VETO V: Pack by Junta Reunion Tour 2003 (Carlos, Hanson, Mike and Sarah)
VETO V: Pack by Junta Reunion Tour 2003: A Priest, a Rabbi, and Lou Ferrigno
(Carlos, Hanson, Mike and Sarah)
Toss Ups
1. He leaves behind his wife Theresa, his sons, and his daughter Mari to pursue wealth and power abroad. He is short, illiterate, dim-witted, honest, and he is devoted to his donkey Dapple. His fantasy of becoming the governor of an island comes true after he whips himself 3300 times, in the process disenchanting Dulcinea. He proved to be a good ruler, though he was only in charge for a week. FTP, name this peasant, the neighbour and squire of Don Quixote.
answer:Sancho Panza (accept either name)
2.Set in Vienna in 1800, its libretto was written by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. The title character is abandoned on a desert island when some clowns led by Zerbinetta arrive to cheer her up. Also in the cast is Bacchus, the god of fun! FTP, name this 1912 opera by Richard Strauss that features an opera within an opera.
answer: Ariadne auf Naxos
3.Its followers reject naturalism and the existence of unobservable matter, but believe that anything that can be made evident, such as numbers and conscious life, can then be known. First developed in Germany prior to World War I, it is based on the notion that reality is made up of objects and events perceived by the human consciousness and not of anything independent of it. FTP, name this school of philosophy pioneered by the likes of Martin Heidegger and Edmund Husserl, that takes its name from a work by Hegel.
answer:phenomenology
4.Separating DNA strands, marking the ends of the segment to be copied, and catalyzing the formation of bonds are the three steps in this technique. Developed by Kary Mullis, it won him a Nobel Prize in 1983. FTP, name this technique for generating DNA fragments by separating the DNA into two strands and incubating it with oligonucleotide primers and DNA polymerase.
answer:Polymerase Chain Reaction
5.Known as “The Little Doctor” and “Skookum Tumtum,” a childhood disease left him with a deformed back. Born 1849 in Pictou, Nova Scotia, he attended the School of Mines in London, England before joining the Canadian Boundary Commission in 1873. In 1875 he was appointed to the Canadian Geological Survey, and in 1896, he became the president of the Geological Society of America. FTP, identify this geologist for whom two northern Canadian cities are named.
answer:George Dawson
6.One album by this name was released in Europe in 2002, featuring songs like Blizzard of ’77 and Inside of Love. Barsuk released that Nada Surf LP in North America in 2003, but it was another album by the same name that captured the hearts of the general public with songs like Anything But Ordinary and Mobile, and hit singles like I’m With You, Losing Grip, Sk8er Boi [Skater Boy], and Complicated. FTP, name this multiple platinum debut album from Napanee, Ontario’s Avril Lavigne.
answer:Let Go
7. His boss has nicknamed him “turd blossom“ and “boy genius,” and the latter is also the title of an unauthorized biography about him. Another biography is entitled "Bush's Brain," and on TV, he was played by Kurt Fuller on Comedy Central's “That's My Bush!” After spearheading the ouster of former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, some have called him the "101st senator." FTP, name this senior advisor to George W. Bush
answer: Karl Rove
8. Sacagjawea, Georgia O’Keeffe, Emily Dickson, and Sappho were among those represented in this work. First exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1979, the 999 names written on its floor tiles represented the imaginary guests for the titular event. The place settings configured in a triangle symbolized an additional 39 prominent female invitees, each uniquely depicting vulvic imagery designed to dislodge the cultural primacy of the phallus. FTP, identify this installation piece named for an imaginary event, a work compiled by Judy Chicago.
answer:The Dinner Party
9.It started with people gathering at the titular location to commemorate a death and voice their discontent towards the government. The gathering soon became protest, which lasted for over a month. The crowd, the majority of whom are students, demanded were more democracy, less corruption, and more accurate press coverage. A famous picture of this incident has a student standing in front of line of tanks. FTP, name this massacre that took place on June 4th, 1989 that shares its name with the location where it occurred.
answer:Tiananmen Square Massacre
10.Characters from this work include James, the intelligent and ambitious patriarch, and Materia, his Lebanese bride that he married when she was 13. Centred on the lives of their four daughters -- the beautiful Kathleen, the saintly Mercedes, the mischievous Frances, and the handicapped Lily -- this novel tells the multi-generational tale of the Piper family from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. FTP, identify this 1997 winner of multiple literary awards, the first published novel by Canadian Ann-Marie MacDonald.
answer:Fall on Your Knees
11.Slightly smaller than Montana in area, human habitation of this country traces back to 7200 BCE and included the ancestors of the present-day Sami. Located on the Gulf of Bothnia, it has more than 60,000 lakes and is the location of the northern most capital on the European continent. FTP, name this country with a population of just over 5 million whose capital is at Helsinki.
answer:Finland
12.Milk is 7. Orange Juice is 3. Eggs are 8. Milk of Magnesia is 10. One of its many uses is to determine the water quality for streams and rivers. A scale to measure the concentration of hydrogen atoms in a solution, it ranks items on a relative 0-14 scale, and items less than 1 or greater than 13 are hazardous and extremely corrosive. FTP, name this scale which classifies solutions as being either basic or acidic.
