Tossups – round 1 dennis haskins open 2002 ut-chattanooga
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BONI – ROUND 5 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2002 -- UT-CHATTANOOGA1. We noted in an earlier round the number of recent films with major plot twists. We liked that question so much, here are three more from the past 10 years, all of which are ranked in the top 40 all-time by Internet Movie Database users. Without giving away the ending, name the film FTPE: a) Morgan Freeman plays Red, the inmate who tells the curiously uplifting story of fellow prisoner Andy Dufresne [dew-FRAINE] as played by Tim Robbins in this 1994 film ranked #2. Answer: The Shawshank Redemption b) The first rule is, you do not talk about this #37-ranked 1999 film starring Edward Norton as the unnamed narrator and Brad Pitt as the enigmatic Tyler Durden. The second rule is, you DO NOT talk about this #37-ranked 1999 film starring Edward Norton as the unnamed narrator and Brad Pitt as the enigmatic Tyler Durden. Answer: Fight Club c) Ranked #10, Guy Pearce stars as Leonard Shelby… wait, we already used that one. OK, then, Kevin Spacey won his first Oscar for his performance as Verbal Kint, the small-time crook who tells about a plot organized by the mysterious Keyser Soze [SOH-zay] in this 1995 film ranked 16th. Answer: The Usual Suspects 2. FTPE name these ancient civilizations of the Americas: a) Flourishing from the 12th through 4th centuries BC, this culture was centered in La Venta and strongest around the southern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Its art featured high-quality jade and stone carving, especially giant human heads. Answer: Olmec b) At its height from the 3rd through 9th centuries AD, this Central American civilization produced skilled potters and weavers and productive farming. They practiced blood sacrifice and built great temple-cities using stepped pyramids. Answer: Maya or Mayans c) This Shoshonean-speaking tribe, with about 6,000 members in 11 villages in Coconino Co., Arizona, is considered to have the purest form of pre-Columbian life to have survived today in the U.S. Answer: Hopi
a) 10 pts.: “By the shores of Gitchee-Gumee, by the shining big sea waters, stood the wigwam of Nokomis…” 5 pts.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Answer: “Hiawatha” or “Song of Hiawatha” [alternate title often used for excerpts] b) 10 pts.: “Hog butcher of the world” 5 pts.: Carl Sandburg Answer: “Chicago” c) 10 pts.: “But we loved with a love that was more than love…” 5 pts.: Edgar Allan Poe Answer: “Annabel Lee” 4. Even their deities were mostly stolen. F5PE name the Roman equivalents of these Greek gods: a) Poseidon Answer: Neptune b) Athena Answer: Minerva c) Cronus Answer: Saturn d) Hephaestus Answer: Vulcan e) Selene Answer: Luna f) Eos
Answer: Aurora 5. Name these parts of a plant from definitions, 5-10-20-30: a) The female sex structure of a plant, usually containing the ovary. Answer: pistil b) The pollen-producing structure, commonly consisting of the actual pollen producers on the tips of flower filaments. Answer: stamen c) The actual pollen producer which with that filament makes up the stamen. Answer: anther d) The collective name for the protective covering of the inner flower formed by the sepals. Answer: calyx
a) 10 pts.: John Diefenbaker, Lester Pearson, Kim Campbell 5 pts.: Alexander Mackenzie, Pierre Trudeau, Jean Chretien Answer: Canada b) 10 pts.: H.D. Deve Gowde, Atal Behari Vajpayee 5 pts.: Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi Answer: India c) 10 pts.: Levi Eshkol, Moshe Sharett 5 pts.: Golda Meir, Menachem Begin, Ariel Sharon Answer: Israel 7. FTPE name these mathematical theorems with something in common: a) Any positive integer n can be represented in exactly one way as a product of primes. Answer: Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic b) Every polynomial equation having complex coefficients and degree n > 0 has n total complex and real roots and at least one real root. Answer: Fundamental Theorem of Algebra c) If A(x) is the integral of f(x) from a to x with respect to x, f(x) = A’(x) [read f(x) is the derivative of A(x)]. Answer: Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
1. (10 points) “The Stranger” Answer: Albert Camus 2. (10 points) “No Exit” Answer: Jean Paul Sartre 3. (10 points) “The Immoralist” Answer: Andre Gide
a) “Scenes from the Massacre at Chios” and “The Hay Wain” Answer: John Constable b) “Wreck of a Transport Ship” and “Rain, Steam, and Speed” Answer: J.M.W. Turner c) “Robert Andrews and Mary His Wife”, “Blue Boy” Answer: Thomas Gainsborough
