Tossups – round 1 dennis haskins open 2002 ut-chattanooga
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BONI – PLAYOFF 1 or ROUND 8 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2002 -- UT-CHATTANOOGA1. FTPE answer the following about one of your genial quizmaster’s least favorite authors: a) Her philosophy of objectivism, which permeates her novels such as Anthem and We the Living, asserts that selfishness is a virtue and that charity almost always harms the recipient. FTP name this author. Answer: Ayn Rand (or Alice Rosenbaum if you want to show off) b) Rand’s first bestseller, this 1943 book focuses on the oh-so-superior architect Howard Roark, whose genius and force of will sweep the beautiful heiress Dominique Francon off her feet. Answer: The Fountainhead c) In this 1957 novel, Rand uses science fiction as a platform to express objectivist views in mind-numbing detail through the radio addresses of the mysterious John Galt. This is the book that convinced Officer Barbrady of South Park that literacy was overrated. Answer: Atlas Shrugged 2. Name the authors of these unrelated philosophical works FTPE: a) Either/Or and Fear and Trembling Answer: Soren Kierkegaard b) Utopia Answer: Sir Thomas More c) Discipline and Punish and Madness and Civilization Answer: Michel Foucault
A. [5] The 1966 decision Miranda v. Arizona Answer: Earl Warren B. [5] The 1990 decision Webster v. Reproductive Health Services of Missouri Answer: William Rehnquist C. [10] The 1973 decision Roe v. Wade Answer: Warren. Burger D. [10] The 1925 decision Gitlow v. New York Answer: William H. Taft
a) The membrane covering the brain and the spinal cord Answer: meninges b) The membrane covering the outside of the bone. Answer: periosteum c) The membrane covering the sclera of the human eye Answer: conjunctiva
(A) 10 pts.: “Though I’ve flogged you and I’ve flayed you / By the living God that made you / You’re a better man than I am…” 5 pts.: Rudyard Kipling Answer: “Gunga Din” (B) 10 pts.: "Out flew the web and floated wide; / The mirror crack'd from side to side; /"The curse is come upon me," cried… 5 pts.: Alfred, Lord Tennyson Answer: “The Lady of Shallott” (C ) 10 pts.: ‘Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, / Old Time is still a-flying” 5 pts.: Robert Herrick Answer: “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” [accept “To Virgins” – a few sources omit “the”] 6. Answer these questions relating to a Russian surname FTPE. This 18th-century field marshal was an intimate of Catherine the Great and was famous for his namesake villages, which were quickly built ahead of Catherine’s carriage and subsequently dismantled. Answer: Grigori Potemkin Potemkin erected those villages to convince the empress that this newly acquired region, later the focal point of a war in the 1850’s, was being settled by Russians. Answer: the Crimea What famous Russian director pioneered modern editing techniques in the classic film Battleship Potemkin in 1926? Answer: Sergei Eisenstein
a) The Bartered Bride, From My Life, and The Moldau Answer: Bedrich Smetana b) At a Southern Convent Gate and Peer Gynt Suite Answer: Edvard Grieg c) Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, The Miraculous Mandarin, and Mikrokosmos Answer: Bela Bartok
The sorting out of waves according to their speed in a medium; the separation of white light in a prism is a classic example. Answer: Dispersion The change in frequency of a wave due to the motion of the source or the observer. Answer: Doppler Effect The process by which waves, encountering an obstacle, bend around corners. Answer: Diffraction
This Dutchman was looking for a northeast passage to Cathay but ended up dying on Novaya Zemlya, an island marking the eastern border of the sea above Murmansk named for him. Answer: William Barents This Dane sailed for Peter the Great and sailed through the strait separating North America and Asia which is named for him. Answer: Vitus Bering Namesake of a large island north of Quebec and the bay separating it from Greenland, this Englishman explored that area and devised a method of approximating longitude. Answer: William Baffin
a. From the makers of OrangeGlo and Orange Clean, and advertised on TV by that loud annoying bearded guy, is this stain cleaner powered by the air you breathe. Answer: OxiClean b. If you need to stop that annoying drip drop, use this sealant in a can on your pipes, gutters and drains. Answer: Leak Ender 2000 c. Having problems sleeping, try using this Japanese pillow that’s filled with buckwheat husks. Answer: Makura Sobakawa pillow
