Virginia High School League Scholastic Bowl page 8
2007-08 State Competition Match #9
These questions are for use in the Virginia High School League’s Scholastic Bowl State Tournament. Shawn Pickrell, Jason Mueller, and Dan Goff are the authors of these questions; further editing was done by Adam Fine and Marian Suter.
Participants must observe the following conditions, which must be known by all coaches, competitors and spectators of the competition:
(a) Public discussion of these questions before the end of the state tournament is prohibited.
(b) Releasing these questions to entities outside Virginia is prohibited.
First period: 15 tossups, 10 points each
1. The protagonists move from Norland to Barton Cottage early in the novel to get away from half-brother John and John’s wife Fanny. By the end of the novel, one protagonist has gotten past Mr Willoughby’s rejection and chosen to marry Colonel Brandon. After Lucy Steele breaks off an engagement, the other protagonist is then free to marry Edward Ferrars. It was published in 1811 under the pseudonym ‘A Lady.’ Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are in what novel by Jane Austen?
ANSWER: Sense and Sensibility
2. It is a diagnosis of exclusion and is responsible for 50 deaths per 100,000 births in the United States. Risk factors for it include exposure to secondhand smoke, low birth weight, and excess bedding; and preventive measures include breastfeeding and sleeping on the back. Name this phenomenon that kills babies and is also known as cot death or crib death.
ANSWER: SIDS (accept cot death or crib death before said in question)
3. It is poem XIX in the 1896 poetry collection in which it appears. The title character of this poem was brought home shoulder-high in the first stanza. However, today a different fate awaits – ‘Shoulder high we bring you home,’ since ‘Eyes the shady night has shut, / Cannot see the record cut.’ The line, ‘The time you won your town the race / We chaired you through the market-place,’ opens what poem by A.E. Houseman?
ANSWER: “To an Athlete Dying Young”
4. A devastating right cross known as ‘Suzie Q’ enabled this ‘Brockton Blockbuster’ to win his fights. He was knocked down by Jersey Joe Walcott and Archie Moore, but got up to knock both of them out. Dariusz (dah-ree-OOSH) Michalczewski (mee-kahl-CHOO-skee) and Larry Holmes threatened his record, but lost in the fights where they could have tied it. On April 27, 1956, he retired as world heavyweight champion. What boxer fought 49 times and was never defeated?
ANSWER: Rocco ‘Rocky’ Marciano (accept Marchegiano for the last name)
5. A massive triumph celebrated his Eastern victories, including one campaign where he entered the Jewish Temple’s Holy of Holies and another campaign where he defeated Mithridates (mih-thrih-DAH-teez). He had earlier tried to claim credit for defeating Spartacus, an act that angered his ally, Crassus. When he rejected another ally’s attempt to run for consul in absentia, a civil war started after the crossing of the Rubicon. Who was this former ally of Julius Caesar?
ANSWER: Gnaeus (guh-NIGH-us) Pompeius (pawm-PAY-us) or Pompey
6. Spurred by disputes in this country's separatist Abkhaszia and South Ossetia regions, the 2003 Rose Revolution saw the removal of then-President Edward Shevardnadze (SHEV-ard-not-zee). November 2007 protests called for the resignation of President Mikhail Saakashvili (sah-kash-VEE-lee) in what Caucasian nation, whose capital is Tblisi (tuh-BLEE-see)?
ANSWER: Georgia
7. In its 1802 edition, an appendix, Poetic Diction, was added to explain its Preface. In that Preface, one of its two authors stated, ‘The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments.’ Poems in it included ‘The Idiot Boy’ and ‘Tintern Abbey.’ One of its authors contributed only four poems, one of which was ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.’ What poetry collection was a collaboration between William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
ANSWER: Lyrical Ballads
8. It is 1,469 miles long, which makes it the sixth longest river in the United States. Landmarks along it include the Royal Gorge and the junction with the Cimarron River. It flows past the cities of Pueblo, Wichita, Tulsa, and Little Rock. What river flows into the Mississippi after bisecting the state to the east of Oklahoma?
