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17. In Dante’s Inferno this historical figure is placed in the mouth of Satan. According to Matthew he died by hanging himself, but Acts says that he died by “falling headlong”, after which “he burst asunder…and all his bowels gushed out”. Regardless, he is notorious for an act for which he was paid 30 pieces of silver. FTP, who was this disciple who betrayed Jesus to the Romans?

Answer: Judas Iscariot


18. The mummified head of Ramses the Fifth suggests that he died from this disease, called “venom from the mother’s breast” in ancient China. It also claimed Czar Peter the Second, and 1977 saw the last natural transmission of the Variola virus occur in Somalia. FTP, inhaling flakes from pus-filled skin lesions spreads what scarring scourge of seventeenth century Europe?

Answer: smallpox


19. A synopsis of a recent History Channel offering asked, “Was the unkempt and uncouth Siberian peasant, the drunk and debaucher… really that hard to kill? A book by Edvard Radzinsky based on Russian Secret Police reports from 1917 answers these questions.” He became a target because of concerns that his apparent saving of the heir to the throne from another hemophilia-related illness had given him undue influence that he was misusing. FTP, name this adviser to Czar Nicholas and his wife Alexandra.

Answer: Grigori Rasputin


20. His most recent literary output, though he began it in the early 1960s, is his first novel, The Rum Diary. Had he been elected mayor of Aspen, Colorado, he would’ve torn up the asphalt and replaced it with grass, renamed the town “Fat City,” and set up a stocks in which to lock up drug dealers who charged too much; he lost by less than a hundred votes. FTP name this Gonzo journalist, author of three books beginning with the words “Fear and Loathing.”

Answer: Hunter S. Thompson


21. Chapter 12 states that no payment demands can be imposed on subjects except to ransom the king, knight his eldest son, or marry his daughter off. Rooted in feudal law, it was repudiated by Innocent III after John declared himself a papal vassal, though Henry III confirmed it, and it was reissued in 1297 by Edward I. FTP what is this document signed at Runnymede in 1215?

Answer: Magna Carta


22. The Louvre has a copy of this document, which provides valuable social and economic history because of its coverage of trade, property issues, and family life. The maxim “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth” can be found among its 282 provisions, most of which carry harsh penalties for offenders. FTP name this set of ancient Babylonian laws.

Answer: the Code of Hammurabi

23. I could say "Elves" to him, But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather He said it for himself. I see him there, Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top. In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed. He moves in darkness as it seems to me, Not of woods only and the shade of trees. He will not go behind his father's saying, And he likes having though of it so well. FTP, in what Frost poem does this odd guy say only "Good fences make good neighbors."?

Answer: Mending Wall




TOSSUPS – ROUND 5 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2002 -- UT-CHATTANOOGA


1. His son, Michael, is the current head of the Federal Communications Commission. Decorated with a Purple Heart, Bronze Star, and Distinguished Service Medal from his two stints in Vietnam, his autobiography, My American Journey, was a best-seller in 1993 after he retired as Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. FTP who is this current Secretary of State?

Answer: Colin Powell
2. 90% of its population lives on a fairly small plateau in its west. Much of the rest of the country is desert or semidesert, although it does have a small stretch of coastline at Aqaba [ACK-a-bah]. Near its largest peak, Jebel Ram, is the ancient city of Petra. Like Israel, it has had problems with Palestinian unrest, including the 1951 assassination of King Abdullah, grandfather of the current monarch of the same name. FTP name this Middle Eastern kingdom with its capital at Amman.

Answer: Jordan


3. Harriet might not be as good-looking as the protagonist, but that makes her the perfect guinea pig. Mr. Knightly despises the matchmaking done by the main character and plays some tricks of his own, being especially coy when many think he is in love with Jane Fairfax (in reality it is Frank Churchill that has feelings for her and that buys her the piano). FTP, this is the tale of what Jane Austen novel which was the basis for the movie Clueless?

Answer: Emma


4. Its initial development has widely been attributed to Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard of Norway, who won the Association for Computing Machinery's 2001 Alan Turing Award, considered the "Nobel Prize of Computing." This pair developed SIMULA, a programming language that was never widely used, but introduced the concepts of classes, inheritance, and dynamic binding. FTP, what is the type of programming that SIMULA began, the most widely used programming model today?

Answer: object-oriented programming (or OOP or OOD)

[Prompt on SIMULA for early buzz]
5. Its current name was given it by Titus Bode years before it was discovered when he presumed it would be there; Georgium Sidus was the name given it by its discoverer. With a roughly 90% axial inclination, FTP, what is this planet discovered by William Herschel, the seventh from our Sun?

Answer: Uranus

6. At the end of his life, long after his capture, he was somewhat sadly displayed at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo and the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904. His Chiricahua (chee-ri-kaw-hwa) name was Goyathlay, and he led a band of Apache into Mexico when members of his tribe were slaughtered by U.S. troops. From there he led successful raids on and escapes from troops until Nelson Miles got him to surrender in 1886. FTP name this Apache leader who probably never yelled his own name jumping off a cliff.


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