Tossups – round 1 dennis haskins open 2002 ut-chattanooga
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Answer: Suez Canalb) This Egyptian president, who had seized power from King Farouk in 1948, nationalized the Suez Canal. Answer: Gamel Abdel Nasser c) After the Suez Crisis, the Soviet Union became Nasser’s major financial backer on what major dam he wished to build on the Nile? Answer: Aswan High Dam 5. OK, this time the opera composers are Italian. FTPE name the composers of the following: a) William Tell and The Barber of Seville Answer: Gioacchino Rossini Answer: Giuseppe Verdi c) Pagliacci Answer: Ruggiero Leoncavallo 6. Given the founder of an American denomination or religious tradition, tell what they founded FTPE: a) Charles Taze Russell Answer: Jehovah’s Witnesses (or Watchtower Bible and Tract Society for the truly picky) b) Mary Baker Eddy Answer: Christian Science or Christian Scientists or Church of Christ, Scientist c) L. Ron Hubbard Answer: Scientology 7. Identify the Shakespearean play from which the following well-known quotes come FTPE. a) “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy:/It is the green-ey’d monster” Answer: Othellob) “Let it work;/For ‘tis the sport to have the engineer/Hoist with his own petard” Answer: Hamletc) “Yet I do fear thy nature,/It is too full o’the milk of human kindness” Answer: Macbeth8. A circuit contains a 10 volt battery connected in series to a 2 ohm resistor and a 3 ohm resistor. Calculate the following quantities FTSNOP. Give your answers in SI units. 5) What is the equivalent resistance of the circuit? Answer: 5 ohms 5) What is the current in the circuit? Answer: 2 amperes or 2 amps 10) What is the total power dissipated in the circuit? Answer: 20 watts 10) What is the combined voltage drop across the two resistors? Answer: 10 volts 9. FTPE, name these people who got whacked at the Alamo. a) One of the two joint commanders of the Alamo, this man was ill during the siege and played little role in the event. Answer: Jim Bowie b) Due to Bowie’s illness, this other commander of the Alamo was the effective leader during the siege. Answer: William Travis c) Originally serving under Jackson in the Creek War, this adventurer gained fame for his humor and backwoods manner as a Congressman from Tennessee. After turning from politics he joined the Texas revolt, and was killed at the Alamo. Answer: Davy Crockett
a: Mr. Burns bought all of Springfield’s buses, and it’s up to all of the citizens of town to turn their cars into cabs to raise money to buy back the buses before it’s all too late in this racing game. Answer: Simpsons Road Rage b: This sci-fi shooter puts you on an alien ring world fighting off mankind’s sworn enemy, the Covenant. Answer: Halo c: The title character is a fugitive undercover cop framed for murder who is being hunted by cops and the mob in the midst of a blizzard in New York City. Answer: Max Payne
(A) In this 31 BC naval battle off north-western Greece, Agrippa defeated the joint forces of Cleopatra and Antony. Answer: Actium (B) Heavily-armored Greeks under Militades slaughtered Persian archers led by Datis in 490 BC. Answer: Marathon (C) In two successive engagements, forces of the Second Triumvirate overwhelmed Caesar’s assassins. Answer: Philippi
a) 10 pts.: His The Lost World predated Jurassic Park as a glimpse of dinosaurs on the rampage in modern times. 5 pts.: Much to his own chagrin, he’s better known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Answer: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle b) 10 pts.: She wrote the utopian 1915 novel Herland about a female-dominated society. 5 pts.: You may be more familiar with her unsettling short story “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Answer: Charlotte Perkins Gilman c) 10 pts.: His play Back to Methuselah traces the path of mankind from Adam and Eve to a world 30,000 years in the future, where humans become bored with the opposite sex and instead take up mathematics. Did I mention it’s a comedy? 5 pts.: His other noted plays include Major Barbara and Pygmalion. Answer: George Bernard Shaw 13. Identify the scientist from clues on a 30-20-10 point basis. (30) He invented a calculating instrument called a sector, and showed that the forces affecting the flight of a bullet are mathematically measurable. (20) By timing the rolling of round leaden balls down an inclined plane, he developed theories concerning the relationship between speed, time, and distance. (10) He may have whispered “E pur si muove” at his public confession. Answer: Galileo Galilei
a) 10 pts.: The artist sits painting in the center with a nude woman standing at his back. The studio is filled with people. 5 pts.: Gustave Courbet [coor BAY] Answer: The Artist’s Studio b) 10 pts.: The title ruler looks bored laying on his bed while his men slaughter slaves all around him and a terrified horse rises up in the lower left. 5 pts.: Eugene Delacroix [del la CWAH] Answer: The Death of Sardanapalus c) 10 pts.: The musculature of the starving men is emphasized, and one of them at the top of the painting frantically waves a shirt trying to hail a passing ship for rescue. 5 pts. Theodore Gericault [JERICHO] Answer: The Raft of the Medusa 15, One of the prototypes used to test the space shuttle design was the Enterprise, but it never actually made it all the way into space. For 5 points each or 30 for all 5 correct, name the 5 U.S. shuttles to fly into space. Answers: (in any order): Columbia, Challenger, Atlantis, Discovery, Endeavor 16. Given its formula, name the common alkane FTPE.
Answer: methane
Answer: propane
Answer: octane 17. Identify the U.S. President from clues on a 30-20-10-5 basis: 30- After he picked Claude Brinegar, his Secretary of Transportation to act as a liaison to Catholic Cardinals, Claude told him without irony that "The L.A. Rams are my team, Mr. President." Another memorable personnel choice was rejected Supreme Court nominee G. Harrold Carswell, later arrested for propositioning a vice squad officer in a men’s room. 20- This honors graduate of Whittier College finished third in his class at Duke Law School. He used vigorous smear campaigns to unseat first Rep. Jerry Voorhis, then Sen. Helen Gahagan Douglas. 10- Perhaps his most ill-fated personnel decision was the choice of Spiro Agnew as his running mate. Agnew was later found to have taken kickbacks from state construction projects and was forced to resign the Vice Presidency. 5 - When the House Judiciary Committee voted to recommend impeachment, he avoided the almost-certain trial by resigning the presidency of the United States on August 9, 1974. Answer: Richard Milhous _Nixon 18. Convert the following numbers from base ten to the given base FTPE. a) 56 base 10 to base 8 Answer: 70 b) 125 base 10 to base 2 Answer: 1111101 c) 23 base 10 to base 12 Answer: 1B
Clym Yeobright, Gabriel Oak, Angel Clare Answer: Thomas Hardy Max Demian, Joseph Knecht, Harry Haller Answer: Herman Hesse Ursula Brangwen, Paul Morel, Oliver Mellors Answer: D. H. Lawrence
1. (10 points) Sudan Answer: Khartoum 2. (10 points) Zambia Answer: Lusaka 3. (10 points) Mozambique Answer: Maputo
A. This law states that for every statement, P, either P is true, or not-P is true, though it is possible that both are true. Answer: law of the excluded middle (accept the related law of bivalence) B. This law states that for every statement P, you cannot have both P and not-P be true. Answer: law of non-contradiction
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