1993 Dizzy Gillespie/Sun Ra Memorial Invitational November 12-13, 1993
CARLETON COLLEGE - BLUE
TOSS-UPS
Desdemona and Juliet are Shakespearean characters. So are Puck, Portia, Bianca, Ophelia, Oberon, Titania, Ariel, and Miranda. But they are also, for 10 points, among the 15 known moons orbiting which of the planets?
ANSWER: Uranus
Gretchen Merrill, Tenl~y Albright, Gary Visconti, Charles Tickner, Rosalynn Sumners, Todd 02- Eldrege, and Tiffany Chin. For 10 points, in what sport have each of these been U.S. champions?
ANSWER: figure skating
His name, which means "bullheaded" was given him because of his small ears and wide head, not, .5 as Montaigne declared, because he was so balky and hotheaded that none but Alexander could handle him. For 10 points, who was this legendary Macedonian steed?
ANSWER: Bucephalus
Named for a French pediatrician, it is an inherited disease of connective tissue in which arms and legs grow to abnormal lengths. Affected inviduals are underweight in spite of being extremely tall. For 10 points, name this condition, from which it is speculated that Abraham Lincoln may have suffered.
ANSWER: Marfan's syndrome
Its highest point is the 2690 ft. high Mt. Carleton in the north, while Fundy National Park is a 5 principal attraction of its southern shoreline. The Webster-Ashburton treaty settled its boundary dispute with the United States over the Aroostook river valley. For 10 points, identify this Canadian province whose capital is Fredericton.
ANSWER: New Brunswick
The son of a St. Paul, Minnesota barber, he was inducted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame in October 1993. In the late 1940s his cartoon "Li'l Folks" ran in the St. Paul Pioneer Press. FTP, identity this cartoonist whose current strip sometimes features hockey games played in fi birdbath. •
ANSWER: Charles Schulz Known previously as the East London Revival Society, and the Christian Revival Association, it has been known by its present name since 1878. Behind the evangelical and philanthropic 7 activities it now undertakes all over the world is a martial philosophy of war against evil. FTP, identify this organization founded by William Booth, which publishes the weekly journal War Cry.
ANSWER: The Salvation Army
Operation Petticoat, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Micki and Maude, Victor-Victoria, 10, and The Pink Panther. For ten points, who directed these films?
ANSWER: Blake Edwards
When, under hypnosis, he was asked to relive the assassination, he could only say "You can't send the bombers!" He was found guilty of pre-meditated murder of the first degree and the death penalty was recommended, but Senator Edward Kennedy's plea for leniency led to this sentence being commuted to life imprisonment. For 10 points, name this assassin apparently motivated by anger over his victim's campaign pledge to send 20 bomber planes to Israel.
ANSWER: Sirhan Sirhan
The first edition, written under the pseudonym "Democritus Junior", appeared in 1621, and /D four more editions were published in the author's lifetime. It is a vast and witty compendium of Jacobean knowledge about a particular disease or condition. For 10 points, identify this strange and celebrated book by the English clergyman Robert Burton.
ANSWER: Anatomy of Melancholy
His original interest was in electrical engineering, but he is said to have given up experiments ( I in that area after a fellow American advised him: "Hang your electricity! If you want to make your fortune, invent something which will allow those fool Europeans to kill each other more quickly." In 1884 he did just that. For 10 points, who was this inventor of the first automatic machine gun?
ANSWER: Hiram Stevens Maxim
In Greek mythology they were also known by the title "Dioscuri," meaning "sons of Zeus." They were also sons of Leda, as well as brothers of Helen and Clytemnestra. For ten points, who were these protectors of mariners, transformed at death into the constellation Gemini?
