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14. This place will celebrate Founders Day in May, marking the 70th anniversary when Frieda Center and her husband Gordon, the inventor of miniature golf, opened it for business. In the fall, you can walk through the cornfield maze, in the winter you can see the Enchanted Garden of Lights. Other attractions here include Fairyland Caverns, Mother Goose Village, Fat Man’s Squeeze and Swing-A-Long Bridge. FTP, name this geological roadside wonder in Chattanooga where you can allegedly see seven states.

Answer: Rock City


15. This fruit, native to the area from Iran to northern India, has a rich red interior and has been grown around the Mediterranean since Classical times. The bodyguards of Cyrus the Great were identified by a golden one on their spears. Because Persephone ate a single seed from one of these, she was forced to spend four months of every year in Hades. FTP what is this fruit whose botanical name is punica granatum?

Answer: pomegranate


16. Its creator responds to critics by saying “they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had." This operating system is far more stable than Microsoft operating systems, and its creator, Linus Torvalds, is revered by his users rather than reviled. FTP name this Unix derivative whose flavors are sold by Suse, Debian, Caldera, and RedHat.

Answer: Linux


17. He was known to have a fierce temper; once during an argument with an opera singer, he picked her up by the waist and dangled her out of a second-story window. Trained in law as well as music, he produced the operas Almira, Ottone, and Orlando and the orchestral Music for the Royal Fireworks and Water Music. FTP name this German-born composer whose acclaimed oratorios include The Messiah.

Answer: George Frideric Handel


18. This author’s Collected Works, first published in 1950, contains 1,775 poems, of which only seven were published in her lifetime. The one-woman drama The Belle of Amherst depicts her almost-total seclusion in Massachusetts. FTP name this author, many of whose poems can be sung to the Gilligan’s Island theme, as with “I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died” and “Because I Could Not Stop for Death.”

Answer: Emily Dickinson


19. Among the casualties was Elbert Hubbard, bestselling author of A Message to Garcia. A German U-boat captain noted in his log, “Shots hit starboard side right behind bridge. An usually heavy detonation follows.” Noted for its speed, it ignored warnings to avoid the area and to travel in a zigzag pattern. It was within sight of Ireland when it sunk in just 18 minutes, killing nearly 1,200 of the 1,924 people aboard. FTP, name this sister ship of the Mauritania, whose sinking on May 7, 1915, failed to immediately bring the U.S. into World War I.

Answer: the Lusitania


20. For a current loop, it is given by the current times the cross product of the area moment and the magnetic field produced by the loop. For an ordinary particle, it is defined as the cross product of the force and a radius vector. FTP what is this quantity, the rotational analog of force?

Answer: torque


21. Made in Carduel, it came into the possession of King Leodegraunce of Camiliard, who used it as a dowry for his daughter. Among those with places reserved at it were Torre the first made, Lamerok the brave, and Palamedes the Saracen. Originally made by Merlin for Uther Pendragon, FTP, what was this table which could seat 150 of Arthur's knights?

Answer: the Round Table


22. In Roman mythology, this term denoted the spirit which presided over the birth of every male and attended him throughout life. Considered to be a man’s higher self, these spirits also existed for families, tribes, and the Roman people. Only later was it used to describe an extraordinary talent, in particular great intelligence. FTP what is this term which many of you might mistakenly use to describe yourselves?

Answer: genius


23. The name’s the same. In 1942, it starred William Powell, Hedy Lamarr and Basil Rathbone in a story about a diplomat blackmailed for crimes committed while he had amnesia. In 1986, it starred Ralph Macchio tracking down an old blues musician in New Orleans. In 2002, it’s a story of three Georgia high school girls traveling across the country to chase their dreams. FTP, name this title shared by the above movies, the last being the film debut of Britney Spears.

Answer: Crossroads




TOSSUPS – ROUND 7 DENNIS HASKINS OPEN 2002 -- UT-CHATTANOOGA


1. This dioecious gymnosperm with fan-shaped leaves can live as long as 1,000 years. Considered a living fossil, Westerners thought it extinct till it was found in Japan in 1691 by Engelbert Kaempfer. One near ground zero was the first tree to bud without major deformations after the bombing of Hiroshima. The Chinese use a tannin found in its seeds to cure hides, and its Chinese name means “silver apricot,” as its fruit is a shimmering white. Used as an herbal remedy for coughing and asthma, FTP, this is what tree whose biloba variety may combat Alzheimer’s Disease?

Answer: ginkgo
2. Many critics hold that this author’s best poems are ones which recreate imagined settings, like “The Deserted Garden” and “Bianca Among the Nightengales”. Her social awareness is seen in works like “The Cry of the Children” and her most ambitious work, “Aurora Leigh”, but she is best known for a collection of poems intended as a gift to her husband. FTP, who is this poet who penned the line “How to I love thee? Let me count the ways” in Sonnets from the Portuguese?

Answer: Elizabeth Barrett Browning


3. After graduating from Harvard he lost the family business through incompetence, then filled a vacancy in the Massachusetts legislative assembly in 1774. He wrote radical columns under the pseudonyms Candidus and Vindex, and he led colonial opposition to the Tea Act, culminating in the Boston Tea Party. Cousin to the second president, FTP, name this namesake of a modern American micro-brew.
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