Tossups – round 1 dennis haskins open 2002 ut-chattanooga
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BONI – PLAYOFF 2 or ROUND 9 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2002 -- UT-CHATTANOOGA1. Note the following orders of insects: coleoptera, diptera, hemiptera, homoptera, hymenoptera, isoptera, lepidoptera, neuroptera, orthoptera, and siphonaptera. F5PE name the order to which these bugs generally belong: a) Butterflies and moths Answer: lepidoptera b) Bees Answer: hymenoptera c) Beetles Answer: coleoptera d) Grasshoppers and crickets Answer: orthoptera e) True flies Answer: diptera f) Fleas Answer: siphonaptera 2. With the NFL draft taking place next weekend, ESPN’s helmet-haired draft expert Mel Kiper Jr. gets his annual day in the limelight. Given players Kiper expects to be taken in the first round, name their colleges F5PE: a) Defensive end Julius Peppers Answer: North Carolina b) Quarterback David Carr Answer: Fresno State c) Quarterback Joey Harrington Answer: Oregon d) Cornerback Quentin Jammer and offensive tackle Mike Williams Answer: Texas e) Running back T.J. Duckett Answer: Michigan State f) Defensive tackles Albert Haynesworth and John Henderson, as well as wide receiver Dontae Stallworth Answer: Tennessee
a) “The Lady or the Tiger?” Answer: Frank Stockton b) “My Mortal Enemy” Answer: Willa Cather c) “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” Answer: James Thurber d) “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg Answer: Mark Twain (or Samuel Clemens) e) “The Lottery” Answer: Shirley Jackson 4. The worst tragedy in Olympics history took place when eleven Israeli athletes were killed by Palestinian terrorists. FTPE: In what city did this take place? Answer: Munich In what year? Answer: 1972 What was the name of the Palestinian terrorist group that killed the eleven athletes? Answer: Black September 5. Name the composers of the following works on a 10-5 basis: a) 10 pts.: Der Rosenkavalier 5 pts.: Also Sprach Zarathusra Answer: Richard Strauss [prompt on Strauss] b) 10 pts.: Petrouchka and The Soldier’s Tale 5 pts.: Rite of Spring Answer: Igor Stravinsky c) 10 pts.: L’Arlesienne and The Young Maid of Perth 5 pts.: Carmen Answer: Georges Bizet
(A) What brightest star in the constellation Boötes (the herdsman) is a red giant that is the fourth brightest star in our sky? Answer: Arcturus (B) Fragments of this short-period comet collided with Jupiter for six days during July of 1994, causing huge fireballs in Jupiter's atmosphere that were visible from Earth. Answer: Shoemaker-Levy 9 (C) This hypothetical companion dark star to our Sun passes through the Oort cloud every 30 million years, triggering comets that cause periodic mass extinctions on Earth. Answer: Nemesis
Massachusetts Rep. Oakes Ames was formally censured by the House in 1869 for involvement in this railroad scandal. Answer: Credit Mobilier Although the Elk Hills and Buena Vista Hills oil reserves were also illegally leased by Harding’s interior secretary Albert Fall, the scandal is known by the name of this Wyoming oil reserve. Answer: Teapot Dome This group of distillers who had conspired to defraud the federal government of liquor taxes was investigated by Treasury Secretary Benjamin Bristow. Answer: Whiskey Ring
He was a leader of the Jews and a Pharisee. It was him to whom Jesus spoke in John 3, when he said, “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son.” Answer: Nicodemus He was the revolutionary whose release the crowd demanded, rather than Jesus’. Answer: Barabbas He was the chief tax collector of Jericho and was small in stature. He climbed a sycamore tree to get a good view of Jesus and Jesus stayed at his home, according to Luke. Answer: Zacchaeus
a) Billiards at Half Past Nine and The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum Answer: Heinrich Boll b) The Flounder and The Tin Drum Answer: Gunter Grass c) Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain Answer: Thomas Mann
