Illinois On Beyond Zebra Round 8 The Packet of Sex, Death, Racism and other Cool Things Written by NKVD--James Anderson, Maribeth Swiatek and Martin Stroup
1. The results of his work were later successfully applied to the reeducation of Soviet dissidents, in which their attitudes were changed using isolation, sensory deprivation and small acts of kindness. His work found that when put though sensory overload, sleep deprivation and physical exhaustion, dogs became demoralized and completely forgot what they had learned in previous trials. For ten points name this Russian physiologist best known for his study of the digestive glands and reflex behavior. Answer: Ivan _Pavlov_
2. Waving his deformed arm, he cried, "That sorceress, my brother's wife and others with her-see how they have wasted my body with ... witchcraft." He then had the Archbishop of York and Lord Hastings arrested, declaring "I will not dine until I have their heads." Other people he supposedly had killed were his brother Clarence, Richard of York and Edward V. For ten points name this English king who followed these men by dying at Bosworth Field.
Answer: _Richard lIe or _Richard of Gloucester_
3. Using the slogan "Equal Rights for All-Special Privileges for None", this group opposes affirmative action, welfare, reverse discrimination, immigration and gun control. Founded by David Duke, they call themselves a group of Patriotic Americans who support white rights in America. For ten points name this group which was formed in reaction to the tactics of the NAACP.
Answer: _NAAWP _ or _National Association for the Advancement of White People_
4. After convincing her husband Valerian to respect her virginity and converting him to Christianity, she was arrested for refusing to honor the Roman gods. She was sentenced to be boiled alive in her own bath, but escaped unharmed. Soldiers then attempted to behead her three times, but they failed to cut through her neck and she was left bleeding in the street for three days before dying. For ten points name this saint who was the subject of odes by Dryden, Handel and Purcell for her role as patron saint of music.
Answer: Saint _Cecilia_
5. Among the more interesting recollections in his most famous work are his love of pornographic books and his wife's annoyance at his fondling of her maid's breasts each morning, and there is a special mark for each time he masturbated. The work, which was discontinued in 1669 because of his failing eyesight, was written in a shorthand which was not deciphered until 1825. For ten points name this famous English diarist.
Answer: Samuel _Pepys_
6. French bread supposedly was originally an offering worshipers made to this god in the shape of his best-known feature. The son of Aphrodite and either Hermes or Dionysus, for an unknown reason Hera was offended by the union, cursing him with a huge belly and a continuously erect phallus which curved over his shoulder and pointed to his rear. For ten points name this god of gardens and fertility. 7. According to the Kama-Sutra, this is the sitting sexual position in which each person extends their left leg straight and uses the right to encircle their lover's waist and lays it across the left. In Indian culture, it is a good-luck talisman which represents a cross whirling sunward, but will bring doom if displayed backwards. For ten points name this symbol which the Nazis sacrilegiously had whirling widdershins.
Answer: _The Swastika_
8. In 1769, he narrowly escaped the death penalty for breaking into a convent and trying to abduct a novice whom he lusted after. In 1792, he miraculously survived a nasty case of lead poisoning, although it left him permanently deaf. In 1819, he made it through a yellow fever epidemic that killed thousands in Madrid, and then moved into the house known as La Quinta del Sordo, the walls of which he decorated with his famous Black Paintings. For ten points name this court painter to Charles IV who died of natural causes almost exactly twenty years after 'The Third of May, 1808'.
Answer: Francisco Jose _Goya_ y Lucientes
9. Virtually paralyzed by an attack of polio, he devised a harness which allowed him to get out of bed, but in 1944, he accidentally strangled himself with it. His first work was in reducing engine knock, which he did with the additives ethyl iodide and tetraethyl lead. He proved the safety of his major discovery by breathing in a lungful of the new refrigerant he had created. For ten points name this American chemist who created freon.
Answer: Thomas _Midgley _, Jr.
10. It started in 1833 in the rural Catholic districts of northern Spain when Isabella II was chosen to succeed her father Ferdinand VIII over her brother Don Carlos. Three civil wars were fought over this dynastic cause, in 1833-40, 1846-9 and 1872-6. For ten points name this movement which was adopted by the ultra-right parties and joined the Nationalists in the Spanish Ci viI War.
