TOSSUPS – MACON STATECenter of the Known Universe Open 2004 -- UT-Chattanooga
Questions by MSC’S Stephen Taylor and Paul McCord. (Replacements for an uncanny number of well-written repeats provided by your genial quizmaster.)
1. The Ho-Chunk people believe that his penis is detachable, and that he leaves it in rivers in order to impregnate bathing girls. The earliest known images of him date from the ninth century CE, and appear on pottery found in the Hohokam culture. His distinctive shape suggests either an anthropomorphized insect or possibly a traveling merchant, with the goods signified by the prominent hump on his back. FTP identify this flute-playing fertility god of the desert Southwest.
Answer:Kokopelli
2. All of its inhabitants are Seventh-Day Adventists, so drinking, dancing, and public displays of affection are illegal. Its primary source of government revenue is the sale of postage stamps to collectors, and with neither roads nor railroads to maintain, that revenue goes mostly to cover the cost of its one telephone line. In the year 2004, over fifty percent of its male workforce went on trial for sexual offenses including rape of minors. FTP name this island dependency, population 50, with capital at Adamstown.
Answer:Pitcairn Islands
3. Large arteries may be compressed against the underlying bone to inflict severe blood loss from a limb. The brachial artery passes closest to the skin halfway between the elbow and the shoulder. Clamping the fingers around it here stops the blood supply to a wound on the hand or lower arm. Applying the heel of the hand where the femoral artery crosses the joint between the pelvis and leg will best reduce blood supply for the lower leg extremities. Because they deprive the entire extremity of blood, you should only apply pressure to these in absolute emergency. FTP, what are they?
Answer:pressurepoints
4. Perhaps his most acclaimed work traces the unrequited love of a naive provincial girl, Tatiana, for a jaded sophisticate, Eugene. A narrator provides clever commentary not only on the love story itself, but also on society, the nature of poetry, the landscape, the narrator's own biography, and his personal search for meaning in life. He composed that work in a 14-line stanza form that gives order and structure to a work filled with digressions. FTP, name the author of Evgeny Onegin as well as The Bronze Horseman and Boris Godunov
Answer:Aleksandr Pushkin
5. The French one was nicknamed Augustus and allied himself with Richard of Aquitaine, who later became Richard I of England and joined him in the Third Crusade. The Spanish one lost his Armada, destroyed by bad weather and/or the English, in no particular order. The Macedonian one built an army that defeated a Greek coalition at Chaeronea and achieved a peace settlement in which all states except Sparta participated. FTP, name these kings of various lands that share the name and number of Alexander the Great's predecessor.
Answer:Philip II
6. It occurs when the daughter and parent are not separated, causing both parent and daughter to decay at the same rate until the parent is essentially exhausted. The daughter decays at the same rate at which it is being produced, which is only possible if the half-life of the parent is much longer than the half-life of the daughter. A literal translation of its name might suggest a worldly or nonreligious state of harmony or balance. FTP, name this phenomenon that exists when series radioisotopes have equal and constant activity levels.
Answer:secular equilibrium
7. He established his first construction company in 1961 and built an entire suburb north of Milan in 1969 called Milano 2. In 1974 he founded a cable TV station for Milano 2 called Telemilana, and soon after he had developed a network of TV stations that covered much of the country. By 1994 his holding company, Fininvest, had majority control of the three leading private TV stations, two daily newspapers, numerous magazines, and dozens of other businesses throughout the country. FTP, who created his own political party and served as prime minister for seven months in 1994, and has served his second stint as prime minister of Italy since 2001?
Answer:Silvio Berlusconi
8. Inscriptions, Children of Adam, Calamus, Birds of Passage, Sea-Drift, By the Roadside, and Autumn Rivulets were included in the original edition. Good-bye My Fancy was part of the edition known as the Second Annex, and another section, Old Age Echoes, was published in a posthumous edition. FTP name this poetry collection, whose 1867 edition added a section entitled Drum-Taps, containing the poems "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" and "O Captain, My Captain."
Answer:Leaves of Grass
9.In his first incarnation, he is a lyric baritone; in the second, he’s a lyric bass. In the latter he gets the arias Se vuol ballare, Non Piu andrai, and Tutto e disposto, but the first time around he gets just one of note, Largo al factotum. As seen in the later work he’s the valet to the count of Almaviva, betrothed to Susanna. FTP name this operatic character, title character of both Rossini’s The Barber of Seville and a subsequent Mozart opera.
Answer:Figaro
10.Impress your friends and memorize this name: Otto Rohwedder. Though you’ve never heard of him, his 1928 invention is still hailed as a milestone in human progress. Rohwedder, an itinerant Iowa jeweler, devised a 10-foot machine that combined a revolutionary cutting process with automatic wrapping of the resultant product in wax paper, and the world has been unable to contain itself since. FTP, Rohwedder thus made economically feasible the selling of this product, to which virtually every subsequent advancement has been compared?
