Tossups – round 1 dennis haskins open 2002 ut-chattanooga

BONI – ROUND 3 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2002 -- UT-CHATTANOOGA

1. Are they nations or aren’t they? Right now your genial quizmaster has a list of 192 full-fledged, generally recognized nations, but these aren’t among them. Name them from clues FTPE:

a) The most prominent of several smaller units still seeking independence from Russia is this republic with its capital at Grozny. As of April 5 the official website of its rebel government is, quote, “temporarily down”, unquote.

Answer: Chechnya (or Chechen Republic or Chechen-Ingush)

b) After a 1999 agreement between rebels here, Indonesia, and Portugal, this region is under UN transitional administration with no set timetable for independence. One of the few points of agreement is that Dili is its capital.

Answer: East Timor or Timor Lorosa’e

c) When the Spanish gave up this former colony in 1958, both Morocco and Mauritania claimed it, and Morocco still does despite a 1991 agreement with rebels to hold a referendum that’s still pending due to squabbles over voter eligibility. It doesn’t even have a capital, but its largest city is El-Aaiun (or La’youne).

Answer: Western Sahara (or Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic)

a) Transmitted via tick bite, this disease named for a Connecticut town where it was first identified begins with a red rash,fever, and aches. Untreated, it can lead to arthritis, nerve damage, and kidney problems.

Answer: Lyme disease

b) Schaudinn and Hoffman identified the spirochete Treponema pallidum as the cause of this venereal disease, which after initially causing painful sores goes into a latent phase where it can silently cause severe, even fatal nerve damage.

Answer: syphilis

c) Properly termed Vincent's infection, this ulcerative membranous infection of the gums and mouth is associated with both a fusiform bacillus and a spirochete. It got its common name because it was once widely spread among soldiers in the field.

Answer: trench mouth

3. MTV2 has become the outlet for current music that will never see the light of TRL. Given songs from its new “Handpicked” album, identify the artist who performed it, for the stated number of points.

a. (5) Babylon

Answer: David Gray

b. (5) Yellow

Answer: Coldplay

c. (10) Life on a Chain

Answer: Pete Yorn

d. (10) "Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja"

Answer: Lost Prophets

a) “The life of man…” [in a state of nature is] “… nasty, brutish, and short.”

Answer: Thomas Hobbes

b) “If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.”

Answer: Voltaire (or Francois-Marie Arouet for the showoffs among you)

c) “Liberty consists in doing what one desires.”

Answer: John Stuart Mill
5. FTPE name these African-American women authors:

a) This author of Meridian and The Temple of My Familiar won a Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for The Color Purple.

Answer: Alice Walker

b) Winner of the 1993 Nobel for Literature, her works include Sula, The Bluest Eye, and the 1987 Pulitzer-winning Beloved.

Answer: Toni Morrison (or Chloe Anthony Wofford if you want to show off)

c) Noted for her encouragement of other African-American women authors, her works include Linden Hills and The Women of Brewster Place.

Answer: Gloria Naylor

6. FTPE, what conic section is defined as:

a. The set of points in a plane the sum of whose distances from two fixed points is constant?

Answer: ellipse

b. The set of points in a plane equidistant from a fixed point and a fixed line?

Answer: parabola

c. The set of points in a plane the difference of whose distances from two fixed points is constant?

Answer: hyperbola

a) 10 pts.: Ginerva di Benci and The Virgin of the Rocks

5 pts.: The Last Supper

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci (accept either Leonardo or da Vinci)

b) 10 pts.: Madonna of the Magnificat

5 pts.: Birth of Venus and Primavera

Answer: Sandro Botticelli

c) 10 pts.: Madonna of the Goldfinch, The Sistine Madonna

5 pts.: The School of Athens

Answer: Raphael

a) The first African-American Nobel laureate, he won a Peace prize for negotiating the 1949 Israeli-Palestinian armistice.

Answer: Ralph Bunche

b) Overshadowed by longtime colleague Martin Luther King Jr., this other minister from Montgomery cofounded and eventually headed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Answer: Ralph Abernathy

c) One of King and Abernathy’s top lieutenants in the SCLC, this man eventually became a Congressman from Georgia, Mayor of Atlanta, and US Ambassador to the UN.

Answer: Andrew Young
9. F15PE, name these Canterbury Tales from descriptions.

1. (15 points) This tale describes an incident from the legend of Reynard the Fox in which the fox Don Russell is tricked into revealing his location to hunters by the crafty rooster Chauntecleer.

Answer: the Nun’s Priest Tale

2. (15 points) In this lewd tale the scholar Nicholas desires Alison, and convinces her husband John that a flood is coming to distract him. There plans go awry when the foppish clerk Absolon comes to woo Alison as well, leading to hilarious complications involving red hot pokers and plummeting bathtubs.

