WIT 8 – Packet 8
BRRR – Packet by Rutgers
Tossup 1:
This principle can be derived from the work-energy theorem, where dividing mass by volume produces the fluid density, represented by rho. It predicts that in a tornado, since the air is moving with such a high velocity, the pressure of the air is low. FTP, name this principle relating fluid of density, pressure, fluid speed, and elevation at any two points.
Bernoulli’s equation or law or principle
Tossup 2:
H. L. Mencken called him “America’s most distinctive novelist.” He helped both Hemingway and Faulkner get a start, but both later turned their backs on him. Some of his late novels include “Poor White, Many Marriages” and “Dark Laughter.” Raised in Clyde, Ohio, he reflected on his time there in “Tar, a Midwest Childhood.” FTP, name this author who also reflected on Midwest life in “Winesburg, Ohio.”
Sherwood Anderson
Tossup 3:
He helped to organize the fifth Pan-African Congress in Britain and after leaving the UGCC, he formed the Convention People’s Party. He published “Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism” in 1966 but saw his regime fall that same year. In 1951, he won the election for prime minister of the Gold Coast and headed his colony toward independence. FTP, name this man who in 1964 declared himself as president for life of Ghana.
Kwame Nkrumah
Tossup 4:
Lorenzo Da Ponte was unable to bring all ten characters onstage during the finale of Act II of this opera. In that finale, Antonio, the gardener, reveals that Cherubino, the page, had jumped from the window of the Countess’s room. Later, Marcellina, Basilio, and Doctor Bartolo enter, pleading with the Count Almaviva to force his valet to marry Marcellina rather than Susanna. FTP, name this 1786 opera by Mozart named after the nuptials of that valet.
Le Nozze Di Figaro or The Marriage Of Figaro
Tossup 5:
After several knee injuries, he was traded to the Blackhawks, where he served as an assistant coach in 1976-77. His original team had first shown interest in him at the age of twelve, but he waited until the legal age of 18 to join. He won three Hart trophies, two Art Ross trophies, and nine Norris trophies leading the Bruins to two Stanley Cups. FTP, name the first defenseman to score more than 100 points in a season.
Bobby Orr
Tossup 6:
Later works of his include “The Technicians and Revolution,” in which he argues that engineers hold the true power of society and that they should enforce this power in a technocracy. His earlier arguments included that society is a refined barbarism, in which the upper class flaunts its power through ostentatious displays and conspicuous consumption. FTP, name this economist best known for “Theory of the Leisure Class.”
Thorstein Veblen
Tossup 7:
The plaintiff in this case requested the Supreme Court to issue a writ of mandamus to the Secretary of State to deliver his commission. The plaintiff was one of the “midnight appointments” of 1801 named justice of the peace for the District of Columbia. In the ruling, the court found that Congress had exceeded its constitutional power by passing the Judicial Act of 1789. FTP, name this 1803 Supreme Court case that established judicial review.
Marbury v. Madison
Tossup 8:
In this device, a helical containment field is produced by the interaction between a toroidal field and a poloidal field. Its name is derived from a Russian acronym for “toroidal magnetic chamber,” and most examples are toroidal-shaped. Some recent ones have nearly reached the Lawson criterion, in which plasma is contained successfully enough to reach necessary temperatures. Break-even has nearly been achieved but ignition has not in, FTP, what type of experimental fusion reactor?
Tokamak
Tossup 9:
Born in Greenville, South Carolina, this author now makes her home in northern California. Her first book, titled “Trash,” a collection of short stories about her childhood and college life, was published in 1988. She went on to write such critically acclaimed novels as “Cavedweller” and “Two or Three Things I Know for Sure,” and her most famous work concerns her alter-ego, Bone. For ten points, name this author of “Bastard out of Carolina.”
Dorothy Allison
Tossup 10:
He used false perspective in the painted apse of the arch of the Church of Santa Maria Presso Santo Satiro – the first time false perspective had been used in architecture. Pope Julius II employed him after he left Milan, and one of his most important plans for the rebuilding of the Vatican Palace, was never completed. FTP, name this architect who also did not live to see the completion of his design for St. Peter’s Basilica.
Donato Bramante
Tossup 11:
Most of the right half of this painting is a field of blue, with white mixed in on the bottom to show water and on the top to show clouds. On the left side, several dark boats and trees can be seen, and a light purple-white field on the top indicates brightening clouds. Slightly above the center is the painting’s subject, depicted as an orange-yellow circle. FTP, name this 1878 painting by Monet from which the Impressionist movement took its name.
Impression: Sunrise or Impression: Soleil Levant
Tossup 12:
In 1996, Brian Gardiner and Andrew Gordon suggested that it may have been the work of museum volunteer Martin H.C. Hinton. Others suspects include the anatomist Sir Arthur Keith, the Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and its first proponent A.S. Woodward. Its alleged discoverer was Charles Dawson, for whom it was named Eoanthropus dawsonii. FTP name this most successful scientific hoax of all time, exposed in 1954 as the jaw of an orangutan and the skull of a modern human.
