Ghetto Warz 2006
UCI Team 2
Packet written by Ray Anderson, Carl Boone, Willie Chen, and Brian Tan
UCI editor: Ray Anderson
Tossups
1. More than 200 rivers enter it, including the White, Pic, Pigeon, St. Louis, and Nipigon Rivers, while the St. Mary’s River is the only one to drain this lake. Islands located in it include the Apostle Islands and Isle Royale. It is also home to over 6,000 shipwrecks, including the Edmund Fitzgerald. FTP, name this largest lake in North America.
ANS: Lake Superior (Gichigami [Gitch-e-GOO-me])
2. In 1981 they visited Gilligan’s Island, and in the 31st Century they have their own planet and are astrophysicists. Krusty the Clown once foolishly bet against them. Founded by Abe Sapirstein in Chicago in 1927, they boast multiple win streaks of over 1,000 games, one of which reached 8,829 straight victories. FTP, name these frequent opponents of the Washington Generals and New York Nationals, a trickster basketball team named for a neighborhood in north Manhattan.
ANS: Harlem Globetrotters
3. This author’s 1972 novel Pantaleón y las visitadoras, an atypically comic work, follows the establishment of a service of prostitutes by the armed forces. His best-known novel was the basis for the film Tune in Tomorrow .... In 1990, he ran unsuccessfully for his home country’s presidency, winning a plurality in the general election but losing to Alberto Fujimori in a run-off. FTP, identify this Peruvian author of The Green House, The War of the End of the World, and, most famously, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter.
ANS: (Jorge) Mario Vargas Llosa
4. The best-known event known by this name began on May 26, 1838, though it had its roots in an 1829 gold rush in Georgia. On that date, General Winfield Scott began to enforce the removal provision of the Treaty of New Echota, which had been signed in 1835 by John Ridge and Stand Watie. Between 2,000 and 8,000 members of Ridge and Watie’s tribe perished during this event, mostly from disease. FTP, name this forced relocation of Cherokee to Arkansas and Oklahoma.
ANS: The Trail of Tears (Nunna daul Isunyi)
5. Sentences that appear in his work include “Why, Brad darling, this painting is a masterpiece! My, soon you’ll have all of New York clamoring for your work!”; “Look Mickey, I’ve hooked a Big One!!”; and “I pressed the fire control . . . and ahead of me rockets blazed through the sky . . . WHAAM!”. FTP, these phrases appear inside speech bubbles in the work of what American pop artist, whose surname is also an alternate spelling for a principality nestled between Switzerland and Austria?
ANS: Roy Lichtenstein
6. It can be derived from Newton’s 2nd law in generalized coordinates. Its time integral is minimized and gives the path a particle takes, and, if it is time independent, energy is conserved. FTP, identify this Legendre transform of the Hamiltonian, a dynamical system named for an 18th century Franco-Italian mathematician, which in classical mechanics is equivalent to the kinetic energy minus the potential energy.
ANS: Lagrangian
7. Some of the most reliable accounts of this event come from the diaries of John Rabe and Minnie Vautrin and films taken by John Magee. Today, it is widely known because of a book by Iris Chang published in 1997. Historians estimate that between 20,000 and 80,000 women were raped in this event, and the most commonly given estimate of the number dead is 300,000. FTP, in what 1937-38 event were large numbers of Chinese civilians massacred by Japanese troops?
ANS: Nanking Massacre or Rape of Nanking or equivalent
8. Founded under the name “National Responsibility,” this political party includes Ronni Bar-On, Haim Ramon, Meer Sheetrit, Tzipi Livni, and Gideon Ezra. More famous members are Shimon Peres and its current leader, Ehud Olmert. FTP, name this centrist political party, holder of 29 seats in the Knesset, which was founded in 2005 by Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon as an alternative to Likud.
ANS: Kadima
9. Israeli singer Dana International. Korean model Ha-Ri-Su. Golfer Mianne Bagger. Brazilian model Roberta Close. Bond girl Caroline Cossey. Tennis player Renee Richards. FTP, these people and pioneer Christine Jorgensen all have what characteristic, which is also shared by Felicity Huffman’s character in the movie Transamerica?
