Tossups round 1 center of the known universe open/rollapalooza 1999
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BONI -- ROUND 11 CENTER OF THE KNOWN UNIVERSE OPEN/ROLLAPALOOZA 1999 1. TRAVELS WITH CHARLIE: You didn’t think you’d get away with just one county bonus, did you? The following cities and landmarks are in different states, but the counties they lie in have the same name. Give that name, 5 pts. each: (a) Orlando, FL; Anaheim, CA; Chapel Hill, NC
(b) Louisville, KY; Birmingham, AL; Port Arthur, TX Answer: Jefferson (c) Detroit, MI; Palmyra, NY; the northern part of Capitol Reef National Park in UT Answer: Wayne (d) Dallas, TX; Selma, AL Answer: Dallas (e) Houston, TX; Callaway Gardens, GA Answer: Harris (f) Cincinnati, OH; Chattanooga, TN Answer: Hamilton
A. Madonna of the Harpies (1517) answer: Andrea del Sarto B. Madonna of the Long Neck (c1540) answer: Parmiggianino (Francesco Mazzola) C. Madonna of the House of Pesaro answer: Titian
(30) He is currently the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton. (20) He proved the Shimura-Taniyama conjecture in 1995; the result was published in The Annals of Mathematics May 1995 issue, which I’m sure you all have on your coffee table. (10) Did we mention that proving the Shimura-Taniyama conjecture also proves Fermat’s last theorem? Answer: Answer: Andrew (John) Wiles
A. Dragonsong, The Rowan, Damia Answer: Anne McCaffrey B. Arrows of the Queen, Magic's Price, Winds of Change Answer: Mercedes Lackey C. Belgarath the Sorcerer, Pawn of Prophecy, The Sapphire Rose Answer: David Eddings
A. Miltiades led the victory at this 490 BCE battle answer: Marathon B. The naval strategy of Themistocles led to victory here in 480 BCE answer: Salamis C. The Spartan Pausanius defeated the forces that Xerxes left behind in this 479 battle. Answer: Plataea 6. 30-20-10, name this man. 30) He served from 1900 to 1914 as a private in the London Scottish Regiment, and as a captain in the Army Medical Corps during WWI. While he was serving in the regiment, he studied at St. Mary's Medical School, earning his degree with Gold Medal in 1908. 20) In 1921, he discovered in tissues and secretions an important bacteriolytic substance which he named Lysozyme. About this time, he devised sensitivity titration methods and assays in human blood and other body fluids. 10) In 1928, while working on influenza virus, he observed that mold had developed accidently on a staphylococcus culture plate and that the mold had created a bacteria-free circle around itself. Answer: Alexander Fleming 7. Identify these Canadian prime ministers for the stated number of points. 15) Winner of the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating an end to the Suez Canal crisis, he served as PM from 1963-68. He’s the namesake of the NHL's Outstanding Player trophy as chosen by the NHL Players Association. Answer: Lester B. Pearson 10) Serving from 1984-93, he led the Progressive Conservative Party to the largest majority in Canadian history, winning 211 of 282 seats in the House of Commons. Answer: Brian Mulroney 5) Serving from 1968-79 and again from 80-84, he was a civil rights lawyer in Montreal who made French and English both official languages of the Canadian government. Answer: Pierre Trudeau
30) His doctoral dissertation from Vienna in 1904 dealt with the theories of individuation in the thought of two great mystics, Nicholas of Cusa and Jakob Böhme. 20) Friedrich Nietzsche's proclamation of heroic nihilism and his criticism of modern culture exerted the greatest influence on him. The Nietzschean influence was reflected in his turn to Zionism and its call for a return to roots and a more wholesome culture. 10) His classic work states that the relation between man and God, however, is always an I-Thou one, whereas that between man and man is very frequently an I-It one, in which the other being is treated as an object of thought or action. Answer: Martin Buber