Piltdown man or the Piltdown hoax
Tossup 13:
It has a granulated texture and is home to faculae or bright areas of high temperature. Extending for about 800 kilometers, it has an average temperature of about 5400 degrees Celsius and is composed of noncharged gases, constantly moving by convection. FTP, name this layer of the sun between the convective zone and the chromosphere, where you would also find sunspots.
the Photosphere
Tossup 14:
He attended the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, received a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney and in 1983 was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to MIT. On his way to Boston, he auditioned for an acting role and went on to star in films such as “Hidden Assassin,” “Silent Trigger,” “The Punisher” and “Universal Soldier.” For ten points, name this European kick-boxing champ who is most famous for threatening to break Sylvester Stallone in Rocky IV.
Dolph (Hans) Lundgren
Tossup 15:
Founded in 1974 by Miguel Algarín and located on East 3rd street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, it was recognized as a “living treasure of the city” by the mayor of New York in 1993. It gained acclaim by publishing the anthologies “Aloud” and “Action,” which included such poets as Eugene Rodriguez, Frank Perez, and Janis Astor de Valle. FTP, name this café, home of the poetry slam, whose name combines the name of a state and a Spanish-speaking country.
Nuyorican Poets Café
Tossup 16:
The Wittig reaction can be used to transform them into an alkene. They can be produced by the mercuration of a terminal alkyne or by oxidation of a secondary alcohol. They can also be formed from the oxidation of a secondary alcohol. FTP, name this type of compound that features a carbonyl group bonded to two carbon atoms, whose simplest member is acetone.
Ketones
Tossup 17:
Frederick II of Prussia described him as “the only truly educated prince” and praised his abilities in architecture, anatomy, war, and economics. He ordered all secular works to be printed in a new alphabet based on Greek rather than the old Slavonic, but refused the Gregorian calendar as a “papistical trick.” In 1696 he won from the Turks the fortress of Azov and defeated the Swedes in 1709 at Poltava. FTP, name this czar who tried to Westernize Russia.
Peter I or Peter the Great
Tossup 18:
One of North America's largest mountains was recently renamed for this former beau of Margot Kidder and Barbra Streisand. This flamboyant casanova also founded the journal “Cité Libre” before taking over from Lester Pearson as leader of the Liberal Party and serving as prime minister almost continuously from 1968 to 1984. FTP, the Canadian government announced it would rename Mount Logan for what recently deceased prime minister?
Pierre Elliot Trudeau
Tossup 19:
It is generally regarded to be an enlarged version with several clauses added to attack Aryanism. Revised at the Council of Constantinople, the original was first issued in 325. The Eastern churches generally reject its Filioque (fill-EE-oh-quay) clause, which was introduced in the sixth century and placed after the words “We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father.” FTP, name the only creed accepted by most major Christian churches.
The Nicene creed
Tossup 20:
He worked in the 1970s with John Coates at Cambridge on Iwasawa theory, learning to represent elliptic curves using Galois representations. In 1986, he learned that Ken Ribet had used Frey’s epsilon conjecture to relate the Shimura-Taniyama conjecture to his favorite problem. He worked alone on that problem for seven years, finally revealing his solution in a lecture series at Princeton. For ten points, name this mathematician who proved Fermat’s Last Theorem.
Andrew Wiles
Tossup 21:
King Proetus (PRO-uh-tus) sent this grandson of Sisyphus with a letter to King Iobates (eye-OH-bay-tees). The letter asked Iobates to put the messenger to death, but instead Iobates sent him to confront a monster. FTP, name this hero who killed the Chimera with the help of his horse Pegasus.
Bellerophon
Tossup 22:
It is connected to the sclera by the canals of Schlemm. While the sclerotic coat helps to maintain a spherical shape, this structure causes a bulge, making the eye slightly longer than it is wide. Although it has many free nerve endings, few blood vessels can be found in it, making it the easiest organ to transplant. FTP, what part of the eye lets light waves into the interior?
Cornea
Tossup 23:
This poem is not based on any single item, but the heifer sacrifice in the fourth stanza may have been inspired by the South Frieze of the Elgin Marbles. Murry criticized the last two lines as irrelevant and T.S. Eliot criticized them as grammatically meaningless. The poet describes the title object as “Bold Lover,” “Attic shape,” and “Sylvan historian.” FTP, name this ode to “thou still unravished bride of quietness” by John Keats.
Ode On A Grecian Urn
Tossup 24:
Its author was among the first to suggest that scientific standards could be applied to sociology, and the author goes on to study his subject’s relation to climate, religion, and education. In the second part, the author divides his subject into egoistic, anomic, and altruistic classes, and draws the conclusion that much of the subject’s cases could be explained by a lack of integration into society. FTP, name this 1897 study by Emile Durkheim.
