Duke Academic Fesival
January 13, 2001
Round 2
Part 1
1. It is comprised of an inner membrane and an outer membrane which are separated by christae which increase the internal area. For ten points name the powerhouse of both plant and animal cells.
Answer: Mitochondria
2. "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." So begins a famous work by Eric Blair which also features Hate Week, the Junior Anti-Sex League, and Big Brother. For ten points, name this work which takes its title from the year that Winston Smith thinks it is.
Anwer: 1984
1. It can be hard or pink, depending on whether you add alcohol or grape juice. It was also the nickname of First Lady Lucy Hayes. For ten points, name this drink that you should make whenever life hands you several small yellow fruit (as well as a pitcher and some sugar).
Anwer: Lemonade (accept "Lemonade Lucy")
2. Some ancient texts give it as 616, which may or may not be a fix so that it matches Nero. Other ancient texts skip Revelation 13:18 altogether. For ten points, name this mystical number "which represents a man's name" and is today more-or-less standardized at 666.
Answer: The Number of the Beast (prompt on 666 before given)
3. Their first album featured a fictitious conversation between Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell. Their second album had their most commercially successful song, a song that will never ever be played at a high school prom. Their most recent album was their first to be recorded in a studio, which was also their last album as a band. For ten points, name this misnamed Chapel Hill band whose hits included "Underground" and "Brick".
Answer: Ben Folds Five
Part 2 – Tossup/Bonus
1. This man studied theology, but eventually his interests changed and he founded The American Asylum for Deaf-Mutes in Hartford, CT, on land provided by the U.S. government. His name is now attached to a university for the deaf in Washington, DC. For ten points, name this educator.
Answer: Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
2. Imagine you have a periodic table in front of you, with a chess knight on Hydrogen. The only element to which the knight can legally move is, For ten points, what metal used in flash photography and incendiary devices whose atomic number is 12?
Answer: Magnesium
3. This Greek philosopher's followers were known as "philosophers of the garden," and he taught that true happiness rests on overcoming fear of death and the afterlife and that intellectual pleasure was to be preferred over pleasure of the senses. For ten points, name this man, who has therefore lent his name to people who strive for sensual pleasure and luxurious living.
Answer: Epicuris
4. This book by Basil Stewart was written in 1925 and is still in print today. That isn't surprising, unless you know that the book predicts the end of the world on August 20, 1953. Stewart claims that the title object was built by Egyptians under the direction of Christ and not Khufu. For ten points, name the book or the object on the Giza plateau that Stewart claims predicted the beginning and the end of World War I to the day.
Answer: The Great Pyramid
5. It is the name for the top inner quarter of a flag, the dexter chief region of a heraldic field, and a division of a French arrondissement. It is also the name of cities in Massachusetts, Ohio, and China. FOR TEN POINTS, give the name, also the generic name for "states" in Switzerland.
Answer: Canton
6. It is played in an arena called a fronton (FRAWN tawn), and resembles handball. The American version replaces the typical two player match with a system of rotating eight players in and out, to make betting more fun (and profitable). In fact, this game introduced the quiniela and perfecta to other sports. For ten points, name this crossword-favorite game where the ball can reach speeds up to 150 miles per hour.
Answer: Jai Alai (or Pelota Vasca)
7. A web site, inpassing.org, has sprung up around this "guilty pleasure" which is chock full of quotes taken out of context. For ten points name this activity which Ambrose Bierce defined as "[s]ecretly to overhear a catalogue of the crimes and vices of another or yourself".
Answer: Eavesdrop (or Eavesdropping)
8. This word means the inner, open, space of a blood vessel, and is also a unit defined as one candela*steradian and measures the flow of light per unit of time. For ten points, give this five-letter word that comes from the Latin for "light."
Answer: Lumen
9. This English mathemitician and inventor was a founder of the Royal Astronomical Society. However, he is better known for his Table of Logarithms published in 1827 and his calculating machine that foreshadowed computers. For ten points, name him.
Answer: Charles Babbage
10. His writings caused great distress among the Parliamentarians and he went to France in 1640. He argued that life is the motion of an organism and man is by nature selfish and at war with other men. Then he goes on to describe man as nasty and brutish. For ten points, name the person who influenced Locke, Spinoza and Rousseau through his Leviathan.