a) Who did write "The Great American Novel"? Answer: Philip Roth b) It centers around what fictitious baseball league? Answer: Patriot League c) What real Congressional Committee makes an appearance in the novel, attempting to stop the influx of unsavory elements into the game of baseball? Answer: House Un-American Activities Committee (accept HUAC) RN: Somewhere, right now, Charlie Steinhice is cussing profusely ... 10. Name these terms named for people in the wacky world of economics FTP each. A. This describes a state in which it is impossible to improve one agent in a competition without making at least one other agent worse-off. Answer: Pareto efficiency or efficient or optimal B. This curve shows the relation between marginal tax rate and government revenue. Answer: Laffer curve C. Demand for this kind of consumer good falls as income rises. The originator used potatoes in Ireland as an example, but better modern examples would be Hyundais and Pabst Blue Ribbon. Answer: Giffen good
The first governor, he is credited with the notion that America represented a clean slate for the creation of a pure and just society which could serve as an example to the world--"a city upon a hill." He is also credited, or discredited, for his expulsion of Anne Hutchinson a few years later. Answer: John Winthrop A classic British placeman who owed his position to royal patronage, he responded to the Stamp Act Congress with a plea for parliament to construct a formal government for the colonies on the Irish model. He was recalled shortly thereafter. Answer: Francis Bernard Bernard's successor, he was driven from his home and hanged in effigy just days before the Boston Massacre of 1770. Answer: Thomas Hutchinson
A. This 1677 success was based on the myth of this woman's unrequited love for Hippolytus answer: _Phedre_ (accept _Phaedra_) B. In 1689, he produced a play based on this Biblical queen, the wife of Ahasuerus answer: _Esther_ C. This 1667 play studies the life of the wife of Hector after the fall of Troy answer: _Andromaque_ (accept _Andromache_)
A. This poem by Jose Marti' is one of his Versos Sencillos. It tells of a beautiful woman from the port near where a US naval base yet remains. Answer: Guantanamera B. This 1990 epic poem is Derek Walcott's retelling of the Odyssey using Caribbean themes. Answer: Omeros C. This 1966 novel marked a return to the Caribbean roots of its author Jean Rhys while it chronicled the creole first wife of Jane Eyre's Edward Rochester. Answer: Wide Sargasso Sea
A. This guy under Lieutenant Zuniga falls for Carmen and ends up killing her. Answer: Don Jose B. This woman pines for Don Jose and acts as a go-between Don Jose and his mother. Answer: Micaela C. This toreador becomes the center of Carmen's infatuations after she spurns Don Jose answer: Escamillo
1) For 5 points: This type of detector uses a p-n junction as a detector. Electrons are bumped up to the conduction band where they move under the influence of the applied high voltage. Some examples are the high purity germanium detector and the germanium-lithium or "jelly" detector. A: semiconductor detector 2) For 10 points: This type of detector can be a solid crystal, such as sodium iodide, or an organic liquid, plastic or crystal. Passing radiation causes photons to be emitted. These photons are then used to measure the energy and strength of the radiation field. A: scintillation or scintillator detector or counter 3) For five points each, identify the following type of gas filled detectors: a) This is the one you've all been waiting for. Such a high voltage is applied to the gas tube that passing radiation causes a cascade of ionized particles. No energy determination is possible, and its possible to saturate these meters in extremely large fields, so be careful. They also tend to have speakers that click or beep. A: geiger counter or geiger-Mueller or GM tube b) These detectors have a lower applied voltage than the aforementioned geiger-mueller. The voltage is still high enough that racing ions in the tube create secondary ionization. This secondary ionization is directly related to the incident radiation, which is where the detector gets its name. A: proportional counter or detector c) This third type of gas filled detector has an applied voltage lower than that of a proportional counter. Incident radiation ionizes the gas, but the racing ions have insufficient energy to cause secondary ionization. A: ionization counter or detector 16. A certain magazine presumably