UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND ANNUAL FALL HIGH SCHOOL TOURNAMENT
GAME 5A
Round 1 by Phil Durkos, 2 by Berkeley, 3 by Dan Greenstein and Phil Durkos, 4 by Phil Durkos, 5 by Kara Mohler and Adam Fine, Editing by Phil Durkos
ROUND 1: Toss-up, plus or minus 10 points. No bounce-backs. Each answer in this round will begin with the letter “D.”
1)He is the charismatic title character of Oscar Wilde's only novel, which concerns a portrait that depicts his soul. Dorian Gray
2)This French painter is probably best-known for “Liberty Leading the People.” Eugéne Delacroix
3)This Roman Emperor is famed for persecuting Christians and forpartitioning his territory, establishing the Tetrarchy. Diocletian
4)This mother of Persephone is the Greek goddess of the harvest. Demeter
5)This character is the witty British maid in the TV show “Frasier.” Daphne
6)This is the scientific name for the fruit fly. Drosophila
7)One reason for this phenomenon to befall an economy is that the government has printed less money than the market can support. Deflation
8)Both the Helgoland Bight and the Skagerrak border this peninsular European nation. Denmark
ROUND 2: Untimed individual, +20.
Team 1:
1)Called the “last siege,” it was probably the bloodiest battle of WW1, fought February 1916 between the French and the Germans.
Answer: Verdun
2)If a set X has a one-to-one correspondence with the set of natural numbers it is said to have the same cardinality of N. What is the cardinality of N?
ANSWER: Aleph Null
3)She was recently elected Poet Laureate of the US, only the 4th woman. Name her.
ANSWER: Louise Gluck
4)This famous architect designed the recently opened Disney Concert Hall and the Experience Music Project in Seattle.
ANSWER: Frank Gehry
5)Robinson and Sanders were both recently injured, leaving only Taylor and Johnson playing today in good condition with solid records, a far cry from the 2002 Superbowl championship.
ANSWER: Baltimore or Ravens
6)Two-part question.This physicist drew his conclusions from hypothetical situations when the Doppler and photoelectric effects would coincide at very low temperatures, but this technique was not actually used until it won the Nobel Proze in Physics for Bill Phillips in 1997.
ANSWERS: Niels Bohr and laser cooling
Team 2:
1)This battle was a siege that lasted almost six years until Lord Beorhtnoth lost patience and gave open battle to be slaughtered by the Swedish warlord Anlaf VII in 1027.
ANSWER: Maldon
2) This mathematical principle is used to solve problems when it seems not enough information is present. It asserts that if N+1 items are placed in N holes, then a hole must contain two or more of the items.
ANSWER: Pigeon Hole Principle
3)US Poet Laureate in 1997, he began the Young Poets Project and won prizes for his translation of the Inferno.
Answer: Robert Pinsky
4) Born in 1902, this photographer is best known for his black and white photography of nature.
ANSWER: Ansel Adams
5)This 1996 movie based on “Dangerous Liaisons” starred Ryan Phillippe and Sarah Michelle Gellar as young socialites trying to sow discord and sleep with Reese Witherspoon.
ANSWER: Cruel Intentions
6)2-part question. This woman, a farmer and amateur biologist, is credited with discovering the non-Mendelian Principle of Crossing Over in her research for this project, designed to sterilize society's undesirable elements.
ANSWERS: Barbara McClintockand Eugenics
ROUND 3: 10 toss-ups, plus or minus 10 points, no bounce backs. Name the following about rugs and/or people and things associated with (or similar to) rugs.
1. She came to Julius Caesar rolled up in a rug. Cleopatra
2. At the edge of a Persian rug, the name for the tassles fringe
3. In Arabic fairy tales a mode of transport. flying carpet
4. Like a rug, it hangs on the wall such as the one in Bayeux. tapestry
5. Fill in both words in the rhyme “--- as a --- in a rug.” SnugAND bug
6. Northerners who moved to the South for exploit economic opportunity after the Civil War. Carpetbaggers
7. In “Hamlet,” he hides behind an arras and gets stabbed by Hamlet, who mistakes him for the king. Polonius
8. Real Persian rugs come from this Middle Eastern nation. Iran
9. If a Roman did not have a rug, he might consider this cheaper glass and tile artistic design instead. mosaic
10.He was poisoned, shot, hit with a poker, and wrapped up in a rug which was thrown in the Neva River. He drowned on 31 Dec. 1916 Rasputin
ROUND 4: Timed individual round, 8 individual prompts, +20 points each, no penalties, +25 points bonus for all answers correct, 90 seconds total.