Answer: _Carlism_ or _Carlist_ movement
11. Some legends say that from his retirement on the island of Euboea, he observed the tides on Aegean Sea from some cliffs. He was unable to explain why their frequency was different from that of the rest of the Mediterranean, and in despair flung himself into the sea and drowned. Born in 384 BC to the physician of the Macedonian court, his career in philosophy and science made Darwin remark that other intellectuals "were mere schoolboys compared to" this man. For ten points name this author of First Philosophy, Nicomachean Ethics, and Physics.
Answer: _Aristotle_
12. Founded to 'protect the weak, the innocent and the defenseless ... to relieve the injured and oppressed; [and] to succor the suffering', its name comes from the Greek work for 'circle'. Its best known version was founded in 1915 by William Simmons, and it is run by the Grand Cyclops of the Den, the Grand Titan of the Dominion, the Grand Dragon of the Realm, and its autocrat, the Grand Wizard of the Empire. For ten points name this organization originally found in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee by Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Answer: _Klu Klux Klan_ or _KKK_
13. The propane heater wasn't keeping Martin Raynes' pool at 90 degrees, so he hired Bart Torpey of Recreational Concepts to figure out what was wrong. Special installation instructions were disregarded, however, and the new exhaust pipe was too short, pouring deadly gas into the basement of the Southampton, NY guest cottage. For ten points name the sports announcer and winner of the 1977 Australian Open singles title who was sleeping in the upstairs bedroom and was found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning on September 18, 1994.
Answer: Vitas _Gerulaitis_
14. Although he served as a mule driver during the construction of Mount Wilson observatory, it was his sexual relationship with one of the engineer's daughters that led him to fill in for the night telescope assistant one night. He went on to become one of the foremost observational astronomers in the world, despite the fact he quit school after 8th grade. For ten points name this American scientist who, with Edwin Hubble, determined that most galaxies were receding from our own. Answer: Milton _Humason_
15. In the end, Senator Clarke's son Fred misses in his attempt to shoot the nigger. He returns to Lizzie MacKay's apartment and tells her that he will put her up in a fancy house with lots of servants and money and visit her as his concubine, because she has finally agreed to lie, so that cousin Thomas does not go to jail for killing another black man. For ten points name this 1946 play about a title female by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Answer: _The Respectful Prostitute_ or _La Putain Respectueuse_
16. History records that she lived a long life and married Philip of Trachonitus and Aristobulus of Calchas. Opera has her stepfather order her to be crushed to death under his soldier's shields, even though he lusts after her fifteen-year old body. This was done because she picked up the head of the man just executed and lavished it with kisses to the horror of Herodias and Herod. For ten points name this Biblical woman who wanted John the Baptist's head in a Richard Strauss opera.
Answer: _Salome_
17. At his baptism, Archbishop Dunstan exclaimed, "By God and His mother, this will be a sorry fellow!", when he defiled the sacrament with a bowel movement. Succeeding his half-brother Edward the Martyr in 978, his reign is characterized by his nickname Unraed, which is often translated at the Redless or Bad Council, partly because he lost the battle of Maldon to the Danes. For ten points name this English king whose best known nickname is the Unready.
Answer: _Ethelred_ II the Unready
18. There have been a total of 524 of them, including the first, Margie Harrison. Currently receiving $20,000, other notables have been Liv Lindeland, Janet Pilgrim, Elizabeth Roberts, Marion Stafford and Kimberley Conrad. The first appeared in January 1954, because Sweetheart of the Month was the title given to Marilyn Monroe. For ten points name this pictorial honor bestowed to the 'girl next door' by Hugh Hefner.
Answer: _Playmate of the Month_
19. From a literary standpoint, his best works are about Polish-Jewish farm life and are published in A Light for Others and Other Jewish Tales from Galicia. From a historical standpoint, he is known for the works The Legacy of Cain, False Ermine, and Venus in Furs, and the peculiar pathology of several of their characters. For ten points name this Austrian novelist who lent his name to the term for sexual gratification derived from receiving pain.
Answer: Leopold von Sacher-_Masoch_
20. Victor Weisskopf and Hans Bethe volunteered to kill him themselves, but instead the OSS sent agents over to a lecture he was giving in Zurich. When they got there, they found that the lecture was not about nuclear fusion at all, but an obscure concept called S-matrix theory, which they considered to be no threat. For ten points name this German scientist most famous for matrix mechanics and the uncertainty principle.
