Questions by Stanford Senior Varsity B, edited by Bryce Avery, David Levinson
Tossups:
1. Located on the mouth of the Ciliwung River, it was known as Batavia in colonial days. Today, it contains the Istiqlal (ISS-tick-lawl) Mosque and the Old Portuguese Church. For 10 points, identify this Javanese city and capital of present-day Indonesia.
Answer: Jakarta
2. [ba] An Internet project at Columbia University's library is named for this co-worker of Turkey, Nippers and Ginger Nut. He preferred not to work, take orders, or run errands and finally died as quietly as he had lived. For 10 points, name this fictional scrivener created in 1853 by Herman Melville.
Answer: Bartleby
3. He once traveled from Montreal to Lake Athabasca and made another trek across the Rocky Mountains to what is now British Columbia. In 1789, he traveled from the Great Slave Lake to the Arctic Ocean along the river that now bears his name. For 10 points, name this Scottish explorer of Canada.
Answer: Sir Alexander Mackenzie
4. Thomas invented the first commercially successful electric motor. Charles Benedict studied eugenics. John founded New Haven, Connecticut. For 10 points, give their common nine-letter last name that also means "an 18th-century compact desk with a sloping top" and "the largest of Iowa's Quad Cities."
Answer:Davenport
5. It is less well-known than its igneous sibling granite and its structural siblings basalt and dolomite. Its crystals are too small to see with the naked eye. For 10 points, name this kind of rock, which is also a relatively famous Nevada mining town.
Answer:Rhyolite
6. Its 1981 sequel "Shock Treatment" portrayed its characters Brad and Janet as captives on a game show. For 10 points, name this 1975 film that contains the song "Time Warp" and has since become a cult classic.
Answer: The Rocky Horror Picture Show
7. [ba] His death scene at the beginning of First Kings comes after his life spanned much of the two Biblical books before it. For 10 points, name this ruler of Israel who eluded capture by Saul in First Samuel and married Bathsheba in Second Samuel.
Answer: David
8. [ba] Its exterior is Colorado marble, its statue is Georgia marble, and the statue's pedestal is Tennessee marble. This makes it a fitting remembrance of its subject, who kept all the states together in the Union. For 10 points, name this landmark at one end of Washington, DC 's Mall.
Answer: Lincoln Memorial (both words required)
9. He was one of the first to develop the possibility of artificial radioactivity and also developed the first controlled nuclear reaction. For 10 points, name this scientist who defected to the United States from Italy in 1938, the same year that he won the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Answer: Enrico Fermi
10. His essay "De Agri Cultura" is the oldest known surviving Latin prose. In 184 BC, he served as censor and campaigned against extravagance and luxury in Roman society. For 10 points, name this man who later served as ambassador to Carthage and came to the conclusion that "Carthage must be destroyed."
Answer:Cato The Elder (must have both, prompt on Cato)
11. [dml] It combines Leon ScottÕs phonautograph, Micheal FaradayÕs spinning magnet inside a horseshoe coiled wire, Oersted and SturegeonÕs electromagnet and HelmholtzÕs electrical tuning fork. Usually credited to a Massachusetts based Scotsman researching devices for the deaf, a simultaneous patent was filed by Elisha Gray. For 10 points what is this device patented by Alexander Graham Bell?
Answer:Telephone
12. [dml] It is made from two chemical compounds: hexamethylenediamine and adiptic acid, which are combined in an autoclave through polymerization. Originally called "66", referring to the number of carbon atoms which the polymer contained, Dr. Wallace Carrothers and his staff at DuPont renamed this wonder fiber. For ten points identify this product first released in 1938?
Answer:Nylon
13. [dml] Through his work on the nervous simulation of the gastric system, he discovered a behavior which he extended into such areas as conflict and sleep theories. For ten points who is this Russian psychologist and discoverer of the Conditioned Reflex?
Answer:Ivan P. Pavlov
14. If you subscribe to it as a quizbowl player, then the only questions guaranteed to be correct in this tournament are the ones you wrote yourself. For 10 points, name this philosophy relying heavily on observation and experience whose foremost proponent was Auguste Comte.