10) Typical examples of these devices include pn-junctions. They can be made by joining two different types of semiconductors, and they only allow current to flow in one direction. Answer: diodes 10) These devices consist of two coils of wire attached to different circuits. Electrical energy can be transferred from one coil to the other, allowing power to be stepped up or down. Answer: transformers 10) The solid-state analog to the triode electric tube, it replaced the triode tube in virtually all common amplification and switching applications. Two important categories of these are junction and field-effect. Answer: transistors 11. FTPE, name these characters from “Othello”: 1. (10 points) This ensign is embittered to be passed over as chief lieutenant in favor of Cassio, and plots to ruin Othello. Answer: Iago 2. (10 points) Iago plots to make Othello jealous of this women, Othello’s wife and daughter of Brabantio. Answer: Desdemona 3. (10 points) Iago’s treachery is discovered by this wife of Iago, who denounces him. Answer: Emilia 12. Before the 2001-2002 college basketball season began, Dick Vitale singled out six schools with “super, scintillating, sensational” backcourt duos. And sure enough, three of those schools did well enough to eb #1 seeds in this March’s madness. Given the point and shooting guards, name the school F10PE: a) Jason Williams, Chris Duhon Answer: Duke b) Kirk Hinrich, Jeff Boschee Answer: Kansas c) Steve Blake, Juan Dixon Answer: Maryland
a) Fidelio Answer: Ludwig van Beethoven b) Boris Godunov Answer: Modest Mussorgsky c) Hansel and Gretel Answer: Engelbert Humperdinck
a) 10 pts.: Geraldine Ferraro 5 pts.: Ronald Reagan, 1984 Answer: Walter Mondale b) 10 pts.: John Sparkman once, then Estes Kefauver (who, I might add, practiced law for many years in… Chattanooga) 5 pts.: Dwight Eisenhower in both 1952 and 1956 Answer: Adlai E. Stevenson c) 10 pts.: Edmund Muskie 5 pts.: Richard Nixon, 1968 Answer: Hubert Humphrey 15. Identify the following organic compounds from formulas FTPE: a) CH2O Answer: formaldehyde (or methanal) b) CH3CH2OH Answer: ethanol or ethyl alcohol (prompt for more information on “alcohol”) c) CH3COCH3 Answer: acetone (or propanone or dimethyl ketone)
a) 5 pts.: The reigning champion of high volume output is this author, who’s been around long enough that some of his earlier works, such as Carrie and The Shining, are beginning to be recognized as literature. Answer: Stephen King b) 5 pts.: Many critics say the first novel by this crank-‘em-out specialist, A Time to Kill, remains his best. Answer: John Grisham c) 10 pts.: Besides his many sequels to Tarzan the Ape-Man, he also had a multi-volume science fiction series featuring space traveler John Carter. Answer: Edgar Rice Burroughs d) 10 pts.: Most of his 131 novels were immensely popular Westerns, the most enduring being Riders of the Purple Sage. Answer: Zane Grey 17. Two U.S. states have their state capitals on the banks of the Mississippi River, and three more are on the banks of its largest tributary, the Missouri. F5PE or 30 for all 5, name those capital cities. Answers: St. Paul (MN), Baton Rouge (LA), Bismarck (ND), Pierre (SD), Jefferson City (MO)
What general name designates the Muslim pirate states of northern Africa which were harassing Western shipping? Answer: Barbary pirates What president sent warships to fight the Barbary pirates? Answer: Thomas Jefferson What future hero of the War of 1812 led the daring burning of the captured ship Philadelphia in 1804? Answer: Stephen Decatur
a) Quotes from this Old Testament book include “I have been a stranger in a strange land” and “a land overflowing with milk and honey.” Answer: Exodus b) The often-quoted 13th chapter of this New Testament book includes “And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three …” and “Now we see through a glass, darkly.” Answer: I Corinthians c) The shortest verse in the Bible, John 11:35, describes the grief that precedes the raising of Lazarus from the dead. FTP give the entire text of that verse. Answer: “Jesus wept”
(A) This term describes trees and shrubs that shed their leaves before the onset of winter or a dry season. Answer: deciduous (B) This substance is the main protein of milk and the main component of cheese. Answer: casein (C) These unsaturated compounds are characterized by one or more double bonds between adjacent carbon atoms. Ethene and propene are examples. Answer: alkenes [not alkane or alkyne – if in doubt, make them spell it]
Considered the father of American anthropology, he introduced the rigor of the scientific method to cultural studies, influencing many important students at Columbia.
A student of Boas, this woman introduced the configuralist approach, which tried to identify a culture’s central ethos. Her best-known work is probably The Sword and the Chrysanthemum. A. Ruth Benedict Another student of Boas, this woman’s work Tell My Horse was an exposition of voodoo practices in the Caribbean. She may be better known for fiction writing, however. A. Zora Neale Hurston |