1998 Terrapin Invitational
Playoff Round 1
Tossups by Seth Kendall
1. After the death of his father, Redmond is sent to live with his uncle Brady, where he soon gains a reputation as a bully and falls in love with his uncle's daughter Nora. Mistakenly thinking he has killed a man in a duel over her, he flees Ireland to the continent, where he contrives to marry a rich widow and become a landed gentleman and Member of Parliament before the widow's son, Lord Bullington, has him arrested. Such are the exploits of what unysmpathetic character, who assumes a new name, that of the title, in a work by William Thackeray?
Answer: Barry Lyndon
2. Initially designed as an excise on imported goods as a protective measure for domestic manufacturing, many historians hold that the provisions which also taxed imported raw materials were intentionally added by Pro-Jacksonian congressmen in an effort to produce a package so odious both to the North and the South that it would be defeated and cause embarrassment to John Quincy Adams. Instead it was passed, and proved so despised in the South that in reaction to it the South Carolina Exposition and Protest was drawn up. For 10 points name this 1828 tariff which Calhoun urged South Carolina to "nullify".
Answer: Tariff of Abominations (accept Tariff of 1828 early on)
3. In 1895, this man became director of the Physical Institute at the University of Strasbourg, where he began research on electricity which led to his invention of a type of electrometer named for him. Four years later, he invented the sparkless antenna for a wireless telegraph, vastly improving its range, but he is perhaps better known for inventing another device which produced a narrow stream of electrons, guided by means of alternating voltage, that could trace patterns on a fluorescent screen. FTP, name this man who shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in physics, the inventor of the cathode-ray oscilloscope.
Answer: Karl Ferdinand Braun
4. From the Greek for "drinking together", the word was originally used to describe a part of public banquets after the meal was eaten when the men of Athens would drink wine to intoxication while listening to poetry and watching games. Such occasions were also opportune for philosophic discussions, and from these came a new word applied to a dialogue on a specific subject such as ideal love, the assets most prized by men, and drunkenness, the topics of works with this title by Plato, Xenophon, and Aristotle, respectively. FTP, give this word, commonly used now to describe
any conference on a specific subject.
Answer: symposium
5. This play’s protagonist involves herself in several promiscuous relationships because her father had forbidden her to marry her one true love, Gordon Shaw, who died in World War I without spending one night with her. Eventually she
decides to marry Sam Evans, but because he has a history of insanity in his family she bears the son of another man, Edmund Darrell, with whom she has an ongoing affair. This is, for 10 points, a summary of Nina Leeds’ affairs in what unusually named play by Eugene O'Neill?
Answer: Strange Interlude
6. Ignited by the repression of the Council of Blood this war broke out in 1568, and after a series of reverses success came in 1576, when the mercenary armies of William the Silent and the sea power of the Beggars managed to capture much of Holland and Zealand. After William's assassination in 1588 defeat seemed imminent, but the respite allowed by the Twelve Year's Truce allowed the rebels to fortify the Dutch frontier, and fear of the Franco-Dutch alliance led to peace in 1648. FTP name this conflict, which led to Dutch independence from Spain.
Answer: Eighty Years' War
7. Consisting of about twenty species from the family Sphyraenidae, these fish are mostly found in tropical regions, though some inhabit more temperate areas. Ranging from about 4-6 feet in length, they have long slender bodies, two dorsal fins, long pointed jaws, and feed on other fish such as mullets, grunts, and anchovies. For 10 points, name these
carnivorous fish which strike at anything that gleams and whose name is used as the title of a song by Heart.
Answer: Barracuda
8. The highest peak of this landlocked European nation is Gerlach Peak, located in the High Tatras range of the Carpathians. Its rivers include the Hornad, Hron, and Vah, and well as the Danube, which forms its boundary with Hungary, and the Morava, on which its capital is situated. For 10 points name this nation also bordered by Poland, Austria, the Ukraine, and the Czech Republic, to which it had been politically united until 1989, with capital at Bratislava.
Answer: Slovakia
9. After receiving training from the a portrait painter named Stein and spending two years at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, this artist began painting landscapes, which so caught the interest of John Trumbull that he acted as his patron. His works include landscapes such as The Ox-Bow, and classically-themed works such as The Architect’s Dream and the series The Course of Empire. For 10 points, name this artist, a founder of the Hudson River School and painter of The Voyage of Life series.
Answer: Thomas Cole
10. Many translations of the work were made, notably by King Alfred the Great and by Geoffrey Chaucer. Although written by a non-Christian, it contained so many elements of Christian ethics that it was highly regarded in Europe during medieval times. In it, a personified Philosophy explains to the author how earthly fortune is mutable and that happiness can only be attained by virtue, by being like God. For ten points, name the philosophical work written by Boethius while in the prison of Theodoric.
