Tossups – round 1 dennis haskins open 2002 ut-chattanooga
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Answer: Geronimo7. The number 3 song for 2001 on the Billboard modern rock chart, this single had the honor of topping Billboard’s year-end Hot 100 chart despite never reaching number 1 on that chart during its run. While it sounds like an uptempo love song, songwriter Jason Wade says it’s about spiritual longing, with the line “I’m falling even more in love in you” referring to God as opposed to a significant other. The first track of the 2000 album “No Name Face,” FTP, name this biggest hit for Lifehouse. Answer: Hanging by a Moment
Answer: transcendentalism 9. The first act opens in an attic apartment on Christmas Eve in the 1830s. After all but one of the male characters leave for a café, a female neighbor enters to find a match to relight her candle, leading the remaining male lead to sing the aria Che gelida manina, or the “tiny hand is frozen.” Unfortunately, she’s tubercular, and the rest of the Parisian characters are poor poets and musicians. So goes, FTP, the plot of what Puccini opera about the love of Mimi and Rudolfo, the basis for the musical Rent. Answer: La Boheme 10. Among other functions, protein synthesis, calcium storage, and the production of glycogen are facilitated by this network of tubules, sacs, and vesicles. They are divided into two classes, rough and smooth, with the rough holding the ribosomes and the smooth storing calcium and proteins. FTP give the name of this cell organelle, that along with the Golgi complex, plays a key part in protein production. Answer: endoplasmic reticulum [accept ER] 11. Sometimes depicted as riding a rat, this mythological figure is propitiated at the beginning of literary and sacred writings to ensure that the writer will encounter no obstacles. One myth tells that the sage Vyasa dictated the Mahabharata to to him. The god of wisdom and prudence, FTP, who is this son of Shiva and Parvati, depicted with a man's body and elephant's head? Answer: Ganesa or Ganesha or Ganapati 12. According to legend, she only washes her face with Evian spring water, somewhat fitting as her name is Gaelic for “crooked stream.” She was set to play Sonya Blade in “Mortal Kombat” until a broken wrist knocked her out of that role. Lesser known roles include Jude in “The Last Supper” and Heather Davis in “She’s the One.” More familiar roles include Lotte Schwartz in “Being John Malkovich” and Julie Gianni in “Vanilla Sky.” FTP, name this actress who played the title heroine in “There’s Something About Mary.” Answer: Cameron Diaz 13. Set in Victorian England, its cynical tone reflects the Weimar culture of its author, who wanted the play to alienate the bourgeois audience. It focuses on Polly Peachum and her father, who is head of the beggars. Macheath is the scoundrel who personifies corruption and depravity. Featuring the famous Kurt Weill song “Mack the Knife,” FTP this is what drama by Bertolt Brecht based on Gay’s “The Beggar’s Opera”? Answer: The Threepenny Opera or Das Dreigroschenopern [do not accept The Beggar’s Opera – the Weimar clue means it would not be correct] 14. Oral preparations of this drug known to the ancients include a diluted tincture combined with camphor called paregoric, and a deodorized tincture called laudanum. Its 1803 refinement into a common pain reliever marks the beginning of the modern era of medical drugs. FTP, name this dark, gummy solid which can be refined into morphine and whose lucrative trade sparked conflicts between the British and the Chinese? Answer: opium 15. It first emerged in 1980 after shipyard strikes organized by the Free Union of the Baltic Coast. In response, Prime Minister Wojcech (voi-check) Jaruzelski (yair-uh-zul-ski) imposed martial law and arrested many of the movement’s leaders. FTP name this Polish trade-union movement led by Lech Walesa. Answer: Solidarity 16. The theft of Mambrino’s helmet (which is really a gold wash basin) from a frail old barber. A descent into the Cave of Montesinos, where the title character learns of a man named Durandarte, whose story of unrequited love is much like his own. The sale of parcels of land to buy books of chivalry to put in his library, which is then walled up by the curate and the barber. FTP, all these things happen to what character who also famously titled at windmills, as created by Miguel de Cervantes? Answer: Don Quixote 17. This law automatically obeys Newton's Third Law, and is the electrostatic analog of the Biot-Savart Law. The principle of superposition together with this law can be used to derive Gauss's Law, which hinges on the fact that it is a "one over r squared" law. In SI units it contains the constant one over four pi times the permittivity of free space. FTP name this law useful in calculating the force between two charges. Answer: Coulomb's Law 18. This man lost power for the final time in Ayutla’s revolt. From 1836-39 he defended Vera Cruz against the French, having earlier served as governor of Vera Cruz under Iturbide. However, he overthrew Iturbide in 1822 and soon became President. FTP, who was this Mexican leader who lost the Mexican War and the Texan Revolt. Answer: Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna 19. His literary influence came more from his personality than from his works. Only late in life did he write works of significant value, five autobiographical volumes titled Sowing, Growing, Beginning Again, Downhill All the Way, and The Journey Not the Arrival Matters. But this member of the Bloomsbury Group cofounded Hogarth Press and encouraged such authors as T.S. Eliot and E.M. Forster. FTP name this man, overshadowed by his wife, the author of To the Lighthouse and A Room of One’s Own. Answer: Leonard Woolf 20. First sold in 1939 by the Sawyer Photographic Service in Portland, the U.S. military purchased 100,000 of these for training purposes in the 1940s. The purchase of Sawyer by GAF brought in the rights to see famous TV shows and movie images, but nature lovers were the intended target as users could see high-quality 3-D shots of Pike’s Peak in an inexpensive fashion. FTP, name this low-tech toy where users could see 3-D color images on a special photo reel through a plastic viewer. Answer: View-Master 21. Within a few years many of its exponents, including Othon Friesz, Georges Rouault, Maurice Vlaminck, and Andre Derain, moved on to more traditional forms, while others, such as Georges Braque, switched over to the emerging cubism. But this movement’s vivid and exuberant use of color remained a major influence in the further work of its foremost proponent, Henri Matisse. FTP name this short-lived art movement of the early 1900’s, whose detractors gave it its name meaning “wild beast”. Answer: the Fauves or Fauvism 22. It is shaped like a gridiron to commemorate the martyrdom of St. Lawrence. Its halls house a huge collection of paintings, with a large number of works by Rubens, but an even larger number of works by native Spaniards like Zurbaran and Murillo. FTP what is this palace retreat built by Philip II 25 miles northwest of Madrid? Answer: El Escorial 23. This odd untouchable number is the smallest Wilson prime, is the smallest prime which is the average of two primes, and is probably the only number that’s a member of two pairs of twin primes. FTP identify this fifth Fibonacci number, the fifth digit in the decimal expansion of pi, and the number of fingers you probably have on your hand. Answer: five TOSSUPS – ROUND 6 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2002 -- UT-CHATTANOOGA |