Answer: Positivism(Accept: Logical Positivism)
15. June 7, 1981 is its "day that will live in infamy", the day that Menachem Begin ordered Israeli F-16's to journey a thousand miles and bomb its clandestine nuclear reactor plant. For 10 points, name this Middle East nation still ruled after all these years by Saddam Hussein.
Answer:Iraq
16. His work "Every Man Out of His Humor" was the longest play ever written for the Elizabethan public theater but had nowhere near the success of its prequel "Every Man in His Humor." For 10 points, name this British playwright whose better-known works include "Bartholomew's Fair" and "Volpone."
Answer: Ben Jonson
17. According to him, the 1988 man of the year needs more Scotch Tape. This artist has displayed his work in cities such as Minneapolis,Bern, Chicago, and Spoleto. A work in Rifle Gap, Colorado, entitled"Valley Curtain" is characteristic of his monumental style. For 10 points, namethis artist, whose "wrapped planet" was the cover to Time Magazine's 1988Man of the Year issue.
Answer:Christo Javacheff (either name is acceptable)
18. [dml] Fencing permitted controlled experimentation to improve crop yields, while keeping livestock and grazing land in check. Beginning in Britain in the 14th century, it resulted in revolts in 1536, 1569, and 1607. For 10 points, what is this process which resulted in over 21 million acres of England being converted from common to private land?
Answer:Enclosure
19. [ba] In 1939, he suggested to Hitler that Germany should invade his homeland, and he later served in its German-led government. For 10 points, name this Norwegian executed in 1945 whose name is now synonymous with "traitor."
Answer: Vidkun Quisling
20. It was named by Georg Ernst Stahl from the Greek for "burned." Scientists once believed it to be the part of most combustible substances that could be released by burning. For 10 points, name this hypothetical substance whose existence was finally disproved in the 1780's by Antoine Lavoisier.
Answer: Phlogiston (fla-JIS-tun)
21. He wrote a 1901 piano sonata and the 1907 opera "Ariane and Barbe-Bleue." But he is most famous today for his work based on Goethe's "Zauberlehrling" (TSAU-ber-lair-ling). For 10 points, name this French composer of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice".
Answer: Paul (-Abraham) Dukas
22. He published zoology papers at age 10 but later switched to psychology, where he studied at age 24 under Carl Jung. For 10 points, name this Swiss author of "The Origins of Intelligence in Children."
Answer: Jean Piaget
23. [ba] During 1997, just a few miles from the site of his college athletic achievements, he entered a Cincinnati hospital and donated a kidney to his daughter. For 10 points, name this Bearcat and NBA Hall of Famer nicknamed "The Big O."
Answer: Oscar Robertson
Bonuses:
1. If music be the food of love, play on! For 10 points each, name the composers of these works based on Shakespeare plays:
1. (10) The opera "Otello"Answer: Giuseppe Verdi
2. (10) The ballet "Romeo and Juliet"Answer: Sergei Prokofiev
3. (10) The opera "Romeo and Juliet"Answer: Charles Gounod (goo-NO)
2. There's more to Greek philosophy than Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. For 10 points each, name these other Greek philosophies:
1. (10) This school of thought, founded by Zeno of Citium, argued that the only real good for man is the possession of virtue: everything else is irrelevant.
Answer: Stoicism (accept forms of "Stoic")
2. (10) This school, considered the opposite of stoicism, held that pleasure was the essence of a happy life.
Answer: Epicureanism
3. (10) This school was founded by Pyrrhon of Elis, who believed that no one can know anything for sure, not even whether the things he perceives with his senses are actually real.
Answer: Skepticism
3. Name the chemical compound, 30-20-10.
1. (30) In the 19th century, a vision of the serpent Ouroboros (OAR-a-boar-us) led Friedrich von Stradonitz (stra-DO-nitz) to conjecture its chemical structure.
2. (20) Discovered in 1825 by Michael Faraday, it is the simplest aromatic hydrocarbon.
3. (10) Its chemical formula is C6H6.
