University of Maryland Fall Annual High School Tournament

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FALL ANNUAL HIGH SCHOOL TOURNAMENT GAME 9- FINALS Round 1 by Phil Durkos, 2 by Berkeley and Friends, 3 by Dan Greenstein, 4 by Phil Durkos, 5 by Phil Durkos, Adam Fine, and Kara Mohler, Editing by Phil Durkos

ROUND 1: 8 toss-ups, plus or minus 10 points, no bounce-backs. All answers in this round will begin with the letter “I.” 1)The Onondaga, Cayuga, Oneida, Seneca, and Mohawk tribes united to form this powerful political and military coalition. Iroquois League or Iroquois Confederacy or Iroquois Nation 2)In this Bob Marley song, covered in 1985 by Eric Clapton, the singer confesses to the title crime, but he “didn't shoot the deputy.” I Shot the Sherriff 3)This Frenchman was the student of David before painting his masterpiece, “Grande Odalisque.” Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres 4)The 9th-century diary of this Arab traveler was the historical basis for the novel “Clan of the Cave-Bear” and the movie “The 13th Warrior.” Ihaya ibn-Fadlan 5)This sister to Ereshkigal was the Babylonian goddess of love and fertility. Ishtar 6)In glaucoma, drainage canals are blocked and intra-ocular pressure builds up because this colored disc of the eye has warped and dilated. Iris 7)Today, sights to be seen in this city include a Hippodrome and the Church of Hagia Sophia. Istanbul 8)This Rumanian dramatist wrote absurdist tragicomedies such as “The Rhinoceros” and “The Bald Soprano.” Eugéne Ionesco

ROUND 2: Untimed individual round, 7 individual prompts, +20 points each, no penalties. Team 1: 1. The most numerous of seedless plants, they have leaves called fronds. What is the common name for pterophyta? Answer: Ferns

2. Originally invented by Tim Berners-Lee, it is a markup language comprised of tags that represent things like bold, italics, and paragraph. What is this file format used by web browsers for representing hypertext? Answer: html (hypertext markup language)

3. After he left the White House, he served in the House of Representatives and became a vocal critic of slavery. Name this president who died on the floor in Congress. Answer: John Quincy Adams

4.2-parts. What poet who said "the dull are damned" eschewed the use of capital letters in his poetry and even omitted punctuation in works such as Tulips and Chimneys? He collaborated with Housmann on what Housmann poem ending “Mithridates, he died old.” Answer: e.e. Cummings and Terence, this is stupid stuff

5. Stretching from the Northwest Territories down to New Mexico, what large mountain range also runs through Colorado? Answer: Rocky Mountains (Rockies)

6. Name the American psychologist who introduced humanism into the field and is best known for his chart of human development based on "the hierarchy of needs.”? Answer: Abraham Maslow Team 2:

1. 2 parts. The first use of concentration camps dates to what series of wars fought in South Africa between the Dutch settlers and the British crown? What British monarch reigned? Answer: The Boer Wars and Victoria

2. At what Olympic sport would you expect the Norse God Thor to excel? Answer: Hammer Toss

3. Most think Barry Bonds is a shoo-in to win the National League MVP, but with a .363 Batting Average and 43 Home Runs what St. Louis Cardinals Left Fielder is making a strong case? Answer: Albert Pujols

4.The first time he submitted a paper to the Annalen der Physik on the conservation of energy it was rejected because everyone thought that the idea of Phlogisten was still legitimate. What German scientist, a contemporary rival of Kirchoff has a namesake Free Energy? Answer: Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz

5. What does the H.M.S. stand for in H.M.S. Serapis? Answer: His (Her) Majesty’s Ship 6) What artist, whose farewell tour with Cyndi Lauper will end this spring scored a hit last year with the inspirational neo-disco tune “This Is a Song For the Lonely” off her “Living Proof” album, thirty-one years after her 1971 #1 hit, “Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves?” ROUND 3: 10 toss-ups, plus or minus 10 points each, no bounce-backs. Answer the following questions related to the color blue. This is the most famous recording of Miles Davis. ANSWER: Kind of Blue The Blue Mountains are located near Pendleton in this state located along the Oregon Trail. ANSWER: Oregon This Greek goddess was so obsessed with blue she had a blue mantle, a throne atop seven blue crystal steps and hung with lapis lazuli, and the peacock for an emblem. ANSWER: Hera Instead of red, yellow and blue, ink color print cartridges often come in yellow, magenta and this bluish color. ANSWER: cyan This theatrical group premiered their Complex Rock Tour in 2003. They have also appeared in Pentium commercials. ANSWER: Blue Man Group This national soccer team, nicknamed Les Bleus, did not win a match at the 2002 World Cup despite winning it all in 1998. ANSWER: France This Jim Henson creation is blue and likes a certain snack. ANSWER: Cookie Monster This '90s one-hit wonder alternative rock band sang “Breakfast At Tiffany's.” ANSWER: Deep Blue Something This Hindu mythological figure, the eighth avatar of Vishnu, is often called the Blue God. ANSWER: Krishna Universities with this mascot include Central Connecticut State University and Duke. ANSWER: Blue Devils