Answer: Werner Karl _Heisenberg_
Historians consider this man to be the most qualified person never to reach the Supreme Court, and Louis Brandeis said of him 'his opinions are the best Federal Court opinions that come before the Supreme Court for review.' Appointed to the Federal bench by Taft in 1909, he served until his death in 1961, the longest of any judge in history. For ten points name this man sometimes called the Tenth Justice who also had an interesting name.
Answer: Learned _Hand_
Discovered by Pedro de Mascarenhas in the early 16th century, whose name is applied to the Mascarene Islands of which it is the largest member, it was named Bourbon when claimed by the French in 1643 for use as a penal colony. Created a Department of France in 1946, and has its capital at Saint-Denis. For ten points name this island which is located 400 miles southeast of Madagascar.
Answer: _Reunion_
It is found in such systems as water dripping from a faucet, computer circuits, lasers, the hairs on crayfish tails and neurons. This phenomenon is the improvement in non-linear systems of the response to minute signals which had been undetectable until the addition of noise to the signal. For ten points name this type of resonance.
Answer: _Stochastic resonance_ Accept on early buzz: _Non-linear system_
The name is the same. The British historian who in 1926 proposed a theory that a race he called the Aryans, who lived in the steppes north of the Black Sea around 6,000 years ago, began to migrate to the east and west and were the spreaders of the Indo European language group. It is also the first name of a Byron hero who goes on a pilgrimage through Portugal, Spain, Greece and Belgium because he is disillusioned with his life of pleasure. For ten points give the common name.
Answer: _Childe_ [V. Gordon Childe + Childe Harold] Boni for Illinois' Seuss Tournament 1997 Round 8 The Packet of Sex, Death, Racism and other Cool Things Written by James Anderson, Maribeth Swiatek and Martin Stroup
1.Identify the following divisions of the Nazi police on a 10-5 basis. 1. Ten points. Headed by Heinrich Muller from 1936-45, its German name means 'Secret State Police', and it was the terrorist political unit of the regime.
Five points. Named from the acronym for Geheime Staatspolizei, its first two directors were Hermann Goering and Heinrich Himmler.
Answer: _Gestapo_
2. Ten points. Headed by Reinhard Heydrich, this was the Security Service of the Nazi Party. Five points. Named from the acronym for Sicherheitsdienst, it later came to serve as an intelligence service for the Gestapo.
3. Ten points. The legitimate detective service of the police, they were run by Artur Nebe. Five points. Known in full as the Kriminalpolizei, this organization's function was to deal with nonpolitical criminals.
Answer: _Kripo_
2. Identify the following people whose failure to be awarded a Nobel Prize has caused controversies. 1. Although some claim this woman known for her X-ray diffraction studies of DNA did not receive a Nobel Prize because she was female and was widely disliked by her COlleagues, it was actually because she had been dead for four years when it was given to Watson and Crick in 1962.
Answer: Rosalind _Franklin_
2. In 1923, Frederick Banting protested sharing his award with John Macleod, claiming that it was this man who had in fact assisted him in the discovery of insulin.
Answer: Charles _BesC
3. This Russian-born physicist developed the quark theory independently of Gellman and was the first to suggest that they were actually real particles. It was felt that if this man received the Prize, Gellman would have to be given a share, but since he already had one, it was decided that neither would be awarded one.
Answer: George _Zweig_
3. Identify the following novels by the Marquis de Sade from a description. 1. Dolmance and Madame de Saint-Ange introduce the 15-year old Eugenie to all varieties of sexual acts through lectures and demonstrations, as well as their philosophy on the acceptability of adultery, atheism, murder, rape, and republicanism. Answer: _Philosophy in the Bedroom_ or _La Philosophie dans Ie Boudoir_
2. As a reward for her virtuous behavior, she was branded, raped and enslaved by priests, sodomized, tortured, lanced for blood, funambulized and her orifices were sewn up, before finally being charred to death by a lightning bolt.
