Tossups – round 1 dennis haskins open 2002 ut-chattanooga
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Answer: dopingc) For a final ten points, all or nothing, most transistors made today are of the MOSFET type. What does MOSFET stand for? Answer: Metal-oxide-semi-conducting field-effect-transistor (accept …semi-conductor… as well) 15. Name these 16th-century religious reformers on a 15-5 basis. A. 15 – He served as a pastor in Frankfurt and Geneva from 1553-59, while in exile from his native land because of the ascent of a Catholic to the throne. 5 – He is generally considered the founder of Scottish Presbyterianism. Answer: John Knox B. 15 – Educated in Vienna and Basel, he was influenced by Luther and began preaching reformist ideas in 1518. The main points of his 67 Articles were adopted by most priests in his city. 5 – Under his leadership, Zurich became the center of the Swiss reformation movement. Answer: Ulrich or Huldrych Zwingli
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be.” Answer: Polonius (in Hamlet) “I am a man/More sinn’d against than sinning.” Answer: King Lear “’Tis not so wide as a church door nor so deep as a well, but ‘tis enough t’will serve..” Answer: Mercutio (in Romeo and Juliet)
a) The urinal called “Fountain” Answer: Marcel Duchamp; Dadaism b) Lipstick Answer: Claes Oldenburg; Pop Art c) A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte Answer: Georges Seurat; Pointillism 18. 30-20-10 name the British monarch. 30) The son of Lord Darnley, he traced his lineage to the Tudors through Henry VII, his great-great-grandfather. 20) His mother, Mary, was executed, and he himself called for the execution of Walter Raleigh to appease the Spanish. 10) King of Scotland for 58 years and of England for 22, he authorized the first widespread printing of the Bible. Answer: James I 19. They include freezing-point depression and boiling-point elevation. For 15 points each: a) First, name these chemical properties. Answer: colligative properties b) Many colligative properties are dependent on what concentration, defined as the moles of solute per kilogram of solvent? Answer: molality [NOT molarity]
a. This is the most common data value in a data set Answer: mode b. Also called the 75th percentile, it is a number that three-quarters of a data set is less than. Answer: third quartile or Q3 c. This measure of spread is equal to the largest value in a data set minus the smallest value Answer: range
30- Its cities include Tuzla, Mostar, and Banja Luka 20- Its co-Prime Ministers are Radisic, a Serb, and Izetbegovic, a Muslim 10- World War I started there when Franz Ferdinand was killed in its capital, Sarajevo. Answer: Federation of Bosnia & Herzegovina (prompt on "Bosnia")
BONI – SEMIFINALS DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2002 -- UT-CHATTANOOGA1. FTPE name the philosophers whose works help shape the ideals of the American Revolution: a) In his 1748 book The Spirit of the Laws, this Frenchman put forth a theory of the separation of powers. Answer: Baron de Montesquieu (or Charles Louis de Secondat) b) Like the Founding Fathers, Montesquieu was heavily influenced by this author of Two Treatises on Government and Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Answer: John Locke c) Jefferson in particular was taken by this man’s view of government as an expression of the people’s general will, as set fort in his The Social Contract. Answer: Jean-Jacques Rousseau [prompt on Rousseau] 2. These substances must have misbehaved a lot in school. Answer the following about suspensions FTPE. A suspension in which particles larger than most molecules don’t dissolve but stay suspended in another medium, such as many paints and foams, is called this. Answer: colloid This is a type of colloid in which solids or liquids are suspended in a gas or liquid; in common household use they are expelled from a can by a hydrocarbon propellant. Answer: aerosol Shining an intense beam of light through a substance leading to a scattering of that light as it hits suspended particles is an example of this effect, which explains the gray-blue color of smoke. Answer: Tyndall effect
Answer: Union Pacific and Central Pacific
Answer: Frederick Jackson Turner ( C ) FTP, what 1887 act divided reservations into 160-acre farms, and promised “good” Indians American citizenship? Answer: Dawes Act
A. Stanley Kowalski Answer: A Streetcar Named Desire B. “Big Daddy” Pollit, Brick, and Maggie Answer: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Answer: The Rose Tattoo
a) On the Steppes of Central Asia and Prince Igor, which contains the outstanding Polovetsian Dances Answer: Aleksandr Borodin b) Pictures at an Exhibition, Night on Bald Mountain, and the opera Boris Godunov. Answer: Modest Mussorgsky c) The ballet Gayane, remembered mostly for the popular “Sabre Dance”. Answer: Aram Khachaturian
Answers: Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, and Catherine Parr [prompt on partial answers, except just go ahead and accept Jane] 7. Answer the following about a law FTPE: A. Named after one of the co-founders of Intel, this computing "law" is really an empirical observation that states that the speed of silicon chips roughly doubles every 18 months. Answer: (Gordon) Moore's Law B. Paper and pencil ready. If the author of this question had a computer in 1982 with 1 Megahertz processing speed, then according to Moore's Law, how fast should my computer be in 2003? You may round to the nearest gigahertz. (allow 20 seconds) Answer: 16 Giga hertz (Accept 16,384,000,000 hertz) C. If I had 64 Kilobytes of RAM in my 1982 computer, and we assume Moore's Law holds for memory as well, how much memory should I have in my 2003 machine? (allow 20 seconds) Answer: 1 Giga byte (Accept 1,048,576,000 bytes)
