Tossups – round 1 dennis haskins open 2002 ut-chattanooga
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1. Candy, the old ranch-hand runs things where this story takes place. His son Curly is a brawny guy who elects to get into a fight with one of the main characters, only to have his hand crushed. Curly’s unnamed wife is flirtatious, which brings back memories of why the two best friends were forced to leave their last job, after Lennie tried to touch a woman’s dress and was accused of rape. Lennie and his friend George might not be cousins, as they tell people, but they are the main characters in, FTP, what book by John Steinbeck? Answer: Of Mice and Men
Answer: Laws of Thermodynamics (accept zeroth law of thermodynamics before "absolute zero") 3. It warned against the dangers of the party system and urged later leaders to avoid permanent allegiances with foreign nations, though it did not use the oft-quoted phrase “entangling alliances.” Written with the aid of Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, it was completed on September 17, 1796, just before the President’s retirement. Never delivered publicly, FTP, what is this speech prepared by George Washington? Answer: (Washington’s) Farewell Address 4. This term had different meanings for different philosophers. To Immanuel Kant it meant a method of criticizing claims of knowledge going beyond experience. To Plato it meant the study of the Forms. To Marx it meant inevitable shifts in popular thought; Marx drew on Hegel’s version of it, in which a widely held opinion, or thesis, was challenged by an antithesis which led to a new mindset via synthesis. FTP name this term, from the Greek for “to converse,” which describes Socrates’ method of teaching by question and answer. Answer: dialectic 5. They are highly electronegative, exhibiting a minus one charge. They can be found in crystalline salt forms, explaining the common name given to these members of Group VII of the periodic table. FTP name this family of elements group, whose name means “salt formers,” which includes astatine, bromine, iodine, chlorine, and fluorine. Answer: halogens 6. His historical works included On Illustrious Men and Books on Matters to Be Remembered. He is considered a forerunner of humanism for his advocacy of the continuity rather than conflict between classical culture and Christianity, as seen in his works Bucolic Song and Africa. But his most influential works were poems addressed to his idealized lover Laura. FTP name this Italian author and master of the sonnet form. Answer: Petrarch 7. This anthropologist used new photographic techniques in the documentary “Balinese Character”. Applying anthropology to modern life in “Male and Female” and “Culture and Commitment”, but is better known for works like “Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies”, which analyzes sexual behavior and its relation to rites of adolescence. FTP, who is this anthropologist best known for her controversial “Coming of Age in Samoa”? Answer: Margaret Mead 8. He dabbled in serialism for a while and also showed his fascination with Latin themes and rhythms in such works as Danson Cubanas and El Salon Mexico. But his legacy comes from works on themes more evocative of his adopted homeland, the U.S., such as his Oscar-winning score for The Heiress and his ballets Billy the Kid and Rodeo. FTP name the composer of Appalachian Spring. Answer: Aaron Copland 9. This land’s main castle is Cair Paravel, which stands at the delta where the Great River meets The Eastern Sea. The Lone Islands, which High King Peter sailed to in the ship The Dawn Treader, can be seen from the castle. Created by the beautiful singing of Aslan, FTP, what is this mythical world created by C. S. Lewis?
Answer: Narnia10. Born with the surname Walcott, he worked in the 1950s as a successful calypso singer, once recording a song titled “A White Man’s Heaven is a Black Man’s Hell.” He took over Mosque Number Seven in Harlem after Malcolm X converted to Sunni Islam. FTP name this leader of the Nation of Islam and organizer of the Million Man March. Answer: Louis Farrakhan
Answer: Tycho Brahe 12. One-time winners include Pat Cash, Jana Novotna, Richard Krajicek [CRY-uh-check], Conchita Martinez, Lindsey Davenport, Andre Agassi, and Goran Ivanisevic [eve-an-EE-so-vitch]. Stefan Edberg, Jimmy Connors, Althea Gibson, and Venus Williams each have won twice; three titles each went to Boris Becker, John McEnroe, and Chris Evert. Five times in a row Bjorn Borg won it, and Martina Navratilova got nine, not counting doubles play. FTP name the tournament whose winners were just listed, officially known as the All-England Lawn Tennis Championship. Answer: Wimbledon (accept All-England Lawn Tennis Championship before it’s read) 13. While he may have been referred to dismissively in a telegram from a Pittsburgh Pirates scout, it is a myth that once he tried out for the Washington Senators. He claims to have been the subject of over 637 assassination attempts, equaling over one per month of his 42-year rule. We do know that he did conduct successful guerrilla raids from the Sierra Maestra mountains against Fulgencio Batista. FTP name this longest-reigning communist leader. Answer: Fidel Castro 14. Every ninth year, it was fed with fourteen youths and maidens. Subject of Mary Renault's novel "The King Must Die", its name was Asterius, and it was spawned when a king of Crete failed to sacrifice an animal sent by Poseidon as proof of his right to the throne. In response, Poseidon caused Pasiphae to conceive a passion for the bull, leading her to conceive this monster. FTP, what was this creature imprisoned by Minos in the Labyrinth? Answer: Minotaur 15. He is truly someone worth emulating. Like so many great stars before him (two examples would be Michael Jackson and Spinal Tap) he is extremely popular in Japan. He hobnobs with some of the true Hollywood elite, including Curtis Armstrong (the guy who played Booger in Revenge of the Nerds) and Chuck D. However, beware for there is danger in following his example. A piano could fall on you or you could get set on fire. These are just a few of the hazards that befall this man of action. FTP identify this spokesman for a certain brand of blue jeans who you may want to be like. Answer: Buddy Lee 16. Karnaugh maps can be used to simplify expressions of this system into combinations of unary and binary expressions, facilitating their implementation as electronic or mechanical logic expressions. Pre-Internet online databases such as Dialog and Lexis/Nexis make extensive use of this type of logic in search statements. FTP identify this algebra system whose operators can be composed of TRUE, FALSE, NOT, OR, and AND , and which is also the name of a data type in Java. Answer: Boolean Logic 17. This figure’s story is told in Walter Savage Landor’s “Imaginary conversations” and in an 1842 poem by Tennyson. According to some versions a tailor was miraculously struck blind for not obeying a request she made regarding her most famous act, which concerned her desire for her husband, Earl Leofric of Mercia, to lower the taxes of Coventry. FTP, who is this 11th century woman who rode through the marketplace naked to achieve her goal? Answer: Lady Godiva 18. Iranian religious leaders have recently financed the building of the largest mosque in the Caucasus in the town of Nardaran in this small nation, causing its government to fear Islamic unrest. The country’s president, Heydar Aliyev, has faced death threats and already has headaches with the disputed area of Nagorno-Karabakh inside his borders. FTP what is this Caspian Sea state with capital at Baku?
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