Answer: The House of Seven Gables For five points: Who wrote The House of Seven Gables? Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne For fifteen points, name the owner who was found dead in it, shortly after it was completed. Answer: Colonel Pyncheon 12. The dreaded gas laws for 10 points each: A. Whose law states that if the pressure does not change, the volume of a given mass of gas is directly proportional to the absolute temperature? Answer: Charles' Law B. This law states that when the temperature is kept constant, the weight of a dissolved gas in a liquid is proportional to the pressure exerted by the gas on the liquid. Answer: Henry’s Law C. This law states that at a constant temperature, the volume of a confined ideal gas varies inversely with its pressure. Answer: Boyle's Law
A. [5] He renounced his divinity over the radio in 1946. Answer: Hirohito B. [10] He has been the emperor since January 1989. Answer: Akihito C. [15] The victor at the battle of Sekigahara, he became the first emperor of the Edo period in 1603. Answer: Tokugawa Ieyasu (accept either)
(5/5) "All that you fashion, All that you make, All that you build, All that you break, All that you measure, All that you steal, All that you can't leave behind." Answer: "Walk On" by U2 (5/5) "And love won’t play any games with me anymore if you don't want it to, the world won’t wait, and I watched you shake. But, honey, I don't blame you, hell, I still love you…" Answer: "New York, New York" by Ryan Adams (5/5) "Fa shizzle my nizzle used to dribble down in V-A, Was herbin' 'em in the home of the turbans, Got it dirt cheap for them, plus if they was short wit cheese I would work wit 'em." Answer: "Izzo (H.O.V.A.)" by Jay-Z 15. In the King James Version of the Bible, and pretty much all other Protestant editions, the Old Testament concludes with 12 books whose authors are lumped together by scholars as the minor prophets. F5PE name any 6 of these books. Answers: any 6 of Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zechariah, Haggai, Zephaniah, or Malachi 16. Answer these eclipse-related questions, FTP each. In this type of eclipse, which shares its name with a term for tree rings, the moon is too far away and blocks only a central disk of the sun, leaving the outer ring unblocked. Answer: Annular eclipse What low-density, high-temperature outer region of the sun, which shares its name with a Mexican beverage, becomes visible during an eclipse? Answer: Corona This is a string of lights seen during a total eclipse of the sun, produced by the light on the sun’s margin passing through irregularities on the lunar surface. Answer: Bailey’s Beads
A. 10 – A Sportsman’s Sketches 5 – Fathers and Sons Answer: Ivan Turgenev B. 10 – The Red Wheel and The First Circle 5 – Cancer Ward and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Answer: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn C. 10 – Sevastopol Sketches and The Cossacks 5 – War and Peace Answer: Leo Tolstoy 18. Identify these Confederate generals FTPE. a) Commandant at West Point just before the war began, he led the attack on Fort Sumter against his old West Point teacher Robert Anderson. He later retired to Louisiana where he ran a corrupt lottery. Answer: P. G. T. Beauregard b) A former professor at VMI, this general’s death at Chancellorsville greatly hurt Confederate chances. Answer: Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson c) This successful general’s reputation is still tarnished by the Fort Pillow Massacre, though it’s not known for sure whether he directly ordered the killing of surrendering black soldiers. Answer: Nathan Bedford Forrest
a. It is an angle greater than ninety degrees in measure. Answer: obtuse b. As they delineate the plane into sections, the angles with measures ninety, one hundred eight, two hundred seventy, and three hundred sixty are called this. Answer: quadrantal c. Because 110 and 830 look like the same angle when drawn, they are a pair of this type of angle that start at the same initial side. Answer: coterminal
At the upper left there is a representation of what animal which often is featured in Picasso’s work? Answer: bull At the center of the painting is perhaps the painting’s most arresting image, a screaming one of these animals. Answer: horse The bombing of the Basque town of Guernica was carried out by Nazi flyers who were part of what German flying force of the Spanish Civil War? Answer: Condor Legion
a) GATT
b) WHO
c) IMF
d) FAO
e) WTO
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