How Well Do You Know Your Race Riots

BONUSES

1) How well do you know your race riots? Name the following events for 10 points each:

This African American village in Florida was burned to the ground in 1923 by a White mob. The incident, and the existence of the town itself, subsequently disappeared from history books for 70 years.

Rosewood

Five white police officers were acquitted of the beating death of a Black motorist, sparking the first major race riot of the post civil rights period, in this predominantly Black neighbourhood of Miami, in 1980.

LibertyCity

In June of 1943, hundreds of American servicemen poured into East Los Angeles and indiscriminately beat up Mexican Americans and smashed their property, in this event named for a style of men’s clothing.

Zoot Suit Riot

2) We all know…

…that Alaska and Hawaii were the last two states admitted to the USA; what was the third last?

Arizona

…that John Kennedy was the first Catholic President; what New Yorker was the first Catholic major-party nominee, losing to Herbert Hoover in 1928? (Hint: it can’t hurt to guess)

Al Smith

…that the Gregorian calendar was named after Pope Gregory; Gregory the which?

XIII

3) African languages:

What Afro-Asiatic language has more speakers than any other on the continent?

Arabic

What language, a lingua franca used throughout eastern and southern Africa, was adopted as a symbol of Black nationalism in the US?

Swahili

What Bantu language, mutually intelligible with Zulu, is the first language of Nelson Mandela?

Xhosa

4) Number Two (note points):

What title, after the Dalai Lama, is traditionally the second most influential in Tibetan Buddhism? (15)

Panchen Lama

In one of the century’s most successful ad campaigns, what company proudly claimed “We’re number two, so we try harder”? (10)

Avis Rent-a-Car

Who has the second-most total hits in Major League Baseball? (5)

Ty Cobb

5) Buildings: Identify these structures, which no longer stand:

The luxury hotel which was demolished to make room for the EmpireStateBuilding?

The Waldorf-Astoria

For five points each, the futuristic structures, one a sphere and the other an elongated pyramid, which are the enduring symbols of the 1939 New York World’s Fair

Trilon and Perisphere

For five points, the structure in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn which was demolished in 1960, three years after the departure, for Los Angeles, of its most famous tenants.

Ebbets Field

6) Samples. Given these hits of the 80s, name for five points each the artist and the 70s hit whose sample they used.

En Vogue, “You’re Never Gonna Get It”

James Brown, The Payback

MC Hammer, “Can’t Touch This”

Rick James,Superfreak

Tupac Shakur, “Gangsta’s Paradise”

Stevie Wonder, Pastime Paradise

7) Who’s who? In the Iliad, who killed each of the following?

Patroclus

Hector

Hector

Achilles

Achilles

Paris

8) Media conglomerates: given the media outlets, name the giant that controls them all. Information was current as of early 2001.

MTV, Simon and Schuster, Famous Players, CBS

Viacom

Random House, Knopf, Doubleday, RCA records

Bertelsman

Harper Collins, 20th Century Fox, the New York Post

News Corp (accept Rupert Murdoch)

9) What name is shared by the following pairs?

A notorious SS commander tried in the 1980s, and a popular and enduring toy?

Barbie

A French modernist painter and a late archbishop of Montreal.

Leger

A lesser-known Russian Constructivist painter and a well-known Russian hockey player for both the Central Red Army Wings.

Larionov

10) Different gases glow different colours when electrically charged. For five points each, identify the colour that each of the following gases glows when charged.
Neon: red
Mercury: blue or purple
Helium: yellow
Carbon dioxide: white

11) Musicals and their source material:

Name the Broadway musical based on Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker.

Hello, Dolly!

Name the earlier musical, based on themes composed by Alexander Borodin, on which the all-African-American Timbuktu! was based.

Kismet

Name the musical film, the source of the song “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?”, based on the non-musical film The Philadelphia Story.

High Society

12) What note would you be hearing…

…if a viola [NB: viola] player were reading the note on the first ledger line above the staff in the key of C major?

B

…if you had just heard the first note of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony?

G

…if a trumpet player were reading the note on the top line of the staff, with no sharps or flats in the key signature?

