Western Invitational TournamentStanford Junior Varsity-B (Istari)
Questions by Stanford JV B -- Stanford Istari, edited by David Levinson
Tossups:
1. Author of the The Garden Book , this man also dedicated almost half of his life to public service. He also was an architect and designed the capital at Richmond as well as both of his two houses. For ten points name this statesmen who penned the "Virginia Resolution" against the Alien and Sedition Acts and served as the third president of the United States.
Answer: Thomas Jefferson
2. He was born the son of Arolus, King of Thessaly, and eventually became the King of Corinth. He witnissed Zeus carrying off the beautiful maidain Agenina and told her father. For ten points name this mythical king who Zeus punished by forcing him to roll a rock up a steep hill only to have it fall down again.
Answer: Sisyphus
3. This natural scientist, poet and philosopher died due to pneumonia acquired during experiments on refrigeration in which he stuffed a chicken full of snow. To his philosophical heritage belong his "Idols" of the tribe, cave, marketplace, and theatre. For ten points, name this author of the Novum Organum.
Answer: Francis Bacon
4. Born in OsnabrŸck, Germany in 1898, he served in the German army during World War I where he became horrified by the scenes of carnage he witnissed. An opponent of the Nazi party, he left Germany in 1932 and eventually entered the United States in 1939. His books include Arch of Triumph , A Time to Live and a Time to Die , and The Night in Lisbon . For ten points name this author, made famous by a novel about the expierences of Paul BŠumer, All Quiet on the Western Front .
Answer: Erich Maria Remarque
5. [dml] Interested in the spice trade, his noble Portuguese family was concerned about the Turkish monopoly on access to the east. As a good Christian, he wanted to prosletyze in Africa and find the legendary Christian ruler Prester John. To achieve these aims, for ten points, who in 1419 at the westernmost point of Europe, Sagres, Cape St. Vincent, set up a school of navigation?
Answer: Prince HenryÒThe NavigatorÓ
6. He started out as a general, but rose to the rank of emperor after killing off his predecessor. His two major economic policies, issuing a new coinage and instigating price controls were unsuccessful in stopping the economic crisis of Rome during the late third century. He did however, successfully manage to rearrange the empire under the system called the Tetrarchy. For ten points name this emperor, famous for spilting the Empire into East and West.
Answer: Diocletian
7. This 1961 novel was the first and only book written by its author. Set in a small town in Alabama during the time of segregation, its plot features the trial of a black man accused of raping a white woman. Including Boo Radley, Tom Robinson, and Atticus Finch, for ten points, name this Harper Lee novel.
Answer: To Kill a Mockingbird
8. [dml] The bodyguards of Egyptian Sultans chiefly composed of slaves, in 1250 they mutineed and founded a dynasty of their own, nominating and removing Sultans at their will. For ten points, what is this dynasty which lasted until 1517, when suppressed by Sultan Selim?
Answer:Mamelukes
9. [dml] The first American city to have atomically generated electricity in 1957, the energy of coal made it once great. It has held the nicknames "The Hearth of the Nation", "The Arsenal of the World", and "The Iron City". Centered upon The Golden Triangle, this city had been an important corporate center until the onset of the Information Age. For ten points identify this town at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers?
Answer:Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
10. Born in Neckerau, Germany in 1832, this psychologist offered in 1862 the first academic course in psychology and established the first laboratory for experimental psychology in 1879. He founded the first psychological journal, Philosophische Studien (Studies in Philosophy), in 1881. He was a huge advocate of the structrialist or content theory of psychology. For ten points name this man considered the founder of scientific psychology.
Answer: Wilhelm Max Wundt
11. Many other Demcrats from his state -- Allyson Schwartz, Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, and Mark Singel among them -- are bypassing the race against his fellow Senator in 1998 and likely waiting for the 2000 race to try unseat this conservative freshman Senator. For ten points, name Pennsylvania's junior Senator, who won a narrow victory over Harris Wofford in 1994.
Answer: Rick Santorum
12. In Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain , this member of King Arthur's court is portrayed as a glorious warrior who dies fighting Modred's forces at the battle of Richborough. He is Arthur's nephew and the brother of Modred. For ten points, name this man, who is more famous as the central character in the tale about a green knight.
Answer: Gawain
13. [dml] While Jules Violle worked out that liquid gas could be isolated from its surroundings through the use of a vacuum, the Scot who is more widely credited with the device silvered it both inside and outside so that it could prevent radiation of heat both into and out of the glass vessel. For 10 points, what is this device, named for it inventor, which is now often marketed under the brand name Thermos?
Answer:James Dewar Flask (vessel etc (prompt on early buzz of Thermos))
14. This dissident was exiled from the Soviet Union and continued his writing career as a recluse in Cavendish, Vermont for 25 years before retiring from writing in order to participate in the rebuilding of Russia. For ten points, name this author of The Red Wheel , August 1914 , Cancer Ward , and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich .
Answer: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
15. [dml] You can do it with a verb or you can do it with ciliates. With ciliates, the tow organisms will join together at the oral groove. With verbs, endings are attached to change person and tense and sometimes the root is changed. For ten points, what is this common term?
Answer:Conjugation
16. A popular theory states that it found its origin when a vocalist forgot the lyrics. Since it first became popular after 1927, many have adapted it to their own style: Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, and foremost Louis Armstrong. For ten points, what is the name of this jazz vocal style?
Answer: scat singing
17. He has taught aikido in Osaka and became the first Caucasian to successfully direct a martial arts dojo in Japan. He also claims to have worked on security details for the former Shah of Iran, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Anwar Sadat; roles that would have lent him experience directly applicable to his career in action flicks but that are likely not true. Recently, he has been in the news when he was name the reincarnated Tulku of the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. For ten points, name this producer of 1997's Fire Down Below, who also starred in Under Siege and Under Siege 2.
Answer: Steven Seagal
18. This company is sponsoring 13 simultaneous contests, all of which began on January 28, 1997. One of the easiest, known by the letters DES, was finished in 140 days by the DESCHALL (des-shal) client. One other, known popularly as RC5, is being attacked by a number of clients, the most popular of which is called Bovine. The most complicated of the contests has 2^128 keys that may have to be checked before the solution is found. For ten points, name this company, one of the best-known data encryption firms.
Answer: RSA Data Security, Inc.
19. In 1854 it was the site of the first lighthouse in California. After being abandoned from its most famous use, a group of militant Indians occupied the island in the late sixties in an unsuccessful attempt to gain title from the US government. For ten points, what is the name of this island that became part of Golden Gate National Recreation Area in 1972?
Answer: Alcatraz
20. [dml] In 1573, a year after the nova, he published his comments that, in contrast to the assertions of Aristotle, the heavens did change, in a book called The New Star. For his efforts, the King of Denmark gave him the feudal lordshop of the island of Hven, where he built a Baroque castle named Uraniborg. He showed that a 1577 comet moved in an oval path, through the planetary spheres - which therefore must not exist. For 10 points who is this astronomer who still could not accept the full heliocentric model?
Answer: Tycho Brahe
21. Born in Far Rockaway in 1918 he shared a Nobel prize in 1965 with Julian Schwinger and Tomonaga Shin'ichiro for the formulation of QED. Two years earlier he had taught a revolutionary two year course at Caltech that was published in three big, red volumes known to physicists around the world. For ten points, who was this bongo player who later served on the Challenger committee?
Answer: Richard Feynman
22. The smallest muscle in the human body is connected to the smallest bone in the human body. The bone is the stapes or stirrup of the middle ear, For ten points, what is the muscle called?
Answer: stapedius (accept stapes on a very early buzz; prompt on stirrup for stapedius )
23. Traces of two and an entire one remain. One was made by Phidias. The Wall of Babylon and the Palace of King Cyrus of Persia are sometimes included instead of one or two others.For ten points, what are these human achievements connected with the name of Antipater of Sidon?
Answer: the Seven Wonders of the World (accept Seven Wonders of the Ancient World )
24. He spent the first part of his life accumulating a great sum of money so that he would have enough capital to accomplish his lifelong goal. Name this 19th century German adventurer who eventually did achieve this goal, locating the ruins of the ancient city of Troy.
Answer: Heinrich Schliemann
25. Assault chariot with scythes, contact lens, canal locks, revolving stage, parachute, helicopter, For ten points which famous Renaissance man worked on all of these?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci
26. Although Mt. Everest is the tallest mountain in the world, its peak is not the farthest point on earth's surface from the earth's core. This distinction belongs to the peak of Chimborazo, which at 20,561 feet is the tallest mountain in what South American country?
Answer: Ecuador
27. Although Ferdinand Magellan is commonly known as the first man to circumnavigate the globe, he never actually made it back to Portugal, his original point of departure, having been killed in the Phillipines during his voyage. Name the man who completed Magellan's voyage in 1521, returning to Portugal with a handful of Magellan's original crew.
Answer: Juan del Cano
28. "If we shadows have offended, think but this and all is mended, that you have but slumbered here, while these visions did appear" are, For ten points, words spoken by Puck at the end of what famous Shakespeare play?
Answer: A Midsummer Night's Dream
29. Originally known as Long Distance Digital Services, this company faltered before its current CEO took over in 1985. An acquisitions-based growth model succeeded wildly, as the company bought out a few dozen others in its field before purchasing UUNet in 1996. For ten points, name this company, which will control 60% of all U.S. lines to the Internet if its $30 billion offer for MCI is approved.
Answer: WorldCom
30. Discovered in September 1985 by a team of chemists at Rice University, this molecule was named after the architect whose geodesic domes resemble the molecule's shape. Name this form of carbon, for whose discovery the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded in 1996.
