Tossups – round 1 dennis haskins open 2002 ut-chattanooga
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Answer: Charleston17. Considered an omen of ill fortune, it supposedly can be seen during stormy weather off the Cape of Good Hope. Walter Scott wrote that originally it was laden with precious metal and a horrible murder occurred on it; then plague broke out among the crew, so no port would allow it to anchor. Thus it wanders endlessly. FTP this describes what ship, the title vessel of a Wagner opera? Answer: Flying Dutchman (or Fliegende Hollander)
Answer: The Eye of the World 19. Not everyone involved kept silent or toed the line. Hugh Sloan resigned as campaign treasurer when he first suspected improprieties. One of the convicted burglars, James McCord, wrote a letter to Judge John Sirica telling him the full truth was not being divulged. White House Counsel John Dean tried to warn his boss and eventually spilled some of he beans. But the most daming disclosure came from Alexaner Butterfield, who didn’t know the White House conversation taping system was supposed to be secret. FTP name the scandal that brought down the administration of Richard Nixon. Answer: Watergate 20. It functions as both an exocrine and endocrine gland, and its alpha cells produce glucagon to help blood sugar levels stay normal. It consists of a head, body, and tail, and is a flattened organ located behind and below the stomach. Its endocrine tissue is called the islets of Langerhans. FTP what is this organ which is responsible for producing insulin? Answer: pancreas 21. It is the name of the evil character who kills the half-wit Tommy and rapes Temple Drake in Faulkner’s novel Sanctuary. It is also the nickname of the legendary New York narcotics officer Jimmy Doyle, portrayed by Gene Hackman in the French Connection. FTP what is this name shared by the enemy of Bluto, the spinach-eatin’ sailor man? Answer: Popeye 22. In the Eastern Orthodox Church it lasts 80 days but does not count Saturdays or Sundays. In Western tradition it is often preceded by festivals such as Shrove Tuesday in Britain, Carneval in Brazil, and Mardi Gras. It lasts for 40 days, beginning with Ash Wednesday. FTP name this period preceding Easter, traditionally observed by fasting and penitence. Answer: Lent 23. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London, but fell out of favor with them when he failed to complete his mechanical calculating machine. Considered very important in philosophy as well as mathematics, he wrote such works as Dissertation on the Combinatorial Arts and On Perplexing Cases. But he is probably better known for his correspondence with Isaac Newton. For 10 points, name this co-inventor of calculus. Answer: Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz TOSSUPS – SEMIFINALS DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2002 -- UT-CHATTANOOGA 1. Catherine de Medici’s plan to assassinate the Count of Coligny (call-in-ay) failed, so she chose August 24, 1572, as a good day to strike at her enemies in another manner. Because many of those enemies were in Paris, a Catholic stronghold, for the marriage of Henry of Navarre to Marguerite of Valois, it was easy to get loyal Catholics to attack Huguenot leaders. FTP what name is given to this slaughter of Huguenots on a saint’s feast day? Answer: the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
Answer: Hakeem Olajuwon 3. It begins with the title character wandering on stage, old and decrepit, into the sacred rocky grove of the furies. He sends for Theseus, king of Athens, and when the chorus recognizes him, they insist on his leaving holy ground, though he tells them prophecy says he must die here. Soon Creon arrives and threatens the seizure of Ismene and Antigone. This is, FTP, what second play in the Theban trilogy by Sophocles? Answer: Oedipus at Colonus4. They usually have leaf veins in the form of a net, a ring of vascular bundles in the stem, and flower parts in multiples of four or five. They include many food plants, such as potatoes, peas, and beans, as well as ornamental flowers, like the rose and honeysuckle, and hardwood trees, including oaks and beeches. FTP name this type of flowering plant distinguished by having two seed leaves. Answer: dicot
Answer: Lohengrin 6. Double the factorial of this number is equal to how many minutes are in a week. It is the first happy prime number, is speculated to be the number of colors needed to color an arbitrary map on a donut, and is the number of bridges in the famous Konigsberg problem. FTP identify this number whose binary representation is 111, the largest single digit prime, and the number of holes in a horseshoe – a traditional token of good luck. Answer: seven 7. Inspired by the critical views of T.E. Hulme, its adherents included F.S. Flint, Richard Aldington, and Hilda Doolittle. Works in this antiromantic tradition evoked an exact visual picture using succinct verse of dry clarity and hard outline. FTP name this literary movement, whose leadership fell to Amy Lowell in 1914 when it was abandoned for Vorticism by its foremost original advocate, Ezra Pound. Answer: Imagism 8. The Landform Method and the Compass Method are two traditional schools associated with this Chinese philosophy, which advocates environmental design techniques as a way to enhance one’s personal “chi” [CHEE], or life force. This study of the relationship between the environment and human life is referred to by two words that translate as “wind” and “water.” FTP name this current trend in interior design. Answer: Feng shui (pronounced “fung shway” but accept variants) 9. A former Congressional staffer, he had also been a special assistant to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development before becoming press secretary in 1979 to John Connally, then a Presidential candidate. Connally’s conqueror in the primaries, Ronald Reagan, brought him on board. He continued to serve officially as Reagan’s Press Secretary despite being unable to fulfill most of his duties for Reagan’s last 7 years in office. FTP name this political pro who with his wife Sarah became a major advocate for handgun control after he was seriously wounded by would-be assassin John Hinckley. Answer: James “Jim” Brady 10. These compounds must not affect the solution they inhabit, and they must be