Answer: Benzene
4. The Norman hold on the throne of England once appeared secure -- until King Henry's only son drowned in the English Channel. Henry forced his nobles to uphold his daughter's right to rule, but many switched allegiance to her cousin as soon as Henry died. For 10 points each:
1. (10) Name Henry's daughter, who never gained the throne despite years of trying,
Answer:Mathilda(Accept: Maud)
2. (10) Name Mathilda's cousin who did take the throne and ruled England until 1154.
Answer: Stephen of Blois
3. (10) Name Mathilda's son, who reunited the country when he assumed the throne after Stephen's death.
Answer: Henry II
5. Pencils and paper ready for this question on electrical components!
1. (10) For 10 points, what is the total capacitance of three parallel capacitors with values 6, 8 and 12 microfarads?
Answer: 26 Microfarads= (6 + 8 + 12)
2. (20) Now for 20 points, to the nearest 0.1 ohm, what is the total resistance of three parallel resistors with values 6, 8 and 12 ohms? You have 20 seconds.
Answer: 2.7 Ohms(the reciprocal of the sum [1/6 + 1/8 + 1/12])
6. YouÕve had Shakespeare in music, now it's time for the ever popular Shakespeare in literature question. For better or worse, the author saw Twelfth Night not too long ago. For ten points each, given a quote by a character, name the character. You'll get five points if you need the character's gender at that time in the play.
a) (10)"We men may say more, swear more, but indeed/ Our shows are more than will; for still we prove/ Much in our vows, but little in our love"
(5)Male
Answer:Viola
b) (10) "Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman. One draft above heat makes him a fool, the second mads him, and the third drowns him."
(5) Male
Answer:Feste (the clown)
c) (10) "Do I stand there? I never had a brother;/ Nor can there be that deity in my nature/ Of here and everywhere."
(5) Male
Answer:Sebastian
7. For 10 points each, name the economists most responsible for these theories:
1. (10) Tax rates can get so high that raising them further will actually reduce revenue.
Answer: Arthur Betz Laffer
2. (10) Throughout history, capitalism has moved in long waves - two or three decades of prosperity, followed by two or three decades of stagnation.
Answer: Nikolay Dmitriyevich Kondratiev
3. (10) Government intervention is necessary to stimulate the economy during periods of recession.
Answer: John Maynard Keynes
8. For 10 points each, which consonant sound in the alphabet can be described by each of these linguistic terms?
1. (10) Unvoiced, bi-labialAnswer: P
2. (10) Voiced, labio-dentalAnswer:V
3. (10) Unvoiced, alveolar (al-VEE-a-lur), fricativeAnswer:S
9. For 10 points each, give the artistic style that these sets of people have in common. As an extra hint, none of them is "expressionism."
1. (10) Matisse, Vlamink, and Derain.Answer:Fauvism
2. (10) Mir, Ernst, Breton and Dali.Answer:Surrealism
3. (10) Rodchenko, Malevich, and Gabo.Answer:Constructivism (Do NOT accept: SUPREMATISM)
10. [dml] BONUS: Idenify the following computer languages from a description on a 10-5 basis:
1. 10. A book about this terse, elegant, and deceptively simple language is "Enough Rope to Shoot Yourself in the Foot". It was developed by Daniel Ritchie at Bell Labs
5. It acquired its name because it was a successor to the language "B".
Answer:C
2. 10. A Swede named Anders Hejlsberg designed the "Turbo" programming environment for this highly structured language. UCSDÕs version for the Apple II was a major environment for that platform.
5. Invented by Nicholas Wirth, it is named for a French philosopher.
Answer:Pascal
3. 10. An extension of a popular programming language, it was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup of Bell Labs in the early 1980's. It is object oriented, the objects being presumably reusable.
5. It is this object oriented predecessor to Java
Answer:C++ (C plus plus)
11. For 10 points each, answer these questions about actor Chevy Chase:
1. (10) Name the rock group whose founders played in Bard College's "The Bad Rock Band" that featured Chase on drums.
Answer: Steely Dan
2. (10) Which former President did Chase impersonate on "Saturday Night Live?"
