TOSSUPS – TENNESSEE TECHMOON PIE CLASSIC 2001 – UTC

1. The only extant member of the family Daubentoniidae, this nocturnal animal is brown in color and about the size of a rabbit, although an extinct relative was perhaps 5 times heavier. It is classified as an endangered species due to a projected 50%+ reduction of its population over the next ten years. Specialized features include a long, skeleton-like middle finger used to dig larvae out of dead wood and really, really large ears well suited for locating such larvae by sound. FTP name this variety of lemur with a distinctive squirrel-like tail.

Answer: aye-aye (Daubentoniamadagascariensis); prompt on lemur

2. January marries May, much to the protest of May. Luckily, January is blinded, allowing May a chance to hook up with January's squire Damyan. Pluto, King of Fairyland restores January's sight in time for him to catch his wife's infidelity, but May convinces him that they weren't fornicating, merely struggling to restore January's vision. FTP identify this Canterbury Tale, told by a traveler whose wife only brought him unhappiness.

Answer: The Merchant's Tale

3. Pope Urban III died within ten days of hearing the bad news. Support from the Italians disappeared when King William died before the arrival of two of the supporting kings. Frederick Barbarossa was the first to march but drowned in the River Saleph, but Philip Augustus managed to make the eastern Mediterranean shore and besiege Acre. FTP during which crusade did Richard the Lionheart do battle with Saladin for control of Jerusalem?

Answer: Third Crusade (accept Kings' Crusade; prompt on Crusades)

4. He has rapped with Master P about his Fiat automobile, and sold paper shredders on the Home Shopping Network. Rambling across the country with a humility that would make Charles Kuralt blush, he has reported on everything from professional wrestling to UFO's, all the while, making fun of us Americans. FTP identify this roving reporter for BBC2, whose Weird Weekends are rebroadcast on the Bravo network.

Answer: Louis Theroux

5. Though it was formally organized in this dispensation at the home of Peter Whitmer on April 6, 1830, it can trace its roots back 10 years to a boy kneeling in prayer in a grove of woods near Manchester, New York. During that 10-year interval, the priesthood was restored and the Book of Mormon was translated. FTP name the Salt Lake City-based church currently led by 90-yearold President Gordon B. Hinckley.

Answer: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (accept LDS, Latter-day Saints, or Mormons)

6. Pencil and paper may be required. FTP in simplest terms, what is the value of log base 8 of 128?

Answer: 7/3 or seven-thirds or 2 and a third

7. Hurdler Edwin Moses received his degree in this field from the University of Dayton. Coach Tom Landry received his degree in it from the University of Houston. Astronaut Homer Hickam received his degree in it from Virginia Tech. It's not too surprising that Lee Iacocca received a degree in this field from Lehigh. FTP identify this branch of engineering which involves such topics as work methods, human factors, and statistical quality control.

Answer: industrial engineering

8. In order, they are O, B, A, F, G, K, and M, from hottest to coldest. They occupy a diagonal strip running from bottom right to top left in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. They are essentially chemically homogeneous, and are steadily fusing hydrogen into helium in their cores. FTP, most of the stars we can easily observe are currently in what stable stage of evolution?

main sequence stars

9. As a teen-ager, he worked as an apprentice on the anti-slavery newspaper "The Northern Indianan" which may have affected his decision to join the Union cause. His experience in the war would mark him for life, as seen especially in his first collection, originally published as Tales of Soldiers and Civilians but later retitled In the Midst of Life – and in the biting cynicism and bitter naturalism prevalen in all his writing. "The Cynic's Word Book" was to be the name of his most famous work until his Collected Works was published and the name changed to "The Devil's Dictionary". FTP name the author referred to by his enemies as "Almighty God," a play on his first two initials.

Answer: Ambrose G. Bierce

10.Henry T. Rainey was the Speaker of the House during it. It produced the Economy Act, which reduced the government salaries by 15%, the Glass-Steagall Act, which created the FDIC; the abandonment of the gold standard, and the authorization of the Tennessee Valley Authority. FTP give either the formal or informal name for the unprecedented special session of Congress from March 9- June 16, 1933, which also included the creation of the National Recovery Administration, the Civilian Conservation Corps and other cornerstones of FDR's New Deal?

Answer: Hundred Days or EmergencyCongress

(prompt on early buzz of New Deal , FDR, or 73rd Congress)

11. The most common example of this type of mixture is a solution of 4.43% water and 95.57% ethyl alcohol. Constituents of such mixtures cannot be separated by ordinary distillation, but addition of another chemical may make this possible, as in the addition of benzene to the above alcohol/water solution. FTP, name this type of solution that contains the same ratio of chemical constituents after it is distilled.

Answer: azeotropic mixture

12. Born in 1805 near Louisville, Kentucky, he graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1825 and became second lieutenant in the U.S. Army (artillery). After his most famous action, he was promoted to Brigadier General and sent to organize Union sympathizers in his home state. FTP, name this man whose most famous battle occurred while he was still a major defending Ft. Sumter in 1861.