ANSWER: Castor and Pollux (or Polydeuces)
13 Oscar Wilde publishes De Profundis, while Freud publishes Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious. The Sinn Fein is organized in Dublin, while the Industrial Workers of the World is founded in Chicago. For 10 points, name the year, which also saw Albert Einstein propose his special theory of relativity, and the Treaty of Portsmouth conclude the Russo-Japanese War. ANSWER: 1905
Consider the following numbers: 3, 11, 19, 37, 55, and 87. As a group of numbers, they may not mean much to you. But as a group of elements, they may. For 10 points, what collective name is generally given to the elements Lithium, Sodium, Potassium, Rubidium, Cesium, and Francium?
ANSWER: alkali metals (also accept Group IA - one A)
For a quick ten points, name the Shakespearean character who speaks the following lines: "Father, and wife, and gentlemen adieu. I will to Venice, Sunday comes apace. We will have rings and things, and fine array; and kiss me, Kate, we will be married a' Sunday."
ANSWER: Petruchio (in The Taming of the ShreW)
It is a school of Greek philosophy founded about 400 BC by Antisthenes. The name, which in Greek means "doglike," is said to have been earned by their attitude of "snarling contempt" for ordinary people. For ten points, identify this philosophical approach perhaps most closely associated with the ascetic philosopher Diogenes.
ANSWER: Cynic(s) (or Cynicism)
II For a quick ten points, with what composer should you associate the titles Jeremiah Symphony, Chichester Psalms, The Age of Anxiety, Fancy Free, Candide, Mass (for the death of President Kennedy), and West Side Story?
ANSWER: Leonard Bernstein
The house of Wittelsbach ruled parts or all of it for more than 800 years. It's towns include WOrzburg, Regensburg, Oberammergau, Augsburg, and Nuremburg. For ten points, what is this largest of the administrative regions of Germany?
ANSWER: Bavaria (also accept: Bayern)
Consider these numbers: 7. 1956, 1957 and 1962. 536. 1974. For ten points, for what sports legend do these numbers represent, respectively: uniform number, years voted MVP, career home runs, and year of election to the Hall of Fame?
ANSWER: Mickey Mantle
Although born in Medford, Massachusetts, this successful author has long resided in Britain, which has provided the setting or subject for such books as The London Embassyand The Kingdom By the Sea. Some of his most popular writing has concerned exotic travels by rail, in books such as Riding the Iron Rooster and The Great Railway Bazaar. FTP, identify this author whose other titles include Saint Jack, My Secret History, and The Mosquito Coast. ANSWER: Paul Theroux
This painter's mature style stressed contours and subtle tonal transitions. In paintings such as 2..-{ 1926's Black Iris the subject is transformed into a powerful and erotic abstract image. In 1946, following the death of husband Alfred Stieglitz, she made her permanent home in New Mexico. FTP, identify this artist known for studies of flowers and skulls.
ANSWER: Georgia O'Keefe
Far From the Madding Crowd, The Shout, Duet for One, and the Go-Between are some of his films. For ten points, identify this English actor whose credits also include An Unmarried Woman, Zorba the Greek, Women in Love, and The King of Hearts.
ANSWER: Alan Bates
This physicist predicted the existence of neutrinos. He won a Nobel Prize in 1945 for his work z3 on atomic structure. And he gave his name to the principle stating that in a given system no two electrons, protons, neutons, or other elementary particles of half-integral spin can be characterized by the same set of quantum numbers. FTP, name this Austrian.
ANSWER: Wolfgang Pauli
WARNING! The Surgeon General has determined that "minus fives" can be hazardous to your team's chances of winning this match. For a quick but healthy ten points, who is the current U.S. Surgeon General?
ANSWER: Joycelyn Elders
The name is taken from a play of 1776 by Friedrich von Klinger. Writers associated with the movement include Herder, Goethe [GER-ta], and Schiller. For ten points, what is this term applied to the German early Romantic movement in literature and music, concerned with the depiction of extravagant passions?
