TOSSUPS – FLORIDA STATE BSWORD BOWL/PENN BOWL 2006 (UTC/Penn/Oklahoma/Drake)
Questions by David Buckey, Kristin Scheel, Steven Hanley, & Amanda Rondot with help from Oklahoma & Drake
1.(DU) Ralph Kronig, an assistant to Alfred Landé, first proposed a physical explanation for this phenomenon, but his results did not comply with special relativity, so he never published his results. Without knowing it, Wolfgang Pauli introduced it as a “two-valued quantum degree of freedom” with no physical explanation, but it did allow him to propose his famous Exclusion Principle. For ten points, name this intrinsic angular momentum of a particle, whose magnitude in electrons is always one-half.
Answer:Spin
2.Louis Wolheim played the title role in its Broadway premiere. Racial overtones were added to the inherent class issues in a 1931 revival starring Paul Robeson, while a Hollywood version starring William Bendix softened it with a happy ending. The protagonist’s real name is Bob Smith, and the play follows his quest to find a sense of belonging despite the dehumanizing effects of industrialization. The climax comes when Mildred Douglas and Yank look at each other. FTP, name the Eugene O’Neill play whose title comes from Mildred calling Yank a “filthy beast.”
Answer:The Hairy Ape
3.Its extensive hydrocarbon and natural gas reserves could fuel an economic boom for this underdeveloped nation if extraction and delivery projects were expanded. It contains the cities of Mary, Nebitag, and Tasauz. Its highest point is Gora Ayribaba, and the Amu Darya River makes up part of its border with Uzbekistan and Afghanistan. With eighty percent of its land covered by the Kara Kum Desert, FTP, name the former Soviet republic with its capital at Ashgabat.
Answer:Turkmenistan
4.From 1870 to 1875 he lived in England and served as the first conductor of what is now the Royal Choral Society. His Funeral March of a Marionette was used as the theme music for Alfred Hitchcock Presents. His first opera, Sapho, premiered in 1851, but later in his life he wrote mostly religious music, including a notable musical setting of Ave Maria. FTP, name the French composer of the opera Romeo and Juliet, whose best known work is his 1859 opera, Faust.
Answer:Charles Gounod
5.The Turkish fleet was wiped out at Sinop by the forces of Nicholas I, acting on his assertion that Russia was the protector of all Orthodox Christians. When Britain and France responded by declaring war, Russia withdrew from Moldavia and Wallachia, removing the pretext for the war. But the Allies launched an attack anyway and besieged Sebastopol in 1854. FTP, name this war, the second largest European War in the 19th century, ended by the treaty of Paris of 1856.
Answer:Crimean War
6.The name of the unidentified pharaoh in this book is thought to be Amenhotep II or Rameses II. Identifying the pharaoh is important to the date of the events depicted in this book. Modern scholarship disagrees with religious attitudes that the work was not by Moses himself, but suggests a later redactor compiled the accounts of several stories passed down among generations. FTP, give the name of this book whose meaning, according to the Torah, means “departure” or “outgoing.”
Answer:Exodus or Ve-eleh shemoth
7.The family that is central from this work hailed from Kashubia, a province in northwest Poland, though the most prominent members of the family were born in Danzig. When the main character in this work was three years old he decided that he would never grow up. He had a high-pitched singing voice that can break glass, and he used this talent for breaking and entering and for defending the title object, which he never let leave his side. FTP name this novel, the fictional biography of Oskar Matzerath and his family, written by Gunter Grass.
Answer:The Tin Drum[or DieBlechtrommel]
8.(DU) This man became the first person to be born in the 19th century to be elected president, at a then-youngest age of 52 years old. His foreign policy failures included attempts annex Hawaii and purchase Alaska. After serving as a brigadier general during the Mexican-American War, he was nominated to break a logjam on the 49th ballot by his Democratic Party at the 1852 party convention. FTP name this New Hampshire native, the 14th President of the U.S.
Answer:Franklin Pierce
9.In 2002 he made his big screen debut in the horror comedy The Greenskeeper as a murderous golf-club groundskeeper. He graduated from Presbyterian Day High School in Macon, Georgia, in 1993 after throwing three no-hitters as a pitcher on the school’s baseball team. Between 2001 and 2002 he pitched for the Cleveland Indians and Texas Rangers before being released by the Devil Rays in 2003. FTP, name the once dominant closer for the Atlanta Braves whose career went on a downward spiral after he made politically incorrect and insensitive statements in a 2000 interview with Sports Illustrated.
Answer:John Rocker
10.Right after the start of World War I, this Nobel laureate cashed in the gold that came with the prize to help the war effort. This was consistent with a general unwillingness to patent or otherwise profit from the commercial exploitation of the award-winning research, unless you count its use in her Ph.D. dissertation. It took eight tons of pitchblende ore for her and her husband to isolate a single gram of radium salts. FTP; name this physical chemist, the first person and still the only woman to win two Nobel Prizes.