Answer: Robert Anderson

13. A chain of nine low-lying coral islands, it extends northeast to southwest for about 400 miles but has a population of only slightly more than 10,000. Used as a base by US forces in World War II, when it was called the Ellice Islands, its Polynesian population voted in 1974 to separate from the Micronesian-controlled Gilbert Islands. Its most recent claim to fame has come from the $50 million leasing of its internet domain, .tv. FTP, name this country in the South Pacific that has its capital at Funafuti.

Answer: Tuvalu

14. The author drafted this work in 1917 while healing at Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh. He finished it a year later, shortly before his death. It takes place during WWI. The speaker observes through his gasmask as a soldier succumbs to poison gas, an image which punctuates the speaker's dreams. FTP identify this poem, whose title, a quote from Horace, is loosely translated "It is sweet to die for one's country."

Answer: Dulce Et Decorum Est

15. Do you consider yourself an introvert or an extrovert? Carl Jung believed that although people had different backgrounds, there were only a handful of different archetypes driving how a person acted. The difference lay in one's preference for one archetype over another. In 1950, a mother and daughter took Jung's notes on the subject and devised a tool for identifying sixteen different archetypes. Since then, their test has been administered to college students and business managers the world over. FTP, identify this test, known

by its acronym MBTI, which identifies archetypes with a series of letters, such as ISTJ or ENFP.

Answer: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Prompt if MBTI is given on early ring-in)

16.QUOTE: "Let martial note in triumph float, And liberty extend its mighty hand. A flag appears 'mid thunderous cheers, The banner of the Western land." Though the words of the song are rarely heard, these lines come from a song written on Christmas Day 1896. Its writer was the leader of a Marine band that became known as the President's Own. FTP what national march song with a distinctive piccolo line was written by John Philip Sousa?

Answer: The Stars And Stripes Forever

17. An early breakthrough in this theory was made in this theory in the early 1940's when Willis Lamb and Robert Retherford showed that the energy state of the hydrogen atom had two values. This enabled physicists such as Robert Oppenheimer and Hans Bethe to remove troubling infinite terms from the equations. FTP, name this physical theory finalized by Richard Feynman, Julian Schwinger, and Sin'itiro Tomonaga that describes how electrically charged particles and electromagnetic fields interact.

Answer: Quantum Electrodynamics or QED

18. Led by Colonial Dragutin Dimitrijevic, also known as Apis, this organization also called “Union or Death” was formed in 1911. Organized into three-to-five-member cells at the grassroots level, their goal was the creation of a Greater Serbia. They are best known for the actions that resulted from recruiting three young men trained in bomb-throwing and marksmanship in 1914. FTP, identify this terrorist organization held responsible for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip, the immediate cause of World War One.

Answer: BlackHand

19. Born in the Ukraine Countryside on March 31, 1809, he was given his parent's surname of Ianovskii, but was later changed to claim a more noble Cossack ancestry. After an unsuccessful attempt to publish a poem written in high school, he then turned to writing Ukrainian folklore, which was published in two volumes titled Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka. FTP name the author known for his aggressive realism and biting satire in works such as Mirigorod and Arabesques and best known for Dead Souls.

Answer: Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol

20.Prior to 1907, it was known as Grant University, and it remained a private Methodist-sponsored institution until 1969. Currently a member of the Southern Conference, its more notable athletes have included longtime NBA player Gerald Wilkins and flamboyant 49ers wideout Terrell Owens. After considerable debate over its former native American mascot, in 1997 it adopted a new mascot, a mockingbird in overalls named Scrappy. FTP name this center of higher learning, the host of the annual Moon Pie Classic.

Answer: University of Tennessee-Chattanooga or UTC

EDITOR’S NOTE: I swear I didn’t write this one. Edit a bit, yes, but write, no.

21.In 1848, Sir Henry Lumsden decided that his red felt uniform was too warm for Indian weather, so he dyed a pair of white cotton pajamas using a plant extract called mazari. It worked so well that British colonial troops in India wore these uniquely colored uniforms that blended well with the Indian terrain. FTP, identify this material, introduced into civilian wear by Levi’s in 1906 under the Sunset label, whose name is the Hindi word for “dust-colored,” and is commonly used to make pants.

Answer: khaki

22. Born in Homer, Ohio, her weekly magazine advocated vegetarianism, free love, and Socialism, among other things. It also published the first English translation of Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto. Identify this author and editor, who ran for President in 1872, becoming the first woman to do so.

Answer: Victoria Woodhull

23. In 1995, she won the Athlete of the Year Award in Sweden, the country's most prestigious award in sports. She has also won the Rolex Rookie of the Year award in 1994. She also had more tournament victories than any other LPGA tour player in the 1990s. FTP name the three-time Rolex Player of the year, who set a new 72-hole scoring record of 27-under-par to win the Standard Register PING in March of 2001.