Team 1:
1)This is Sylvia Plath's final book of poems; the famous title poem tells of a horseback ride and ends with “Fly/ Suicidal, into the red dawn.”
Answer: Ariel
2)In geometry, this is a 3D figure with 12 regular sides.
Answer: dodecahedron
3)This partly animated children's move stars Jennifer Connelly as a whiney babysitter who must defeat the goblin king David Bowie, lord of the title place.
Answer: Labyrinth
4)This number is twice the cube root of one divided by the quantity 2 over the cube root of 1.
Answer: 1
5)This final battle of the Revolutionary War saw British surrender.
Answer: Yorktown
6)This 70s rock band, fronted by Eric Clapton, sang hit songs such as “White Room.”
Answer: Cream
7)This Norse fertility goddess flew through the sky in a chariot drawn by gray cats, sometimes with her brother Fray.
Answer: Frayja
8)Meaning “touch and follow,” this is Bach's most famous work.
Answer: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
Team 2:
1)In this Sylvia Plath poem, the speaker denounces her German ancestry, embraces gypsy ideals, and projects anger onto the deceased title family member.
Answer: Daddy
2)In geometry, this is the point at which 2 sides of a plane figure meet.
Answer: vertex
3)This animated classic features Mia Farrow as the title beast, backed up by Angela Lansbury and Christopher Lee. She quests to find the lair of the Red Bull anfd the fate of her magical equine compatriots.
Answer: the Last Unicorn
4)An operation which exhibits this reversible property is integer addition.
Answer: commutative
5)This Virginia courthouse saw the surrender of Lee to Grant.
Answer: Appomattox
6)Loki's son, this mythical demon hound ate the hand of the God Tyr and will swallow the moon when Ragnarok comes.
Answer: Fenris wolf
7)Eric Clapton sang it with a pseudonym band, Derek and the Dominoes, toGeorge Harrison's wife: “you got me on my knees, baby.”
8)Something of a nocturne (it certainly puts me to sleep) is this most famous Brahms arrangement.
Brahms Lullaby in A Flat Major
ROUND 5: Grab Bag [15 questions, ±20 points, no bounce-back]
1. This land deal was the last territorial transfer made by Mexico and ensured that the US could lay a railroad line without obstacle. Santa Ana sold the Mesilla Valley in northwestern Mexico to the United States, which clarified the New Mexico border. Name this 1853 land deal that gave the United States purchased a strip of land in the Southwest for $10 million dollars.
Answer: The Gadsen Purchase
2. Born in 1882, this artist devoted himself to still life and was fascinated with objects and treated the human figure in the same way as the pieces of fruit and musical instruments he loved to paint. Name this painter of Harbor in Normandy and Man with a Guitar, who along with Pablo Picasso pioneered cubism.
Answer: Georges Braque
3)As guard at Santa Ana, California’s Mater Dei High in 2002-2003, he averaged 13.1 points per game and 4.4 rebounds in leading Mater Dei to a 35-2 record and the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) state title as a senior. He guarded LeBron James as the Mater Dei Monarchs took on James’ St. Vincent’s-St. Mary’s and forced James into seven turnovers. Name this new member of the Maryland Terrapins men’s basketball team, son of former major league baseball great Daryl.
Answer: D.J. Strawberry (prompt on Strawberry or Daryl Strawberry)
4. Its highest point is Fan si Pan in the North, and it is bordered by the South China Sea. The Red River flows into it from the North, and the Gulf of Thailand lies west of the country’s Southeastern tip. Name this nation, location of the Mekong River delta, whose major cities are Da Nang, Hanoi, and Ho Chi Minh City.