Answer: _Justine_, or Good Conduct Well Chastised
3. This unfinished novel describes the day-by-day activities of Durcet, Curval, Blangis and the Bishop as they spend a winter of fun, games, rape, incest, torture, genital mutilation, dismemberment and violent death in a chateau at Silling with their wives, 16 children, 4 governesses, 4 storytellers and 8 fuckers.
Answer: _The 120 Days of Sodom_ or _Les 120 Journees de Sodome_
4. In honor of one of our tournament directors, identify the following porn stars from a description. 1. Born Nora Kuzma in 1968, her experience in getting pregnant and having an abortion the first time she had sex led her to enter into a career in which she starred in more than 100 movies before becoming of legal age.
Answer: Traci _Lords_
2. Although she appeared in only a few films such as Exotic French Fantasies and Deep Throat, this star of the 1970s became famous for her oral sex scenes, but now crusades against pornography.
Answer: Linda _Lovelace_ or Linda _Marchiano_
3. Born Shannon Wilsey, this star took her own life by shooting herself in the head with a 9 mm because she believed her career was over after her face became disfigured from a car accident.
Answer: _Savannah
5. Identify these three incidents of rape in Greek mythology. 1. After this god of the sea raped Caenis, he felt guilty and promised her one wish. She asked him to be turned into a man, so that she could never be raped again.
2. When Hephaestus tried to rape this half-sister of his who was a virgin, he accidentally ejaculated on her thigh. She wiped it off onto the ground, where it impregnated Gaea and produced Erechtheus.
Answer: Athena_
3. After Tereus raped this sister-in-law of his, he cut out her tongue and imprisoned her so that she could not tell his wife Procne.
6. Identify the following methods of torture from a description. 1. In this punishment, a person is attached to the nose of a boat by means of a long rope. The person is thrown over the front and ends up coming out behind the boat, after being battered on the underside.
Answer: _Keelhauling_
2. This phrase can refer to two types of torture. In the first, the prisoner has each arm and leg tied to a horse and they are dri ven off in different directions. In the second, the prisoner is hanged, and then disemboweled.
Answer: _Draw and quartec or _Drawn and quartered_
3. Commonly used in Italy, in this torture the hands are tied behind the back. The person is hoisted in the air by the arms and dropped part way back to the ground, so that the shoulders bear the shock of stopping.
Answer: _Strepalo_
7. Identify following industrial chemical accidents which were significant in terms of damage or changes in government policy for ten points each.
1. On June 1, 1974, forty tons of cyclohexane leaked from a plant in this English city when a pipe ruptured. The gas was ignited by a furnace, killing 28 and causing a fire which lasted for ten days.
Answer: _Flixborough_
2. On July 10, 1976, a runaway reaction in a 2,4,5-trichbrophenol plant released two kilograms of an extremely toxic dioxin byproduct. Although their were no deaths, to this day the ten square miles surrounding the plant are uninhabitable and quarantined.
Answer: _Seveso_
3. On December 3, 1984, a Union Carbide plant which was shut down due to a strike in this Indian city, leaked 25 tons of methyl isocyanate which caused between 2,000- 10,000 deaths and 20,000 and 100,000 injuries. Although several safety precautions were ignored, some believe that the accident was a sabotage.
Answer: _Bhopal_
8. Identify the following works of American literature which have notable weird scenes in them. 1. In this William Burroughs' work can be found a metallic dildo named Steely Dan and a man who is consumed by his own anus.
Answer: _The Naked Lunch_
2. Helen, the wife of the title character, is glvlllg Michael Milton a blowjob in his car when they are rear-ended by her husband. In the accident, Helen losses several teeth, her husband breaks his jaw, and Michael has his penis bitten off.
Answer: _The World According to Garp_ 3. In this novel, Billy Pilgrim is transported to the planet Tralfamadore where he is placed in a zoo so that the natives can observe the interactions between him and porn star Montana Wildhack, both of whom are kept naked at all times.
Answer: _Slaughterhouse Five_
9. Q is once again trying to convince the crew of the Enterprise that they're pathetic by making it impossible for them to control their sexual desires for one another. (Of course, this backfires as watching all the action makes Q a little jealous of the lesser races, but whatever.)
1. For 15 points, assuming no amount of interference by the Continuum could ever lead Beverly, Deanna or Tasha to even consider sleeping with Wesley Crusher, how many different two-person, heterosexual liaisons are possible among the crew, which also includes Picard, Riker, Geordi, Worf, and the fully functional Data?