ANS: transsexual or transgendered – accept “Sex change operation” but do not accept transvestite
10. This group is a major force in the Boy Scouts of America, sponsoring approximately 30,000 troups. Its practices include baptism for the dead, wearing of temple garments, adherence to a health code known as the Word of Wisdom, and active proselytizing. Demonized by Arthur Conan Doyle in A Study in Scarlet, this group has more recently been represented in the public eye by innocuous Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings. FTP, name this 12 million member church which recognizes The Pearl of Great Price and Doctrine and Covenants as scripture alongside the Bible and The Book of Mormon.
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ANS: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS – Note, prompt on “Mormon Church”).
11. It was made of six ingredients: the beard of a woman, the sound of a cat’s footfall, the sinews of bears, the roots of a mountain, the breath of fish, and the spittle of a bird. After objects called Laeding and Dromi failed, it was forged by the dwarves to be as thin as a ribbon, but stronger than iron. Skirnir then brought it to the gods at Asgard, where its use indirectly led to the loss of Tyr’s hand. FTP, what is this chain which will break at Ragnarok, allowing Fenris to devour Odin?
ANS: Gleipnir
12. In the mid-1950s, Charles Keeling began the first measurement time series of the atmospheric concentrations of this gas. Its concentrations have risen from a pre-industrial value of 280 parts per million by volume (ppmv) to a present day value of about 380 ppmv, and it is responsible for an average net radiative forcing of 2 Wm-2 (watts per meter squared). FTP, name this greenhouse gas emitted by combustion, which becomes “dry ice” in its solid form and is regulated by the Kyoto Protocol.
ANS: Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
13. Elements in this 2003 movie directed by Jon Amiel include a ship made possible by a tungsten-titanium alloy called unobtainium, hacking the entire Internet in order to suppress the flow of news, a project called DESTINI designed to send earthquakes to the USSR, pigeons crashing into Trafalgar Square, and the Space Shuttle landing in the Los Angeles River. FTP, name this movie which features “terranauts” who must travel to the center of the Earth in order to restart its internal circulation with nuclear weapons, starring Hilary Swank and Aaron Eckhart.
ANS: The Core
14. It’s not The Producers, but Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder did star in a film version of it. In it, the typist at the office may have an affection for the up-and-coming worker Dudard. Meanwhile, the apathetic Berenger wishes to woo the typist Daisy and thus seeks the advice of Jean. However, a mysterious condition overtakes the town, and by the end of the play only Daisy and Berenger are left on stage. Daisy then decides to leave Berenger to join the rest of the town, where all the residents have transformed into the titular animal. FTP, name this absurdist play by Eugene Ionesco.
ANS: Rhinoceros
15. A mapping from flat space to a sphere, the arithmetic-geometric mean of 1 and the square root of 2, a law of vector calculus, an electrostatics law, a numerical integration method, a matrix diagonalization method, and a bell-curve distribution are, FTP, all named for what German “Prince of mathematicians,” whose name is also the standard cgs unit of magnetic induction?
ANS: Carl Friedrich Gauss
16. He escaped to San Antonio, Texas, after the Diaz dictatorship arrested him for running as the candidate for the opposition Anti-reelection Party and issuing the Plan of San Luis Potosi. After forcing the resignation of Diaz in May 1911, he defeated the interim president, Franscisco de la Barra, in democratic elections in November of that year. FTP, name this president of Mexico who was executed by followers of Victoriano Huerta in 1913.
ANS: Francisco I. Madero González
17. Researchers Gert van Tonder and Michael J. Lyons have proposed that their calming effect is caused by a subliminal resemblance to a tree. They can be found near homes, restaurants, and inns, and in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, not exclusively within holy places such as Ryoan-ji. Metaphorically, they might represent mountain peaks poking through the clouds, a mother tiger with her cubs swimming to a dragon, the kanji symbols for “heart” or “mind,” or the islands of Japan. FTP, name this shallow arrangement of rocks in gravel and sand, frequently associated with a type of Buddhism.
