Tossups – round 1 dennis haskins open 2002 ut-chattanooga

BONI – ROUND 4 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2002 -- UT-CHATTANOOGA

1. These Civil War generals served in the Mexican War – but then, didn’t they all? They also ran for office after the war – but then, how many surviving Union generals didn’t? Name these generals FTPE:

a) Most historians agree that this man’s ultraconservative tactics as commander of the Army of the Potomac in 1861-62 prolonged the war. Of course, he ran against Lincoln in 1864 using the war’s slow progress as his major issue. He eventually served as Governor of New Jersey from 1878 to 1881.

Answer: George Brinton McClellan

b) A dashing general young enough to have been named for a general who also served in the Mexican and Civil Wars, he distinguished himself at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and especially Gettysburg. In 1880 he was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for President.

Answer: Winfield Scott Hancock

c) A mapping expedition placed this man in California when the Mexican War broke out, and he was a leader of the Bear Flag Revolt there. In 1856 he was the first Republican presidential nominee; serving as a general in the Civil War’s lesser-known Missouri campaign, he was territorial governor of Arizona from 1878 to 1883.

Answer: John Charles Fremont

a) 5 pts.: Les Miserables

Answer: Victor Hugo

b) 5 pts.: Candide

Answer: Voltaire, or Francois-Marie Arouet

c) 10 pts. Les Fleurs de Mal

Answer: Charles Baudelaire

d) 10 pts.: Gargantua and Pantagruel

Answer: Francois Rabelais
3. They may be made on the outskirts of Chattanooga, but your genial quizmaster didn’t write this question. Identify the Little Debbie snacks from their descriptions on the official Little Debbie web site, FTSNOP.

A-5. "A chewy cookie topped with caramel and crisp rice then covered in a layer of fudge."

Answer: Star Crunch Cosmic Snacks

B-10. "Classic crunchy wafer bars, full of the great taste of peanut butter enrobed in fudge."

Answer: Nutty Bars

C-5. "A delicious yellow cake with creme filling covered in white icing and trimmed with fudge stripes."

Answer: Zebra Cakes

D-10. "Chocolate cake rolled around a layer of creme filling and drenched with fudge coating."

Answer: Swiss Cake Rolls
4. F5PE give the proper names for these bones of the human body:

a) Kneecap

Answer: patella

b) Shoulder blade

Answer: scapula

c) Collarbone

Answer: clavicle

d) Anvil

e) Thigh

f) Breastbone

Answer: sternum
5. FTPE answer these questions about everyone’s favorite collaborator, Nathanial Hale.

a) Give the stage name of the rapper born Nathanial Hale, whose own latest album was titled Music & Me.

Answer: Nate-Dogg

b) Nate-Dogg first hit it big collaborating with Warren G on what 1994 hit single?

Answer: Regulate

c) Nate-Dogg’s been heard on several movie soundtracks recently. FTP name either the hit by Ludacris and Nate-Dogg off the Rush Hour 2 soundtrack, or the song from Glitter where Nate-Dogg teams up with Mariah Carey.

Answer: either Area Codes or If We
6. Identify these F. Scott Fitzgerald novels from a brief description, 5-10-15:

A. (5) The title character has changed his last name, and his only real friend is next-door neighbor Nick Carraway, who is among the few to attend his funeral after the titular anti-hero is killed by the local mechanic.

Answer: The Great Gatsby

B. (10) Dick Diver is a psychologist in love with Rosemary Hoyt, a movie actress. All is well until one of Diver’s friends kills a man and Rosemary discovers him comforting Nicole, the mistress of the dead man.

Answer: Tender is the Night

C. (15) Amory Blaine is a college student who leaves Princeton to try to discover more about himself. He eventually develops socialist undertones after romancing Eleanor and Rosalind. Eventually, pining for Rosalind, he declares “I know myself, but that is all…”

Answer: This Side of Paradise
7. Get this guy, 30-20-10.

(30) He spent 1676-78 on the island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic to develop the first systematic catalog of the southern stars.

(20) He urged his friend Newton to publish Principia Mathematica and paid for its publication. He would later use its principles for his most influential calculations.

(10) In a 1705 book, he predicted that the comet seen in 1682 would return again in 1758.

Answer: Edmund Halley
8. There’s something about Mao. FTPE name these not-so-fun events in the Peoples Republic of China:

a) It lasted almost two years, and barely half its over 100,000 participants survived, but this struggle of 1934-1935 prevented the extermination of the Communist party in China.

Answer: the Long March

b) Launched in 1958, this five-year economic plan aimed to double industrial output and boost crop yield by merging collective farms into communes and mobilizing over ten million workers to make steel in primitive furnaces.

Answer: the Great Leap Forward

c) Led by Mao and his wife Jiang Qing, this movement which began in 1976 created the Red Guards and was designed to purge potential opponents of Mao. It wound up victimizing and humiliating almost all educated Chinese over age 30.

Answer: the Cultural Revolution
9. FTPE name the composers of the symphonies with these nicknames:

a) Clock, Farewell, and Surprise

Answer: Franz Joseph Haydn

b) Polish and Pathetique

Answer: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

c) Scottish and Italian

Answer: Felix Mendelssohn
10. Answer these questions about base arithmetic for the stated number of points.

5) What is the common name for base 16?