Answer: 15
2. Now, assume both heterosexual and homosexual couples are allowed, and Q wants to watch only oral sex. For 15 points, how many different variations can be observed, if 69 is considered to be too kinky so one member of each pair must give while the other receives?
Answer: _56 (7*8, ordered pairs required!)
10. Identify the British writer on a 30-20-10 basis. 1. Thirty points. He wrote the librettos for Handel's works Acis and Galatea, and Achilles. 2. Twenty points. A noted satirist, Trivia attacked the folly of London society while Polly was so virulent that it was banned by Robert Walpole. 3. Ten points. His most popular work was the satire The Beggar's Opera.
Answer: John _Gay_
11. Identify the following science terms which incredibly enough have been related to sex. 1. One textbook described these chemical bonds between the simplest element and electronegative atoms as 'reminiscent of a menage a trois'.
Answer: _Hydrogen_ bonds
2. Richard Feynman once described this device's actions as 'like fucking' because when a current is passed through the solenoid, an iron core can be pulled into its center.
Answer: _Electromagnec
3. Non-technically they have been described as analogous to two naked people on a soft mattress who tend to roll toward the middle, but more formally these pairs of bound electron states tend to 'superfluidly' roll towards a Josephson junction in a superconductor.
Answer: _Cooper pairs_ 12. Identify the following movies which have the word 'sex' in the title.
1. This first feature of Steven Soderbergh won the Palme d'Or at the 1989 Cannes festival for its story of a lawyer who is having an affair with the sister of his frigid wife.
Answer: _Sex, Lies and Videotape_
2. The first film in which Mia Farrow appeared with Woody Allen, it tells the story of three couples and their sexual interactions with each other, and also features Jose Ferrer and Mary Steenburgen.
Answer: _A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy_
3. Also known as Beauty and the Robot, this move stars Mamie van Doren as the head of a college science department who happens to be an ex-stripper.
Answer: _Sex Kittens Go to College_
13. Identify the following famous murderers from a description. 1. This doctor who was the basis for The Fugitive claims that it was a bushy-haired man named Richard Eberling who hacked his wife 25 times to death.
Answer: Dr. Sam _Sheppard_
2. Of the 33 men he raped, tortured and killed, this Chicago serial killer said, "I should never have been convicted of anything more serious than running a cemetery without a license."
Answer: John Wayne _Gacy_
3. Angered by his wife's nymphomania, this doctor poisoned her with hyoscine, dismembered and buried her in his cellar, and tried to escape to Canada with his secretary Ethel Ie Neve, but was captured and hanged.
Answer: Hawley _Crippen_
14. For ten points apiece name these completely unrelated sports figures. 1. This University of Maryland player collapsed in his dorm room the day after the Celtics picked him second overall in the 1986 draft, possibly from a cocaine overdose.
Answer: Len _Bias_
2. This former Argentinian soccer captain was banned from international matches for 15 months after massive amounts of cocaine were found in his system at the 1994 World Cup finals. Answer: Diego _Maradona_ 3. This 1980 National League Rookie of the Year asked the Dodgers to trade him to Minnesota because the West Coast encouraged his cocaine habit, but relapsed and bounced to the Mexican League after seven drug-related suspensions. He later joined the Yankees. Answer: Steve _Howe_ 15. Identify the British authors on a 10-5 basis with the ten-point clue being a quote of theirs about hell and the five point clue a work.
1. Ten points. "Hell has no fury like a woman scorned." Five points. The Way of the World.
Answer: William _Congreve_
2. Ten points. "Hell is paved with good intentions." Five points. The Dictionary of the English Language.
Answer: Samuel _Johnson_
3. Ten points. "Here we may reign secure; and in my choice to reign is worth ambition, though in hell: better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." Five points. Paradise Lost.
Answer: John _Milton_
16. Identify the following explorers on a 15-5 basis. 1. Fifteen points. While visiting the Sandwich Islands, he was killed by natives in a dispute over a stolen boat. The islanders hacked his body apart and sent it back to his ship in several packages.
Five points. While commanding the Endeavour on his first voyage, this explorer observed the transit of Venus on Tahiti, and claimed New Zealand and Australia for Great Britain.