[10] This quantity tells how many roots a quadratic has. Answer: Discriminant [10] This line and the focus of a parabola are equidistant from the parabola’s vertex. Answer: Directrix [10] In a 2x2 matrix with first row “a b” and second row “c d”, this quantity is a*d-b*c. Answer: Determinant 11. FTP each, identify the Cabinet positions from some past holders of the office. A. Robert Reich, Frances Perkins, and Chattanooga native William Brock. Answer: Secretary of Labor B. Frank Kellogg, John Quincy Adams, and Henry Kissinger Answer: Secretary of State C. Stewart Udall, James Watt, and Bruce Babbitt Answer: Secretary of the Interior 12. Identify these grandchildren of Zeus on a 10-5 basis. (10) These two sons of Ares, with names meaning “fear” and “terror,” accompanied him in battle. (5) Their names now grace the two moons of Mars. Answer: Phobos and Deimos (10) This son of Aphrodite lends his name to the first asteroid found whose orbit didn’t fall between Mars and Jupiter. (5) Known as Cupid or Amor in Rome, he is personification of romantic love. Answer: Eros (10) This son of Apollo was the Greek god of medicine. (5) Socrates’ last words were ironic instructions to sacrifice a cock to this god. Answer: Asclepius 13. FTPE answer the following about a certain quantity in chemistry:
Answer: pH Pencil and paper ready. Perform the following pH calculations: b) In 10 seconds or less - find the pH of a solution with a Hydrogen ion concentration of 0.01 Molar @ 25 degrees Celsius Answer: 2 c) In 10 seconds or less, what is the Molar concentration of hydrogen ions in a solution with a pH of 9 at 25 degrees Celsius? Answer: 1 x 10-9 [one times ten to the minus ninth Molar or moles per Liter] 14. Given members of a country group, name the group FTPE. If you need some of their hits, you’ll only get 5 pts.: a. FTP: Randy Owen, Jeff Cook, Teddy Gentry, Mark Herndon FFP: 40-Hour Week, The Closer You Get, Down Home Answer: Alabama b. FTP: John Rich, Dean Sams, Michael Britt, Richie McDonald, Keech Rainwater FFP: Amazed, I’m Already There, Smile Answer: Lonestar c. FTP: Duane Allen, Joe Bonsall, Richard Sterban, William Golden FFP: Elvira, Bobbie Sue, Gonna Take a Lot of River Answer: The Oak Ridge Boys 15. Complete the titles of the following Hemingway short stories FFPE with a bonus five for getting them all correct. a) Hills Like Answer: White Elephants b) The Snows of Answer: Kilimanjaro Answer: Francis Macomber d) A Clean, Answer: Well-Lighted Place e) Big Two-Hearted Answer: River
a) Charles Answer: Boston b) Willamette Answer: Salem c) Gila
Answer: Phoenix d) James
Answer: Richmond e) Kanawha Answer: West Virginia e) Scioto Answer: Ohio
a) The study of how knowledge is gained and what its limits are. Answer: epistemology b) The philosophical study of art, or of beauty in general, that seeks to explain how we evaluate beauty. Answer: aesthetics c) Especially in theology, it’s the study of “final things” such as death, resurrection, immortality, or the end of the world. Answer: eschatology
First, name any of the decades in which Marco Polo lived in China. Answer: 1270s, 1280s, 1290s (any is acceptable for ten points) Which emperor of China did Polo serve as an ambassador and advisor? Answer: Kublai Khan Upon returning to Venice, Polo was captured during a war and told of his adventures while in prison. In what Italian city-state was Polo a prisoner? Answer: Genoa
[10]A ball is dropped from a building on Earth (let the acceleration due to gravity equal 10 m/s2). Give its speed after it has fallen 80 m. Answer: 40 m/s [10] Give the time, in seconds, it takes the ball to fall this far. Answer: 4 s. [10] Give, to the nearest ten, the ball’s velocity after it falls another 80 m. Answer: 60 (exact answer is 40 (A) “Her voice was ever soft, Gentle and low, an excellent thing in a woman.” Answer: Cordelia (B) “Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her Infinite Variety.” Answer: Cleopatra (C) “Bring forth men-children only” Answer: Lady Macbeth
This is an exceptionally powerful prohibition whose violation will attract strong sanctions from the community. An example is the prohibition of Muslims from eating pork. Answer: taboo As in music, this term refers to a regularly reoccurring theme in a culture’s folklore or art. Answer: motif This adjective describes a people who trace descent and kin links through females. Answer: matrilineal (acc. matrilineage)
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