TOSSUPS – SHOOTOUT #1SWORD BOWL 2004 -- UT-CHATTANOOGA
Questions by Maryland, Michigan, Pitt, Rochester, North Carolina, Rutgers-New Brunswick, & Rutgers-Newark
1.Heinrich Leopold Wagner, Johann Hamann, Gottfried August Berger, and Johann Gottfried von Herder were among the movement’s major theorists. Die (DEE) Rauber and Gotz von Berlichingen (bur-LICK-in-gehn) were two works from the period, but it took its name from Wirrwarr, a play by Friedrich von Klinger. For ten points, what pre-Romantic German literary movement also counted Schiller and Goethe (GUR-tuh) as its exponents?
Answer:Sturm und Drang (or Storm and Stress)
2.They require conditions of high humidity. Their adaptation provides them with a position where the light is strongest, and where there is no competition for the light. They often acquire nutrients from dust washed off the support tree's leaves. Many mosses and lichens, ferns and bromeliads share, for ten points, what lifestyle, neither rooted in the soil nor parasitic, most well-known in orchids?
Answer:Epiphytes
3.It was originally written for The Happy Song, an unproduced television show. Its writer brought it, and a pair of Captain America golf shoes, to Cory Wells, a member of the group that eventually recorded it. Dunhill Records’ biggest hit, it was the top song on the Billboard charts in1971, spending six weeks at #1, and even cracking the top 50 on the R&B charts. Isaac Watts did notwrite the lyrics to, FTP, what song by Hoyt Axton, recorded by Three Dog Night, that begins with a prophetic amphibian?
Answer:“Joy to the World” [the one that begins, “Jeremiah was a bullfrog. . . .”]
4.Actually a series of battles, the first battle here began on September 19 at Freeman’s Farm. The second, fought at Bemis Heights on October 7, saw a force led by Daniel Morgan,Horatio Gates, and Benedict Arnold stop the British. The French were encouraged to join the American cause after the October 17 surrender of the British forces under John Burgoyne at—for 10 points—which 1777 battle in upstate New York?
Answer:Battle(s) of Saratoga
5.Hipparchia (hih-PAR-kee-ah) and her husband, a rich man named Crates (KRAY-teez) of Thebes, both joined this group of philosophers. Concerned almost exclusively with virtue as the one form of good, the group also included Crates’s student, Stoicism founder Zeno, and his teacher , Diogenes (dye-AH-gin-eez) of Sinope (SIN-oh-pee). Named after a gymnasium east of Athens, for ten points, identify this school of philosophy founded by Antisthenes (an-TISS-then-eez) that held contempt for most ways of life.
Answer:Cynics (or Cynicism)
6.The UKDMC project, located 1100 meters down a mine shaft, and the GENIUS team inside Mt. Sasso are both attempting to detect them, since the solid rock deflects cosmic rays, but not these hypothetical particles. If they exist, they were created before "normal" forms of matter in the Big Bang. For ten points, identify these candidates for the missing matter of the universe, as opposed to black holes, asteroids, and other MACHOs.
Answer: _WIMPs_ or Weakly Interacting Massive Particles
7.The chairman of the citizens’ lobbying group Common Cause from 1980 to 1992, this Harvard law professor has written a book on the Warren Supreme Court. When he pushed for the release oftapes made by Nixon, Nixon tried to get Attorney General Elliott Richardson to fire him. For 10 points—name this special prosecutor whom Richardson and William Ruckelshaus refused to can, leaving the job to Robert Bork in the so-called “Saturday Night Massacre.”
Answer:Archibald Cox
8.This novel traces the main character’s relationships with fellow business people like Mahesh and Shoba, the owners of the local Big Burger franchise, with religious figures like the father Huisman, whose knowledge and veneration of African religion ends in assassination, and with his own servant, Metty. But it is his fateful meeting with the white historian Raymond and his sensual wife Yvette that truly disrupts the protagonist ’s world. Eventually, it is the witch Zabeth’s son, Ferdinand, who saves Salim from persecution in FTP, what 1979 work by V. S. Naipaul, set in a town at the titular geographic locale.