ANSWER: Sturm und Orang (also accept: Storm and Stress)
Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, Magilla Gorilla, Scooby 000, The Jetsons, and The Flintstones. For ten points, all were created by what hyphenated independent animation company?
ANSWER: Hanna-Barbera
Ezra Stiles, Timothy Dwight, Kingman Brewster, A. Bartlett Giamatti, and Benno C. Schmidt. For 10 points, these men have all been president of what American university?
ANSWER: Yale Among his contributions to psychology is his formulation of the principle of synchronicity, representing the meaningful coincidence of causally unrelated events. He defined neurosis as "the suffering of the soul which has not discovered its meaning." For 10 points, identify this psychoanalyst who stressed that meaning can be found through dream-symbols in the form of archetypal images arising from what he termed the "collective unconscious."
ANSWER: Carl Gustav Jung
This nine-letter word refers to a real or apparent very slow oscillation of a satellite as viewed Zf( from the larger celestial body around which it revolves. Subtract one consonant and it denotes a liquid poured as a religious ritual. Add one vowel and it forms another word denoting a release from repression. For ten points, what is the original word?
ANSWER: libration [H.N.: libation and liberation are the other words referred to]
In 1922 Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall improperly leased naval oil reserve sites in 30 Wyoming to the Mammoth Oil Company. For 10 points, name this infamous scandal of the Harding presidency.
ANSWER: Teapot Dome 1993 Dizzy Gillespie/Sun Ra Memorial Invitational November 12-13, 1993
CARLETON COLLEGE - BLUE
BONUSES
(20 pts) It is an inexperienced College Bowl team indeed that cannot rattle off the names of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. We'll assume you can do that--but, for 10 points apiece, can you tell me:
A. Which of the "Seven Wonders" was located furthest east?
ANSWER: Hanging Gardens of Babylon
B. Which of the "Seven Wonders" was located furthest west?
ANSWER: Statue of Zeus at Olympus
2- (25 pts) For 5 points apiece, with what notable jazz musician should you associate each of the following popular compositions?
A. Take Five ANSWER: Dave Brubeck B. Sophisticated Lady ANSWER: Duke Ellington C. Moonlight Serenade ANSWER: Glenn Miller
D. Take the f':\ I Train ANSWER: Duke Ellington E. Round Midnight ANSWER: Thelonious MQnk
3 (30 pts) 30-20-10. Name the person.
A. In 1867 he published An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, and in 1888 a volume called Curiosa Mathematica.
B. Another of his publications was Sylvie and Bruno (1889).
C. He also wrote The Hunting of the Snark.
ANSWER: Lewis Carroll (Accept: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
(25 pts) In standard versions of the Biblical Old Testament, there are five books whose names begin with the letter "E". Name 3 for 10 points, 4 for 15, or all 5 for 25.
ANSWER: Exodus, Ezra, Esther, Ecclesiastes, Ezekiel
(30 pts) For 10 points apiece, identify the colorful nicknames for 'these military or paramilitary groups: A. The special force of military police employed by the British in 1920-21 to combat Irish nationalists in Ireland.
ANSWER: Black and Tans
B. The irregular troops led by Ethan Allen, who captured Fort Ticonderoga during the American Revolution.
ANSWER: Green Mountain Boys
C. Mussolini's fascist "Squadristi" in the 1920s.
ANSWER: Blackshirts
(20 pts) With the Cowboys' thrashing of the Bills in Super Bowl XXVII, the NFC has now won nine consecutive Super Bowls. For 20 points, the last AFC team to win the Super Bowl was what 38-9 victor over the Washington Redskins?
ANSWER: Los Angeles or Raiders
7 (25 pts) Pencil and paper ready? For 25 points, all or nothing, arrange the following divisions of the electromagnetic spectrum in order by wavelength, from longest to shortest: gamma rays, infrared, microwaves, radio waves, ultraviolet, and visible light.