gathers no moss. FTPE, identify these Rolling Stone alumni. A) This former Rolling Stone writer, model for Duke in Doonesbury, has collected some of his articles from Rolling Stone as well as other magazines into a book called The Great Shark Hunt. Answer: Hunter S. Thompson B) Later an anchor for MTV News, this former Rolling Stone writer gave – oh my! – Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon a bad review. We don’t wonder why he no longer works for Rolling Stone. Answer: Kurt Loder C) In 1997 he published the short fiction piece “Ambush at Fort Bragg” exclusively in Rolling Stone. This is a far cry from more respectable works such as The Pump-House Gang and The Purple Decade. Answer: Tom Wolfe
This publisher of the Los Angeles Times ran misleading quotes from Sinclair's novels as though they were policy statements. His wife Dorothy has a famous L.A. landmark named for her. Answer Harry Chandler This minor Democratic Party official stated that Sinclair was "simply unqualified, and not our caliber of people." He was later noted for his repressive measures as Mayor of Los Angeles during the Watts Riots. Answer Sam Yorty This UCLA graduate student was hired by a professor to pose as a hobo and spy on the homeless community, to find out if they supported Sinclair's campaign. He later became an outspoken celebrity lawyer, famous enough to have had a guest star role on an episode of the original Star Trek. Answer Melvin Belli
(d) nitrite Answer: N O2 (e) oxalate Answer: C2 O4 (f) tartrate Answer: C4 H4 O6 19. For 10 points each, give the Greek names equivalent to the following Roman mythological figures. a) Somnus, the god of sleep Answer: Hypnus b) Mors, the god of death Answer: Thanatos c) Juventas, the goddess of youth Answer: Hebe
a) His first major work was this 1889 realistic tragedy of contemporary social problems. Answer: Before Dawn b) The title character in this 1898 play is a workman who slowly deteriorates from the stresses of his domestic life. Answer: Drayman Henschel c) Perhaps his most famous work appeared in 1892, and dramatized a workers’ revolt in Silesia in 1844. Answer: The Weavers
1. Identify the authors of these Roman classics containing comic genius FTP each. answer: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer) B. Satyricon answer: Gaius Petronius Arbiter C. Miles Gloriosus answer: Titus Maccius Plautus 2. FTPE name these figures associated with the development of the steam engine: (a) His engine was designed to pump water from mines but by mid-18th century was widely used in smelters, ironworks, and textile mills. It operated on atmospheric pressure alone and thus wasted about 99% of its fuel. Answer: Thomas Newcomen (b) Asked to repair a model of the Newcomen engine, he made a critical study of its workings and made several improvements, The first, the separate condenser which moved the steam away to cool, by itself saved 75% of the wasted fuel. Answer: James Watt (c) Watt learned his fundamentals from the lectures of this developer of the theory of latent heat. The lecturer never pitched for the Brooklyn Dodgers or came to take Anthony Hopkins to his eternal reward. Answer: Joseph Black 3. 30-20-10, name this man. 30) Born in Waco, TX in 1945, his film debut came in the 1977 Academy Award nominated short The Absent Minded Waiter. 20) In 1968, he won an Emmy as a writer for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. He won the New York Film Critics' Best Actor Award in 1984 for All of Me. 10) More recent films include The Spanish Prisoner, Parenthood, and Roxanne. Answer: Steve Martin
5 points each) Both were full Generals -- one set up the Kentucky line of defense, and fought Grant at Shiloh; the other commanded the Army of Northern Virginia, but was relieved of several commands, before surrendering the Army of Tennessee to Sherman. Answer: Albert & Joseph Johnston 10 points each) Both were Lieutenant Generals -- one commanded units at second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville, before dying at the siege of Petersburg; the other was given the job of defending Richmond before being given command of the Army of Tennessee, which he summarily lost, and didn't command again until Bentonville. Answer: A.P. & D. H. Hill 5. For 10 points each, given a work, name its French composer. HINT: Charlie winnowed this one down from the six [READER: SAY IT EMPHATICALLY] works Ben first submitted... A) the ballet Les Biches Answer: Francis Poulenc B) the opera Christopher Columbus Answer: Darius Milhaud C) the ballet Semiramis Answer: Arthur Honegger 6. Man the ores! FTSNOP, given an important ore, name the metallic element for which it’s an key source: a) 5 pts.: hematite Answer: iron b) 10 pts.: malachite Answer: copper c) 5 pts.: galena Answer: lead d) 10 pts.: cinnabar Answer: mercury