a. Yu Shu Lien is played by this actress. Answer: Michelle Yeoh b. Jen Yu is tutored by this criminal, played by Pei-pei Chang. Answer: Jade Fox c. Jen covets this sword owned by Li Mu Bai. Answer: the Green Destiny
Though earthquakes can cause great loss of life, in the 1964 Alaska quake, as in many others, most deaths were caused by these destructive waves that can move 300-600 mph. Answer: tsunami (acc. seismic sea wave) The focus is where an earthquake originates; what term designates the location on Earth’s surface directly above the focus? Answer: epicenter The velocity of seismic waves greatly increase abruptly when they pass this boundary separating the crust from the underlying mantle. Answer: Mohorovicic discontinuity (acc. “Moho”)
A. John Osborne, Alan Sillitoe, and Kingsley Amis [although Amis objects to the designation] Answer: Angry Young Men B. Countee Cullen and Claude McKay Answer: Harlem Renaissance C. E.M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, and Virginia Woolf Answer: Bloomsbury Group or Circle
This canine western predator/scavenger was, in the mythology of some tribes, a prankster character. Answer: Coyote Coyote was terribly stomped when he tried to hunt like this animal, a common western feline predator. Answer: Bobcat This flute-playing Toltec fertility spirit is commemorated in tons of cheap jewelry and t-shirts these days. Answer: Kokopelli
Winner of the Nobel for Literature in 1951, this author is best known for the novels The Dwarf and Barrabbas. Answer: Par Lagerkvist Though he considered himself a serious dramatist and novelist, this Dane is best known to us today for his children’s stories like “The Red Shoes” and “The Ugly Duckling.” Answer: Hans Christian Andersen This Swedish dramatist wrote Miss Julie and The Ghost Sonata. Answer: August Strindberg 13. FTPE, given one of the leaders of postcolonial Africa, name the nation he served as President: a) Kwame Nkrumah Answer: Ghana Answer: Tanzania c) Jomo Kenyatta Answer: Kenya 14. Identify these things about digestion in the stomach, for 10 points each: a) This enzyme prevents the stomach lining from being broken by the low pH acid in the stomach. Answer: pepsin b) Pepsin is made from pepsinogen, an example of this type of molecule. Normally, it lies dormant until a situation arises when a large amount of substrate is evident. Then it proceeds to change into an enzyme. Answer: zymogen c) This sphincter controls the flow of food from the stomach to the small intestine. Answer: pyloric sphincter
The first National Park established east of the Mississippi, it’s also the easternmost. Answer: Acadia This park covers 800,000 square acres on the border of Mexico where the Rio Grande makes a sharp turn west. Answer: Big Bend Known for its high cliffs and waterfalls, as well as the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir and Tuolumne meadows, this park is prominently featured in the photos of Ansel Adams. Answer: Yosemite
a. These marshmallowy baby chicks seen around Easter may be JustBorn's most recognizable product. Answer: Peeps b. This candy with a rhyming name is not quite a gumdrop, but isn't just a jelly bean, either. Some say it was named for President Eisenhower. Answer: Mike and Ike c. These are basically Mike & Ike's, except they are a spicy cinnamon flavor. Answer: Hot Tamales
a) Parts of this man’s seminal On the Road were written in Orlando’s College Park. Answer: Jack Kerouac b) Fictionalized as “Old Bull Lee” in On the Road, this writer’s radical takes on art and sexuality can be seen in books like Junky, Queer, and his classic Naked Lunch. Answer: William S. Burroughs c) This Beat author’s acclaimed poetry had less impact on the movement than his founding of the pivotal City Lights bookstore in San Francisco. Answer: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
This 1819 treaty gained Florida for the U.S. while leaving the areas west of the Sabine River in Texas in Spanish hands. Answer: Adams-Onis Treaty This agreement, ratified by Congress in 1818, mostly settled U.S.-Canada boundaries in the Great Lakes and limited the number of warships allowed to permanently sail there. Answer: Rush-Bagot Convention (or Agreement) This 1842 agreement adjusted the boundary between Maine and New Brunswick in the aftermath of the Aroostook War. Answer: Webster-Ashburton Treaty
10) Two branches of the cycle take place at constant temperature. What term describes such a process? Answer: isothermal 10) The other two branches of the cycle take place with no exchange of heat with the surroundings. What term describes such a process? Answer: adiabatic (accept isentropic) 10) A Carnot engine operates between two reservoirs of temperature 100 Kelvin and 400 Kelvin. What is the efficiency of the engine? Answer: 3/4 or 75% or 0.75
A. For 5 points, La Dolce Vita. Answer: Federico _Fellini_ B. For 10 points, The 400 Blows and Jules and Jim Answer: Francois _Truffaut_ C. For 5 points, Breathless and Alphaville Answer: Jean-Luc _Godard_ D. For 10 points, Ikiru and The Seven Samurai Answer: Akira _Kurosawa_
a. 118 pounds Answer: bantamweight b. 145 pounds Answer: welterweight c. 165 pounds Answer: super middleweight
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