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Carleton Blue.Pdf 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.
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