Answer: AnnikaSorenstam (Both names are necessary -- her sister, Charlotta, is also on the tour.)

24. His dark, satirical plays rivaled contemporary playwright G.B. Shaw's works as far as the box office was concerned; however, this author is better known for his longer works. I guess plays such as A Man of Honour and Sheppey seem to fall to the wayside when you're the author of Liza of Lambeth. FTP identify this author of The Razor's Edge and Of Human Bondage.

Answer: William Somerset Maugham

25. Actively involved in American politics, he wrote American Power and the New Mandarins, which dealt with the Vietnam War. His transformational-generative grammar theory revolutionized the field of linguistics. He felt that the study of linguistics could be seen as a branch of cognitive psychology. FTP, identify this Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics at MIT, author of Language and Mind, Aspects of Theory of Syntax and Syntactic Structures.

Answer: Avram Noam Chomsky

BONI – TENNESSEE TECHMOON PIE CLASSIC 2001 – UTC

1. Given a clue, identify the obscure Shakespearean character.

A. In the odd induction to The Taming of the Shrew, he was a drunk tinker, abducted and made to believe he was actually a lord.

Answer: Christopher Sly

B. Quince casts this Athenian as a wall in a performance of 'Pyramus and Thisbe,' the play within a play in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Answer: Tom Snout

C. Name any one of two tribunes that appear at the beginning of Julius Caesar who criticize the people of Rome for forgetting Pompey. Casca tells us they were "silenced" for defacing images of Caesar.

Answer: Flavius or Marullus

2. FTPE, identify the following English battles from a description.

A. It was fought on June 24, 1314 between the armies of Robert Bruce and King Edward II of England.

Answer: Battle of Bannockburn

B. On April 16, 1746, Scottish forces under Charles Edward Stuart had attempted to surprise the British troops by night. However, this attempt failed, and the next morning they were attacked by the British army under George II's son William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland.

Answer: Battle of Culloden Moor

C. The first battle of the English Civil War, it was fought on Sunday, October 23, 1642, on an elevated ridge a few kilometers northwest of Banbury between the forces of Charles I and Robert Devereux, 3rd earl of Essex.

Answer: Battle of Edgehill

3. We know what the seven wonders of the ancient world are, but can you answer the following concerning people that helped make those wonders possible? You'll get ten points for each correct answer.

A. He designed and executed the construction of the Colossus of Rhodes.

Answer: Khares (Chares) of Lindos

B. He reconstructed the temple of Artemis at Ephesus. He went on to plan the port city of Alexandria.

Answer: Deinokrates (Dinocrates)

C. This Greek architect designed the Parthenon as well as the temple to Apollo at Bassai.

Answer: Iktinos

4. Identify these elements that are found in foods and serve as nutritional supplements FTSNOP:

(5) After you eat a banana you’ll actually be radioactive for a short while due to high levels of this chemical element with atomic number 19.

Answer: Potassium

(5) It is found in hemoglobin and the human body contains about 4.5 grams of it. Taking supplements of it thus helps in the blood’s oxygen transport function. 10-20 milligrams of it are recommended daily.

Answer: Iron

(10) About 70% of this element in the body combines with calcium in bone and tooth enamel and the remaining 30% combines with nitrogen to help the body metabolize fats and carbohydrates. One can find it in milk, legumes, nuts and grains and deficiency of it can cause rickets and osteoporosis.

Answer: Phosphorus

(10) This element is an active component of the glucose tolerance factor, which facilitates the action of insulin. The amount in standard multivitamins is plenty, but aggressive marketing has convinced many that extra amounts of its picolinate increases muscle mass and promotes weight loss.

Answer: Chromium

5. On a 5-10-20-30 basis, name the artists of these works that can be found at the Art Institute of Chicago.

A. Paris Street; Rainy Day

Answer: Gustave Caillebotte

B. The Bath

Answer: Mary Cassatt

C. Golden Bird

Answer: Constantin Brancusi

D. Mao Tse-Tung

Answer: Andy Warhol

6. Over the last 40 years, Bob Dylan songs have been popular covers for other well-known artists. Identify the cover artist described by each clue, 5-10-20-30:

A. Dylan was so impressed by this left-handed guitarist's version of "All Along the Watch Tower" that he started performing his arrangement of the song.

Answer: Jimi Hendrix

B. This "Man in Black" made "It Ain't Me Babe" a country crossover hit.

Answer: Johnny Cash

C. A decade before they discovered the advisability of covering Bruce Springsteen, this group of 5 earned praise from Dylan for their renderings of songs such as "With God On Our Side" and "If You Gotta Go, Go Now, " as well as the hit “Quinn the Eskimo.”

Answer: ManfredMann (it’s OK if they add the Earth Band part, although that name came later)

C. In 1972 this blind Puerto Rican guitarist, who’d scored big with a cover of “Light My Fire,” had a minor hit with a distinctly Hispanic version of Dylan’s “Lay Lady Lay.”