ROUND 4: Timed individual round, 8 individual prompts, +20 points, no penalties, +25 point bonus for all correct, 90 seconds total.

1.Considered by Elizabeth Browning to be her marterwork, this poem compares a woman to the dawn. Answer: Aurora Leigh

2.This all-purpose Muse of Greek mythology was the mother of Orpheus. Answer: Calliope

3.Celebrating the tenacity of its protagonists Tommy and Gina is this 1986 hit, the first number-one for Bon Jovi. Answer: Livin' On A Prayer

4. Which king of Hungary became a saint and is regarded as the greatest of the Arpad dynasty? Answer: Saint Stephen

5. The e-mail program Eudora was named after what prolific short story writer and novelist from Mississippi? Answer: Eudora Welty

6 After winning the U.S. Open, what young American is the number one ranked male Tennis Player? Answer: Andy Roddick

7. It is a long wire coil through which a current flows to make a magnetic field. The magnetic field is uniform inside it, save for the ends. Name this thing whose number of turns affects the magnitude of the magnetic field. Answer: Solenoid (accept Inductor, Solenoid is a special case)

8. 2003QQ47 might hit the Earth in 21 Mar 2014. 1950DA will hit in 2880. These are examples of what object which could end life as we know it, just as in a namesake popular, early video game? Answer: Asteroid

TEAM 2 1. What American captain, when ordered to surrender during the Revolution, responded "I have not yet begun to fight!" and captured the enemy ship? Answer: John Paul Jones 2. "Exterminate, Exterminate!" was the war cry of this race of highly dangerous trashcans, the nemesis of Dr. Who. Identify this race, meaner than the Borg merely wish to assimilate you. Answer: Daleks

3. In 1971 Bill Picket was the first black cowboy inducted into what? Answer: The Rodeo Hall of Fame

4 Religious fanatics defended an unconstitutional public monument in Alabama which depicted what religious document? Answer: Ten Commandments 5 Paul Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield share the 2003 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries that led to what body-scanning method of disease detection that reveals internal organs in 3- D detail? Answer: MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) 6 Which female flower organ is innermost in the flower and consists of the stigma, style, and ovary? Answer: Carpel 7 Defined in terms of the oscillation of a molecule in an atomic clock, what is the SI unit for time? Answer: Second 8 In King Lear, he is blinded and relies on Edgar for help. Earl of Gloster ROUND 5: 15 toss-ups, plus or minus 20 points. 1) Swabian noblemen began to use this name in the thirteenth century, taking it from a mountaintop where their original castle was built. The ruling line became the electors of Brandenburg in 1415, and in 1701 Leopold I took the title of King of Prussia. Name this dynasty that took control of the German-speaking people from the Hapsburgs in 1871 when William I was crowned as Emperor of a united Germany. Answer: Hohenzollern Dynasty 2)This hominid appeared in the Middle Pleistocene epoch and lasted longer than any other hominid species. It had a larger cranial capacity and much more human features than its predecessor, homo habilis, and it used more comnplicated tools. Name this most recent hominid ancestor of modern humans whose scientific name translates from Latin as “man the upright.” Answer: homo erectus 3)From the Greek for “mixing,” it is composed primarily of nitrogen and oxygen. The site of convection and most significant weather phenomenon, it is characterized by temperature gradients which rise with altitude, generally up to 50 kilometers from the Earth's surface. Name this densest layer of the atmosphere, beneath the stratosphere and closes to the Earth's surface. Answer: troposphere 4)This town is home to Buddy Cianci Junior High, Cleveland’s Deli, Flappy Jack’s, Hugs and Kisses Day Care, Channel 5 Studios, Mobster’s Bar and Grill, the Heaven’s Helpers Youth Cult Headquarters, the Happy-Go-Lucky Toy Factory, James Woods Memorial High School, the Pawtucket Patriot Brewery, and the Drunken Clam, all places frequented by characters on the TV show Family Guy. Answer: Quahog, (Coh-hog) Rhode Island 5)Characters include Natasha and Nikolai, but the two principle characters are young university students in St. Petersburg, representing a battle of ideologies. Arkady is intially infatuated with the protagonist's willful nihilist ideology and intellectual contempt, but eventually is rejected by the protagonist. He then finds his courage to stand up for everything beautiful in the world, telling the protagonist, “You are my fallen god, Bazarov.” Name this most famous novel by Ivan Turgenev. Answer: Fathers and Sons 6)The Enya song titled after this woman asserts that she was executed, but a more accurate account seems to suggest she committed suicide after being captured. A devotee of the warrior goddess Andraste, she assembled an army of over 50,000 men, twice the size her husband's force had been, and led it against the Romans. Name this warrior queen of the Celtic nation of Iceni who fought Rome from 50-61 AD. Answer: Boadicea or Boudicca 7)Many scholars have compared him to Christ, to Tezcatlipoca, and to Osiris, as he dies after a great betrayal but is prophesied to return. His mother, Frigg, asked all the plants and animals of the earth not to harm him, but she neglected the mistletoe. His blind twin, Hod, was tricked by Loki into shooting it at him, and he died, indicating the approach of Ragnarok. Name this Norse god of light. Answer: Baldr 8)Born in Kirkkonummi, he immigrated to the United States with his family at age 13. He worked with his father Eliel on the General Motors Technical Center, while with Charles Eames he designed furniture for New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Name this designer of the CBS Building, the TWA Terminal at Kennedy International Airport, and St. Louis’s Gateway Arch, perhaps the best-known Finnish architect. Answer: Eero Saarinen 9)Ambitious in his youth, he actually attempted to depose his father three times before succeeding to the throne of France in 1461 on the death of Charles VII. Famous for the elegance and ruthlessness of his politics, he married 8-year-old Margaret of Scotland to influence the Wars of the Roses in Lancaster favor. Name this Valois king famous for murdering the entire House of Anjou, earning the name Spider King. Answer: Louis XI Valois

