TOSSUPS by Northwestern In Rod We Trust (Robert Flaxman, Mike Henninger, Colby Burnett, Andrew Reinbold)
1. Her writings are spare, minimalist, entirely individual, and convey information without always making sense, as in her treatise “Poetry and Grammar,” where she writes, “I made poetry and what did I do I caressed completely caressed and addressed a noun.” Her home at 27 rue de Fleurus was an epicenter of twentieth century haute couture, as she entertained such literary names as John Dos Passos, Ford Maddox Ford, Sherwood Anderson and Ernest Hemingway. For ten points, name this poet and writer who lived as an expatriate in France and wrote “The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.”
Answer: Gertrude Stein
2. Given a complex function F(x+iy) with real component U(x,y) and imaginary component iV(x,y) and assuming that F is differentiable at a point z naught equals x naught plus i times y naught, two equations of their partial derivatives must hold. For ten points, give the name for these seminal equations, du/dx=dv/dy and -du/dy=dv/dx.
Answer: Cauchy-Riemann equations
3. His policies set up the basis for the feudal system in Europe by allowing for material goods and farm products to be paid as taxes. An Illyrian peasant who rose through the ranks of the army, he decreed mandatory conscription. However, after victories at Margum and the suppression of Carasius’ rebellion in Britain, he found the Empire’s borders too large and let the Western portion be ruled by his most trusted general, Maximius. For ten points, name this issuer of the Edict of Nicomedia and divider of the Roman Empire.
Answer: Diocletian or Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus
4. The population numbered 7 men, 6 women, and 14 children. Despite living in the same area as the T’boli and Manobo tribes, they had apparently remained isolated for hundreds of years and still used stone tools. Between 1972, when Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law, and 1986, when he was ousted, very few outsiders were allowed into the area, and the first two journalists in after the blackout came out claiming the tribe was a hoax. For ten points, name this supposed lost tribe on the Philippine island of Mindanao.
Answer: Tasaday
5. Scholar Richard Ellmann said about its author, “He sensed that the methods available to him in previous literature were insufficient, and he determined to outreach them.” In this novel’s dreamy climactic episode “Circe,” nearly every object or person mentioned becomes a character in the story, including Shakespeare, “The Halcyon Days,” “The Cardinal” and Irish hero Joseph Parnell. For ten points, name this twentieth century book, banned across the globe, starring Stephen Daedalus, Molly and Leopold Bloom, and written by James Joyce.
Answer: Ulysses
6. During a visit to Italy in 1875, this artist became fascinated with the paintings, frescoes and sculptures of Michelangelo. He was rejected three times from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts’ sculpture program, which they would presumably live to regret. Ranier Maria Rilke married one of his students, Klara Westhoff, and later worked as his secretary for a year. In 1880 he was commissioned by the Musee des Arts Decoratifs to create a work based on a bronze of Ghiberti. FTP, name this sculptor of “The Age of Bronze”, and “The Gates of Hell”, which included both “The Kiss” and “The Thinker”
Answer: Auguste Rodin
7. He ended his most famous work with the words, “What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence,” which paradoxically suggests that the book says nothing. After its completion, he believed he had solved all the problems of philosophy and became a schoolteacher, but began to notice problems which he would address in the posthumously published Philosophical Investigations, and rejected a key idea from his first work. For ten points, identify this 20th century philosopher who stated in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus that “the world is all that is the case.”
Answer: Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein
8. One part, called adenohypophysis (adeno – hypo – FY – sis), produces ACTH, and the thyroid-stiumulating hormone. It itself is stimulated by releasing factors produced by the hypothalamus. The other part, called neurohypophysis (neuro – hypo - FY - sis) produces antidiuretic hormone, and oxytocin. Found at the base of the brain, those lobes are better known as the anterior and posterior, the former of which also produces prolactin and the gonadotrophins. FTP, what is this “master endocrine gland”, producer of human growth hormone?
Answer: Pituitary gland
9. A Vedic University is named after him in the state of Madhya Pradesh, and in 1966 he opened the first International Academy of Meditation in Rishikesh, India. The song “Sexy Sadie” was written about him, with his name removed to avoid a lawsuit, after John Lennon heard he attempted to rape Mia Farrow. For ten points, identify this leader in transcendental meditation, best known as spiritual adviser to the Beatles before their fallout.
Answer: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
10.Landowners in Parliament put these into effect after observing the profits they made due to blockades during the Napoleonic wars. Rochard Cobden and John Bright formed a league to oppose them, while Thomas Malthus reported upon their ill effects and their detriment to the natural state of economics as defined by Adam Smith. Although reformed slightly by the Duke of Marlborough, a bad harvest in 1839 and a subsequent economic depression forced Sir Robert Peel to repeal them in 1845. Name these laws, which originally called for a massive duty to be paid on grain until the price of a quarter of a bushel reached eighty shillings.
Answer: corn laws
11. He is the son of the sky god Nyame and Asase Ya. Sometimes regarded as the creator of the sun, moon, and stars, as well as the succession of day and night, he is known as a trickster, creating the first man and subsequently managing to set himself up as king of the humans. He also helped his father by bringing rain until his place as representative was usurped by the chameleon. For ten points, name this Ashanti folk hero, one of the most popular characters in West African mythology, also known as “the Spider.”
Answer: Anansi
12. Born in 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he must have liked it there because he stuck around to receive his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Harvard. In World War One, this writer worked as an ambulance driver in France, but served time in a French prison camp, an experience that served as inspiration for his novel “The Enormous Room.” More famous for his poetry, he became a master of free verse, frequently stretching the boundaries of punctuation, line and capitalization, even in his name. For ten points, name this American poet who wrote “Spring is like a perhaps hand”, “since feeling is first.”, and “next to of course god america i”
Answer: e. e. cummings
13. The title character of this film is a svengali who runs an exhibit at a traveling fair where his somnambulist Cesare tells the future. Cesare commits a murder and kidnaps the female lead, seemingly at the behest of the title character and his magic eyeglasses. Directed by Robert Wiene, the script was written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. FTP, what is this 1919 expressionist masterpiece, considered the first true horror film?
