Tossups – round 1 dennis haskins open 2002 ut-chattanooga

BONI – BACKUP ROUND #1 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2002 -- UT-CHATTANOOGA

1. From a description, name these characters from Fox’s college sitcom, Undeclared, FTPE.

a) The string-bean freshman played by Jay Baruchel who imagines the girl down the hall is his soul mate.

Answer: Steven Karp (accept either name)

b) That girl down the hall, played by Carla Gallo, who seems to reciprocate Karp’s feelings when she isn’t with her Kinko’s clerk boyfriend.

Answer: Lizzie Exley (accept either name)

c) Played by former Freaks and Geeks actor Seth Rogan, he emptied a half keg of beer into every container he could find, lost big in on-line stock trading, and saved friend Lloyd from an amorous RA.

Answer: Ron Garner (accept either name)

10) What is the term for the reaction force to gravity, which always acts perpendicular to the surface of the plane?

Answer: normal force

10) If the block slides down the plane, what type of friction force, which is smaller than static friction, will act on the block?

Answer: kinematic

10) Friction is an example of what type of path dependent force, which can disperse energy as heat?

Answer: nonconservative
3. “The play’s the thing,” as our friend Will would say. Given the title of a drama, name its author FTSNOP:

a) 5 pts The Crucible

b) 5 pts Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

c) 10 pts True West

d) 10 pts A Moon for the Misbegotten

(A) This 1935 act prohibited employers in interstate commerce from committing unfair labor practices relating to collective bargaining.

Answer: Wagner Act (acc. National Labor Relations Act)

(B) Many of the Wagner Act’s provisions were softened by this 1947 law less friendly to labor.

Answer: Taft-Hartley Act

(C) In 1981 Federal workers belonging to a union called PATCO went on strike. Invoking a little-known provision that made it illegal for Federal employees to strike, Reagan fired all 13,000 strikers. What profession did PATCO represent?

Answer: air traffic controllers
5. Answer the following about angles FTPE. You have 10 seconds for each part.

A. The hour hand of a clock rotates how many degrees in thirty minutes?

Answer: 15 degrees

B. If two angles are supplementary, how many degrees are in the larger angle if one angle is 5 times greater than the other is?

Answer: 150 degrees

C. A rotation of how many degrees is needed to turn from southeast to north in a clockwise direction?

Answer: 225 degrees
6. Given a line from a Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem, name it, 5-10-15.

5. Water, Water everywhere and not a drop to drink

Answer: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

10. The shadow of the dome of pleasure / Floated midway on the waves / Where was heard the mingled measure / From the fountain and the caves

Answer: Kublai Khan

15. The lovely lady, Whom her father loves so well, What makes her in the wood so late, A furlong from the castle gate ?

Answer: Christabel
7. In the words of Johnny Cash, “Well, Custer split his men… well, he won’t do that again.” Answer these questions about the battle in which Colonel George Custer lost his life FTSNOP:

First, for five points, name that battle.

Answer: Little Big Horn

Now for five points each, name the Indian tribe that defeated Custer, the state in which the battle was fought and the year of the engagement.

Answer: Sioux; Montana; 1876

Finally, for ten points, what was the number of Custer's regiment.

Answer: 7^th cavalry
8. Answer the following about an accidental scientific breakthrough in 1928 FSNOP.

(5 pts.) When a scientist left a petri dish containing staphylococcus uncovered, he discovered that a mold had halted the bacteria. This antibacterial agent he called what?

Answer: penicillin

(10pts.) What scientist isolated and named penicillin?

Answer: Alexander Fleming

(15pts.) What British scientist shared the 1945 Nobel for Physiology and Medicine with Fleming and Ernst Chain for his work in creating a process to isolate sufficient quantities of penicillin to conduct definitive human trials?

Answer: Howard Florey
9. Supply the following musical terms from brief definitions FTP each.

(A) This Italian word describes choral music without instrumental accompaniment.

Answer: a capella

(B) These short, characteristic musical patterns symbolize people and ideas, and were immortalized in Wagner’s compositions.

Answer: leitmotifs

(C) This polyphonic form invented in the 13^th century consists of three or four-voice compositions built on a previously selected melody called a “tenor”.

Answer: motet
10. Identify the father and mother of each of these figures from Greek mythology for five points each.

Orestes, Iphigenia, and Electra

Answer: Agamemnon and Clytemnestra

Eteocles, Polyneices, Antigone, and Ismene

Answer: Oedipus and Jocasta

Persephone

Answer: Zeus and Demeter
11. Answer the following concerning the appearance of Europeans in Mexico FSNOP

(5 pts.) In 1519 this Spaniard came ashore in Mexico and marched inland.

Answer: Hernando Cortez

(5 pts.) This Aztec king welcomed Cortez’s appearance as that of a fabled god.

Answer: Montezuma

(10pts.) Cortez’s light skin made Montezuma believe that Cortez was the incarnation of what returning Aztec god?

Answer: Quetzalcoatl

(10pts.) What Aztec capital, now the site of Mexico City, did Cortez take?

Answer: Tenochtitlan

12. Given a description, name the dramatic form or school of drama FTPE.

These Japanese plays differ from Kabuki in that they deal with historical themes and often have Buddhist overtones.

Answer: Noh

These medieval dramas were based on the Bible and grew out of dramatically expanded presentations of the events of Christ’s life.

Answer: mystery plays

Major figures of this 20th century school include Eugene Ionesco, Jean Genet, and Tom Stoppard, and its works emphasize the arbitrariness and meaninglessness of existence.

Answer: Theater of the Absurd

a) He was the first president of the NHL, serving from 1917 to 1943. The trophy named for him goes to the best rookie.

Answer: Frank Calder

b) A manager-coach of the Boston Bruins, he played for the Kenora Thistles and Montreal Wanderers. His namesake trophy is given to the leading scorer (combined goals and assists)

Answer: Art Ross

c) He played for the Montreal Canadiens from 1910 to 1925, dying from tuberculosis in 1926. The trophy in his name is given to the most valuable goalie

Answer: Georges Vezina
14. FTP apiece, answer these questions about an electronic device.

a) In 1956, William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brittain won the Nobel prize for their invention of this device.

Answer: transistor

b) This technique adds impurities to a transistor to make it work more efficiently, by serving as a source for either holes or excess electrons.