ANSWER: Arkansas River
9. It is a particular case of Bernoulli’s principle and states that the speed of a fluid flowing out of an opening under the force of gravity equals the square root of the quantity two times gravitational acceleration times the distance from the surface of the fluid to the center of the opening. Name this law of fluid dynamics named after the Italian physicist who invented the barometer.
ANSWER: Torricelli’s law
10. It was opened in 1973 by Ohio-based Family Leisure Centers, and in 2006, returned to Ohio control when Cedar Fair bought it from CBS. In 2008, the Dominator will open here. Very few of its early attractions remain, including the Shenandoah Log Flume and the Rebel Yell roller coaster. What amusement park, once owned by Paramount, is located in Doswell, Virginia, about 20 miles north of Richmond?
ANSWER: (Paramount) Kings Dominion
11. THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. What is the sum of the even numbers from 2 to 20, given that it is twice the sum of the numbers from 1 to 10?
ANSWER: 110
12. He was made a knight for his work as Master of the Mint between 1699 and 1727 and not for his scientific work. He was the first to demonstrate that a prism could split a white light into different colors. This creator of a general binomial theorem also, independently of Gottfried Leibniz, developed calculus. What formulator of three laws of motion also described the law of gravity?
ANSWER: Isaac Newton
13. Supplemental books in this series include The Blank Book and The Puzzling Puzzles. Books actually in the series include The Austere Academy, The Bad Beginning, and The End. Characters in this book series include the benevolent but clueless Mr. Poe, the villainous Count Olaf, and the three children – Violet, Klaus, and Sunny – of the Baudelaire family. Daniel Handler wrote what series of thirteen books under the pseudonym Lemony Snicket?
ANSWER: A Series of Unfortunate Events
14. He married the daughter of Thomas Hart Benton and thus was selected to lead expeditions to explore the west. He was the first European to map Mount St. Helens and was also the European that discovered Lake Tahoe. During the Civil War, he imposed martial law on Missouri. He was one of California’s first two Senators. Who was the first Presidential candidate from the newly formed Republican Party?
ANSWER: John C. Frémont
15. She played virtuous women in Under Two Flags and Her Double Life, and played Juliet in the 1916 adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. Her supposed origin as ‘The Serpent of the Nile’ was fictional; in reality, she was a Jewish girl from Cincinnati. Her most famous roles include the title roles in 1917’s Cleopatra and 1915’s Carmen. What actress, whose stage name was an anagram for ‘Arab Death,’ made her major debut in A Fool There Was, where she played ‘The Vamp?’
ANSWER: Theda Bara or Theodosia Goodman
Second period, 10 directed questions per team, 10 points each
Set A questions have an ‘A’ after their number; set B questions have a ‘B.’
1A. What period from the Paleozoic Era was known for its vast coal deposits and was separated into the Pennsylvanian and Mississippian subperiods?
ANSWER: Carboniferous Period
1B. THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. What is the mean of 51, 79, 43, 67, 12, and 48?
ANSWER: 50
2A. Who wrote the poetry collection Conquistador and the play J.B.?
ANSWER: Archibald MacLeish
2B. In 1998, the Israeli government acknowledged that what man, sentenced to life imprisonment in 1986, was indeed a spy for Israel?
ANSWER: Jonathan Pollard
3A. ‘We Don’t Talk Anymore’ was one of the few American hits for what singer who has had 118 Top 40 hits in the United Kingdom?
ANSWER: Cliff Richard
3B. Write down the following sentence. (Quizmaster: speak slowly) Today, Sue, my best friend from high school, came for a visit, and then we went to a restaurant, our favorite from our school days, for lunch. (Quizmaster: speak normally) What are the appositive phrases in that sentence?
ANSWER: my best friend from high school and our favorite from our school days
4A. Indebted small farmers in Massachusetts launched what rebellion that lasted from 1786 and 1787?
ANSWER: Shays’ Rebellion
4B. What singer is best known for her blonde alter ego, Hannah Montana?
ANSWER: Miley Cyrus
5A. THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. Convert 1677 into a Roman numeral.
ANSWER: MDCLXXVII
5B. What system of the body is comprised of ductless glands?
ANSWER: endocrine system
6A. The Office of Water and the Office of Air and Radiation are within what government agency whose Administrator usually has Cabinet rank?
