ROUND 3
1. Originally denounced as a “tragic lamppost,” it contains a first-story platform, a second-story platform, an intermediate platform to change elevators, and a third-story platform. After the addition of a television antenna, this structure had a total height of 1052 feet. For ten points, name this famous landmark, built for the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution
A. the Eiffel Tower.
2. After President Garfield's assassination in 1881 by a disgruntled office-seeker, a movement for civil service reform spearheaded by this bill met success in 1883. For ten points, identify this act, which ended corruption of federal appointments by allowing all citizens to apply for federal jobs withoout discrimination on basis of party affiliation, race, or religion.
Ans. Pendleton Civil Service Act
3. It is a steep-sided canyon 50 kilometers long and 91 meters deep. Created by earthquake activity, the 2 million year old deposits exposed in its walls were formed in an ancient lake bed. For ten points, name this geographical formation in northern Tanzania, where stone tools, building sites, and early hominid bones were discovered by Louis and Mary Leakey.
Answer: Olduvai Gorge
4. Born in 1122 from the Hohenstaufen family, he was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 1155 by Pope Victor IV. He fell out of favor with Alexander III over the issue of lay investiture. Feeling threatened by the northern Italian city-states, he attacked them
and captured Rome in 1167. However, with formation of the Lombard league he was repelled by 1176. For ten points, name this ruler who drowned on his way to the
Third Crusade.
Answer: Frederick I or Frederick Barbarossa (prompt on just Frederick)
5. When a state originally applied for statehood in 1818, Northern congressmen attached an amendment with anti-slavery measures to this. When Maine applied for statehood in 1819, senators reached this agreement, whereby slave holding would be allowed in the new state, but not in other states of Lousiana territory north of thirty-six degrees seven minutes. For ten points, name this famous agreement that probably delayed the Civil War for forty years.
Answer: Missouri Compromise (ask for the name of the concession on
“Missouri”)
6. His antiauthoritarian work, The Flies, published in 1940, was permitted by German authorities who were unaware of his underground activities. They also allowed his major philosophic work Being and Nothingness. For ten points, name the author who rejected the 1964 Nobel Prize in literature, saying it would compromise his integrity as a writer.
Answer: Jean-Paul Sartre
7. During the ages of 3 to 7 years, girls may undergo this complex, where they feel guilty and fearful about certain feelings. Often, girls with it cope via identification, a mechanism in which people imagine themselves to be more powerful. For ten points, name this female counterpart to the Oedipus complex, where a daughter has high disdain for her mother and an intimate affection for her father.
Answer. Electra complex
8. Despite a 40% rise in quarter profit, weak sales growth forecasts for this NASDAQ company sent its stock tumbling, dragging down the rest of the market Friday. The drop in credited to uncertainty in the presidential race and overall pessimism with technology sector’s earnings. For ten points, name this Austin based technology company, founded in 1984, that is the main rival to Gateway.
Answer: Dell Computer
9. With headquarters at Bletchley Park in England, this Allied operation focused on decoding Nazi plans, including those regarding the Battle of Britain. Its crowning moment came in 1939, when British intelligence captured an Enigma machine, allowing them to decipher Germany’s top secret operations. For ten points, identify this project, whose existence was kept secret until 1974.
Answer: Ultra project
10. She was the only American to exhibit her work with the Impressionists in Paris. The Philadelphia Art Museum holds the largest collection of her works, such as The Bath and The Paris Basin, which were influenced by Japanese prints. For ten points, name this American painter, known for her paintings of mothers and children.
Answer: Mary Cassatt
11. Founded by Yasovarman I between 890 and 910 A.D., its name comes from the Sanskrit for “city.” Over the next four centuries, hundreds of Hindu and Buddhist temples were built, the most famous built by Suryavarman II honoring Vishnu. For ten points, name this ancient capital of the Khmer Empire in Southeast Asia.
Answer: Ankor
12. Although its Paris debut in 1831 brought a violent reaction from critics, and the audiences’ jeers drowned out much of the music, this piece went on to become the beginning of a new musical genre. For ten points, name this symphony by Berlioz based on a hallucinogenic dream about Harriet Smithson, the object of his desires.