Le Suicide or Suicide: A Study in Sociology
Tossup 25:
It was delivered via the ambassador stationed in Washington, D.C., and its eventual recipient, Venustiano Carranza, was requested to "invite the immediate adherence of Japan." Named after the German foreign secretary, it promises, “We intend to begin unrestricted submarine warfare,” and "We shall give general financial support and it is understood that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory in New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona." For ten points, name this failed World War I German overture to Mexico.
Zimmerman Telegram or note or equivalent
Bonus 1:
Identify the Shakespearean play from the given passage for fifteen points. You’ll get 5 points if you need the speaker.
(15) “Am I in earth, in heaven or in hell? / Sleeping or waking, mad or well-advised? / Known unto these, and to myself disguised?”
(5) Antipholus of Syracuse
The Comedy Of Errors
(15) “If music be the food of love, play on, / Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, / The appetite may sicken, and so die.”
(5) Duke Orsino
Twelfth Night
Bonus 2:
Name these European battles for ten points each.
Austrian troops nearly starved Genoa into surrender in 1800 but were defeated by Napoleon, who had crossed the St. Bernard Pass.
Marengo
In this largest tank battle in history, the Germans tried to reduce a salient on the Russian front in 1943 but failed.
Kursk
This 1346 battle proved the superiority of longbows over mounted knights, as Edward III defeated Phillip IV in northern France.
Crecy
Bonus 3:
Given a description, give the jazz band leader for ten points each.
This pianist was famous for playing at the Cotton Club and for his compositions, such as “Mood Indigo” and “Take the ‘A’ Train.”
Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington
He put “Cannonball” Adderly, John Coltrane, Wynton Kelly, Bill Evans, Paul Chamberlain, and Jimmy Evans through their paces on “Kind of Blue.”
Miles Davis
He took over control of the Miles Davis quintet after Davis’ departure, but you may know him best as the composer of “Watermelon Man.”
Herbie Hancock
Bonus 4:
For ten points each, name these terms from astrophysics.
This is the radius of a collapsing celestial object at which gravitational forces exceed the ability of matter and light to escape.
Schwarzschild radius
This hypothesis suggests that the Earth and Moon formed at the same time from a primordial cloud.
Coaccretion hypothesis
This is the apparent displacement of an astronomical object when viewed from different positions.
Parallax
Bonus 5:
Name these characters from the “Odyssey” on a 5-10-15 basis.
For five points, this is Odysseus’s son.
Telemachus
(10) This is the name of the Cyclops who keeps Odysseus’s sailors hostage.
Polyphemus
For fifteen points, when Odysseus is among the Phaeacians, this daughter of Alcinous brings Odysseus to her father’s house.
Nausicaa
Bonus 6:
Name the director from the film for the stated number of points.
(5) “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”
Terry Gilliam
(10) “How Green Was My Valley,” “The Quiet Man” “The Searchers”
John Ford
(15) “Breathless,” “Alphaville,” “Every Man for Himself”
Jean-Luc Godard
Bonus 7:
Identify the following infamous folks associated with the U.S. Supreme Court for ten points each.
This Declaration of Independence signee from Maryland was charged by Jefferson with improper conduct in treason and sedition trials but acquitted after his 1805 impeachment.
Samuel Chase
This successful attorney in the case of Gideon v. Wainwright resigned in 1969 as associate justice to avoid impeachment.
Abe Fortas
Reagan’s nominee to the Court in 1987, he was rejected by the Senate due to his conservative ideology.
Robert Bork
Bonus 8:
Answer the following questions about tinnitus (tin-EYE-tus) for ten points each.
Tinnitus may be caused by wax accumulating in this part of the ear, the opening near the center of the pinna.
Auditory Canal Or External AcousticMeatus Or Auditory Meatus
Tinnitus may also be caused by perforations in this membrane that forms the end of the auditory canal.
Tympanic membrane or Ear Drum
Yet another cause of tinnitus is the inflammation of this organ in the ear where the sense receptors for sound are located.
Organ of Corti
Bonus 9:
Given a year and works, name the Nobel Literature Prize recipient for ten points each.
1913, “Gitanjali”
Sir Rabindranath Tagore
1947, “The Immoralist,” “The Caves Of The Vatican”
Andre Gide
1970, “One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich,” “Cancer Ward”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Bonus 10:
Answer the following questions about the 2000 U.S. Open in tennis for ten points each.
Seeded 12th in the women’s draw, she did not live up to her seed as she lost in the third round to Justine Henin. However, losing is nothing new to her, as she is the highest-ranked female tennis player to never win a singles title.
Anna Kournikova
Unfortunately Anna didn’t do any better in doubles. She partnered up with this player on the comeback trail, who at 15 was the youngest Wimbledon semifinalist in 1991.
Jennifer Capriati
Kournikova and Capriati lost in the second round of doubles to a team of Arantxa (a-RAHN-cha) Sanchez-Vicario and this veteran tennis player, who is also trying to make a comeback in doubles. In singles, won two French Opens, three Australian Opens, four U.S. Opens, and nine Wimbledon titles.
Martina Navritolova
Bonus 11:
Name these things relating to linguistics for ten points each.
This is the smallest contrastive unit of sound in a language.