Answer: Captain James _Cook_
2. Fifteen points. He set out alone in 1873 to search for the source of the Nile and died in what is now Zambia. His men buried his heart beneath the tree where they found the body, and took his body to Westminster Abbey.
Five points. He is most famous for being discovered at Ujiji by Henry Morton Stanley.
Answer: David _Livingstone_
17. In 1976, Larry Flint offered $1 million dollars to ten famous women to pose "nude in Hustler magazine .. .in the same manner as other Hustler models." N arne any six of these TV stars and women in the news.
Answer: Patricia _Hearst_. Raquel _ Welch_. _Caroline Kennedy_, _Julie_ Nixon _Eisenhowec, Susan_Ford_. Sally _Struthers_. Mary Tyler _Moore_. Gloria _Steinem_, Barbara _ Walters_ and _Cher_
18. Identify the following scientists and pioneers of technology from a description of his death. 1. While working on a mathematical calculation in the sand in 212 BC, he was approached by a Roman soldier and stabbed to death after telling him 'Do not disturb my calculations'.
Answer: Archimedes 2. After making more than 2000 flights, this German who pioneered the use of curved wing surfaces patterned after birds died when his glider crashed.
Answer: Otto _Lilienthal_
3. While serving as professor of physics at the University of Paris, he was run over by a horse-drawn carriage and his wife took over his position
Answer: _Pierre Curie_
19. Identify the following men who were burned at the stake. 1. This Bohemian who denied the pope's authority was deceived by the Emperor Sigismund and burned at the Council of Constance in 1415.
Answer: Jan _Hus
2. This Archbishop of Canterbury under Henry VIII retracted his seven confessions of high treason as he was about to be burned in 1556.
Answer: Thomas _Cranmer_
3. This Italian philosopher was denounced by his employer Giovanni Moncenigo, and then imprisoned and tortured for eight years before being burned in 1600 for heresy.
Answer: Giordano _Bruno_
20. Identify the conductor on a 30-20-10 basis.
1. Thirty points. He once said that his biggest mistake in life was not visiting the bathroom before going out to conduct Wagner's opera Das Rheingold, a mistake he did not recently make. 2. Twenty points. Married in 1967 to cellist Jacqueline de Pre, this Israeli pianist has led both the English Chamber Orchestra and the Orchestre de Paris. 3. Ten points. He is the current principal conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Answer: Daniel Barenboim
Given a star designated alpha for a constellation, identify the constellation that contains the star. 1. Aldebaran. Answer: _Taurus 2. Antares. Answer: _Scorpius_ Prompt on: Scorpio 3. Deneb. Answer: _Cygnus_ 4. Polaris. Answer: _Ursa Minor_ S. Regulus. Answer: _Leo_ 6. Thuban. Answer: _Draco We all know that one of the hosts of this tournament loves to drink. So in Andy Wang's, honor here is a drinking question. Given a drink, name the ingredients used to make it. Five points each and a five point bonus for all correct. 1. Sex on the Beach. Answer: _ Vodka_, _Brandy_, _Orange juice_, and _cranberry juice_ 2. Rob Roy. Answer: _Scotch_ and _ Vermouth_ 3. Slow Comfortable Screw Up Against a Wall Answer: _ Vodka_, _Gin_, _Southern comfort_, _Orange juice_, and _Galliano_ 4. Tom Collins. Answer: _Gin_, _Lemon juice_, _Club soda_ S. Screwdriver. Answer: _ Vodka_ and _Orange juice_
Identify the cartoonist on a 25-10 basis.
1. Twenty-five points. In 1944, he created Miss Chiquita banana based on Carmen Miranda. 2. Ten points. He is more famous for writing the comic strip Hagar the Horrible.
Answer: Dik _Browne_
Identify the group, on a 25-10 basis.
1. Twenty-five points. The name given to the group of British politicians which included Roy Jenkins, William Rodgers, David Owen and Shirley Williams, who broke away from the Labour Party to found the Social Democrats in 1981. 2. Ten points. Named by Mao Tse-Tung, this group of radicals of the Cultural Revolution who were arrested and disgraced in 1976, was comprised of Mao's wife, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan and Wang Hongwen.
Answer: _Gang of Four_