TOSSUPS – FLORIDA STATEMOON PIETM CLASSIC 2006 (UTC/Grinnell/Boston U.)
Questions by Billy Beyer
1.Outbreaks of Ebola hemorrhagic fever occurred in the 1990s in the city of Mékambo in this country, the world's largest producer of manganese. Tourists are attracted to the hospital built in 1913 by Albert Schweitzer, located in Lambaréné, which lies on the Ogooué [o-GO-we] River. A $3 billion rail line was recently created, running from the city of Francoville, the birthplace of its current president, Omar Bongo, to its coastal capital, located just south of Equatorial Guinea. FTP, name this relatively wealthy African nation, also bordered by Cameroon and the Republic of the Congo, and with capital at Libreville.
Answer:Gabon
2.The protagonist of this author's most recent work lives at LaVon Fronk's old bunkhouse and helps out at Cy Frease's Old Dog Café. That novel, That Old Ace in the Hole was published six years after a work that opens in 1890 in Sicily entitled Accordion Crimes. The first woman to win the PEN/Faulkner Award, her first novel was about Loyal Blood, a man forced to abandon his Vermont farm and head west, in a work entitled Postcards. FTP, name this American author whose collection Close Range: Wyoming Stories contains "The Mud Below" and "Brokeback Mountain", and who won a Pulitzer for The Shipping News.
Answer:(Edna) Annie Proulx (prü)
3.Roscoe Filburn violated it, which led to the Supreme Court case Wickard v. Filburn. Mordecai Ezekiel helped draft it, and the Thomas Amendment was added to it, which allowed the President to accept silver on war-debt accounts. It was declared unconstitutional since it taxed one group to pay another, according to the Supreme Court case United States v. Butler, but it was rewritten and was passed into law again in 1938. Its purpose was to raise prices by limiting farm production by paying subsidies to farmers to withhold land from cultivation. FTP, name this piece of New Deal legislation.
Answer:Agricultural Adjustment Act (or AAA)
4.Samuel Goldich devised an inverse of it, whose members contain silicon and oxygen. Containing a discontinuous branch on the left, and a continuous branch on the right that separates calcium-rich species from sodium-rich species, it is characterized by a Y shape whose bottom corresponds to low temperatures around 800°C. Named for the Canadian-born American scientist who developed it in the early 1920s, it shows how different minerals crystallize under varying pressures and temperatures. FTP, name this geological reaction series.
Answer:Bowen's reaction series
5.Gabriel-François Doyen was originally commissioned to create this art work, but refused to add cupids. Located in the Wallace Collection in London, it was created a year after the artist gave up historical paintings, such as High Priest Coroesus Sacrificing Himself to Save Callirhoe. Its background depicts lush green trees and a statue depicting dolphins driven by cupids, and its bottom left shows a youth reaching out with hat in hand. Its subtitle refers to "The Happy Hazards" of the title object, which is being used by a woman clad in pink with her shoe flying through the air. FTP, name this Rococo painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard.
Answer:The Swing
6.Upon being crowned, he had the support of the Pope, but alienated the church after arresting three influential bishops, Alex of Lordon, Chancellor Roger, and Robert of Salisbury. He defeated the Scots, led by David I, at the Battle of the Standard. After the death of his son Eustace, he signed The Treaty of Wallingford, which determined his heir. His reign saw a period of time known as The Anarchy, during which his cousin Matilda briefly took the throne. FTP, name this only English king from the House of Blois [blwä], who ruled in between Henry I and Henry II from 1135-1154.
Answer:Stephen
7.They were dissed on the Bone Thugs-N-Harmony songs "All Original" and "Notorious Thugs" and were featured with the Ying Yang Twins in the 2005 movie Clean Up Men. Originally from Memphis, early albums include When the Smoke Clears and Da Unbreakables. Primarily consisting of Lord Infamous, Crunchy Black, DJ Paul, and Juicy J, their latest album is entitled Most Known Unknown and features "Poppin' My Collar" and "Stay Fly." FTP, name this hip-hop group with one more Oscar than Martin Scorsese, thanks to Seth Kendall's anthem, "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp."
Answer:Three 6 Mafia
8.Handel's opera Semele is based on a libretto by this man, whose first novel was set at a Florentine ball in which Hippolito and Aurelian don disguises, entitled Incognita. He responded to the criticism of lewdness in his works by writing "Amendments of Mr. Collier's False and Imperfect Citations." His stage works include The Old Bachelor, The Double Dealer, and The Mourning Bride, and many of his female roles were written for Anne Bracegirdle, who appeared in Love for Love. FTP, name this Restoration comedian, creator of the characters Mirabell and Millamant, and author of The Way of the World.
Answer:William Congreve
9.Andrew Wallace developed the meta type of this, and the TAIL type also uses enzymes. Other modifications of it include a nested type that reduces contamination, and the touchdown type. It requires a thermal cycler which creates temperatures ranging from 50-95°C, and an enzyme from the bacterium Thermus aquaticus. Used to detect mutations, produce in vitro mutations, and diagnose genetic disorders, this process takes approximately fifteen minutes, and uses cycles of denaturation, annealing to primers, and DNA polymerase-directed DNA synthesis. FTP, name this Kary Mullis invented method of amplifying DNA segments.