ANS: Zen garden (prompt on “Zen” or “garden”)
18. This group was founded in Minneapolis in 1968 by, among others, Dennis Banks, Herb Powless, and Clyde Bellecourt. Russell Means was one of its early leaders. Leonard Peltier, who was controversially convicted of killing two FBI agents in 1975, is another prominent member. FTP, name this group, originally formed to protect indigenous people from police harassment, which took over federal sites at Alcatraz Island, the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington D.C., and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
ANS: American Indian Movement (AIM)
19. This airport has six non-intersecting runways, all of which are at least 12,000 feet long, and it occupies an area twice the size of Manhattan. It can can be reached by Frederico Pena Boulevard, named after the former mayor of the city it is located in. Its Jeppensen terminal is connected to three midfield concourses via an undeground tram system. FTP, name this American airport, located at about 5,400 feet above sea level, which serves as a hub for both Frontier and United Airlines.
ANS: Denver International Airport (DIA) (prompt on “Denver”)
20. A deciding event in this battle was the refusal of Richard Beauchamp to allow Margaret of Anjou to cross the the Severn River at Gloucester. The commander of the losing side, the Duke of Somerset, is alleged to have killed one of his own officers for failing to take initiative. Perhaps as many as half of Somerset’s men were killed in the “Bloody Meadow,” thus leading to a decisive victory for the forces of Edward IV. FTP, name this key 1471 battle in which the Yorks defeated the Lancastrians and ended one phase of the Wars of the Roses.
ANS: Battle of Tewkesbury
21. He lived somewhere between 60,000 and 90,000 years ago, nearly 100,000 years after his female counterpart, and he probably lived in Africa. This was discovered after analysis of variations of the Y-chromosomes of over 1,000 men from 22 regions showed that all human males can be traced back to, FTP, what ancestor, named after the first man mentioned in the Bible.
ANS: Genetic Adam (Y-chromosomal Adam)
22. This 1919 poem, in the form of a Shakesperean sonnet, was written in response to a wave of race riots consisting mainly of white assaults on black neighborhoods. The speaker proclaims, “O kinsmen, we must meet the common foe!” even though defeat is inevitable. FTP, name this sonnet by the Jamaican-born writer Claude McKay, which, in response to the titular condition, suggests a noble death, one that’s not “like hogs / Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot.”
ANS: “If We Must Die”
Boni:
1. Answer these things related to the study of Geography FTPE
a. This field of geography studies the interactions of humans with their environment. Cultural, Economic, Political, and Population Geography are among the sub-fields within this field.
ANS: Human Geography
b. In contrast to human geography, this field of geography focuses on the spatial patterns of the Earth system. Hydrology, Biogeography, Climatology, and Pedology are among the sub-fields within this field.
ANS: Physical Geography (or Physiogeography)
c. Tobler’s first law of geography states that the relationship between two places decreases with an increase in this quantity.
ANS: Distance (acceptable answers include Space or Separation)
2. Name these plays by Edward Albee FTPE:
a. This 1960 farce features a dysfunctional family, including Mommy and Daddy. The foul-mouthed Grandma is confined to the titular object.
ANS: The Sandbox
b. This 1975 expressionistic fantasy play depicts the confrontation on a beach between a couple and two humanoid figures. It won Albee his second Pulitzer Prize for drama.
ANS: Seascape
c. This 2000 Albee play deals with the life of an architect, which is ruined when he falls in love with the titular animal.
ANS: The Goat or Who is Sylvia
3. Name this nation from historical clues F15PE or for five points if you need an easier clue.
a. For 15 – Its “Commonwealth” period ended in 1264 when it was annexed by Norway.
For 5 – This North Atlantic island nation of 300,000 residents regained full independence from Denmark in 1944.
ANS: Republic of Iceland (Lýðveldið Ísland)
b. For 15 – This “United Republic” in Africa was formed in 1964 from the union of two nations, one on the mainland of the continent and one an island.
For 5 – Those two nations were Tanganyika and Zanzibar and its first president was Julius Nyerere [Nee-RARE-ree].
ANS: The United Republic of Tanzania (Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania)
4. Name these telescope observatories FTPE