Answer: Vietnam
5. This realm’s name literally means “middle enclosure,” and it was also called Manaheim. It was surrounded by an ocean in whose depths lived Jormungand, a serpent so large that he encircled the world and bit his tail with his mouth, and one of the roots of the tree Yggdrasil ended here. Name this realm of Norse mythology, situated between Asgaard and Hel, where the visible earth was situated/
Answer: Midgard
6. This novel deals with the dichotomy between Catholicism and ancient spirituality in Mexico around the time of World War II. The protagonist of is Antonio Márez, who meets the title character when he is just a young boy. Name this book, whose culminating scene ends when the prophecizing title character’s owl is killed, causing her death as well, the best known work of Rudolfo Anaya.
Answer: Bless Me, Ultima
7. Born in Newark, New Jersey in 1756, he defeated General Philip Schuyler in 1791 to become Senator in New York. He purchased land in the Louisiana Territory and took 60 boats down the Ohio River, scandal that led to his trial for treason in 1807. Name this man, vice president under Thomas Jefferson, who is most famous for dueling and killing political opponent Alexander Hamilton.
Answer: Aaron Burr
8. He is a 45 year old virgin and lives with his parents, despite his master’s degree in folklore and mythology and I.Q. of 170. He is a notorious price gouger, and had an impressive collection of bootlegged videos before the police raided it. Name this obese, pony-tail wearing proprietor of The Android’s Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop on The Simpsons, who might call this the “worst—question—ever.”
Answer: Comic book guy
9. They were invented in 1614 to reduce the amount of time required to do long multiplication and division problems. The modern types are used in many areas of science and engineering where quantities vary over a large range, and its scale helps to make large measurements, as in the decibel scale for loudness of sound, the Richter scale of earthquake magnitudes, and the astronomical scale of stellar brightness. Name this mathematical tool, invented by James Napier.
Answer: logarithms
10. A man stuck in the same boring life is the subject of this poem, first published in Poetry magazine in 1915 that included the line “I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.” Name this first major poem of T.S. Eliot that memorably begins, “Let us go then you and I while the evening is spread out against the sky like a patient etherized upon a table.” Answer: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
11. He was born in New York City in 1908 and became the head of the psychology department at Brandeis University in 1951. He was a member of the humanistic school of psychology and he proposed a theory of motivation based on a categorization of needs. Name this influential psychologist, who believed that only after satisfying the lower needs could the highest need for the fulfillment of one's potential, or self-actualization, could be reached. Answer: Abraham Maslow
12. 140 million year-old fossil remains of this dinosaur were found at Como Bluff, Wyoming, and its brain was only one-tenth the size of a modern mammal with equivalent body bulk. Though large and small-brained, this dinosaur had bird-like features, such as avian style lungs. Name this huge, long-necked dinosaur, often called brontosaurus. Answer: Apatosaurus (accept brontosaurus before it is named)
13. Its highest point is Borah Peak, while in the southeast one can find Craters of the Moon National Park, where early astronauts trained. It also contains Shoshone Falls, where the Snake River plunges 212 feet, and Hells Canyon, the deepest gorge in North America. Name this state bordered by British Columbia, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, Montana, Oregon, and Washington, whose capital is at Boise.
Answer: Idaho
14. Born in Savannah, Georgia in 1925, her works often blended Catholic theology with southern gothic themes. A common theme in her novels is longing, which is very apparent in Wise Blood. Her most famous work, however, is a short story during which a family takes a road trip and all family members are shot by a man they meet on the side of the road, entitled “A Good Man is Hard to Find.”
Answer: Flannery O’Connor
15. Dowager Empress Tz’u-hsi ordered her troops to stop an expeditionary force, made up of Russian, British, German, French, American, and Japanese troops, was organized to proceed to Peking (now Beijing), put down the rebellion, and protect Western nationals. The Chinese government secretly supported this insurrection against foreigners during the Ch’ing dynasty in 1900, perpetrated by the "Righteous and Harmonious Fists," a rebel group who practiced their sparring skills.
Answer: Boxer Rebellion
16) 3. It is 100,000 times smaller than an atom and is small and dense. It is an alpha particle in a helium atom. Name this small, heavy mass discovered by Ernest Rutherford in 1919 when he bombarded gold foil and particles bounced back.
Answer: Nucleus