Answer:polymerase chain reaction
10.This work is summarized in Chapter 5 of a 1979 J.P. Stern study and focuses on the declaration that scientific minds are weak when they fail to pass judgement. Stating that the established values of society were invented by the weak to enable them to triumph over the strong, two of its nine chapters are "What Is Noble?" and "Prejudices of Philosophers." Its preface opens by supposing "that Truth is a woman--what then?", and On the Genealogy of Morals
was meant to serve as "suplementation and clarification" of this work, which includes 296 aphorisms. FTP, name this Friedrich Nietzsche work about morality.
Answer:Beyond Good and Evil (or Jenseits von Gut und Böse)
11.Concerning the creation of Washington D.C., this man correctly predicted it may "become the sanctuary of the blackest crimes." This historical figure has a memorial sculpted by Wendy M. Ross, and is the subject of Robert A Rutland's book whose subtitle is "The Reluctant Statesman." Owner of Gunston Hall, he outlined the colonists' objections to the Boston Port Act in The Fairfax Resolves, and with Edmund Randolph and Elbridge Gerry, this Constitutional Convention delegate did not sign the Constitution. FTP, name this Virginia patriot, Father of the Bill of Rights.
Answer:George Mason[EDITOR’S NOTE: I made sure this tossup was seeded 11th.]
12.Padre Bancalari showed that flames have this property, and Rydberg atoms demonstrate very large shifts in it. The "super" variety occurs at low temperatures, and was identified by Walter Meissner and Robert Ochsenfeld. For materials with this property, susceptibility is approximately negative one-millionth. First observed by S.J. Brugmans and coined by Faraday, this term refers to a species with all electrons paired, and examples include copper and bismuth. FTP, name this phenomenon of superconductors in which materials become magnetized in a magnet field with a polarity opposite to the magnetic force.
Answer:diamagnetism
13.One character in this work agrees with an eighty-seven-year-old manservant that things were good back in the old days by noting "At least there were plenty of floggings." The Aleksey Tolstoy poem "The Sinful Woman" is read by The Stationmaster in Act III, which opens on August 22nd with many of the characters dancing at a party before Varya enters weeping. Other characters include Charlotte, who provides comic relief, and Gayev, who describes tricky billiard shots. It opens with Lopakhin awaiting the return of the protagonist, Ranevksy. FTP, name this Anton Chekhov play that ends with the title object being cut down.
Answer:The Cherry Orchard
14.Nicknames of lesser-known ones include Funeral March and Tempest. The hardest of them has four movements and opens with a series of fortissimo B-flat major chords, while another was dedicated to Count Franz von Brunswick. The thirteenth features a first movement that includes a long Grave introduction, followed by the Allegro section, and then a repeat of the Grave section. Numbering 32 in total, they include ones nicknamed Hammerklavier, Appassionata, and Pathétique. FTP, name these keyboard compositions by a German composer, the most famous of which is nicknamed Moonlight.
Answer:piano sonata(s) of Beethoven (prompt on partial answers, such as sonatas)
15. The Edgeworth type approximates a probability distribution in terms of its cumulants, and the Dirichlet variety is used in analytic number theory. The investigation of the behavior of functions near singularities is aided by the Laurent variety, which can express holomorphic functions defined on an annulus. The ratio, root, integral, and comparison tests can be used to determine if they converge or diverge, and famous examples include the power, Fourier, Taylor, and Maclaurin ones. FTP, give this mathematical term defined as the sum of a list of numbers, not to be confused with a sequence.
Answer:series
16.One character on this show likes to bake, was a former underwear model, and has an eleven-year daughter named Hannah who she gave up for adoption. A different character named Hannah was played by Christina Ricci in this show's most watched episode. That episode, entitled "It's the End of the World", featured a man with an explosive inside his body, which caused a Code Black, and that episode was seen immediately after the Super Bowl. FTP, name this medical drama set primarily in Seattle Grace Hospital that stars Sandra Oh and Ellen Pompeo.
Answer:Grey's Anatomy
17.A man who "drank water only" and often "sail'd his boat himself" is described in section three, which begins with the poet claiming to know "a common farmer—the father of five sons." This poem is found in the "Children of Adam" cluster, and describes men as "action and power" and women as "the gates of the body, and the gates of the soul." It opens with the title, followed by "the armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them." Its last two stanzas describe a slave auction, and this poem ends with a catalogue of body parts. FTP, name this Walt Whitman poem, an exultation to the human form.
Answer:"I Sing the Body Electric"
18.One of its early rulers came to power with the aid of a blacksmith and a drummer after coming from Yemen and killing a monstrous fish, while another ruler is noted for his victory over the Mossi people. One of its last leaders lost to the Moroccan forces led by Judar Pasha at the Battle Tondibi. Its first great king conquered what remained of the Mali Empire, and its greatest king brought political reform and opened his court to scholars from throughout the Muslim world. Centered on the city of Gao near the Niger River, FTP, name this African empire that reached its zenith under Sonni Ali and Askia Mohammed around 1500.