Answer. Symphonie Fantastique accept also Fantastic Symphony
13. This sociologist, strongly influenced by Comte’s positivism, thought that the loss of common values led to individual and societal instability. He authored The Rules of Sociological Method (1895), Suicide(1897), and The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912). For ten points, name this French sociologist who applied natural science and statistics to sociology.
Answer: Emile Durkheim
14. This lively couples’ dance became a ballroom craze in the mid 1900’s. Originally a folk dance from Bohemia, couples will usually circle the ballroom very quickly using a simple “step, close, step, hop” pattern. For ten points, name this dance, often used by the eccentric musician known as Weird Al.
Answer: Polka
15. “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness ...” begins this American poem, which is generally considered the first beat literature to be published. This nearly 3,000 word poem attacks American values and laments the state of America in the mid 1950s. For ten points, name thi 1956 poem by Allen Ginsberg.
Answer: Howl
16. Represented as a mummified pharaoh with a black or green face, the Nile is often associated with his birth, death, and resurrection. Murdered by his brother Set, his body was thrown into the Nile River, where his wife Isis found him and brought him back to life. For ten points, name this Egyptian god of the Underworld.
Answer. Osiris
17. Founded by Marcus Garvey in 1914, , it was originally called the Universal Negro Improvement Association. In 1934, Elijah Poule became the leader and established the belief that the white person is the devil and advocated a separate African homeland in the United States. For ten points, name this organization, currently led by Louis Farrakhan.
Answer: Nation of Islam
18. This car part has been almost universal in vehicles in the United States since the early 1980s. It is one of the reasons that modern cars require unleaded gasoline, because the lead would coat the platinum or palladium beads in this part. For ten points, name this part that converts unburned hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide into water and carbon dioxide to meet emissions standards.
Answer: Catalytic Converter
19. Little Loewry, Ivanov, Gletkin, Arlov, and Nicolas Salmanovitch Rubashov all appear in this work. In it, the old patriot Rubashov is forced to testify against himself for crimes that never occurred. For ten points, give the name of the book, written by Arthur Koestler in 1940 as a comment on the Russian trials.
Answer: Darkness at Noon
20. Four of the five species of this large land mammal are nearing extinction, largely due to poachers wishing to sell its most prominent feature as a medicine and aphrodisiac. The poor vision of this ungulate is compensated by its excellent smell and hearing. For ten points, name this animal, known for its nasal horn.
Answer: Rhinoceros
21. The statistics governing this class of particles were published in a 1924 paper translated by Einstein. The main difference between these massless particles and other particles is that they do not obey Pauli’s exclusion principle. For ten points, name this group of particles with full integer spins, first discussed by Satyendra Bose.
Answer: Bosons
22. Consider the closed interval [0,1]. Remove the middle third of the interval. From the remaining separate intervals remove their middle thirds. Repeat this process indefinitely, always removing the middle thirds from the remaining intervals. For ten points, name the set of points that is left over after this process is repeated an infinite number of times.
Answer: Cantor set.
Tiebreaker.
Founded in 1912, its main goal was to preserve voting rights for colored people and blacks in the Cape Province. It was banned in 1960 by the white government after demonstrations were staged by its offshoot organization. For ten points, give the political party under which Nelson Mandela won the presidential election in 1994.
Answer: African National Congress (prompt on ANC)
Bonuses
1. Name the following place on a 30-20-10 basis.
1. Founded in 514 by the priest Lakin Chan, the Kukulkan pyramid dominates its landscape.
2. This site, the most visited archealogical site in the Western Hemisphere, was rediscovered by Spanish explorers in the 1700's.
3. The name of this epicenter of Mayan culture derives its name from the two names of the its inhabitants, the Chanes and the Itzaes.
Answer: Chichen Itza
2. Those of you who like "The Sound of Music" may remember a song entitled "Climb Every Mountain," which was, of course, the sappiest thing ever. Nevertheless, it seemed appropriate when asking about mountain ranges. Given information about a mountain range, identify it for ten points each.