Answer: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
14. Phosphorus forms white P4 tetrahedra, black sheets, and red chains of tetrahedra. Sulfur can exist as long chains or as S8 "crowns." Elemental tin exists in "white" and "gray" varieties. Oxygen forms either a diatomic gas or triatomic ozone. FTP, what is the term for these physically and chemically distinct forms of an element , which for carbon include fullerenes, graphite, and diamonds?
Answer: allotropes
15. A Harvard Law school graduate, he first entered government service as private secretary to Louis Brandeis. Known as a “pompous diplomat in striped pants” by one of his political enemies, he came under fire after Mao Zedong took power in China. After retiring from his highest post, he wrote several books, including Power and Diplomacy and Morning and Noon. His most famous work documents his work as George Marshall’s successor. For ten points, name this author of Present at the Creation, architect of the Marshall Plan, and third Secretary of State under Harry Truman.
Answer: Dean Acheson
16. His first wife, Adelaida Ivanovna, deeply resented him, and after numerous fights she ran away with a poor divinity student and left him alone with their child of three years. He is described physically as possessing “deep, ironical eyes,” he is universally despised throughout the novel, and the author himself poses the question, “Why is such a man alive?” For ten points, name this misanthrope murdered by Smerdyakov and the father of the title characters in a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Answer: Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamozov [accept just Karamozov before “...the
father of...”]
17. A member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, he was undefeated for two years at the University of North Carolina and was ACC champion in his second year. After obtaining a doctorate in 1969, he was a political science professor for 21 years until he launched a longshot bid for the Senate in 1990. Touring his state in a rickety old green bus that became synonymous with his campaign, he scored a huge upset of Republican Senator Rudy Boschwitz. For ten points, name this Democratic senator, killed October 25 when his plane crashed in his home state of Minnesota.
Answer: Paul David Wellstone
18. The most recent data about this phenomenon comes from the Degree Angular Scale Interferometer, which is situated at the South Pole. Before that experiment detected its polarization, MAP and COBE space probes detected fluctuations in it. Isotropic to within one part in 100,000, it was predicted by Alpher, Bethe, and Gamov in 1948, and has a temperature of 2.7 degrees Kelvin. For ten points, name the leftover of the Big Bang first detected by Penzias and Wilson in 1965.
Answer: CMB OR Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation OR Cosmic Background Radiation OR Microwave Background Radiation
19. Its inspiration stemmed from a bizarre dream of the author’s friend, and was originally intended to be a collaboration with the Romantic poet William Wordsworth. First printed without notes in the seminal collection “Lyrical Ballads” in 1798, the author added a gloss in subsequent additions to elucidate the story of the ship which wanders down to Antarctica, and becomes cursed by the actions of the narrator. For ten points, give the title of this long poem about a man who shot an Albatross, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Answer: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
20. He was admitted to the bar in 1895 and entered politics in 1906. He documented his ideas using Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points as inspiration, which included a federal form of government, greater minority rights, and the formation of a separate Sind Province. Instrumental in the Lucknow pact, his support for the Lahore resolution was a seven year struggle within Congress which ended in 1947. FTP, who is this man, known as ‘Qaid-i-Azam’, who split with Ghandi in 1920 and became the first governor-general of an independent Pakistan?
Answer: Mohammad Ali Jinnah
BONUSES by Northwestern In Rod We Trust (Robert Flaxman, Mike Henninger, Colby Burnett, Andrew Reinbold)
1. Identify the following philosophers whose names form the setup to an old joke, FTPE.
1. (10) Marx used his teleological account of history to describe history as leading to the development of communism. He wrote Phenomenology of Spirit, and the Science of Logic.
Answer: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
2. (10) He introduced so many changes into the second edition of his Critique of Pure Reason that Schopenhauer advised his readers that they would be wasting their time if they did not obtain the entire first edition as well.
Answer: Immanuel Kant
3. (10) Adam Smith described this Scottish author of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding as “approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will admit.”
Answer: David Hume
[The punchline is: “And he can’t sing either.”]
2. Identify the following man--one of many to gain inspiration in a bathroom, 30-20-10.
1. (30) While in the bathroom of a scientific conference, he used toilet paper to model phi-psi protein angles. A suspected communist, he was summoned before HUAC in 1960.
2. (20) He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962 for advocating nuclear disarmament. He is the only person to have won two undivided Nobel Prizes.
3. (10) This 1954 Chemistry Nobel winner predicted the alpha helix, and developed the theory of electronegativity.
Answer: Linus Carl Pauling
3. Identify these languages spoken in small pockets of Europe, FTPE.
a. (10) Called Euskara by those who speak it, this language has about two-thirds of a million speakers, most in Spain. It has never been shown to be related to any other world language.
Answer: Basque
b. (10) About half a million people in the northwest of France speak this language, the only Celtic language spoken outside the British Isles.
Answer: Breton
c. (10) Spoken in Upper and Lower Lusatia in Germany, this Slavic language is estimated to be spoken by just 15,000 people on a daily basis. Sometimes called Wendish, it has Upper and Lower written forms, which only became standard in the mid-19th century.
Answer: Sorbian
4. Identify the following bands with misleading numerical titles FTPE.
1. (10) This guitar-less Chapel Hill group behind songs like “Brick” and “Philosophy” is actually just three members – bassist Robert Sledge, drummer Darren Jesse, and the eponymous pianist/singer.