A) First, for five points each, name the two American athletes who famously bowed their heads and raised black-gloved fists during the playing of the National Anthem. Answer: Tommy Smith & John Carlos B) For 10 points, what event had Smith just won? Answer: 200 meter dash C) For 10 points, name the sociologist credited with instilling the spirit of rebellion in the African-American athletes during the games. He's now a consultant with the 49ers, which is why you can usually see him roaming the sidelines of Niner games. Answer: Harry Edwards
A. Reigning from 1611-32, he was an able general, winning battles in the Thirty Years' War at Leipzig. He also helped defeat Wallenstein at Lutzen in 1632, although he died there. Answer: Gustavus Adolphus or Gustav us II B. Gustavus Adolphus was succeeded by this woman who abdicated and died in Vatican City. Answer: Christina C. He fought in the Great Northern War, defeating the Russians at Narva, but he was crushed at Poltava in 1709. Answer: Charles XII
30) Mark was a noted poet and critic, whose pupils included Lionel Trilling and John Berryman, and who also won a Pulitzer for his Collected Poems 1922-1938. 20) Mark's brother Carl was the archetypal man of letters; he had edited the Nation, Century Magazine, and the Cambridge History of American Literature, as well as winning the 1938 Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Benjamin Franklin. 10) Carl's son, Charles, never won a Pulitzer, but he did win $64,000, although he had to give it all back and got to be portrayed by Ralph Fiennes in the movie Quiz Show. Ans: Van Doren
5) The checkerboard method commonly used to determine the types of zygotes produced by a fusion of gametes from the parents. Answer: Punnett square 10) The generalization that when one sex is absent, rare, or sterile, in the offspring of two different animal races or species, that sex is the heterogametic sex. Answer: Haldane's Rule 15) A segment upstream from the start-point of prokaryotic structural genes to which the sigma subunit of the RNA polymerase binds. Answer: Pribnow box
30) Legends of Modernity, and the literary periodical Zagary 20) Hymn of the Pearl and Hymn of the Earth 10) The Captive Mind Answer: Czeslaw Milosz
a) 5 pts.: It uses the poignant story of the deaf-mute John Singer in a Georgia mill town to explore isolation. Answer: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter b) 10 pts.: Tall, lonely Amelia Evans falls in love with her cousin Lymon, a malevolent dwarf. But Lymon falls in love with, and teams up with, Amelia’s estranged ex-con husband. Answer: The Ballad of the Sad Cafe c) 15 pts.: The self-destructive misfits in this McCullers novel include the masochistic latent homosexual Capt. Penderton and his wife, who’s having an affair with Major Langdon. Answer: Reflections in a Golden Eye
30) The Getty Museum recently published a book called "The Superhuman Crew", featuring one of his paintings (completed in 1888) accompanied by the lyrics to Bob Dylan's "Desolation Row." 20) Probably the most famous member of Les Vingt, his nightmarish paintings include "Masks (Intrigues)" (1890) and "Skeletons Fighting for the Body of a Hanged Man" (1891). 10) This is not his first multimedia appearance - he appears in the title of the 15th track on the They Might Be Giants album John Henry. The painting displayed in "The Superhuman Crew" is his 1889 masterpiece "Christ's Entry into Brussels". Answer: James Ensor
Answer: Simon Schama
Answer: Jon Krakauer