E-flat (do not accept F)

13) FTP each, or five if you need the poem’s title, identify the authors of the following quotes from Canadian poetry:
And that was the first I knew that a goat could slip
Earl Birney (“David'”)
This is the country of our defeat
Al Purdy(“The Country North of Belleville”)
He dug the soil in rows / imposed himself with shovels.
Margaret Atwood (“Progressive Insanities of a Pioneer”)

14) Identify the following UNIX (YOO-nix) commands:

This command creates a file if it does not exist, or updates the
timestamp on the file with the current date and time if it does exist.
TOUCH
This command retrieves information about a user, and may also be used
to display his .plan file.
FINGER
This command is used to search files or a stream for a regular
expression.
GREP (also accept variations, like agrep, jgrep, zgrep, etc.) 13) Literary awards:

15) On a fifteen or five point basis name the Canadian author given the work.

15: The Bay of Love and Sorrows

5: Mercy Among the Children

David Adams Richards

15: Running in the Family

5: In the Skin of a Lion

Michael Ondaatje

16) How well do you remember the top news stories of Sept 10, 2001?

Children in this city were subjected to physical and verbal abuse for attempting the simple act of walking to school.

Belfast

Pundits, especially in the US and one or two of its allies, were hotly debating the merits of this recently concluded international conference.

World Conference Against Racism or Durban Conference

In the top U.S. domestic story, four major events of this type were occurring in Montana.

Forest fires

17) Literary awards:

Canadians often forget that Michael Ondaatje didn’t win the Booker Prize outright for The English Patient. Name either the author or the book he shared it with.

Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger

Name the insanely rich Canadian poetry prize awarded for the first time in 2001.

Griffin Prize

What is considered France’s highest literary award despite its monetary value of only 50 Francs?

The Prix Goncourt

18) 30-20-10: Identify the musical instrument.
(30) It was played (or it is played) by James Cotton, Charlie McCoy, and
Charlie Musselwhite.
(20) It was first mass-produced by Matthias Hohner.
(10) It has ten holes, each of which can be either blown or drawn.
diatonic Harmonica

19) Ah the 1980s. FTP each name the director given the film.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Amy Heckerling

Look Who’s Talking

Amy Heckerling

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

John Hughes

20) War, (HUH!) what is it good for? (reader should get a beer at the bar if he actually sings the first line of this bonus) Actually 10 points if you can name the war from the event, absolutely nothing if you can’t.

The Rough Riders take Kettle Hill.

The Spanish-American War

An Anglo-Dutch fleet seize Gibraltar from the Spanish in only two days.

War of Spanish Succession (or War of the Spanish Succession)

The Japanese lay siege to Port Arthur

Russo-Japanese War

21) Everybody knows the leaders of the remaining countries in the axis of evil… but what about the axis of not so evil? FTP given the evil mastermind name their country.

Islam Karimov

Uzbekistan

Colonel Muammar Qaddafi

Libya

Alexander Lukashenko

Belarus

22) With Vancouver getting the Olympics maybe the city will finally learn how to have some fun. Until then tell me about these other Olympic cities FTP each, if I give you events and the year.

Al Oerter of the USA won a gold medal in discus despite having a cervical disc injury. Larysa Latynina of the Ukraine brought her career medal total to an incredible 18, all this in 1964.

Tokyo

Eat this dream team. The US basketball team at this Olympic won each game by a minimum of 30 points. For the first time the athletes march into the stadium at the closing ceremony together instead of by nation, all this in 1956.

Melbourne

14 year old Kusuo Kitamura of Japan won the 1500m. British Fencer Judy Guinness gives up her gold medal to Ellen Preiss of Austria after pointing out to judges that they had missed two touches by her opponent, all this in 1932.

Los Angeles

23) Who doesn’t like the Beatles? Given a song name the album on a fifteen-five basis.

Yer Blues

Good Night

The White Album

Fixing a hole

When I’m 64

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

24) Archaic disease names. What is the modern name for:

consumption

Tuberculosis

French pox, Spanish disease, or bad blood

Syphilis

quinsy

tonsillitis