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Round 4. Related Tossup/Bonus
01 Recently, ambassador James Lilley alleged that the United States was “cozying up” to those responsible for this incident in the days leading up to it. The 27th Army began an assault against protesters commemorating the seventieth anniversary of the May Fourth Movement, the death of popular leader Hu Yaobang, and a three-day visit by Mikhail Gorbachev. For ten points, name this 1989 event in Beijing.
Answer: Tiananmen Square demonstrations and massacre or equivalents
01 BONUS. Answer the following about various massacres known as Bloody Sunday, for ten points each.
The Irish Bloody Sunday involved British paratroopers shooting unarmed protesters in this city of Northern Ireland.
Answer: Londonderry
The Russian Bloody Sunday, in which the Russian Imperial guard massacred peaceful protesters in St. Petersburg, resulted in the Revolution of 1905, causing this czar to promise a constitution and to create the Duma.
Answer: Nicholas II
02 Marlene Dietrich was in such awe of his talent that she claimed “people should cross themselves when they say his name.” At age 22, he formed the Mercury Theater with John Houseman. By 25, he had already secured unprecedented “final cut” rights for his films with RKO studios. For 10 points—name this director of The Magnificent Ambersons and Citizen Kane.
Answer: (George) Orson Welles
02 BONUS. Answer these questions about the career of Orson Welles, 10 points each.
The Mercury Theater’s most famous production was what radio show based on an H. G. Wells work, which led a national episode of mass hysteria?
Answer: The War of the Worlds
Among Welles’s later directorial efforts, provisionally entitled Sinners Go to Hell, was an adaptation of what 20th century play?
Answer: No Exit or Huis-clos [or Behind Closed Doors or Doors Closed or In Camera]
03 It describes a topology where disjoints open sets can be drawn around any two closed sets or a fault in which the upper mass has risen relative to the lower. In chemistry, it describes a solution that contains one mole of hydronium ions per liter. For ten points, name this adjective which, in physics, refers to a force in the direction perpendicular to a surface.
Answer: Normal
03 BONUS. Answer the following about the normal curve, for ten points each.
Within 2 percentage points, what percent of the normal curve falls within one standard deviation of the mean?
Answer: 68.26% (accept 66 to 70.26%)
Standardizing a value in order to use the normal curve in conjunction with it involves converting it to this value, which is the difference between the original value and the population mean, divided by the population standard deviation.
Answer: z-score
04 The master of this title character went on to invest in a one-eyed yellow cow. According to that owner, “all this character wants is an education, so we was trained to perform certain tasks on command.” In one contest he is slipped quail shot to prevent performance, causing the loss of a forty-dollar bet by Jim Smiley. For 10 points, identify this character or the Mark Twain short story in which he appears, Twain’s only titular amphibian.
Answer: “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” [or Daniel Webster]
04 BONUS. Answer the following concerning amphibians, for ten points each.
Some amphibians can procreate by this process, in which the young develops from an unfertilized gamete.
Answer: Parthenogenesis
This Italian scientist filtered amphibian semen in order to determine what was necessary for generation, but he is best known for experiments with meat broth that refuted spontaneous generation.
Answer: Lazzaro Spallanzani
05 Among their members were Langdon Cheves, Felix Grundy, and Peter B. Porter. They mostly came from agrarian regions of the South and West, and they favored expansion into Canada and Florida. Named by John Randolph, they were able to get one of their own named Speaker of the House. For ten points, name this group of Republicans, whose members included Henry Clay.
Answer: War Hawks
05 BONUS. War. What’s it good for? Absolutely nothing except for bonuses on wars. Identify these wars, for ten points each.
This war’s turning point was the Battle of Poltava. Although the Danes and Poles were defeated relatively quickly, the Russians were able to come back after early losses, and defeat King Charles XII and Sweden.
Answer: Great Northern War
Also called the Austro-Prussian War, it ended with Prussia acquiring Hessen-Kassel, Hannover, and Holstein, paving the way for the North German Confederation which excluded Austria.
Answer: Seven Weeks’ War
06 Its name was suggested by Frank M. Robinson, the bookkeeper of its originator, John Pemberton. In the 1930s, it set up a German division which, as an independent entity during World War II, came up with Fanta orange soda. For ten points, name this company, which made a huge mistake in 1984 when it tried to come up with a new recipe for its flagship beverage.