Answer:Marie Curie [née Sklodowska]
11.(OU) His birth, along with that of his twin brother, Xototl, was a virgin birth. One incarnation of this deity was Tlahuixcalpantecuhtli, who was the morning star and whose name literally means “lord of the star of dawn”. According to a number of traditions, he either committed suicide after being seduced, left on a raft of snakes, or was driven into exile by his rival, Tezcatlipoca. FTP, who is this Aztec deity, whose name literally means “feathered serpent”?
Answer:Quetzalcoatl
12.Rising through the ranks of the King’s African Rifles from private to lieutenant, this man achieved the highest rank possible for a black African in the British Army but had a reputation for brutality. Together with Prime Minister Milton Obote [oh- BOH-tay], he seized power in 1965 from President Mutesa and was promoted to chief-of-staff. He ousted Obete in a coup on January 25th 1971 and shortly thereafter began executing Obote supporters, army officers who didn’t support the coup, and the intelligentsia. Forced into exile in Libya and Saudi Arabia until his death in 2003, FTP, name this man, whose brutal rule lasted until 1979 when Tanzanian forces captured the capital, Kampala.
Answer:Idi Amin
13.His plays often took up specific social grievances, as seen in works such as The Silver Box and The Man of Property. His first published work was a collection of short stories titled From the Four Winds, which was released in 1897. He is best known today for a collection of novels, divided into the four parts The Man of Property, In Chancery, Awakening, and To Let. FTP, name the winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize for literature, best remembered for writing The Forsyte Saga.
Answer:John Galsworthy
14.Back in the Devonian Period, it was exposed to the elements in ancient amphibians through a hole in the skull enabling it to receive light input. As animals evolved, this gland become enclosed and now is found near the center of the brain. Its location inspired Descartes to refer to it as the “seat of the soul,” and it can be seen on plain X-rays due to it being calcified. FTP, name this endocrine gland, whose primary purpose is the production of melatonin brought on by darkness.
Answer:Pineal Gland
15.In this work, a self-portrait of the artist depicted as the flayed skin St. Bartholomew is carrying. The work, the single largest fresco of the 16th century, was commissioned by Pope Clement VII. The work is sharply divided into two sides along the center figure. The painting depicts the figure compelling those on the left-hand side of the work down toward the underworld while rasing those on the right up into heaven. FTP, name this painting by Michelangelo, which appears in the Sistine Chapel, whose central figure is Christ.
Answer:The Last Judgment
16.Founded in 1905 as a separatist monarchist party, it changed its goals after the 1920 split of the country and has crusaded since for reunification. Meaning ‘Ourselves,’ there are now three groups claiming to be the rightful party by this name. The one called “Provisional” currently holds five TDs in the Dáil Éireann in the Republic and 4 MPs in Parliament who have not been seated because they refuse to swear allegiance to the Crown. FTP, name this Northern Ireland political party founded by Arthur Griffith, sometimes referred to as the political arm of the IRA.
Answer:Sinn Fein [sorry, but do not accept IRA – that’s wrong from the first clue on.]
17.Their original name when they formed in 1983 was Tony Flow and Majestic Masters of Mayhem, but after a few shows, they took on their current name. In 1988, a heroin overdose killed guitarist Hillel Slovak, causing drummer Jack Irons to leave. John Frusciante and Chad Smith replaced Slovak and Irons and along with lead singer Anthony Kiedis and bassist Flea the band had their first gold album, Mother’s Milk, in 1989. Four subsequent albums each had monumental succss, including Californication which went platinum 17 times. FTP, name this band.
Answer:Red Hot Chili Peppers
18.It lacks any large mountains due to the icy nature of its surface and is believed to contain a salty ocean underneath its crust. It has two concentric rings that measure about three-thousand kilometers in diameter and two impact basins called Valhalla and Asgard. It is the least dense of Jupiter’s Galilean Satellites and is roughly the size of mercury. FTP, name the second largest of Jupiter’s moons that is also the most heavily cratered satellite in the solar system.
Answer:Callisto
19.The second largest electricity consumer in all of Maryland is this agency, created in June 1952 by an executive order of Harry Truman and currently headquartered at Fort Meade. One of its chief projects is the operation of the system ECHELON, which is believed to be the largest signal intelligence gatherer in the world. This and other projects have rendered this agency far bigger than the CIA. FTP, what government intelligence agency, has come under criticism, along with President George W. Bush, for monitoring the overseas conversations of US citizens in the fight against terrorism?