ANSWER: radio waves. microwaves. infrared. visible light. ultraviolet. gamma rays
(30 pts) The following three quotations are taken from American movies of the 1950s. You will score 10 points apiece if you can name the film from the quotation alone, or 5 points if you can do so after I also provide the name of the character speaking the line.
A. "I'll cook and I'll work and I'll keep the land. But that is all--until I've got my dowry."
(Character: Mary Kate Danaher)
ANSWER: The Quiet Man
B. "There's no pain. Suddenly, while you're asleep, they'll absorb your minds, your memories. And you'll be reborn into an untroubled world."
(Character: Dr. Dan Kaufmann)
ANSWER: Invasion of the Body Snatchers
C. "If we bring a little joy into your humdrum lives, it makes us feel our work ain't been in vain for nothin'."
(Character: Una Lamont)
ANSWER: Singin' in the Rain (20 pts) In a 1537 treatise on architecture the Italian Sebastiano Serlio identified five "orders" of the Classical column. The first three to appear were the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian. For 20 points, name either of the other two.
ANSWER: Tuscan or Composite
(30 pts) 30-20-10. Name the dramatist from the titles of plays:
A. Old Times, and Mountain Language B. The Caretaker and Betrayal C. The Homecoming and The Birthday Party
ANSWER: Harold Pinter
(25 pts) The largest city in a country is frequently also the capital city, but not always. For this bonus I will give you the name of a national capital, and, for 5 points apiece, you reply with the name of that country's most populous city. Caution: it mayor may not be the same as the capital.)
A. Riyadh ANSWER: Riyadh B. Islamabad ANSWER: Karachi C. Brasilia ANSWER: Sao Paulo D. Rabat ANSWER: Casablanca E. Wellington ANSWER: Auckland
(20 pts) In humans it is a small piece of tissue attached to the posterior wall of the third ventricle of I~ the brain. It secretes a hormonelike substance, melatonin, thought to influence rhythms of activity. You will score 20 points if you can attach the correct name to this body or gland.
ANSWER: Pineal gland
I} (30 pts) 30-20-10. Name the person. A. He served in the House of Representatives from 1903 to 1907, but was defeated as candidate for mayor of New York city in 1905 and 1909 and for governor of New York in 1906.
B. His mistress was the actress Marion Davies.
C. His castle at San Simeon, California, won fame for its huge art collections.
ANSWER: William Randolph Hearst
1~M. (25 pts) Put on your "history of Physics" thinking caps, and, for 5 points apiece, tell me the century in which each of the following occurred:
A. Ohm's Law established ANSWER: 19th B. Brownian motion first observed ANSWER: 19th C. Avogadro's hypothesis proposed ANSWER: 19th D. Mossbauer's effect discovered ANSWER: 20th E. Boyle's Law established ANSWER: 17th
(30 pts) This bonus asks you to "Party on, dudes!" For 10 points apiece, identify the political party which:
A. Has been the governing party in India for most of the period since independence came in 1947
ANSWER: Congress Party
B. Has dominated Mexican politics since the 1920s
ANSWER: Institutional Revolutionary Party (accept: PRI)
C. Has dominated postwar Japanese politics
ANSWER: Liberal Democratic Party (accept: LDP)
16 (25 pts) Latin American literature has been exceptionally good since the end of World War II. We all know about Borges and Garcia Marquez; how well do you know some of the other contributors to this surge of quality. Score five points apiece for identifying:
A. The Mexican author of The Death of Artemio Cruz ANSWER: Carlos Fuentes B. The Brazilian author of Gabriella, Clove and Cinnamon ANSWER: Jorge Amado C. The Chilean author of The House of the Spirits ANSWER: Isabel Allende D. The Peruvian author of The War at the End of the World ANSWER: Mario Vargas Llosa E. The Argentine author of Hopscotch ANSWER: Julio Cortazar rtf (25 pts) For five points apiece, identify the historically decisive battle from a brief description:
A. 202 BC, in present-day Tunisia. Scipio Africanus Major defeated Hannibal.
ANSWER: Zama
B. 1346, in northern France. Edward III of England defeated Philip VI of France.
ANSWER: Crecy
C. 1777, in New York state. Resulted in the surrender of General Burgoyne.
ANSWER: Saratoga
D. 1870, in northeastern France. Resulted in the capture of Napoleon Ill.
ANSWER: Sedan
E. 1954, in Vietnam. General Giap encircled a garrison of 11,000 French soldiers.
ANSWER: Dienbienphu (20 pts) First, for 10 points, what term derived from the Latin for "under penalty" denotes a writ requiring a person to give evidence before a court or judicial official at a specific time and place?
ANSWER: subpoena
Now for an additional 10 points, spell "subpoena."
ANSWER: S-U-B-P-O-E-N-A
If (30 pts) 30-20-10. Identify the person from three clues to his identity:
A. The lives of his parents forms the theme of Charles Reade's classic historical novel The Cloister and the Hearth.
B. He entered an AugustiJ"-monastery near Gouda in 1487, and was ordained a priest in 1492. From 1509-14 he was professor of divinity and Greek at Cambridge.
C. In 1509 he published his famous Encomium Moriae.
ANSWER: Desiderius Erasmus [H.N.: Encomium Moriae is usually translated as Praise of Folly]
(20 pts) At the beginning of November Major League Baseball's management's Player Relations Committee released official figures ranking the current payrolls of all 28 franchises. Four clubs had total payrolls under $18 million, significantly lower than the the other 24 franchises ranging from $21 to $52 million. You will score 5 points apiece for each of the four currently "cheapest" franchises you can name.
ANSWER: San Diego or Padres ($12.8 million) Colorado or Rockies ($14.9 million) Cleveland or Indians ($16.5 million) Montreal or Expos ($17.6 million)
(25 pts) Ever since 1914 the experience of the "Great War" has been a compelling theme for writers who took part in it. For 5 points apiece, identify the authors of each of the following books about the First World War: (
A. Goodbye to All That ANSWER: Robert Graves B. The Memoirs of George Sherston ANSWER: Siegfried Sassoon C. All Quiet on the Western Fronf ANSWER: Erich Maria Remargue D. Three Soldiers ANSWER: John Dos Passes E. The Good Soldier Schweik ANSWER: Jaroslav Hasek
-~ (20 pts) Score 10 points apiece for correctly navigating the following geographical questions:
A. What two islands are separated by the Windward Passage? ANSWER: Cuba and Hispaniola (accept either "Haiti" or "Santo Domingo" in place of "Hispaniola". Do NOT accept "Dominican Republic)
B. What two islands are separated by Cook Strait?
ANSWER: North and South Islands, New Zealand (being an easy-going sort, I would say accept an answer like "the two islands of New Zealand. I suppose.)
(30 pts) For 10 points apiece, which American Presidents wrote memoirs or autobiographies with the following titles:
A. The Vantage Point ANSWER: Lyndon Johnson B. Keeping Faith ANSWER: Jimmy Carter C. A Time to Heal ANSWER: Gerald Ford
(30 pts) From the definitions given, give the term associated with the stock market, for 10 points each.
A. The division of the outstanding shares of a corporation into a larger number of shares.
ANSWER: split
B. A right to buy or sell specific securities or properties at a specified price within a specified time.
ANSWER: option
C. A class of stock with a claim on the company's earnings before payment may be made on common stock. It is usually entitled to priority over the common stock if the company liquifies.
ANSWER: Preferred stock
(20 pts) His early fame resulted from his vivid accounts of travel in the slaveholding South of the 1850s, but he is best known as the landscape architect principally responsible for the planning of Central Park in New York, as well as parks in Boston, Buffalo, Montreal, Chicago, and elsewhere. For 20 points, name him.
ANSWER: Frederick Law Olmstead