Answer: Carl Sagan 16. So you think you’re gonna get a clever lead-in? HAH! The tournament starts in 2 hours. So think of your own intro and FTPE give the chemistry terms from definitions: a) This term refers to any mixture of liquids that cannot be separated by distillation. Answer: azeotropic b) The opposite of a catalyst, this class of substance slows down or stops a chemical reaction. Answer: inhibitor c) Heat absorbed or released by a substance undergoing a change of state Answer: latent heat
a) Tall, slender tower of a mosque from which the faithful are summoned to prayer Answer: minaret b) The Islamic Sabbath, which falls on Friday Answer: Juma c) Killing animals in accordance with Muslim law, the Muslim counterpart to kashrut. Answer: halal
A) First, name this man, who inspired the foundation of the International Red Cross. Answer: Henri Dunant B) It was at this battle of the second War of Italian Independence, which saw nearly 30,000 killed and 10,000 missing or taken prisoner that inspired Dunant to form the International Red Cross. Answer: Solferino C) Dunant organized the 1864 Convention for the Amelioration of the Wounded in Time of War in what city, his hometown? Answer: Geneva (hence, the Geneva Convention...)
A) Usually regarded as the first French existentialist, he was also a dramatist, writing such works as Le Palais de sable, Le Coeur des autres, and L'Iconoclaste. He converted to Roman Catholicism in 1929 -- which represented his realization that he had to choose a particular form of faith, that there is no faith in general. Major works include Being and Having, Creative Fidelity, and The Decline of Wisdom. Answer: Gabriel Marcel B) Born in Oldenburg, Germany in 1883, he approached the subject of existentialism from man's direct concern with his own existence. His Psychology of World Views foreshadowed later work in legitimate boundaries of philosophical knowledge, clarifying the relationship of philosophy to science and the idea of being oneself signifying the potentiality to realize one's freedom of being in the world. Other works include Man in the Modern Age. Answer: Karl Jaspers
A. This city just south of Islamabad served as a temporary capital from 1959-70 and still serves as the headquarters of the Army. answer: Rawalpindi B. This city on the Ravi River near the border with India has a population of around 3 million. The Shalimar gardens and the Mausoleum of Emperor Jehangir of the Mogul Empire are within its bounds. Answer: Lahore C. This coastal city is the capital of Sind province. Though not on the Indus, it is Pakistan's chief port. Answer: Karachi
1. At a recent tournament, Ben overheard someone scoff and say, "Hah. Non-mathematicians writing mathematics questions." Consider this his revenge. For 5 points each, identify these librarians. a) The lead female in The Music Man, played on stage by Barbara Cook and on screen by Shirley Jones. Answer: Marian Paroo (accept either Marian or Paroo) b) The composer of "Symphonie Fantastique", he was a librarian at the Paris Conservatory for 30 years. Answer: Hector Berlioz c) A one-time cataloger at the Library of Congress, this cross-dresser later became head of the FBI. Answer: J. Edgar Hoover d) For 13 years, this man served as the librarian at the Castle of Count Waldstein in Bohemia, presumably coining the phrase "librarians are novel lovers." Answer: Casanova e) 1876 is considered annum mirabilis for librarians, since this man founded the American Library Association, started Library Journal, and opened the first library school in the country that year. Answer: Melvil Dui (ok, well, everyone else spelled it Dewey -- he was just weird...) f) The great Bengali librarian, his Five Laws of Library Science are a classic text in the field. Answer: S. R. Ranganathan 2. Consider the following list of household substances: asbestos, grain alcohol, mothballs, nitroglycerine, lye, and aspirin. Given a chemical formula, F5PE, which of the six is it? a) CH3 CO2 C6 H4 COOH Answer: aspirin b) C2 H5 OH Answer: grain alcohol c) CaMg3 (SiO3)4 Answer: asbestos d) C3 H5 (NO3)3 Answer: nitroglycerine e) C 10 H 8 Answer: mothballs f) NaOH Answer: lye