10)Ridley Scott's favorite poet, his lines “Fiery the Angels fell/Deep thunder rolled around their shores” are quoted 3 times in his movies. In 1793, he outlined his mystical, pantheistic religious views in the verse epic “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.”“When the stars threw down their spears/ And watered Heaven with their tears” wrote what British poet in “The Tiger” from the collection “Songs of Experience?” Answer: William Blake 11) It is its planet's third-largest natural satellite. Like its more famous sister-moon, Europa, it is thought to contain underground oceans based on its irregular polarity readings and its albedo value of .15, the second-highest in the solar system. Name this Galilean moon of Jupiter named after a Greek woman turned into a bear by Artemis. ANSWER: Callisto

12)This city was so important strategically that under Soviet rule, it wasn't subject to its local oblast, but directly to Kiev. Founded in 1783, it became the home of the Black Sea Fleet, but it is now a popular seaside resort, with a year-round population of only a quarter million. Name this port city in the Ukraine which famously resisted siege for 11 months during the Crimean War. Answer: Sevastopol 13)A cluster of poor plowmen dominate the painting’s left side, carrying on about their work, while the a three-masted caravel is featured in the canvass’ center. Conversely, the title figure occupies only a tiny space in the bottom left corner. It is the inspiration for Auden's poem “Musée des Beaux-Arts.” Name this Elder Brueghel painting in which the mythological title character has fallen from the sky to drown. ANSWER: Fall of Icarus

14) This 1962 Supreme Court case involved a parent who did not want his sons reciting a state-written non-denominational prayer, and was the impetus for countless school prayer amendments that are still being introduced today. Name this case against the New York Board of Regents that struck down the prayer as a violation of the establishment clause. Answer: Engel v. Vitale 15)“Lips that would kiss form prayers to broken stone,” concludes the third and shortest section, bitterly parodying the first sonnet exchanged between Romeo and Juliet. The fourth part ends with the lamentation of the title characters, who “huddle together on the nether shore/ the broken jaw of lost our kingdoms.” For 10 points, identify this TS Eliot poem which begins by noting the inescapable mortality of Conrad’s Colonel Kurtz and ends “This is the way the world ends/ Not with a bang but a whimper.” ANSWER:The Hollow Men.

16) The line which ends each of its stanzas is frequently sung during his play The Glass Menagerie. Hailing the beauty, courage, and spirit of legendary heroines such as Heloise and Joan of Arc, it repeatedly demands, “Ou sont les neiges d’antan?” or “Where are the snows of yesteryear?” For ten points, identify this short poem written around 1480 by Francois Villon and translated by G. Dante Rossetti. ANSWER: La Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis or Ballad of the Ladies of Yore