Answer:sliced bread
11. I He first came to prominence in Ohio politics as a member of the Liberty Party, but he led that party's merger with the Van Buren Democrats to form the Free Soil Party in 1848. His one term in the U.S. Senate was marked by his vociferous opposition to both the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, displaying an uncompromising attitude that would later cost him in his quest for the Republican presidential nomination in 1860. FTP name this prominent abolitionist, whose subsequent endorsement of Lincoln's candidacy earned him both the post of Secretary of the Treasury and, after the death of Roger B. Taney, that of Chief Justice.
Answer:Salmon P. Chase(do not accept Samuel Chase; he was a member of the 2nd Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence from Maryland)
12. Two years, 1813 to 1815, in Venezuela. Six months, October 1938 to March 1939, in Czechoslovakia. Twenty-one years, 1945 to 1966 in Austria. Three years, 1936 to 1939, in Spain. And four years, 1848 to 1852, in
France, just before the Second Empire. FTP, give the common two-word name of these countries' governments for the years in question.
Answer:Second Republic
13 So far two episodes of this show have really impressed your genial quizmaster. In one, the title character visits Wizzly World and is so offended by the oppression she sees in the ride “The World Ain’t So Big” that she liberates all of Wizzly World’s cheerful singing robots. In the other, she overuses her new “dream chip”, leading to a dream sequence brilliantly drawn in the style of Dr. Seuss, including a goat-boy look for Tuck and Medusa-style hair for Mrs. Wakeman. FTP name this Nickelodeon series featuring Wakeman’s creation XJ-9, who prefers to be called Jenny.
Answer:My Life as a Teenage Robot
14. It was the largest industrial and scientific effort in the history of the world, involving more than 175,000 workers and costing more than 35 billion inflation-adjusted dollars, which was more than $2 billion at the time. Sharing its name with the subtitle of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 for the NES, five of the scientists working on it had previously won Nobel Prizes when it began, and three more won Nobel Prizes later. FTP, name this endeavor, directed by Leslie Groves from 1942-1946, that was named for its original base in New York.
Answer:Manhattan Project
15. His later works sometimes displayed a hawkish conservatism, most notably in his denunciation of the US response to the Soviet invasion of Hungary entitled "THANKSGIVING (1956)." But he wasn't always so tight-assed, as "she being Brand" compares sex with a virgin to a test-drive of an automobile, while he excoriated the inauthentic progressivism of his native Cambridge, Massachusetts in "the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls." FTP name this poet, whose unique appreciation of the oral nature of poetry was expressed through his unorthodox use of shaped verse and his disregard for rules of punctuation and capitalization.
Answer:e.e. cummings
16.It was gradually introduced in schools following university studies that began in the 1950s, shifting instructional focus from rote memorization to emphasis on meaning and concept, in order that students might better understand what they are doing and why. Supporters believe that constructing relationships from set theory helps children to be much better prepared for more advanced manipulations of numbers and symbols later. FTP, what is this term for introducing the fundamentals of subjects like algebra, geometry, and trigonometry long before students reach that level of comprehension?
Answer:new math
17. As the water osmoses out in the descending limb of this structure, the water is greatly absorbed back into the blood, whereas the salts that diffuse into the medulla in the ascending limb remain in the outer and inner medulla creating a concentration gradient, allowing the collecting duct to concentrate urine. FTP name this structure in the
kidney, named for a 19th century German anatomist.
Answer:Loop of Henle
18. It usually lasts a very short time for each individual that qualifies. The amount of it depends on the frequency with which workers change jobs and the time it takes to find new ones, and it could be improved by more efficient placement services. In this case, the term refers to the incongruity between the demand for and the supply of labor. FTP, name this phenomenon that is not to be confused with seasonal, structural, or cyclical unemployment.
Answer:frictional unemployment (prompt on either word)
19. Its proponents were interested in logical systems and universal physical principals rather than individual sensations and their expression. In painting, it emphasizes geometric shapes, monochromatic palettes of primary colors, objectivity, and anonymity of style. As a musical style it’s marked by prolonged chordal or melodic repetitions that generate a steady, even pulse for a trancelike effect. FTP, name this school of artistic expression associated with sculptors Robert Smithson and Frank Stella, painters David Smith and Donald Judd, and composer Philip Glass.
Answer:minimalism
20.Major characters in his play “God” are named Hepatitis, Diabetes, Trichinosis, and Doris Levine. In his short story “The Kugelmass Episode” an inventor devises a machine to allow people to live inside their favorite books; the plot goes awry when a Spanish grammar text is tossed into the machine by accident and the protagonist is chased across the countryside by an irregular verb. His essay, “But Soft. . . Real Soft” explores the question: “If Marlowe wrote Shakespeare’s works, who wrote Marlowe’s?” His aphorisms include “The Lord is merciful. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. The problem is, I can’t get up.” FTP name this author of Getting Even and Without Feathers, perhaps better known as the writer/director/actor who created Bananas, Mighty Aphrodite, and Annie Hall.