ANSWER: Environmental Protection Agency or EPA
6B. What 19th century science, now disproven, held that character traits could be determined from bumps in the shape of the head?
ANSWER: phrenology (FREH-naw-loh-jee)
7A. Bellerophon was the rider of what winged horse in Greek mythology?
ANSWER: Pegasus
7B. Name the new laptop, less than an inch thick, shown to the world for the first time during Steve Jobs’ keynote address on January 15, 2008.
ANSWER: MacBook Air
8A. What is the chemical formula of propane?
ANSWER: C3H8
8B. THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. What is the value of the log of 125 base 5?
ANSWER: three
9A. Who wrote the meditative works Steppenwolf and Siddhartha?
ANSWER: Herman Hesse
9B. In the phrase, “Et tu, Brute?” (et too broo-tay), in what case is the Latin name Brute?
ANSWER: locative
10A. THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. What is the circumference of a circle with an area of 529 pi square feet?
ANSWER: 46 pi feet
10B. What English king ruled between 1272 and 1307 and was known as the ‘Hammer of the Scots’?
ANSWER: Edward I or Edward Longshanks
Third period, 15 toss-ups, 10 points each
1. This nation’s two leading parties are the center-right People’s Party and the center-left Socialist Workers’ Party. Its Batasuna Party has been outlawed for its support of terrorism. The Congress of Deputies and the Senate make up its parliament, the Cortes Generales (KOR-tays hay-nay-RAH-lays). What is this country, a European constitutional monarchy overseen by its Bourbon monarch, Juan Carlos I?
ANSWER: political system of Spain
2. It can be made through melt and pour, cold process, or hot process. Molecules of this class of surfactants have one end that dissolves in water and a fatty end that attaches to other organic molecules. What group of substances can be made by mixing fat with a strong base in a process called saponification?
ANSWER: soap
3. Types of it include wet, dry, internal, and gas. It is most common in the extremities and is usually caused by lack of blood flow and bacterial contamination. Treatment includes restoration of blood flow or amputation. Name this medical condition that is the necrosis and decay of body tissues.
ANSWER: gangrene
4. To ensure a peaceful anti-Vietnam War protest in 1965, he offered LSD to Sonny Barger, the leader of California’s Hells Angels. The poems ‘Elegy for Neal Cassady’ and ‘Beginning of a Poem of These States’ were in his anti-Vietnam War collection, The Fall of America. With his lifelong lover Peter Orlovsky, he stayed at a rundown hotel in Paris called the ‘Beat Hotel’ and finished his poem Kaddish. Who wrote, ‘I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness,’ in his epic poem, Howl?
ANSWER: Allen Ginsburg
5. This religion, also called ‘La Regla de Lukumi’ (lah RAY-glah day loo-KOO-mee), believes in spirits called orisha (oh-REE-shah) and a god called Olofi (oh-LOH-fee). It got its name from White Cubans who thought it a degenerate form of Catholicism, and it originated in Cuba from Yoruba roots. In 1993, the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional laws against what religion’s practice of animal sacrifice?
ANSWER: Santería
6. It set a then-record for an Atlantic double crossing of 5 days and 19 hours. Like most luxury craft of its time, it had a smoking room, but a crew member investigated all people leaving to make sure there was no lit tobacco. WLS announcer Hubert Morrison made a famous broadcast associated with it from Lakehurst Naval Air Station. ‘It’s smoke, and it’s flames now; and the frame is crashing into the ground, not quite to the mooring mast. Oh, the humanity!’ was said at the 1934 crash of what zeppelin?
ANSWER: LZ 129 Hindenburg
7. He was the first philosopher to divide propositions into analytic and synthetic varieties. In Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch, he held that a world of constitutional republics was necessary for world peace. In Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, he based all his moral concepts on the idea of the categorical imperative. After an eleven-year period of silence between 1770 and 1781, what philosopher published Critique of Judgment, Critique of Practical Reason, and Critique of Pure Reason?
ANSWER: Immanuel Kant
8. It can be used to prove the Cayley-Hamilton theorem and Nakayama’s lemma. Named after an 18th-century Swiss mathematician, it is inefficient when many equations are involved. Name this rule that gives the solution of a system of linear equations in terms of determinants.