writings were consciously in opposition to Heraclitus, as he insisted on the permanence of things. He was also the first to enunciate the Law of the Excluded Middle: either something is, or it is not. FTP who is this pre-Socratic philosopher and author of “On Nature”? Answer: Parmenides 15. Background characters in the novel include Frances Clyne, Bill Gorton, and Mike Campbell. The proprietor Montoya notes that the narrator has “aficion,” as the group of expatriates meets for the festival of San Fermin. The central characters are a young war widow, a former Princeton boxer, a young bullfighter, and a man who suffered an unfortunate injury in World War I. Set mostly in Paris and Pamplona, FTP, name this 1926 novel, the first major novel by Ernest Hemingway. Answer: The Sun Also Rises 16. This city’s oldest gathering area, Marion Square, a site of Revolutionary War battlements, is undergoing renovation. In 2000, the NAACP’s boycott of its state led some artists to avoid the city’s annual classical music festival Spoleto, founded by Gian Carlo Menotti. FTP name this Southern city at the confluence of the Ashley and Cooper Rivers which is drawing new tourists to look at the remains of the Confederate sub Hunley, the largest city in South Carolina. |