Answer: Buckminsterfullerene
31. He has been played by eight actors on TV and one in two movies. He is currently over 1000 years old and has had more than twenty traveling companions. For ten points name this fictional character who travels through time and space in a beat-up police box called the TARDIS.
Answer: Doctor Who
BONI:
1. Name the philosopher from the God-related quote, for ten points each.
A. "I have no need of this hypothesis."
Answer: Pierre Laplace
B. "If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him."
Answer: Voltaire (accept: Francois Marie Arouet )
C. "God is subtle but he is not malicious."
Answer: Albert Einstein
2. Name these former communist countries by their first official heads of state after the 1989 revolutions for fifteen points each. If you need the name of the man each replaced, you'll get five points.
A. (15) Ion Iliescu
(5) Nicolae Ceaucescu.
Answer: Romania
B. (15) Petar Mladenov
(5) Todor Zhivkov
Answer: Bulgaria
3. [dml] BONUS Relay. In this Science Relay question each team member must answer at least one part without any help from the teammates (one per person on a four member team). To give you some help, the categories are: physics, chemistry, biology, geology . Captain please designate which team member will answer which part. Five points per part plus a ten point bonus if all four are correct.
A. Physics: Al Gore and Bill Clinton went ice skating on a perfectly frictionless rink. Gore, hoping to assume the Presidency, pushes Clinton, at 100 kilograms from a standstill to 8 meters per second in 4 seconds. How much force was applied?
Answer:200 Newtons (F=ma = (100 kg) * (8 m/s)/(4 secs) = 200 Newtons (kg m/s^2 )
B. Chemistry: Clinton, who did not die, seeks revenge by blowing up Gore. This requires he understand a bit of chemistry. The formula calls for Methane. What is the chemical formula for methane?
Answer:CH4 (one part carbon, 4 part hydrogen)
C. Biology: Gore says, enough already, I need to give Clinton a disease. Hypoglycemia seemed like a good bet. Too much of what substance causes hypoglycemia?
Answer:insulin
D. Geology. Okay, Clinton was finally offed, but Gore had to get rid of the evidence and for good, he didnÕt want Oliver Stone shooting the movie ÒWJCÓ. He decided to bury him deep, very deep, below the Crust in the Mantle. What boundary must he cross to get from the Crust to the Mantle
Answer:the Moho (the Mohorovic Discontinuity)
4. Identify this figure 30-20-10
A. (30) In the 1970's she became a symbol for American Jewish feminism and a feminist magazine which bears her name began publishing in 1976.
B. (20) She originally was thought to be succubus, a female incubus who was the enemy of newborn children. She later appeared in the Alphabet of Ben Sira as an assertive woman who quarreled with Adam so much that she fled from him.
C. (10) Name this mythical woman, thought to be Adam's first wife.
Answer: Lilith
5. Five amendments to the U.S. Constitution have been passed, in whole or in part, with the express intention of overriding decisions made by the U.S. Supreme Court. For five points each, and a bonus five for answering all correctly, given the case, give the number of the amendment that was passed as a result.
A. Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.Answer: 16th
B. Chisholm v. GeorgiaAnswer: 11th
C. Breedlove v. SuttlesAnswer: 24th
D. Dred Scott v. SandfordAnswer: 14th
E. Oregon v. MitchellAnswer: 26th
6. Identify these islands using as clues the native birds which were hunted to extinction on them for ten points each.
A. The world's fourth largest island, former habitat of the aepyornis, or elephant bird.
Answer: Madagascar
B. The Indian Ocean island where Dutch colonists drove the dodo bird to extinction.
Answer: Mauritius
C. The island country -- not just one island -- where all species of moas were killed by the Polynesian people who colonized it.
Answer: New Zealand
7. [dml] BONUS Identify these influential monks for ten points each:
A. He founded Carthusian monestary at Chartreuse, wore hair shirts and remained silent
Answer:Bruno
B. He wrote City of God and Confessions
Answer:Augustine of Hippo
C. He wrote the Consolation of Philosophy
Answer:Boethius
8. A Bonus on Black Holes. For ten points each:
A. Who first coined the term "black hole"?
Answer: John Archibald Wheeler
B. What binary-star X-ray source was the first to be tentatively identified as a black hole, in 1972?
Answer: Cygnus X-1 (prompt on Cygnus or X-1 or on permutations which include "swan" for "cygnus")
C. The event horizon is approximately sphere shaped; what is the name given to its radius?
Answer: Schwarzschild radius (Moderator: hit any players that start whining about rotation and quantum effects affecting the spherical shape, etc.)
9. The 1956 World Series featured the best known perfect game in baseball history. How much do you know about it? For ten points each, answer the following questions relating that game.
A. This Yankees pitcher didn't make a mistake en route to what was by far the best game of his life.