Answer:A Bend in the River
9.Ludovit Stur codified this nation’s language in the nineteenth century, while in 1861 Bishop Stefan Moyses petitioned Emperor Franz Joseph to grant it territorial and political rights. Jozef Tiso tried to establish a republic here during World War II, but antifascists crushed it, so it did not gain true autonomy until the 1993 Velvet Divorce. For ten points, identify this nation, led in the 1990s by Vladimir Meciar, with capital at Bratislava.
Answer:Slovakia (or Slovak Republic); (DO NOT ACCEPT “Czechoslovakia”)
10.“Di quella pira” and “On the rose-colored wings of love” are two of the better-known arias in this opera. This story centers on a man raised by the gypsy Azucena, who kidnapped him as a baby. In fact, this man is the Count di Luna’s brother, and both love the noblewoman Leonora. For ten points, what 1853 Verdi opera about Manrico the Troubadour contains the Anvil Chorus?
Answer:Il Trovatore(accept “The Troubadour” until mentioned)
11.“The magic words are squeamish ossifrage” was the result when a network of computers around the world employed a multiple quadratic polynomial sieve tofactor a 129-digit number belonging to this class. In December 2003 a tea mfrom Germany collected $10,000 for factoring one of these semi-primes with 576 digits in binary. For 10 points—name these integers, which share their name with a system of public-key encryption.
Answer:RSA numbers [accept RSAor Rivist-Shamir-Adelmanalgorithm]
12.This city supported Pescennius in a civil war against Septimius Severus – a bad choice, as Severus won and demolished most of the city in 196 CE. Philip of Macedon tried to take it in 340 BCE but failed, blaming his loss on the goddess Hecate (HEK-ah-tee). Founded by Greek colonists from Megara in 659 BCE, for ten points, identify this city on the west bank of the Bosporus, rebuilt as Constantinople in 330 CE.
Answer:Byzantium (prompt on “Constantinople” until mentioned)
13.This author’s early short story collections Roast Beef Mediumand Emma McChesney and Co. concerned women in the business world. Many of her works, including Dinner at Eight, were made into successful films. A frequent collaborator withGeorge S. Kaufman, their The Royal Familyis a satire of the famed Barrymore acting clan. For 10 points—name this author of Giant, Cimarron, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Bigbest known as the author of Showboat.
Answer:Edna Ferber
14.A deficiencyof this mineral may help treat certain autoimmune diseases, as it is a cofactor for many enzymes in the blood, as well as for carbonic anhydrase and superoxide dismutase [dis-MEW-tays]. Also found in high quantities in the hippocampus, it is released from presynaptic vesicles when neurons fire. Sphalerite [SFAY-luh-ryte] and smithsonite are ores of—for 10 points—what transition metal, commonly found in “fingers” in DNA regulatory proteins?
Answer:zinc
15.This franchise’s high-water mark was 1975-76, when Coach Larry Brown and star player David Thompson led it to the ABA Finals, where it lost to the Nets in six games. A solid team in the 1980s, featuring top scorer Alex English, it has turned into complete crap since, save 1994 when Dikembe Mutombo helped it become the first #8 seed to win an NBA playoff series. For ten points, identify the franchise that went 17-65 last year, but had won as many games by this Christmas, thanks to Carmelo Anthony.
Answer:DenverNuggets (accept either)
16.First published in 1903 without its third act, the main character’s manifesto appears in full as an appendix. When it becomes clear that poetic Octavius’ advances will be rejected, andRamsden’s worst fears are to be realized, Straker’s boss—the author of The Revolutionist’s Handbook—flees for Spain. There he is captured by Mendoza and, after a bizarre dream sequence, marries Ann Whitefield. For 10 points—name this Shaw play about John Tanner, who debates the devil in the subsection “Don Juan in Hell.”