Answer: Gerald Ford
3. (10) Name Chase's father character in the many "National Lampoon's Vacation" movies.
Answer: Clark Griswold
12. [ba] E.L. Konigsberg won the 1997 Newbery award for children's literature. For 15 points each:
1. (15) Give the very long title of her 1968 Newbery winner about two children who run away to an art museum.
Answer: "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler "
2. (15) Give the four-word title of her 1997 winner about a group of sixth-grade Academic Bowl players.
Answer: "The View From Saturday"
13. Name the place, 30-20-10.
1. (30) It is on the northwestern end of the Ralik archipelago in the Pacific Ocean.
2. (20) Currently a part of the Marshall Islands, it was captured by U.S. forces from the Japanese in February 1944 and made into a naval base.
3. (10) Along with the Bikini atoll, it was a frequent site of U.S. nuclear weapons tests.
Answer:Eniwetok
14. Do you plan on arguing a case all the way to the Supreme Court? For 10 points each, answer these questions about the Court
1. (10) Name the type of Supreme Court writ petitioned by the losing side in an appellate case by which the court would review the decision.
Answer: Writ of Certiorari(Accept: Cert.)
2. (10) Give the Latin term meaning "friend of the court" that designates any person or group that files a brief with the Court even though they are not party to the case.
Answer: Amicus Curiae
3. (10) Many in Congress and elsewhere have argued that in orderto have meaningful campaign finance reform, the Supreme Court must overturn this 1976 case,which accepted as constitutional some types of campaign contributions, butsaid that Congress could not limit candidates' expenditures. FTP, namethis controversial Supreme Court decision.
Answer: Buckley v. Valeo
15. For 10 points each, name these physical phenomena:
1. (10) The hypothetical spectrum of an object glowing at a uniform temperature.
Answer:Black-Body spectrum
2. (10) Under a certain frequency, electromagnetic radiation cannot knock loose electrons off a given metal, no matter how intense the radiation is.
Answer:Photoelectric effect
3. (10) The increase in wavelength of X-rays when scattered by electrons.
Answer:Compton effect
16. For 10 points each, answer these questions about the Battle of Marathon:
1. (10) The Athenians hastily appointed a committee of how many generals to lead their army?
Answer:10
2. (10) Just before the battle, the committee split 5-5 on whether to attack the Persians or wait for them. Give the name or the title of the civil official who made the final decision.
Answer:Callimachus(Accept: Polemarch Or Polemarchos)
3. (10) Command of the army was to rotate among the 10 generals. But the 5 who voted to attack all gave their days as commander to -- which victorious general?
Answer:Miltiades (mil-TIE-a-deez) the Younger
17. For 15 points each, name these gemstones from their descriptions:
1. (15) Also known as St. Stephen's stone, this dark-green quartz spotted with red jasper has been used to make cameos of martyrs.
Answer:Bloodstone
2. (15) This blue stone known as "sapphire" in the ancient world has been found in Afghanistan's mines for about 6,000 years.
Answer: Lapis Lazuli
18. For 10 points each, answer these questions about Warren G. Harding:
1. (10) In which state did Harding rise to political power?
Answer:Ohio
2. (10) What nostalgic three-word motto was the platform by which he was elected President in 1920?
Answer:Return To Normalcy
3. (10) Name the scandal involving federal oil reserves that was created by his Presidential cabinet.
Answer:Teapot Dome
19. Identify these examples of man's best friend for 10 points each:
1. (10) The three-headed dog that guards the entrance to Hades.
Answer: Cerberus Or Kerberos
2. (10) Odysseus' dog who died when Odysseus finally came home.
Answer:Argos (do NOT accept "Argo")
3. (10) Either one of Ares' hunting hounds.
Answer:Phobos or Deimos
20. Name the scientist, 30-20-10.
1. (30) He served as Chief Surveyor during London's rebuilding after the Great Fire of 1666.
2. (20) His wide-ranging scientific interests led him to both create the universal joint and discover the cell.
3. (10) Physics students know him for his law of elasticity.
Answer: Robert Hooke
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