1a) The International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, Widows and Children First 1b) Harvey Fierstein Answer:Torch Song Trilogy 2a) The 42nd Parallel, 1919, The Big Money 2b) John Dos Passos Answer: U.S.A. 3a) Perestroika, Millennium Approaches 3b) Tony Kushner Answer: Angels in America 4. This bonus’s pretext is... [buzz!] FTPE answer the following about the Crimean War: (a) The disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade took place at this battle. Answer: Balaklava (b) This Tsar, who died during the war, had not really considered the issue of control of the Holy Places in Jerusalem all that important, but he failed to control one of his own diplomats, Prince Alexander Menshikov. Answer: Nicholas I (c) A side effect of the resulting Peace of Paris was that it gave this Sardinian count an opportunity to air the Italian question before the big guys of Europe. Answer: Camillo di Cavour 5. For 10 points each, identify these African-American educators from brief descriptions. A) A 1995 Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree, he is the namesake of the American Studies Association Publications Prize. Works include From Slavery to Freedom, A Southern Odyssey, and Militant South. Answer: John Hope Franklin B) A 6-term Congressman from Pennsylvania, he left Congress to become head of the United Negro College Fund. In 1994, Clinton appointed him special envoy to Haiti. Answer: William Gray C) Director of the Division of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration, she was later a special assistant to the Secretary of War during WWII. In 1904, she founded the Daytona Educational and Industrial School for Negro Girls, which in 1922 merged with another college and now bears her name. Answer: Mary McLeod Bethune
a) This French physicist coined the term “kinetic energy.” He also described an effect named for him which deals with the apparent force on a moving object when observed from a rotating system. Answer: Gustave Coriolis b) This Swedish phycist and spectroscopist who derived the quantitative relationships for spectroscopic data. He also proposed that the periodic table be listed by atomic number, not by atomic weight. A hypothetical atom of infinite mass is named in his honor. Answer: Johannes Rydberg c) This German-born British physicist is known for his work on the probability interpretation of quantum mechanics. Okay, okay, so he’s also Olivia Newton-John’s grandfather. There, I said it. Answer: Max Born
Answers: Gambino, Bonanno, Colombo, Genovese, & Lucchese EDITOR’S NOTE: If a Mafioso commits suicide, is he a self-made man? 8. If you didn't know this was going to come up, you should have. For 10 points each, identify these works by 1999 Nobel Laureate in Literature Gunter Grass given brief synopses. A) A German art historian and a Polish art restorer meet in Gdansk and go into business together returning the remains of Germans exiled after the war to Danzig. Answer: Call of the Toad B) It is a collection of stories for each year of our century. Although each story has a different narrator, collectively the stories form a complete and linear narrative in which the individual is the focus. Answer: My Century C) A wildly imaginative yet superbly told novel revives some of Grass's most famous characters, as it tells the story of a female rodent who engages the narrator in a series of dialogues convincingly demonstrating that the rodents will inherit a devastated earth. Answer: The Rat 9. Ben was going to include the great singer Roland Hayes in this question, then he saw that Hayes grew up in a certain nameless Tennessee hamlet, and chose not to. FTPE name these great African-American vocalists. A) She debuted at the Met in 1977 as the Shepherd in Tannhauser, and received critical praise for her 1982 performance as Rosina in The Barber of Seville. In 1994, she was dismissed from the Met following a well-publicized dispute with management. Answer: Kathleen Battle B) She appeared as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic in 1925, but is perhaps best remembered for a concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 after having been barred from making an appearance at Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution. Answer: Marian Anderson C) A Phi Beta Kappa at Rutgers, he was seen in an amateur play by Eugene O'Neill - this led to his role in Emperor Jones, where he sang on stage for the first time. This led to bravura reviews in Show Boat, Porgy & Bess, and Othello. Answer: Paul Robeson
