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BONI – ROUND 1 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2002 -- UT-CHATTANOOGA


1. One of the most influential volumes of verse was the 1798 book Lyrical Ballads, which featured the works of two allied poets. Answer the following about that collection FTPE:

a) The collection’s first poem, it relates the travails of a sailor who brought bad luck by shooting an albatross.

Answer: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

b) The volume concludes with this poem about the joy of a pilgrimage to a special sacred place, which begins, “Five years have passed /Five summers, with the length / Of five long winters!”

Answer: Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

c) F5PE, name the book’s two collaborators, one of whom wrote “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, the other of whom wrote “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey.”

Answers: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth


2. Name these important ores FTPE:

a) Composed in its pure form of lead sulfide, it is the most important ore of lead, but it often has enough silver content to be mined for that as well.

Answer: galena

b) A mixture of such minerals as diaspore, gibbsite, and boehmite, it is the most important source of aluminum.

Answer: bauxite

c) This is the mineral name for mercury sulfide, the chief ore of mercury.

Answer: cinnabar
3. Not counting Republican Party, since it absorbed the already dying Whigs, 3rd party movements in the U.S. never flourish for very long but can prompt a major party to change its platform. FTPE answer the following:

a) This party came the closest, actually finishing 2nd in 1912, but that was because they had the popular ex-President Theodore Roosevelt at the top of the ticket. Minus the nickname “Bull Moose,” they reemerged as a credible force in 1924 with Robert LaFollette and in 1948 with Henry A. Wallace.

Answer: Progressive Party

b) Falling short of pre-election polls but still finishing a strong 3rd in 1996 was this party formed by H. Ross Perot, who ran as an independent in 1992. In 2000 a struggle between two newcomers, conservative Pat Buchanan and former Natural Law Party candidate Dr. John Hagelin, weakened its structure and led it to finish 4th in the vote totals.

Answer: Reform Party

c) The last 3rd party to carry any states was the American Independent Party in 1968, which got 46 electoral votes from Southern states for this candidate, the segregationist Governor of Alabama.

Answer: George C. Wallace
4. FTPE, name the following about the labors of Heracles.

1. (10 points) Heracles defeated this monster of Lernaean swamps with the aid of his friend Iolaus, who burned the stumps of each of its heads after Heracles cut them off.

Answer: the Lernaean Hydra

2. (10 points) By holding the general Melanippe for ransom, Heracles gained the girdle of this queen of the Amazons.

Answer: Hippolyta

3. (10 points) Heracles captured the horses of this king of the Bistonians. Made mad after being fed with human flesh, Heracles tamed the horses by feeding them their master.

Answer: Diomedes
5. Tired of predictable films? FTPE, given a recent film with major plot twists we won’t tell you about, name the film.

a) In this 1999 film, Haley Joel Osment sees dead people. They’re everywhere.

Answer: The Sixth Sense

b) Guy Pearce stars as Leonard Shelby, a man with a condition that blocks formation of new memories, in this 2001 Oscar nominee. Since it’s told backwards, you know the end of the story right away but must figure out the beginning.

Answer: Memento

c) Guy Pearce stars as Leonard Shelby, a man with... did I say that already? OK, then, instead Nicole Kidman plays a mother isolated with her two kids in a spooky house on the isle of Jersey in this 2001 film.

Answer: The Others

6. Sri Lanka, Israel, and Swaziland are among a handful of nations with two official capitals. Name these others from their multiple-choice capitals on a 10-5 basis:

a) 10 pts.: Sucre

5 pts.: La Paz

Answer: Bolivia

b) 10 pts.: The Hague

5 pts.: Amsterdam

Answer: the Netherlands; accept Holland

c) 10 pts.: Dodoma

5 pts.: Dar es Salaam

Answer: Tanzania
7. One reason to become an artist is that you can still make editorial comments even after you’re dead. Answer the following about artists and models FTSNOP:

a) (5 pts.) In his fresco The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel, he made sure to include Pope Julius II – the man who forced him to paint the chapel – as one of the faces in Hell.