Answer: Thomas Hobbes
Bonus
1. Name these Kansas politicians for five points each.
a. This Russell war veteran lost the 1996 Presidential election to Bill Clinton.
Answer: Bob Dole
b. This Republican governor of Kansas lost the 1936 Presidential election to Franklin Roosevelt.
Answer: Alf Landon
c. After losing his House seat in 1994, this Wichita Democrat was named Secretary of Agriculture.
Answer: Dan Glickman
d. Daughter of answer number 2, she served in the Senate alongside answer number 1 for eighteen years.
Answer: Nancy Landon Kassebaum
2. For five points each and a five point bonus for all three, name the three methods of heat transfer.
Answer: Conduction, Convection, Radiation
3. For five points each, name the four nondegenerate conic sections.
Answer: Circle, Ellipse, Parabola, Hyperbola
4. For the stated number of points, identify these people with similar last names. Note: The first name is also required.
a. For five points, this man invented the safety razor.
Answer: King Camp Gillette
b. For five points, this man is the tall half of a magical duo; his partner never speaks.
Answer: Penn Jillette
c. For ten points, This actor and playwright wrote and acted the lead in "Sherlock Holmes".
Answer: William Hooker Gillette
5. Identify these Shakespeare plays from names of characters for ten points or from plot points for five.
a. [10 points] Sir Toby Belch, Malvolio, Orsino.
[5 points] Viola is shipwrecked, disguises herself as a man, and enters the service of Orsino. Orsino tries to win the hand of Olivia, who instead falls in love with Viola-as-a-man. Malvolio is tricked into thinking Olivia loves him and is imprisoned in insane. Eventually Olivia marries Viola's brother and Orsino contents himself with Viola.
Answer: Twelfth Night
b. [10] Don Pedro, Don John, Benedick, Beatrice.
[5] Claudio is betrothed to Hero. Don John plots to ruin Hero's reputation. Benedick and Beatrice are each tricked into thinking that the other is in love with them. Claudio calls off his wedding to Hero at the altar. Don John's plot is exposed, and Claudio and Hero are reunited.
Answer: Much Ado About Nothing
6. For ten points each, name the two NFL teams that traditionally play every Thanksgiving.
Answer: Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys
7. Houston has been granted an NFL expansion franchise to replace the Oilers, who took off for Nashville in 1997. Answer the following questions for five points each.
a. What is the new nickname of the Oilers?
Answer: The Tennessee Titans
b. What is the nickname of the expansion team going to be?
Answer: The Houston Texans
c. What year will the Texans begin play?
Answer: 2002
d. What stadium is Houston building for the Texans and for the Houston
Livestock Show and Rodeo?
Answer: Reliant Stadium
8. A perennial hot topic among curriculum experts is the banning of books in high schools. For the years 1990-1992, numbers 19 and 35 on the list of banned books were both by Stephen King. FOR TEN POINTS each name them from clues.
a. Number 19 featured a homicidal Plymouth Fury.
Answer: Carrie
b. Number 35 featured a rabid dog.
Answer: Cujo
9. The C.S. Lewis tale "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe" tells the story of how 4 children met the lion and the White Witch.
a. For 15 points for all correct, 10 points for 3, and 5 for 2 correct, name the two boys and two girls.
Answer: Peter, Edmund, Lucy, Susan
b. For 5 points, name the lion.
Answer: Aslan
10. Identify the scientist (20 - 15 - 10)
a. He died of a ruptured bladder because he was too polite to leave the dinner table.
b. He was the last of the great astronomers who made observations without a telescope.
c. Ironically his protege Johannes Kepler used his data to devise his 3 Laws of Planetary Motion and refute the geocentric theory in which he believed.
Answer: Tycho Brahe
Part 3 – Sixty Seconds Round
Government Acronyms
Given the abbreviation for a past or present governmental agency, name the agency.
1. FDA
Ans: Food and Drug Administration
2. AAA
Ans: Agricultural Adjustment Agency
3. NRA
Ans: National Recovery Administration
(the National Rife Association is not a governmental agency)
4. CCC
Ans: Civilian Conservation Corps
5. ICC
Ans: Interstate Commerce Commission
6. TVA
Ans: Tennessee Valley Authority
7. SEC
Ans: Securities and Exchange Commission
8. ATF
Ans: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
9. FAA
Ans: Federal Aviation Administration
10. FDIC
Ans: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Extra
11. WPA
Ans:Works Progress Agency/Administration
12. CIA
Ans: Central Intelligence Agency
American Authors
Given a work, name the American who wrote it.