answer:pH scale
13.Chitlins, oxtail, snoots, mustard greens with ham hock, chicken and waffles, red beans and rice, collard greens, corn bread, grits, and sweet potato pie are examples of this cuisine. Developed in the American south, it has been featured on TV as a top food trend of the 1960s. FTP, name this culinary style, the namesake of a movie starting Vanessa L. Williams and Vivica A. Fox.
answer:soul food
14. Often symbolized by the sistrum reed, the snake, and the papyrus, her image could also be used to form the capitals of columns in Egyptian architecture. Her principal sanctuary was at Dandarah, where her cult had its early focus and where it may have had its origin, and she was often regarded as the mother of the Egyptian pharaoh. Depicted either as a cow, or in human form wearing a crown consisting of a sun disk held between the horns of a cow, identify, FTP, this Egyptian goddess whose name appears to mean "house of Horus."
answer:Hathor
15.After being wounded in WWI, he obtained his PhD in political economy at the University of Chicago, writing his thesis on the Canadian Pacific Railway. During his time at the U. of Toronto, he tackled subjects like the fur trade and the cod fisheries in his writings and devised a theory of economic growth for Canada that hinges on the exportation of natural resources. FTP, name this Canadian political economist and communications theorist, a chief proponent of the Staples Theory.
answer:Harold Innis
16.It inspired the title of Sarah McLachlan’s breakout 1993 album, and ironically, its title comes from an ode by Horace that praising the nobility of war. The line “deaf even to the hoots” probably referred to the noise made by artillery shells, while “the clumsy helmets” most likely referred to gas masks. FTP, name identify this poem, posthumously published in 1920, a work describing a gas attack during WWI written by Wilfred Owen.
answer:Dulce Et Decorum Est
17.His high school education was interrupted when he had to help harvest crops in Bavaria during WWI, but that didn’t stop him from becoming a professor at the University of Gottingen at the age of 22. Realizing the limitations of visual models, he applied a mathematical system to atomic physics, a method called matrix mechanics. During WWII, he was the director of the German atom bomb project. FTP, name him, the namesake of a “bridge” and an uncertainty principle, winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics.
answer:Werner Heisenberg
18.Tere [terry] Joyce has spiked hair and cries a lot. Sean Kent is a cancer survivor from Texas. Ralphie May moved away from there and now lives in Da Hood. Rich Vos is the Don. Rob Cantrell and Dave Mordal were kicked off the show prematurely. Dat Phan is just wants to be a sitcom star and is using stand up comedy to get him there. The above contestants all compete on, FTP, this NBC reality show hosted by Jay Mohr that awards the winner a talent contract as well as his own Comedy Network special.
answer:Last Comic Standing: The Search for the Funniest Person in America
19.Some have wondered if this company’s recent lawsuit was financed by Microsoft. It was founded in 1994 by Ransom Love and Bryan Sparks, but changed its name when it acquired a company that owned the patents for the source code of the UNIX operating system. FTP, name this company formerly known as Caldera, the focus of the ire of the pro-Linux crowd after threatening to assert intellectual property rights over the GNU/Linux [gen-noo lin-nex] operating system.
answer:SCO Group (do not accept Caldera)
20.Rooted in various political struggles among European monarchs as well as between various factions within the Church itself, this event occurred in 1378 with the death of Gregory XI and the subsequent election of Urban VI, whose election was disputed by a rival faction of cardinals who instead offered up their own candidate, Clement VII. FTP, identify this dispute that was finally resolved by the Council of Constance and its election of Benedict XIII.
answer:Great Schism
21.Some of this author’s early works include “The Catch” and “Lavish are the Dead,” both published in 1957 when he was still a student of French literature in university. In 1964’s A Personal Matter, he wrote about his coming to terms with his mentally ill son who was born with a cranial deformity. FTP, name this writer born on the island of Shikoku in 1935, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature.
answer:Kenzaburo Oe [oh-eh]
22. Given a weighted, directed, and connected graph G=(V,E) with no non-negative vertices and V being the number of vertices and E being the number edges, the time to run it is O(V2) [oh of vee square], and implementing it with a heap improves its speed to O(E + V*log(V)) [oh of e plus vee log vee]. First presented in 1959, this greedy algorithm is used to find the shortest path between two vertices in G. FTP, name this algorithm named for a Dutch computer scientist.
answer:Dijkstra’s algorithm
23.First visited by the Lenape (lúen-a-pea) people in the 1300s, these mountains were then a source of industry for the Dutch, British and Swedish settlers who harvested the timber located there for use in nearby cities like Philadelphia. In the 1840s, summer hotels began to replace the logging camps, and by the 1940s over 300 hotels and resorts were there, many built and run by Jewish owners. FTP, name this southwestern New York resort area, which saw it's heydays from 1940s to the '60s, the setting of movies like 'A Walk on the Moon' and 'Dirty Dancing'.