Answer:Woody Allenor Allen StewartKonigsberg
21.He used to entertain his daughter with a story he made up about young Jeremy and his encounter with the Baby Snoogle-Fleejer. When his daughter became a grad student in art history, she illustrated her dad's story and it's been published as a children's picture book. His previous books include Everything to Gain, The Blood of Abraham and Why Not the Best? FTP name this author, whose other career included stints as Governor of Georgia and President of the U.S. Answer: James Earl “Jimmy” Carter
22.Eight years after it was published, its author submitted it as his doctoral dissertation at Cambridge. Later, the same author rejected its doctrines, asserting instead that linguistic meaning is a function of the use to which expressions are put. This rejection was published under the title Philosophical Investigations. FTP name the original work asserting that any thought is a sentence, published in 1921 by Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Answer:Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
23.Since merging with the American Paralysis Foundation in 1999, the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation has given over $40 million for research of this. It relays impulses to the muscles, blood vessels, and glands by means of outgoing nerves, either in response to incoming stimuli or to signals from higher levels. It is encased in a triple sheath of membranes and is partially divided into lateral halves. FTP, name that part of the central nervous axis contained within the vertebral or neural canal, extending from the base of the skull to the second lumbar vertebra.
Answer:spinal cord
BONI – MACON STATECenter of the Known Universe Open 2004 -- UT-Chattanooga
Questions by MSC’S Stephen Taylor and Paul McCord. (Replacements for an uncanny number of well-written repeats provided by your genial quizmaster.)
1.Identify this American with uniquely bad luck, 30-20-10.
30- he was serving as head of the US Chamber of Commerce in 1901 and was on the scene when President McKinley was shot at a business exposition in Buffalo, NY.
20- he was serving as Secretary of War in 1881 and was on the scene when President Garfield was shot waiting on a train at a Washington railroad station.
10- He was one of 23 people known to have declined an invitation to join his parents at Ford’s Theatre the night his father was shot, and thus just missed witnessing the first three assassinations of US presidents.
Answer:Robert Lincoln
2.Stuff about a particular composer FTPE:
a) Although born in Russia and known for his incorporation of American themes and styles, among his more notable orchestral works is El Salon Mexico (1936).
Answer:Aaron Copland
b) You’d recognize “Hoedown” from this 1942 Copland ballet from those “Beef. It’s what’s for dinner.” ads
Answer:Rodeo
c) He is the subject of a 1938 Copland ballet as well as notable songs by Woody Guthrie and Billy Joel.
Answer: Billy the Kid [accept William Bonney from showoff types]
3.5-10-20-30, name the authors from characters, who conveniently are also work titles:
(a) Lord Jim
Answer:Joseph Conrad
(b) Lucky Jim
Answer:Kingsley Amis
(c) Joseph Andrews
Answer:Henry Fielding
(d) Therese Raquin
Answer:Emile Zola
4.In quiz bowl circles, few meaningless clues are more ubiquitous than “this silvery-white metallic element.” Identify these silvery-white metallic elements, on a 10-5 basis.
10:This element’s chloride salt is a substitute for table salt, and is also useful in executions by lethal injection because in high doses it stops the heart.
5:It is element number 19.
Answer:potassium
10:An alkali-earth metal, this element’s most stable isotope has a half-life of 1602 years and was used in luminescent watch dials until its safety was questioned in the 1920s.
5:It is element number 88.
Answer:radium
10:Because it exhibits almost no oxidation, this element is used in many alloys, particularly with aluminum and cobalt. It is also useful in electroplating and coins, and in the manufacture of so-called “memory wire.”
5:It is element number 28.
Answer:Nickel
5.FTPE, given a dictionary definition of the three coolest words in the entire English language, provide the words.
1. A transitive verb meaning, “to throw out of a window,” or the noun representing the action.
Answer:defenestrate or defenestration
2. An adjective meaning, “having beautifully proportioned buttocks.”
Answer:callipygian or callipygous
3. An adjective describing a flamboyant swordsman or sword-wielding ruffian or bully.
Answer:swashbuckling (prompt on “swashbuckler” – it is neither an adjective nor as cool as “swashbuckling”)
6.FTPE, given a Bible verse familiar from non-Biblical context, name the Old Testament book it comes from:
a) And His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace!
[as heard in Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus”]
Answer:Isaiah
b) Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof [as seen on the Liberty Bell]
Answer: Leviticus
c) To every thing there is a season, and time to every purpose under the heaven [as sung by the Byrds]