Tossups – round 1 dennis haskins open 2002 ut-chattanooga

Answer: Hexadecimal

Answer: 0101 1010

15) What system is most commonly used in computers for the binary representation of negative numbers, because of the ease with which subtraction can be done?

Answer: Two’s Complement

11. Answer the following about the short life of Joan of Arc FTPE:

a) She earned her nickname by leading French troops in breaking the English siege of this town in 1429.

Answer: Orleans

b) Orleans was one of the few French victories in this war, which France still somehow more or less won.

Answer: the Hundred Years’ War

c) After the victory at Orleans Joan persuaded the indecisive dauphin to have himself crowned as this king. He didn’t try to save her and seemed relieved when the English burned her at the stake a year later. How’s that for gratitude?

Answer: Charles VII
12. Latin America has emerged as a major source of quality literature in the last 50 years. FTPE name the following:

a) The Mexican author of Sunstone, Salamandra, and The Labyrinth of Solitude

Answer: Octavio Paz

b) The Peruvian author of Conversations in the Cathedral and The War at the End of the World

Answer: Maris Vargas Llosa [prompt on partial answer]

c) You didn’t think we’d ask Garcia Marquez again, did you? Name this more recent Nobel laureate, author of The Middle Passage and A House for Mr. Biswas, who despite his ethnic background counts because he’s from Trinidad.

Answer: V.S. Naipaul [no need to prompt for initials, but do not accept Shiva Naipaul]
13. 30-20-10 Name the American

(30) A western Congressman from 1979-1989, when economist Arthur Laffer drew his famous curve on a cocktail napkin, it was this man’s napkin.

(20) He served as Gerald Ford’s Chief of Staff in 1975 and 76, and he was CEO of the Halliburton Corporation in Dallas from 1993 through 2000.

(10) This Wyoming native currently serves as President of the Senate, which sometimes requires his presence at a disclosed location.

Answer: Dick Cheney
14. Pencil and paper ready. Answer the following mechanics questions FTPE. Give any answers involving units in SI units. [READER: Allow 10 seconds per part on the two computations.]

10) A block of mass 12 kilograms is moving north at 4 meters per second. What is the kinetic energy of the block?

Answer: 96 Joules (prompt on 96)

10) The block collides with a lump of Play-doh of mass 4 kilograms. If the block and the lump stick together, what sort of collision occured?

Answer: completely or totally inelastic collision

10) After the inelastic collision, the mass-lump system continues moving north with the same total momentum. What is the speed of the two objects?

Answer: 3 meters per second (prompt on 3)
15. FTPE answer the following about a religious work:

a) It is actually one of four scriptures recognized by the church that is centered around it, along with the Bible, a collection of pronouncements titled Doctrine and Covenants, and a short parable, the Pearl of Great Price.

Answer: the Book of Mormon

b) This founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints claimed to have translated the Book of Mormon from gold plates he found buried in a hillside in upstate New York.

Answer: Joseph Smith

c) Like Smith a native of Vermont, he took up leadership of the Mormons after Smith’s murder and led them to establish a settlement around Salt Lake in Utah.

Answer: Brigham Young
16. Some nations, such as Algeria, Tunisia, El Salvador, and Brazil, have a name similar to that of their capitals. As listed in the CIA World Factbook, there are six nations that have the same names as their capitals, although sometimes in English translation the word “city” is added for the capital. FTPE name any three of those nations.

Answers: any three of Djibouti, Kuwait, Mexico, Monaco, Panama, and Singapore

a) 10 pts.: rubidium, cesium, and francium

5 pts.: Group I; sodium and potassium

Answer: alkali metals [do not accept alkaline]

b) 10 pts.: barium and radium

5 pts.: Group II; magnesium and calcium

Answer: alkaline earth metals [do not prompt on partial answer]

c) 10 pts.: tellurium and polonium

5 pts.: Group VI; oxygen and sulfur

Answer: chalcogens

a) Being and Nothingness

Answer: Jean-Paul Sartre

b) The Courage to Be

Answer: Paul Tillich

c) On Death and Dying

Answer: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
19. FTPE, name the Northern European artists of these works.

a) “The Night Watch”

Answer: Rembrandt van Rijn

b) “Arnolfini Wedding”

Answer: Jan van Eyck [pronounced “eck” but accept “ike”

c) the “Isenheim Alterpiece”

Answer: Matthias Grunewald
20. Name the author from works, 30-20-10:

30) American Notes, Our Mutual Friend, and Sketches by Boz

20) The Old Curiosity Shop, Hard Times, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood

10) Bleak House, Great Expectations, and Nicholas Nickleby

Answer: Charles Dickens
21. 30-20-10 Name the mildly potent potable.

30) In 1654 it became known as “anointing wine” as it was served on the accession of Louis XIV. It was also originally called “vin gris” (veen gree).

20) Because it matured poorly in casks, the early method of “tirage,” or bottling, was developed for it.

10) The best methods for aging it came from the French monk Dom Perignon; only sparkling wines from France can bear this designation.

Answer: Champagne