Answer: Michelangelo Buonarroti

b) (5 pts.) This artist used his sister and his dentist as the models for American Gothic. He must have been amused when people assumed they were a married couple, since his sister was intended to be seen as the farmer’s daughter.

Answer: Grant Wood

c) (10 pts.) While it is clear that he was infatuated with the noblewoman depicted so scandalously in The Naked Maja, historians doubt that the two were ever involved and presume that he employed a body double as his model.

Answer: Francisco Goya

d) (10 pts.) She was raped by her father’s student Agostino Tassi and had the courage to persuade her father to sue for damages, a suit Tassi apparently lost. That’s Tassi’s face contorted in agony in her Judith Beheading Holofernes.

Answer: Artemisia Gentileschi
8. F5PE or 30 for all 5 correct, name the acid from its formula:

a) H Cl [H C-L.]

Answer: Hydrochloric acid

b) H3PO4 [H-3 P O-4]

Answer: Phosphoric acid

c) HNO3 [H N O-3]

Answer: Nitric acid

d) HClO [H C-L. O]

Answer: Hypochlorous acid

e) CH3CO2H [C H-3 C O-2 H]

Answer: Acetic acid
9. How long has Elizabeth II been on the British throne? When she ascended to it, Winston Churchill was in his final term as Prime Minister. For 5 points each, name any 6 of the other 9 Prime Ministers who’ve served since 1953.

Answers: any six of: Sir (Robert) Anthony Eden; (Maurice) Harold Macmillan; Sir Alec Douglas-Home (pronounced Douglas-Hume but accept Douglas-Home); (James) Harold Wilson; Edward Heath; James Callaghan; Margaret (“Maggie”)Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven; John Major; Anthony (“Tony”) Blair


10. For those too lazy even for Cliff’s Notes, there’s the “Book-a-Minute Classics” site on the Web. F5PE identify the novels from their ultra-condensed version found there, and for another 5 pts. name the author:

a) Our farm has been taken away. Let's go to California. (They do. On the way, there are calamities, and people DIE, because this is the Great Depression when times were HARD, and it was a struggle just to hold on to one's DIGNITY.)

Answers: The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

b) An old man catches a fish that's too big for his boat. The fish gets eaten by sharks. Then he goes home and DIES. The end.

Answers: The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway

c) Holden Caulfield: Angst angst angst swear curse swear crazy crazy angst swear curse, society sucks, and I'm a stupid jerk. The end.

Answers: The Catcher in the Rye, J.(ohn) D.(avid) Salinger

11. FTPE, answer the following about a Civil War battle.

1. (10 points) In this April 6, 1862 battle, Albert Johnston attacked the Union army, but retreated to Corinth, Mississippi the next day after Union reinforcements arrived, leaving western Tennessee in Union hands.

Answer: Shiloh (or Pittsburg Landing for us Southerners)

2. (10 points) This was the Major General who led the Union forces at Shiloh.

Answer: Ulysses S. Grant

3. (10 points) Johnston’s flanking maneuver against the Union was stalled at this site near Sarah Bell’s peach orchard, where heavy resistance was encountered from the Union troops entrenched in a thicket of oak trees.

Answer: the Hornet’s Nest


12. In 2000 the Pro Football Hall of Fame voters selected the NFL All Time Team. Name these members FTPE:

a) At quarterback was this star of the Baltimore Colts who revolutionized the passing game in the late ‘50’s and ‘60’s.

Answer: Johnny Unitas

b) The only player on the list still active is this wide receiver, who crossed the bay from his original team to spend the 2001 season with the Oakland Raiders.

Answer: Jerry Rice

c) Appearing at defensive end opposite Deacon Jones was this Tennessee alumnus who established the career sacks record with Philadelphia, Green Bay, and Carolina. Oh, and did we mention he’s from Chattanooga?

Answer: Reggie White
13. FTPE name the African authors of the following:

a) Too Late the Phalarope and Cry, the Beloved Country

Answer: Alan Paton

b) Anthills of the Savannahs and Things Fall Apart

Answer: Chinua Achebe

c) A Guest of Honor and My Son’s Story

Answer: Nadime Gordimer
14. Earlier in this round we mentioned Sucre, one of the capitals of Bolivia. Sucre was named for one of the leaders in the South American wars of liberation. FTPE name these other leaders in those wars:

a) Antonio Jose de Sucre was chief lieutenant to this man, who took up the cause begun by Francisco Miranda and led the liberation of Venezuela and Colombia.