Answer:Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy
17.Chapter 1 of this book, which is notnamed for Esau’s wife, includes the slaying of Arphaxad, and Nebuchadnezzar’s vow to slay all the people of Moab. The title character, thedaughter of Merari, and widow of Manassas, chastises the people of Bethulia for wanting to surrender. She charms the Assyrian general and makes good on her vow to deliver the city. For 10 points—name this apocryphal book in which the Jews are saved when the title character betrays Holofernes.
Answer:Judith
18.Objects in this region may leave it after passing tens of thousands of stars causes them to move in a random walk, while objects are returned to it when they come too close to Uranus or Neptune . Proposed in 1950 after an astronomer noted that there was no comet whose period indicated it came from interstellar space, it is the source of Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp. For 10 points, what is this spherical region believed to be the source of long period comets?
Answer:Oort Cloud
19.Its forerunners included Bruandet, Swebach, and Valenciennes [vah-LEN-see-en]. Heavily influenced by an 1824 exhibition by John Constable, this colony of artists included some no longer welcome in Paris, such as Theodore Rousseau, and some who simply preferred life in the Fontainebleu forest, where they could paint realistic peasant and pastoral scenes. Charles Jacque, Camille Corot [koh-ROH], and Jean-François Millet [mih-LAY] were members of—for 10 points—what mid-1800s art movement?
Answer:Barbizon [BAR-bih-zon]
20.He served in France during World War I and led a Senate committee to investigate spending on World War II. It was under his administration that the National Security Act reorganized U.S. defense and intelligence agencies. Overshadowed by General Douglas MacArthur during the Korean War, he would finally remove the general from power in 1951. For ten points, name this persistent underdog who served as president from 1945 to 1953.
Answer:Harry S Truman
21.Its engineer, Fazlur Kahn, introduced a new technology when creating this building: thick sheets of steel were welded together to form nine vertical square tubes, with the floors suspended within the tubes. Designed by the firm of Skidmore, Owens and Merrill, it is located at 233 South Wacker Drive. For ten points, what 110-story skyscraper completed in 1974 was for 22 years the tallest in the world?
Answer:Sears Tower
22.It included a three-volume appendix entitled “The Theory of Surplus Value” , but the author died before completing the second and third volumes. When published in English it was given the subtitle “A Critique of Political Economy.” In it its author proposed that history was a never-ending struggle between the classes. This is, FTP, which work by Karl Marx that concludes with the famous line “Workers of the World Unite!”
Answer:Das Kapital
23.One notable landmark within this city is the 60-story Hassan II Mosque. Founded by the Portuguese on the site of the ancient city of Anfa, an artificial harbor was constructed here in 1916. Known in Arabic as Dar al-Baida, for ten points, is what largest city in Morocco, site of a famous 1942 movie?
Answer:Casablanca (accept “Dar al-Baida” until mentioned)
TOSSUPS – SHOOTOUT #2SWORD BOWL 2004 -- UT-CHATTANOOGA
Questions by Princeton & Pitt with Chicago, Dartmouth, Michigan, North Carolina, Rochester & Rutgers-Newark
1.Deaf Smith and a company of men had burned the bridge over Vince’s Bayou, which left their enemies trapped. Angered by two earlier massacres, the revolutionaries killed over 600, and captured over 700 more, while losing justnine of their own, though a rifle ball shattered their commanding general’s ankle. Less than 20 minutes were needed when the Mexican forces were literally caught napping at, FTP, what April 1836 battle which gave Texas its independence from Mexico?
Answer:Battle of San Jacinto [ha-SEEN-toh or ja-SEN-toh]
2.Either free or bound, these consist of large complexes of proteins and either three or four rRNA molecules. They can less commonly be found in the mitochondria or chloroplasts of eukaryotes, but are more often found either floating freely throughout the cytoplasm or bound to the endoplasmic reticulum. FTP, name this organelle which serves as the site of mRNA synthesis and which makes the rough endoplasmic reticulum rough.