Answer:National Security Agency or NSA
20.(OU) It was originally published November 10, 1855, and its structure was likely influenced by the Kalevala. Both of the title character’s friends, Kwasind and Chibia’bos, are killed, though the latter came to rule the Land of Spirits. The title character himself kills others including Mishe-Nah’ma the sturgeon. Its meter is often parodied in other poems including one by Lewis Carroll about photographing. FTP, name this poem, beginning “by the shores of Gitchee-Gumee,” described as “an Indian Edda” by its author, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Answer:The Song of Hiawatha (prompt on Hiawatha)
21.When someone with the positive this gives to someone without this characteristic, a condition known as hemolysis or excessive breakdown of red blood cells can develop. 84% of people with European descent are postive, compared to 99% of Africans, and nearly 100% of people of non-African, non-European descent. FTP, what characterisitic of the blood was observed by Landsteiner in his observations of the namesake monkey?
Answer:Rh or Rhesus factor
22.(OU) His translations have included plays such as The Cure at Troy and The Burial at Thebes. Yet it is poetry for which is he most well known, gaining fame with compilations including Death of a Naturalist and The Haw Lantern. FTP, name this author who won the Nobel Prize in 1995 and has twice won the Whitbread award, once for The Spirit Level and again for his translation of Beowulf?
Answer:Seamus Heaney
23.This 1971 study’s participants were offered $15 a day for the planned two week duration of the study. The participants were divided evenly into two groups; one group was given a khaki-military style uniform with batons and eyeglasses to prevent eye contact. The second group was only given bad fitting muslin smocks and thong sandals as their clothes for the duration, which only turned out to be six days due to the appalling conditions that resulted from the guards’ unrestricted power and the prisoners’ unquestioned sense of obeying authority. FTP, name this experiment named after the university in which it was held that some have compared to the events that occurred inside Iraq’s Abu Ghraib Prison.
Answer:Zimbardo or Stanford Prison Experiment
BONI – FLORIDA STATE BSWORD BOWL/PENN BOWL 2006 (UTC/Penn/Oklahoma/Drake)
Questions by David Buckey, Kristin Scheel, Steven Hanley, & Amanda Rondot with help from Oklahoma & Drake
1.FTPE, name the phylum of the following organisms.
10: Bee
Answer:Arthropoda
10: Squid
Answer:Mollusca or Mollusks
10: Starfish
Answer:Echinodermata or Echinoderm
2.(OU) Only four US Presidents have been killed while in office, but it wasn’t for lack of trying. F10PE, answer the following about failed presidential assassination attempts.
A. Two attempts were made on the life of Gerald Ford within 17 days of each other in Sept. 1975. Name either of the women who tried to kill Ford, one formerly a member of the Manson Family and the other a former FBI informant.
Answer:Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme or Sara Jane Moore
B. While the White House was under renovation, Puerto Rican nationalists Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola forced their way into Blair House and attempted to assassinate this President in 1950.
Answer: Harry S Truman
C. Believing that he was Richard III of England, that the US government owed him a large sum of money, and that Andrew Jackson had killed his father, this man attempted to assassinate Jackson at the 1832 funeral of Warren Davis, but his pistols misfired and he was quickly subdued, with Jackson’s help and several blows from Jackson’s cane.
Answer:Richard Lawrence
3.Given characters on The Simpsons, identify who provides or provided their voices, FTP each:
10: Homer and Grandpa Simpson
Answer:Dan Castellaneta
10: Lionel Hutz and Troy McClure
Answer:Phil Hartman
10: Apu and Chief Wiggum
Answer:Hank Azaria
4.Given a description, identify the Shakespearean play, FTP each:
10: Viola is in love with Orsino, who is in love with Olivia, who is in love with Viola’s male disguise, Cesario, and neither Orsino nor Olivia knows that Viola is really a woman.
Answer:Twelfth Night
10: Claudio, Don Pedro, and Benedick share a suspicion of marriage as a trap in which husbands are bound to be controlled and deceived, but they also deeply desire to bemarried.
Answer:Much Ado about Nothing
10: Antonio fails to pay back a loan from Shylock, which consisted of him having to give one pound of flesh.
Answer:The Merchant of Venice
5. (DU) Looney Toons: Back in Action, may not have been the greatest film, but the chase scene in the Louvre should be enough for any Quiz Bowler to admire...even though some of the works aren’t even in the Louvre. So, given a description, name the work of art featured in the movie for ten points each.
a. The chase slows to a crawl as the characters slowly begin to melt like the time pieces that made this Dalí work famous.
Answer:The Persistence of Memory
b. Elmer Fudd gets his foot crushed, and his pain truly comes out while running after Bugs and Daffy in this Munch masterpiece.
Answer:The Scream
c. Elmer is finally defeated after becoming a completely pointillist character and blown away once he steps out of this Seurat work.
Answer:Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
6.Classical physics is a subject that victimizes many a college student every semester. FTPE, give the alternative names of these Maxwell equations.
10: This law states the divergence of the electric displacement field equals free electric charge density. It is named after the man for whom the MKS unit for magnetism is named after.
Answer:Gauss’s Law
10: This law states that the curl of the electric field equals the negative time derivative of the electric flux density. It is named after the man for whom the MKS unit of capacitance is named after.
Answer:Faraday’s Law of Magnetic Induction