Answer:Songhai
19.Their flagella are composed of a bundle of many filaments, are powered by ATP, and grow by the addition of subunits to the base. ATP-dependent phosphofructokinase is not present in them during glycolysis, and many members lack a peptidoglycan wall. They do not undergo chlorophyll-based photosynthesis, their cell membrane is typically not phosphorylated, and instead of ester lipids in their cell walls, they have ether lipids. Members include halophiles, methanogens, and thermophiles, who are capable of living in extreme environments. FTP, name this prokaroytic domain that is distinct from Bacteria.
Answer:Archaea (or Archaebacteria)
20.The Etruscan mythological figure Uni was equivalent to this Greek figure, whose wedding night lasted for 300 years. Brought up in Arcadia by Temenus, Phoroneus once decided a contest in favor of this figure over Poseidon. Often depicted as veiled, she was once ravished by a bedraggled cuckoo, and Homer described her as ox-eyed and white-armed. In the Iliad, she attacked Artemis, and earlier, promised all of Asia to Paris. Her messenger is sometimes Iris, and the peacock became associated with her after she turned Io into a white cow. FTP, name this mother of Hebe, Typhon, Hephaestus, and Ares, the jealous wife of Zeus.
Answer:Hera
21.A civil war known as the War of the Thousand Days occurred between 1899 and 1903 in this country, and a period known as La Violencia began in the late 1940s after the murder of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán. Resolution appeared to be imminent after the formation of the National Front, but all other political parties were soon banned. Its Dominican embassy was occupied for 61 days in 1980, and its guerrilla groups include the ELN, M-19, and FARC. Much of its economy is based in Medellin [me-de-YEN], thanks to Carlos Lehder and Pablo Escobar. FTP, name this South American country home to much conflict, cocaine, and the city of Bogota.
Answer:Colombia
22.One character is this work becomes jealous after seeing Marchesa Attavanti's fan, after which another character sings Tre sbirri, una carrozza. In Act III, a painter is jailed for helping Angelotti escape to his villa's well, and sings E lucevan le stelle while writing a farewell letter. Based on a Victorien Sardou drama, this work includes the aria Vissi d'arte and centers around a woman who kills the evil Baron Scarpia and commits suicide by jumping from the ramparts of a castle shortly after Mario Cavaradossi is killed when his fake execution turns real. FTP, name this Puccini opera about the tragedy of the titular singer.
Answer:Tosca
23.Alexander Haslam and Stephen Reicher conducted a partial replication of it in 2003. Funded by the US Navy, Christina Maslach is credited with stopping it. Conducted in 1971, half of the participants wore mirrored sunglasses, military-style uniforms, and carried wooden batons, including one nicknamed John Wayne. The other half were referred to by numbers after being "charged" with a crime. FTP, name this psychology experiment run by Philip Zimbardo at an elite California school, often compared to the Abu Ghraib abuse.
Answer:Stanford prison experiment [prompt on Zimbardo experiment]
BONI – FLORIDA STATEMOON PIETM CLASSIC 2006 (UTC/Grinnell/Boston U.)
Questions by Billy Beyer
1.Since this packet was sent in relatively late, here's a bonus on library science to make Charlie happy. FTPE,
[10] Devised by a deranged Amherst College graduate in the mid 1870s, this classification system is divided into ten main categories, ten more sub-categories, and then ten more sub-divisions.
Answer:Dewey Decimal Classification (or System, or DDC)
[10] In contrast to the Dewey Decimal Classification, this system uses letters. Charlie irked his professors in library school by asking why in the world books about the Bible were given the general classification “BS.”
Answer:Library of Congress Classification (or LC)
[10] For a final 10 points, show you’ve actually done some research. Assume you were looking for pure science books. Give either the first number of their call number in the Dewey Decimal System, or the first letter in the LC system.
Answer:either 5or Q
3.Certainly the greatest basketball player from the University of North Dakota, he was drafted by the New York Knicks and was a key reserve on the Knicks team that won the 1973 NBA title. FTPE,
[10] Name this player-turned-coach who has won 9 titles with the Chicago Bulls and LA Lakers.
Answer:Phil Jackson
[10] Phil Jackson succeeded this former player during his first stint as Lakers coach. Although just an average player, he was a fan favorite due to his thick moustache and enormous black glasses.
Answer:Kurt Rambis
[10] Jackson was succeeded by man as Lakers coach, notorious for being punched by Kermit Washington.
Answer:Rudy Tomjanovich
3.This author of "The Power of Literature and Its Connection with Religion" had the introduction of one of his poetry collections written by his brother-in-law, Roger Taney. FTPE,
[10] Name this man whose most famous literary contribution was a poem written about the events of the night of September 13, 1814, entitled "The Defense of Ft. McHenry."
Answer:Francis Scott Key
[10] A lawyer by profession, Key was hired to defend this man, who beat Ohio Congressman William Stanberry with a cane along Pennsylvania Avenue...out of self-defense.