10. We always thought it was really cool that in mid-century, Soviet scientists who accepted modern genetics theory were accused of the crime of “Morganism.” Answer these questions about the presumed criminal mastermind Thomas Hunt Morgan FTSNOP: 5) What is the scientific name of the fruitfly that Morgan based his research on? Answer: Drosophila melanogaster [PROMPT ON drosophila] 10) In what year did he win the Nobel Prize for Physiology/Medicine? Answer: 1933 15) He put forth the theory of the linear arrangement of genes in the chromosomes in what 1915 classic in genetics? Answer: Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity 11. Arguably, the best baseball story of the year concerns a rookie pitcher. A 35-year-old rookie pitcher, with one of the worst teams in the league. For the stated number of points, answer these questions about the story. A) First, for 10 points, name that pitcher, who was coaching high school baseball as recently as April of this year. Answer: Jim Morris B) For 5 points, name the team, who could use Morris out of the bullpen, since the rest of the pitching staff (including Rolando Arrojo and Wilson Alvarez) has been atrocious this year. Answer: Tampa Bay Devil Rays [accept either city or nickname] C) For 15 points, name Morris' high school team, which dared Morris to try out for the Devil Rays if they won the conference championship, which they summarily did. Your hint: It’s the only county in the U.S. which shares its name with the surname of a particular President. Answer: Reagan County (Big Lake, Texas)
A. The pioneer colony was founded by this company. Answer: Hudson's Bay Company B. Most of the Red River Settlement was in this current province. Answer: Manitoba C. Starting in 1869, this man led rebellions against the absorption of Red River into the Canadian dominion. Answer: Louis Riel
A. Exemplary Novels answer: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra B. The Best Mayor, the King answer: Lope de Vega C. Life Is a Dream answer: Pedro Calderon de la Barca y Henao
Originally elected as a moderate, this Governor of Arkansas felt compelled to taek a firm stand against the desegregation of Central High in Little Rock. ANSWER Orval Faubus This Georgia restaurateur chased blacks from his restaurant with an axe handle, replicas of which he later distributed as campaign favors during a successful run for the governor's office. Answer Lester Maddox This 1924 presidential candidate served, at age eighty, as the lead legal counsel for South Carolina and Kansas in Brown vs Board of Education, placing him at a distinct rhetorical disadvantage compared to his counterpart Thurgood Marshall. Answer John W. Davis
This Englishman is widely credited with the cyclical theory of history, though he did not originate it. His most famous work is entitled A Study of History. Answer: Arnold Toynbee This American is widely credited as the co-founder of the so-called Progressive theory of history, in which all processes can be broken down into forward and backward elements. His most controversial work, entitled An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States, was published in 1913. Answer: Charles Beard The whole premise of his seminal 1893 work was based on a misinterpretation of a quote from a U.S. Census official, who merely meant that the frontier could not be as clearly delineated in map form. ANSWER: Frederick Jackson Turner
(d) 1 S 2 2 S 2 2 P 6 Answer Neon (e) 1 S 2 2 S 2 2 P 6 3 S 2 3 P 5 Answer Chlorine (f) 1 S 2 2 S 2 2 P 6 3 S 2 Answer Magnesium
A. forgetfulness answer: Lethe B. fire
answer: Phlegethon C. woe
answer: Acheron 18. Given a precis of a Canterbury tale, name the teller FTP each. A. The vainglorious cock Chanticleer is tricked. Answer: Nun's Priest B. The patient Griselda answer: Clerk C. How the crow has black feathers answer: Manciple
Answer: Hebrew - Tishri 5760 Islamic - Jumaada thaany 1420
Answer: MarchB) Became minister of war Answer: May C) Became premier Answer: July D) Crushed Kornilov's military revolt Answer: August E) Deposed by the Bolsheviks, and fled to France Answer: October |