able to change rapidly to be useful. Examples include thymol blue, methyl orange, methyl red, and, most famously, phenolphthalein (feen-ol-thay-leen), which is clear in acidic solutions but turns purple in a base. FTP name this type of compound, used in titration, which changes color in response to a specific change in pH. Answer: indicators 11. Currently under Pakistani administration, it lies partly in China and partly in Jammu and Kashmir. Part of the Karakoram Range, it stands on a tributary of the Baltoro Glacier, the third largest in the world. With an alternate name coming from the fact it was the second Karakoram peak measured, FTP what is this second highest peak on Earth? Answer: K2 or Godwin Austen 12. Falsely claiming to be the original lead singer of Pink Floyd, he rebelled against the family calling at the age of 21, became a delinquent, and dropped out of Oxford. During this dark age, he summoned the demon Eyghon and earned the nickname "Ripper" from his chaos-worshipping friend, Ethan Rayne. He was fired from one job for being too emotionally attached and lost another after blowing up his place of work, but landed on his feet as the proprietor of The Magic Box. FTP, name this character, Buffy Summer's “Watcher,” played by Anthony Stewart Head. Answer: Rupert Giles 13. He vetoed a bill to make Colorado a state, saying it did not yet have sufficient population. More likely it was to save his own political hide, since he knew that any potential Senators from that state would oppose him, especially after the treatment the people of Kansas gave Sen. Edmund Ross for not doing so. A year later, he selected General Lorenzo Thomas as Secretary of War, removing Edwin Stanton in apparent violation of the Tenure of Office Act. FTP, name this president, who, by a 19 to 35 vote, was acquitted by Senate after the House voted 126-47 to impeach him. Answer: Andrew Johnson 14, In general it is equal to the mass times the radius of gyration squared. The rotational kinetic energy is equal to one-half times this quantity times the angular velocity squared. For a sphere of mass M and radius R, and any axis through the center, it is 2/5 times M times R squared. It plays the same role in rotational mechanics that mass does in linear mechanics. Equal to the torque divided by angular acceleration, FTP name this quantity, sometimes symbolized capital I, which describes an object's resistance to change in rotation. Answer: moment of inertia 15. MacGowan. Samson. Tull. Peabody. Cora. Dewey Dell. Whitfield. Addie. Anse. Cash. Jewel. Vardaman. Darl. These are most of the 15 narrators of, FTP, what William Faulkner novel about the long journey of the Bundren family to bury Addie? Answer: As I Lay Dying [prompt on Faulkner; do not accept Bundren, as the first ones aren’t] 16. Like Gandhi and Nehru, he was a British-educated lawyer who joined the Indian National Congress. Unlike them, he was a Muslim, and he left the group in 1920 when his demand for a separate Muslim electorate was rejected. He spent the next 20 years simultaneously seeking Indian independence and political equality for Muslims before adopting the aim of a separate Muslim state, which he saw formed in 1947. FTP name the founder of Pakistan. Answer: Mohammad Ali Jinnah 17. These worshippers of the fish-god Dagon were a Sea People of Aegean origin who penetrated Egypt and Syro-Palestinian coastal areas during the 11th century BCE. Their chief cities included Gaza and Gath, and according to the Bible their ripe fields of corn were set ablaze by foxes that had been caught by Samson. FTP, name this warlike people of Canaan's coastal plain, whose name is now a synonym for a person indifferent to art and culture, and whose massive champion was slain by a single stone. Answer: Philistines 18. This painter, a relative unknown until W. Thore-Burger "discovered" him in 1866, was a slow worker who produced no more than 40 small canvasses before his death at age 43 in 1675. His famous works like “Girl with a Pearl Earring” often depict figures within carefully composed interior spaces. FTP name this supreme exponent of light and shade in Dutch interior painting, who composed “Head of a Girl” and “View of Delft.” Answer: Jan Vermeer 19. Karl Schwartzchild predicted their existence as a consequence of general relativity, and John Wheeler named them. Supermassive ones may be at the center of quasars and other galaxies, including our own. FTP name these objects, whose gravitational field is so strong that even light can’t escape. Answer: black hole 20. This novel contains a storm scene that its author regarded as his best writing, in which Ham dies heroically. "Barkis was willin" to marry a plump, plain servant, and James Steerforth runs off with Emily. The main character lives with an ineffectual but idealistic couple whom are always expecting something to turn up, but often have to pawn the silver. Frail Dora expires and the manipulative Uriah Heep is exposed as a rogue in, FTP, what autobiographical novel by Charles Dickens? Answer: David Copperfield 21. In Hindu mythology Brahma rides on Hamsa, one of these creatures. In a Grimm’s fairy tale, eleven brothers are turned into them before their younger sister breaks the spell. The male of the species was associated with Apollo in ancient Greece. FTP what are these birds into one of which Zeus transformed himself to take the mortal woman Leda? Answer: swan 22. He was almost 40 years old and in the twilight of his career when he finally got his only World Series title, in 1924. He still holds the career record for shutouts with 110 – 20 more than the next highest – and led the AL in strikeouts twelve times in a 15-year stretch. Along with Christy Mathewson, he was one of two pitchers in the five charter inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame. FTP name this legendary Washington Senators pitcher, nicknamed “Big Train.” Answer: Walter Johnson 23. In one ancient text she brags about her piercings and buttock jewelry, and this nymphomanaical goddess periodically regenerated her virginity by bathing in a sacred lake. Often depicted with a bow and quiver commanding armies, she was rejected in love by Gilgamesh, but found solace in the violent embraces of her own brother, Tammuz. FTP, identify this "star of the morning,” the Mesopotamian goddess of love. Answer: Ishtar |