Answer: the Miller’s Tale
10. For 10 points each, name these laws of physics:

1. 
   A simpler form of the Biot-Savart law, it uses high symmetry to state that the line integral of a magnetic field with respect to surface area is equal to the enclosed charge.
   

2. 
   This law named for a German mathematician states that the surface integral of electric field of a symmetric object is equal to its enclosed charge.
   

3. 
   Derived by a Scottish physicist, this law quantifies the induced electric field produced by a changing magnetic field.
   

This legendary king of Athens threw himself into the sea when he saw the black sail mistakenly left up on the boat of his son Theseus.

Answer: Aegeus

Homer said this shield was made by Hephaestus for Zeus from goatskin and thunder.

Answer: aegis

This god of the winds kept the winds imprisoned in islands named for himself.

Answer: Aeolus

12. Been looking at colleges yet? F5PE name the states with the principal state university located in the following cities:

a) Eugene

Answer: Oregon

b) Bloomington

Answer: Indiana

c) Laramie

Answer: Wyoming

d) Oxford

Answer: Mississippi

e) Orono

Answer: Maine

f) State College

Answer: Pennsylvania

a) (10 pts.) These are defined as different molecular forms of an element in the same physical state. Carbon exhibits at least four of them.

Answer: allotropes

Among the allotropes of carbon are the following. Name them F5PE with another 5 points for all 3 correct:

b) What name do we give the 3-D crystal allotrope of carbon?

Answer: diamond

c) Which allotrope of carbon forms 2-D sheets?

Answer: graphite

d) Which allotrope of carbon forms 60 atom molecules in a hollow 3-dimensional geodesic structure?

Answer: buckminsterfullerene (accept fullerenes or buckyballs)

a) 10 pts.: This Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder capped a ninth inning rally with the game-winning hit.

Answer: Luis Gonzalez

b) 10 pts.: Gonzalez got the hit off this Yankees reliever who had previously been invincible in postseason play.

Answer: Mariano Rivera

c) Two Diamondbacks starting pitchers shared series MVP honors. Name them for 5 pts. each.

Answer: Curt Schilling and Randy Johnson
15. Given monarchs from a ruling house or dynasty of Great Britain, name it on a 10-5 basis:

a) 10 pts.: Edward VI and Mary I

5 pts.: Henry VIII and Elizabeth I

Answer: Tudor [grudgingly accept Tudor-Stuart, but do not accept or prompt on just Stuart]

b) 10 pts.: William IV and Victoria

5 pts.: George I, II, III, and IV

Answer: Hanover

c) 10 pts.: Edward I, II, and III

5 pts.: Richard I, John, and Henry II

Answer: Plantagenet

a) 10 pts.: Free Fall and Rite of Passage

5 pts.: Lord of the Flies

Answer: William Golding

b) 10 pts.: The Light That Failed, Tales from the Hills, and Barrack-Room Ballads

5 pts.: Kim and Captains Courageuos

Answer: Rudyard Kipling

c) 10 pts.: The Rainbow and Women in Love

5 pts.: Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Answer: D.(avid) H.(erbert) Lawrence

17. Identify the following polymers FTPE:

a) A long chain polymer consisting of repeat units of beta glucose, this polysaccharide forms wood and cotton fibers.

Answer: cellulose

b) Another natural polysaccharide formed from units of glucose, this polymer is commonly found in arthropod exoskeletons.

Answer: chitin

c) The first synthetic polymer, it was developed by DuPont chemist Wallace Carothers. It consists of polyamides.

Answer: nylon
18. FTPE name these Italian-inspired terms for music techniques from definitions:

a) The technique of playing the notes of a chord successively rather than simultaneously

Answer: arpeggio

b) The execution of rapid scales by sliding the finger(s) rapidly across strings or especially keys

Answer: glissando

c) For violins and other bowed instruments, an instruction that the string is to be plucked with the finger instead

Answer: pizzicato
19. 30-20-10, name the U.S. President.

(30) His VP was Daniel Tompkins, and he was minister to France from 1794-96.

(20) A Boston newspaper was the first to declare the time of his presidency as “The Era of Good Feelings.”

(10) This fifth president’s Secretary of State was John Quincy Adams.

Answer: James Monroe
20. FTPE name these major figures in the history of Asian literature:

a) The 1st Asian and only Indian to win a Nobel in Literature, his works include King of the Dark Chamber and Gitanjali.

Answer: Rabindranath Tagore

b) Considered the first novelist, this Japanese woman wrote the 11^th century classic The Tale of the Genji.

Answer: Lady Murasaki (Shikibu)

c) Better known in his day as a mathematician, this Persian’s poetry collection, the Rubaiyat became famous centuries later in the West thanks to a very lyrical translation by Edward Fitzgerald.

Answer: Omar Khayyam
21. Name the psychologist from a term or terms s/he coined FTPE.

a) Synchronicity

b) Inferiority complex

c) Object relations