Answer: Simon Bolivar

b) In 1822 Bolivar took over the task of clearing Peru of Spanish forces from this man, who had captured Lima after success in his native Argentina.

Answer: Jose Francisco de San Martin

c) In 1817 San Martin and this general with an unlikely name invaded Chile and defeated the Spanish at Chacabuco. He remained in Chile and served as its first director from 1817 till 1823.

Answer: Bernardo O’Higgins
15. For 5 pts. each, given a mammal, tell which order it belongs to:

a) Whales

Answer: Cetacea

b) Chimpanzees

Answer: Primates

c) Bats


Answer: Chiroptera

d) Hedgehogs

Answer: Insectivora

e) Lemurs

Answer: Primates

f) Rabbits

Answer: Lagomorpha
16. Fans of the TV series Little House on the Prairie who never read the books will no doubt be surprised to know that the title residence was not in Walnut Grove. Answer the following FTSNOP:

a) (5) The book Little House on the Prairie actually took place in this Kansas town, often confused with the Missouri town of the same name which now houses the Presidential Library of its most famous resident, Harry Truman.

Answer: Independence

b) (5) Name the author of Little House on the Prairie.

Answer: Laura Ingalls Wilder [grudgingly accept Ingalls, and if someone says Rose Wilder Lane, also grudgingly accept it as some scholars contend she actually ghostwrote it for her mom]

c) (10) The first book of the series, this book is set in Pepin, Wisconsin, where Laura and her sister Mary were born.

Answer: Little House in the Big Woods

d) (10) Walnut Grove, MN, was actually the setting for another book in the series, one of two that name bodies of water in the title. The other took place near DeSmet, SD, where Ma and Pa finally settled for good. FTP name either book.

Answer: On the Banks of Plum Creek (Walnut Grove) or By the Shores of Silver Lake (DeSmet)
17. Most famous philosophers weren’t just philosophers. Name the following scholars FTPE:

a) In his time, this 18th century author was better known for his History of England than for the empiricist ideas in his Treatise of Human Nature.

Answer: David Hume

b) With Charles S. Peirce he was a leading exponent of pragmatism, but his Principles of Psychology played a major role in advancing public awareness of that then-obscure field.

Answer: William James [prompt on James]

c) His On the Birth of Tragedy was an important work in both Greek studies and literary criticism, and was more widely accepted than such philosophical works as Thus Spake Zarathusra and Beyond Good and Evil.

Answer: Friedrich Nietzsche
18. Given a condition, give the most general class of quadrilaterals, all of whose members satisfy the condition, FTPE:

a) All four angles are equal

Answer: rectangle

b) Both pairs of opposite angles are congruent

Answer: parallelogram

c) The diagonals are perpendicular bisectors of each other

Answer: rhombus
19. Show off your knowledge of the founding of Islam by answering the following FTPE.

In 622 CE, the Prophet and his followers fled from Mecca to Medina, an event known by this Arabic name.

Answer: Hegira

The salat, or Muslim prayer, is now performed facing Mecca, but before 623 CE, toward what city did the faithful pray?

Answer: Jerusalem

Shi’ite Muslims differ from the Sunni because they believe this son-in-law of the prophet should have been first Caliph and that his descendants should have ascended to the title.

Answer: Ali
20. Answer the following about the frictional force FTPE:

a) Frictional force is given by the product of the coefficient of friction and this type of force.

Answer: normal force

b) This is the name given to the coefficient of friction when the object is at rest

Answer: coefficient of static friction

c) This is the name given to the coefficient of friction when the object is in motion.

Answer: coefficient of kinetic friction
21. Identify whether each of the following groups of words is an independent clause, dependent clause, prepositional phrase, or adverbial phrase, FTPE. (hint—one of these categories will not appear).

a) Before the race is won. Answer: dependent clause

b) Behind the fourteen cases of watermelon. Answer: prepositional phrase

c) Run! Answer: independent clause


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