1. This range seperates Europe and Asia
Answer: Ural Mountains
2. This is the range where "The Sound of Music" is set.
Answer: Austrian Alps , prompt on ‘Alps’
3. This is the name of two Slovakian ranges, referred to as "higher" and "lower."
Answer: Tatras
3. Given the acronyms for the following United Nations organizations, name the organization for ten points each.
1. UNICEF
Answer:United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund
2. UNESCO
Answer: United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
3. ACUNS
Answer: Academic Council on the United Nations System
4. Given a description, name the computing input device.
1. You press this on a computer’s video display to select objects.
Answer: Light Pen
2. It converts photographs into binary information a computer can
manipulate.
Answer: Scanner
3. It serves the same purpose as a mouse, but it stays in one place while
you move a sphere in it to move your cursor.
Answer: Trackball
5. Name the following pillars of Islam from their descriptions.
1. Five times per day, Muslims must turn to Mecca and do this.
Answer: Pray or Prayer, accept other variants
2. This is observed during the month of Ramadan.
Answer: Fast or Fasting, accept variants
3. All Muslims who are able must at some point journey to the Kaaba in Mecca.
Answer:Pilgrimage
6. From descriptions, give the years of passage of the following Civil Rights Acts within five years.
1. Passed shortly after the end of the civil war, it nullified the “Black Codes.”
Answer: 1866 (accept (1861 to 1871)
2. It established the Civil Rights Commission to investigate claims of unequal protection of laws and denial of voting rights.
Answer: 1957 (accept 1952 to 1962)
3. It strengthened affirmative action, and was in response to the Supreme
Court making it more difficult for minorities and women to use courts to
remedy discrimination in hiring practices.
Answer: 1991 (accept 1986 to 1996)
7. Answer the following questions on flood myths for ten points each.
1. Utnapishtim told the title character a story of a flood in this epic from
the ancient Middle East.
Answer: The Epic of Gilgamesh
2. In Greek mythology, Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha were the only people to
survive a great flood sent by this God.
Answer: Zeus
3. This son of Lamech, his wife, his three sons Shem, Ham, and Japeth and
their wives were the only people to survive the flood of Biblical mythology.
Answer: Noah
8. Identify the following men involved in the Watergate scandal from clues.
1. He testified before the US Senate, implicating many high-ranking officials and even President Nixon in the Watergate scandal. Before the scandal, he was a counsel to the President, and had been appointed by Nixon to investigate whether any White House officials were involved in the burglary.
Answer: John Wesley Dean III
2. He was a former United States Attorney General who was working on the
Nixon reelection campaign when the burglary occurred and was accused by Dean
of ordering the break-in.
Answer: John Newton Mitchell
3. This former CIA agent was the mastermind of the burglary, and was not
immediately arrested because he and G. Gordon Liddy were across the street
from the Watergate serving as lookouts.
Answer: Everette Howard Hunt, Jr.
9. 30-20-10 give the value.
For thirty, it was calculated in 1900 to help explain how the radiation an object emits is related to its temperature.
For twenty, Einstein used it to hypothesize the photoelectric effect. It assumes that the energy of a vibrating particle is quantized, that is that it can only take on certain values.
For ten, give this constant that is multiplied by the packets of energy and has a value of 6.626x10^ -34 joule-seconds.
Answer: Planck’s constant
10. Name the Roman battle for ten points each.
1. Following Caesar’s crossing of the Rubicon, this battle was the final part of the encounters between Pompey and Caesar.
Answer: Battle of Pharsalus
2. After Caesar’s assassination, this was the battle between the conspirators and the Roman Republic.
Answer: Battle of Philippi
3. This was a naval engagement for control of the Roman World in 31 BC.
Answer: Battle of Actium
11. Name the mineral properties for 5 points each:
1. It describes the way in which a mineral surface reflects light.
A: luster
2. It refers to the manner in which minerals split along planes. It is determined by crystal structure.
A: cleavage
3. A mineral breakage unrelated to crystal structure.
A: fracture
4. The density of the mineral divided by the density of water.
A: specific gravity
5. The ability to see through a mineral.