Answer: The Coca-Cola Company.
06 BONUS. He was an executive in the Mexican branch of Coca-Cola. For ten points each:
Name this new President of Mexico
Answer: Vicente Fox
In December 2000, Fox announced a unilateral withdrawal of military forces from what province where separatist Zapatista guerrillas have been operating since the mid-1990's?
Answer: Chiapas
07 Al Gore and George W. Bush weren't the only people involved in succession dramas in November 2000. When he flew to Florida to celebrate his victory he adopted the pseudonym Mr. Cathcart. His boss diverted his jet in mid-air while he informed the runners-up that they had failed. For ten points, name this former Dartmouth mathematician and football player, a Harvard Business School alumnus and successor to "Neutron" Jack Welch as CEO of General Electric.
Answer: Jeffrey Immelt
07 BONUS. Since Immelt succeed “Neutron” Jack Welch, answer the following about neutrons, for ten points each.
Neutrons are part of this class of heavy elementary particles that are always composed of three neutrons, and which is divided into nucleons and hyperons.
Answer: baryons (Do not accept hadrons)
Neutrons are also classified as this type of fundamental particles, which follow the Pauli exclusion principle, unlike bosons. Rules governing their behavior was independently described by Paul Dirac and their namesake physicist.
Answer: fermions
08 The highest point of this range is Spruce Knob at 4861 feet. Its entire crest is protected as the Monongahela National Forest, and it serves as the divide for rivers draining into Gulf of Mexico and rivers draining into the Atlantic. For 10 points—name this arm of the Appalachians which runs through Maryland, Virginia, W. Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
Answer: Allegheny Mountains or the Alleghenies
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08 BONUS. Pittsburgh isn’t the only city at the confluence of three rivers. The Saint Marys and Saint Joseph Rivers form the Maumee at Fort Wayne, Indiana, so answer these questions about its namesake, Mad Anthony Wayne, 10 points each.
Wayne negotiated this treaty, signed in an Ohio city, in which nine Native America tribes ceded land in the Northwest Territory.
Answer: Treaty of Greenville
Among the tribes signing the Treaty of Greenville was this Algonquian one, led by Little Turtle. They share their name with a tributary of the Ohio River.
Answer: Miami
09 This nation awards political office to those who are able to jump up and down, without falling, on a rope suspended above the ground. At the capital, Midendo, the Emperor reveals the feud between the wearers of low heels and those who wear high heels; the Emperor’s son, torn between sides, wears one of each heel and limps. This country is also engaged in a cold war over the subject of the proper side on which to break eggs with its neighbor, Blefescu. For 10 points, identify this nation visited by Lemuel Gulliver, which is populated by six-inch-high humanoids.
Answer: Lilliput
09 BONUS. Identify these fictional locations, for ten points each.
Like France, this land had its king executed and a republic established. Located on the island of Alca, it is the title location of a satirical, avian novel by Anatole France.
Answer: Penguin Island or Penguinia
All who live here have the secret of long life, according to the High Lama. This utopic lamasery can be found in James Hilton’s Lost Horizon.
Answer: Shangri-La
10 It includes the contralto aria with violin obbligato, “Erbame dich, mein Gott,” and the soprano aria “Aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben.” Christian Freidrich Hinrici prepared the text for this work, whose March 11, 1829, performance under the hand of Felix Mendelssohn lifted its composer out of obscurity. For ten points, name this setting of Christ’s suffering and death by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Answer: The Passion According to St. Matthew or St. Matthew’s Passion or Matthäuspassion
10 BONUS. St. Matthew is the patron saint of tax collectors. Answer to following concerning taxes, for ten points each.
In this type of tax, each individual is required to pay a specific amount of money, regardless of income.
Answer: poll tax or head tax
This selective sales tax is a tax on a specific item. Examples include the one on alcohol that inspired the Whiskey Rebellion.
Answer: excise tax
Allow substitutions if any. THEN distribute handout with Category Quiz topics, as you read the categories:
American Literature: Crying Wolf (II)
Entertainment & Sports: Who Are You?
Foreign Languages & Word Origins: Study
General Knowledge & Trivia: The Harvest Moon
Geography: Brackish Waters
Mathematics: What’s Your Angle?
Physical Sciences: Give Me Some TLC!