answer:Catskills
24.Born on the Island of Guernsey in 1769, he joined the army in 1785. As his regiment's commander he served with Admiral Nelson in Holland and in 1802 was ordered to bring his regiment to Canada. FTP, name this famous general who was killed October 13, 1812 at the battle of Queenston Heights.
answer: General Issac Brock
VETO V: Pack by Junta Reunion Tour 2003 (Carlos, Hanson, Mike and Sarah)
Boni
1.Identify the plays from characters, F15PE, or F5PE if you need the playwright:
(15) Vladimir, Gogol, Pozzo, Lucky, and the boy
(5) Samuel Beckett
answer: Waiting For Godot
(15) Lee, Austin, Saul, and Mom
(5) Sam Shepard
answer: True West
2. Given the brightest star in the constellation, name it. 5-10-15.
(10)Sirius
answer:Big Dog or Canis Major
(10)Aldebaran
answer:Taurus or the Bull
(10)Arcturus
answer:Bootes or the Herdsman or the Bear-Driver
3.In honour of Marc-Vivien Foe, answer the following questions about Cameroonian soccer FTP.
(10)In which year did Cameroon make it out of the African qualifying group and make its first appearance in the World Cup?
answer:1982
(10)What’s the furthest stage Cameroon has advanced in the World Cup, achieving the feat in 1990?
answer:quarter-finals
(10)This Cameroonian legend led the way in Italia ’90, scoring 4 goals during the improbable march to the quarters by the Indomitable Lions. He is also the oldest player to score a goal at the World Cup, doing so at the ripe old age of 42 at USA ‘94.
answer:Roger Milla (accept Albert Roger Miller)
4. For ten points each, name these psychologists who study moral development.
(10)Better known for his work on the stages of cognitive development, he devoted some time to consider moral development as well. His three stages of morality are 'premoral', 'heteronomous morality', 'autonomous morality'
answer:Jean Piaget
(10)He expanded on Piaget's moral development work and came up with three levels made up of six stages, and as the joke goes, he only considered Gandhi, Martin Luther King and himself to have reached the sixth stage. Most people stop developing at stage three or four. He used a series of social dilemmas, the most famous of which involved Heinz and whether or not he should steal an unaffordable drug for his wife dying of cancer.
answer:Lawrence Kohlberg
(10)Kohlberg’s main opponent, she thinks that his theory shows a gender bias, finding it a flaw that both Piaget and Kohlberg only studied boys. She feels women's morality is based in care and relationships, rather than justice and conflicts between individuals, and that, on Kohlberg's scale, a care ethic is limited to stage 3. She feels, on Kohlberg's scale, women are made out to be the moral inferiors to men.
answer:Carol Gilligan
5.Name these people involved in the 2010 Vancouver Olympic bid for TSNPE.
(10) The president of the Vancouver Bid Committee
answer:John Furlong
(10)The chairman and CEO of the Bid Corp.
anwer:Jack Poole
(10)FFPE, the mayors of Whistler and Vancouver.
answer:Hugh O'Reilly and Larry Campbell (prompt on Campbell)
6.Given works, identify the philosopher for ten points each.
(10) Democracy and Education, Reconstruction in Philosophy, The School and Society.
answer:John Dewey
(10)City of God, Confessions
answer:St. Augustine
(10)On the Improvement of the Understanding, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, Ethics
answer:Baruch Spinoza
7.ACTION BONUS time! Pick one of your team to be the prima-ballerina to perform this action bonus about Ballet positions, FTPE. All team members are allowed to confer on an answer, but only one must perform. Only foot position is required. (Check out the pictures in the last page for clarifications of the positions)
(10) First position
answer:(Heels touching, feet turned out as wide as possible-- at least 45 degrees)
(10) Fifth position
answer: (Heel to toe, feet as parallel as possible, right toes going right, left toes going left.)
(10) Fourth position
answer: (Like 5th but front leg moves forward, so that front foot is a foot or so ahead of the back foot.)
8. On a 5-10-15 basis, name these Fathers of Confederation. Note: locations mentioned are the individual's Canadian homes and not necessarily those from which they emigrated.
(5) A well-known lawyer from Kingston and member of the Conservative Party, he served as co-Premier of the United Province of Canada between 1856-1862
answer:John A. MacDonald
(10)He entered politics in 1848 as the representative for the riding of Vercheres. During the 1837 rebellion he was linked with the Patriotes, and he would later become co-Premier with John A. MacDonald between the years 1857 and 1862 and would argue for a federal form of government during the Confederation Conferences.
answer: George-Etienne Cartier
(15) A well-known political reformer from Toronto, he founded the Globe newspaper in 1843, reorganized the Clear-Grit Party in 1857 and was a major proponent of legislative union at the Confederation Conferences.
answer: George Brown
9.Answer these questions about young Jane Eyre for 10 points each:
(10)This is the name of the horrible school Jane attends as a child and later becomes a teacher at.
answer:Lowood School.
(10)This is Jane's best friend at Lowood.
answer:Helen Burns
(10)The name of the owner of Thornfield Manor, where she works as a governess after leaving Lowood, and her eventual fiancee.
answer:Edward Rochester or Mr. Rochester