1. "The Cask of Amontillado"
Answer: Edgar Allan Poe
2. The Cycle of the Werewolf
Answer: Stephen King
3. Catch-22
Answer: Joseph Heller
4. The short story "The Lady or the Tiger?"
Answer: Frank Stockton
5. Tobacco Road
Answer: Erskine Caldwell
6. The Andromeda Strain
Answer: Michael Crichton
7. I, Robot
Answer: Isaac Asimov
8. Sister Carrie
Answer: Theodore Dreiser
9. The Devil's Dictionary
Answer: Ambrose Bierce
10. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Answer: Mark Twain or Samuel Longhorne Clemens
Extra:
11. The Octopus
Answer: Frank Norris
Crossword Clues
Name these words starting with the letter 'A,' given a description and the number of letters.
1. Mythical Shield (5)
Aegis
2. Suffering (5)
Agony
3. Battery End (5)
Anode
4. Pot Contents (4)
Ante
5. Zenith (4)
Acme
6. Omaha Invaders (6)
Allies
7. Venus' Lover (6)
Adonis
8. Actress Bancroft (6)
Anne
9. Heavenly Glow (4)
Aura
10. I preceders (7)
Aitches
Extra:
11. International League, eg. (3)
AAA
12. Frodo's Birthday (8,7)
Autumnal Equinox
Part 4 – Twenty Point Tossups
1 In his notes, Samuel Johnson describes this man as ä man bred in courts, exercised in business, stored with observation, confident of his knowledge, proud of his eloquence, and declining in dotage.” Ironically, despite being of the most verbose of Shakespeare’s characters, he tells Laertes that “brevity is the soul of wit.” For twenty points, name this lord chamberlain to Claudius, father of Ophelia.
Answer: Polonius
2. Napoleon fought many phyrric battles to fulfill his lifelong goal of conquering Russia. En route to the capital, he encountered ingenious general Kutuzov at a scorched earth battleground covered in smoke. This smoke proved decisive, as it caused Napoleon to fear committing more than 20,000 troops to the top of a much needed hill, which would have ensured a quick victory. For twenty points, name this site, fought seventy miles west of Moscow on September 7, 1812, which, though one of the bloodiest battles of the Napoleonic Wars, was a victory for the French Empire despite seeing 75,000 out of 250,000 combined troops perish.
Answer: Battle of Borodino
3. This man’s ex-wife, her children, and several maids were murdered when an angered former employee of his went crazy. Born in Wisconsin, this man is most famous for his Robie House and Fallingwater. For twenty points, name this cohort of Louis Sullivan, famous for being the architect of the New York Guggenheim Museum.
Answer: Frank Lloyd Wright
4. A military coup overthrew Carlos Humberto Romero in 1979 in this nation and was followed by 12 years of military violence. In March of 1999, the A.R.E.N.A. Party’s Francisco Flores was elected as President. For twenty points, name this 8,100 square mile Central American nation situated between Honduras and Guatamala, which borders the Pacific Ocean and has a capital that sounds much like the country’s name.
Answer: El Salvador
5. This man was born with the name Tommasso di Ser Giovanni di More. His earliest dated work is the San Giovenale triptych, which is not far from his birthplace in Valdarni, Italy. This artist is most famous for his Biblical painting adaptations of “The Holy Trinity,” “Tribute Money,” and “Life of St. Peter,” all of which are located in Brancacchi Chapel. For twenty points, name this painter who painted primarily between 1425-1427, whose style garnered him the nickname of ‘Sloppy Mo.’
Answer: Massaccio
6. According to his parents, this man barely escaped the fate of his seven siblings who died at birth when the umbilical cord tangled around his neck, nearly choking him. It’s a good thing he did not die or the world would be without one of the now most famous cello players. For twenty points, name this Spanish musician of “Ël Pessebre” and “La Sardan.”
Answer: Pablo Cassals
7. This economic model does not hold during years of unusually large and rapid increases in import prices or when higher production costs and consumer prices offset higher revenues. In the 1970s it was amended to create the expectations-augmented version, and was originally described in a 1958 article which examined data from the United Kingdom from 1861 to 1957. For twenty points, name this curve which plots the relationship between the rate of employment and the rate of change of money wages.