Religion, Mythology, & Philosophy: Father in Heaven
Social Sciences: Psychobiography
World Literature: Famous Beginnings
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Round 4. Category Quiz Tossups
11 The subject of John O. Killens's A Man Ain't Nothing' but a Man, according to scholars Guy Johnson and Louis Chappel, he was probably based on a real person who was involved in an incident between 1870 and 1872 in southeastern West Virginia, at the Big Bend Tunnel on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. For ten points, name this hero of an African American blues-ballad, who died in a duel with a steam drill while building a tunnel.
Answer: John Henry
12 Admitted to the bar without formal legal education in 1754, he was also an amateur astronomer and published an almanac. As a member of the Continental Congress, he helped draft both the Articles of Confederation and Declaration of Independence, but was more important in helping create the New Jersey plan and Connecticut Compromise. For ten points, name this cobbler, who represented Connecticut at the Constitutional Convention.
Answer: Roger Sherman
13 At this year’s Australian Open, he was upset in the second round by unseeded Greg Rusedski of Great Britain in five sets. His first Grand Slam victory over Sergei Brugera in 1997 boosted his ranking from 66 to 15. For ten points, name this tennis player who enters the 2001 French Open as the number one seed and defending men’s singles champion and who hails from Brazil.
Answer: Gustavo Kuerten
14 In its simplest form, it consists of a float chamber, a jet nozzle, and an air chamber narrowed at one end. A vacuum is created in the air chamber, and the jet nozzle sprays a certain fluid into the air, which has been drawn in to fill the vacuum. For ten points, name this device which vaporizes gasoline and mixes it with air in an automotive fuel system.
Answer: Carburetor
15 In the 1994 novel The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie King, precocious 15-year-old Mary Russell meets this 50-year-old Sussex beekeeper and brings him out of retirement during the World War I years. For ten points, name this fictional lead character, introduced in a short story in Beeton Christmas Annual which would later be organized into A Study in Scarlet, the best-known creation of Arthur Conan Doyle.
Answer: Sherlock Holmes
16 Symptoms, or characteristics of this phenomenon, depending on how you look at it, include: efficiency, calculability, uniformity and predictability, and control through automation. For ten points, the propagation of these traits in to society is known as what process, named after the world's leading fast food provider?
Answer: McDonaldization
17 Clause VIII left the question of a voting franchise for nonwhites to be settled after one group of participants in the war it ended had been granted self-government. Thus, black Africans were left without the vote, except in the Cape Colony, when South Africa was unified in 1910. For ten points, name this treaty signed in Pretoria in 1902, ending the independence of the Transvaal, and ending the Boer War.
Answer: Peace or Treaty of Vereeniging
18 Recently, UCLA researchers suggested they may be obtained from adipose tissue. The most common adult variety used in research are the bone marrow-derived mesenchymal type and recent attempts have been made to harvest them from umbilical cord blood. For ten points, name these cells which have the ability to differentiate, a controversial topic in medical research.
Answer: stem cells
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Round 4. The Category Quiz
American Literature: Crying Wolf (II)
For 15 points—in Jack London’s The Sea Wolf, what is the last name of the Captain who is known only as “Wolf”?
Answer: Captain “Wolf” Larsen
Entertainment & Sports: Who Are You?
Townsfolk question the identity of a man returning home from war—even though he seems to know far too much about his family to be an impostor. So goes the plot of a 1982 French film, and a 1993 US adaptation. For 15 points—name either film.
Answer: The Return of Martin Guerre or Le retour de Martin Guerre or Sommersby
[HN: Jodie Foster’s quote from Sommersby—“Because I never loved him the way I love you!”]
Foreign Languages & Word Origins: Study
Pedology [puh-DAH-luh-zhee] is not the study of feet. For 15 points—what does a pedologist study?
Answer: soil [accept dirt and equivalents]
General Knowledge & Trivia: The Harvest Moon
About the only good they contributed to the world was their daughter Eponine. For 15 points—name this treacherous couple from Les Misérables who perform a “Waltz of Treachery.”
Answer: Monsieur and Madame Thénardier [tay-NAHR-dee-ay]
Geography: Brackish Waters
Formed just 10,000 years ago, when sea levels rose and water flooded coastal plains around the namesake river, it receives fresh water from over 150 tributaries. With a total drainage area of 64,000 square miles, it currently faces the disappearance of large beds of aquatic vegetation. For 15 points—name this body of water, home to the American shad and the Canvasback duck.