Answer: The Consolation of Philosophy or De Consolatione Philosophiae
11. Though loved by his neighbor Laetitia Dale, this title character chooses to become engaged first to Constantia Durham, who runs away with the the soldier Harry Oxford, and then to Clara Middleton, who chooses to marry his cousin Vernon Whitford. Defeated, he courts Laetitia, and though she is no longer interested in him she consents to marry him if he will fund his relative Crossjay's entrance to the Marines. Such are the adventures of self-centred Willoughby Patterne in what novel by George Meredith?
Answer: The Egoist (accept Sir Willoughby Patterne early)
12. A descendant of the princess of Powys, this man had, ironically, once served in the army of Henry Bolingbroke, who personally loathed him, before the latter overthrew Richard II. In 1404, a war with his neighbor Lord Grey of Ruthlin and Henry's support of Grey set off a rebellion in Wales, which he led, conquering most of the country and proclaiming himself Prince of Wales until the military setbacks he suffered at the hands of Henry V in 1410 broke his power. FTP, name this Welsh rebel who makes a guest appearance as a supporter of Hotspur in Shakespeare's Henry the IV, Part 1.
Answer: Owain Glyn Dwr or Owen Glendower
13. Among the dominant lifeforms that flourished in this epoch were the marine foraminiferans, protozoans similar to amoebas but bearing a complex, often calcareous test, as well as the largest land mammal of all time, the Baluchitherium. Divided into two ages, the Rupelian and the Chattian, other noteworthy events include the evolution of the first mastodon and the earliest apelike form, the Parapithecus, but otherwise "few recent forms" came into being, hence its name. For 10 points name this epoch of the Tertiary period lasting from 36.6 to 23.7 million years ago, which followed the Eocene and precedes the Miocene.
Answer: Oligocene
14. The deity which bore this name sprung from the churning of the sea of milk and was a manifestation of the moon cursed by Daksha to periodically wane but recover his strength, whose most famous exploit was the seduction of the goddess Tara which resulted in the god Buddha. The name is probably better known for what it identified in the Vedic period, a liquid distilled from the ephedra vulgaris and consumed only by Brahmans. For 10 points give the shared name of the god and the hallucinogenic drink from which Indra derived his power.
Answer: Soma
15. In 1760 its author went to Breslau as secretary to General Tauentzien, the military governor of Silesia. He
studied philosophy and aesthetics in the Breslau libraries, and the result was this treatise. It states that painting
is bound to observe spatial proximity, whereas the essence of poetry lies not in description but in the representation of the transitory, of movement; in it the author takes issue with the contemporary art historian Johann Winckelmann, who had claimed that art criticism and literary criticism were based on the same principles. FTP what is this 1766 essay by Gotthold Lessing in which the titular Hellenistic statue is used as a central example?
Answer: Laocoon; or, On the Limits of Painting and Poetry, or Laokoon: oder ber die Grenzen der Malerei und Poesie
16. In 278 B.C. this people moved down from their homes in central Europe and attacked the city-states of Macedonia and Pergamum before settling down in Asia Minor and establishing the state of Galatia. They are, however, more famous for their conflicts with Rome, which they sacked in 386 B.C. before being driven off by Marcus Furius Camillus. For 10 points name this barbarian people finally subjugated by Julius Caesar in 51 B.C.
Answer: Gauls
17. This element was first discovered in 1808 by Sir Humphrey Davy and independently by Jacques Thenard and Louis Guy-Lussac, who gave it its name, which is derived from the Arabic word for "white". The first and lightest of the Group III A elements, its ability to dissolve metallic oxides has led to its use as soldering fluxes, and its high boiling point has made it ideal for use in cooking ware. For 10 points name this element, atomic number 5, whose most famous use is as a detergent.
Answer: Boron
18. From the Latin for "loosened", this type of construction is essentially a clause, usually employing a noun and a participle, which is syntactically independent of the main clause. It takes a variety of cases in Indo-European languages, expressing itself through the Dative in Sanskrit, through the Genitive and less commonly the Accusative in Greek, and,
perhaps most famously, through the ablative in Latin. Having heard these clues, for 10 points name this grammatical structure expressed by the Nominative in English and in no way related to vodka.
Answer: absolute (accept ablative absolute before “cases”)
19. In 1922 a mysterious opera singer named Emilia Marty comes to Prague, where she becomes involved with a 100 year-old property dispute about which she seems to know a great deal. After revealing the whereabouts of ancient
documents which would restore the property to its rightful owner, she is cornered into revealing that she was there 100 years ago at the beginning of the dispute, and that in fact she is over 300 years old, made immortal by a potion giver to her by her father, a Greek court physician to Rudolf II. This is, for 10 points, the plot of what opera, one of the most famous of Leos Janacek?