Answer:Ribosome
3. After he knocked out Ernie Burford in two rounds, this boxer got to fight Florentino Fernandez. After beating Jimmy Ellis he became the highest ranked middleweight in the world, but he lost to Joey Giardello for the championship. His record of 27-12-1 could have improved if not for an incident at the Lafayette Grill in Paterson. FTP, name this wrongfully convicted boxer, immortalized in a Bob Dylan song and a Denzel Washington film, also known as the "Hurricane."
Answer: Rubin Carter (prompt on Hurricane)
4.Reflecting on his past, he says, “I am older at 20 than a lot of people who died,” then later denies that he hates the South, though he fails to convince Shreve, his roommate atHarvard. Obsessed with his sister’s promiscuity, he tries to protect her by claiming hegot her pregnant, when it was probably Dalton Ames, though Candace ends up naming the baby, a daughter, after him. For 10 points—name this brother of Jason, Caddy, and Benjy Compson who drowns himself in The Sound and the Fury.
Answer: Quentin Compson [prompt on “Compson”] [Incest is preferable to getting knocked up?—Ed.]
5.From 1864 to 1887, he taught chemistry at the St. Petersburg Military Academy, establishing a place for women to study medicine there. However, he took inspiration from Balakirev and expanded his hobby of composing music, though much of his work being unfinished upon his death. For ten points, name this Georgian composer whose opera, Prince Igor was finished by fellow Fiver Rimsky-Korsakov.
Answer: Alexander Borodin
6.This dynasty is sometimes identified mythologically as descendants of the inhabitants of Atlantis. Recent speculation ties them to the bloodline of Christ. Identified by their long red hair, their power grew with victories over theVisigoths, Saxons, and Alamanni. However, they were eventually deposed when the administrative position of major domoevolved into the most powerful office in France. FTP name this Frankish dynasty which was supplanted by the Carolingians.
Answer:Merovingian dynasty or Merovingian(s)
7.In 1996, the Supreme Court found Archers Daniel Midland guilty of a per se violation of this part of the Sherman Antitrust Act. Any form of it, even if it benefits the consumer, is illegal under Sherman, and executives who practice this form of monopolistic or oligopolistic behavior can be sent to prison. FTP, name this illegal practice in which dominant firms in an industry set the fees for certain goods and services.
Answer: Price fixing
8.When her husband shoots Tom Loker, she becomes even more desperate to leave the country. The daughter of Cassy, she’d love to remain in Kentucky as Mrs. Shelby’s maid, but escapes as soon as Mr. Shelby contemplates selling her son Harry to Mr. Haley. She is thus spared the cruel fate of belonging to Simon Legree, but must flee all the way to Canada, and at one point is forced to leap across ice floes in the Ohio River. For 10 points—name this fugitive slave, the heroine of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Answer:ElizaHarris
9.In 1835 a French engineer-mathematician showed that if the Newtonian laws of motion are to be used in a rotating frame of reference, an inertial force--acting to the right of the direction of body motion for counterclockwise rotation of the reference frame or to the left for clockwise rotation--must be included in the equations of motion. The result is an apparent deflection of the path of an object that moves within a rotating coordinate system. FTP name this effect that explains the direction of spinning fluids in Earth’s North or South hemisphere.
Answer:Coriolis effect (Gustave-Gaspard Coriolis)
10.The Chimu may have visited in about 1495, but the first recorded visit was by a bishop of Panama en route to Peru. Favored as a pirate's hideout because of their supply of fresh meat, these islands, located beneath the Nazca plate, feature large soup-bowl volcanoes on Isabela and Fernandina, and Espanola and Santa Fe are actually volcanic remnants. Featured prominently in the 2003 film Master and Commander, FTP name this island group served by the airport at San Cristobal, claimed by Ecuador, and notable for its finches, tortoises, and visit by Darwin.
Answer:Galapagos Islands
11.Erik Estrada punched this man in the face—albeit accidentally—on Win, Lose, or Draw. A 1978 Cornell graduate in English, he is often hounded by Arianna Huffington for his stance againstmarriage. His recent works include the TV special Victory Begins at Homeand a book mixing political posters with commentary, When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden. For 10 points—name this host of HBO’s Real Timebest known as the host of Politically Incorrect.