Answer: The Makropoulous Affair or The Makropoulous Case
20. Relieved by McClellan in 1861, this man was relegated to defensive work in Washington, where he raised a corps during the Peninsular campaign in time to take part in the defeat at Second Manassas, moving on to command the Department of the Pacific until his death in 1885. After graduating from West Point in 1838, he served as aide-de-camp to General John Wool during the Mexican War, and in 1861 he was tapped by Winfield Scott to lead the Army of the Potomac against Richmond, resulting in a defeat from which his career never recovered. For 10 points name this man, stopped cold by P.G.T. Beauregard at the First Battle of Manassas.
Answer: Irvin McDowell
21. The daughter of a miserly merchant from the town of Saumur, her life is changed when her cousin Charles, whose impoverished father has just committed suicide, comes to stay. She falls in love with him, and gives him her private treasure of gold coins to recoup his fortunes in the West Indies, but the end he betrays her and she ends up alone and as miserly as her father. Such is a description of, FTP, what title character of an 1833 novel by Honore de Balzac?
Answer: Eugenie Grandet
22. Evidence suggests that this city flourished in Greece around 1,500 to 1,400 B.C. before its destruction at the hands of the barbarian Dorians in the 13th century. Founded, according to legend, by the hero Perseus, it figured prominently in the Iliad as the chief city in the Greek alliance against Troy, and although it was above ground, it remained unexcavated until it was rediscovered in 1896 by Heinrich Schliemann. For 10 points name this ancient city, home in mythology to Agamemnon, Orestes, and Electra.
Answer: Mycenae
23. Some legends tell that, like Peter, this saint was ordered crucified upside down in Armenia, whose patron saint he became. Others describe how he took the gospel to India, where he was martyred by being flayed alive, and it is from this that he became the patron saint of tanners. FTP identify this apostle, also known as Nathanael, on whose feast day a
horrible massacre of Huguenots took place in 1572.
Answer: Saint Bartholemew
24. . In 1641 this man traveled to Florence to become the personal secretary of Galileo for the last three months of his life and to take his place as professor of mathematics at the Florentine academy. During his lifetime he was famous for his calculations of cycloids and his work on fluid mechanics, including his equation v=^È2gh (v equals the square root of two g h), but he is now remembered for his being the first to produce an artificial vacuum. For 10 points name this Italian scientist, the inventor of the barometer.
Answer: Evangelista Torricelli
25. Under the patronage of Cardinal Francesco del Monte in Rome this man painted such early works as The Young Bacchus and The Music Party before a commission to decorate the altar of the the Contarelli Chapel in 1597 which resulted in his Calling of Saint Matthew series. After killing a man over a disputed tennis score in 1606, he was forced to leave Rome and his career was essentially ruined, but as a fugitive in Malta he painted one of his most famous works in 1608. For 10 points name this man, born Michelangelo Merisi, who decorated a church in Viletta with his Beheading of St. John the Baptist.
Answer: Caravaggio
One, created by songwriters Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler, is an android whose time-travelling efforts to save the human race go unappreciated, causing him to become a killing machine. Quite a contrast is the creation of Stan Lee, a millionaire and superhero who uses technology to restore a damaged heart and to fight crime. For 10 points give the
common name of a famous Black Sabbath song and the armor-wearing alter-ego of Tony Stark.
Answer: Iron Man
1998 Terrapin Invitational
Playoff Round 1
Bonuses by Seth Kendall
1. Answer the following film-related questions for the stated number of points.
10. The films in which this actor has appeared include Captains Courageous, The Devil Doll, Mark of the Vampire, and several "Dr. Kildare" films.
Answer: Lionel Barrymore
5. This actress has appeared in such pictures as The Benny Goodman Story, From Here To Eternity, They Were Expendable, and The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Answer: Donna Reed
5. This actor has starred in such films as The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, Rear Window, Vertigo, and The Spirit of St. Louis.
Answer: James Stewart
5. This man has directed such films as Arsenic and Old Lace, It Happened One Night,Lost Horizon, and You Can't Take it With You.
Answer: Frank Capra
5. For a final five points, name the 1946 film featuring the acting talents of Lionel Barrymore, Donna Reed, and Jimmy Stewart , which was directed by Frank Capra.
Answer: It's a Wonderful Life
2. On September 24, 1869, Secretary of the Treasury Abel Corbin released some of the Federal Reserves of gold to end the crisis caused by two wealthy speculators who had sought to corner the gold market and managed to drive the price up $13.50 per ounce.
10. For 10 points, what was the name given to this day, which ended the immediate panic but proved catastrophic for the fortunes and business of many.
Answer: Black Friday
20. For 10 points each, name the conspirators who brought about Black Friday.
Answer: James Fisk, Jay Gould
3. Identify the playwright from works, 30-20-10.
30. Lone Canoe, A Life in the Theater
20. American Buffalo, Oleanna
10. Glengarry Glen Ross
Answer: David Mamet
4. Securing the Isthmus of Panama to build a canal took a lot of diplomatic effort by the United States.