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, Jan 29 00:10 1992 /home/nu/peterf/ junk/wis.tossup Page 1 Contributed by Chicago A for the Wisconsin tourney (editor: pef). All rights reserved. TOSS-UPS 1) He ruled from 1556 until 1605. He subjugated Sind, Kandahar, Berar, and Kandesh, and he issued an Edict of Toleration. He himself maintained personal contacts with both the Parsees and the Jesuits. He is considered the greatest of the Mogul emperors. For ten points, give the name of this emperor who shares his name with a gay character in Matt Groening's "Life in Hell". ANSWER: AKBAR \V\o"T" Je.f.( J 2) The name's the same: it's the Roman name for a region of western Iberia, and it's the name of a ship sunk off Ireland by a German U-boat during World War I. For ten points, give the common name. ANSWER: LUSITANIA 3) The Arizona men's basketball team no longer has the longest active home court winning streak. For ten points, name the university whose basketball team is the current leader in this category, and whose team plays its home games at the Thomas and Mack center. ANSWER: UNLV (University of Nevada Las Vegas) 4) This man posited a theory by which the solar system was created by a flattening of a primordial ball of gas, much like the current accepted theory. But he is better known as a famous philosopher of the eighteenth century. For ten points, name the German who in 1781 wrote "The Critique of Pure Reason." ANSWER: Immanuel KANT 5) This heresy, named after its original proponent, holds that Christ is not truly divine, but a creature ex nihilo, who at one time did not exist. Condemned by the Council of Nicaea in A.D. 325, it has continued to have believers up to the present day. For ten points, name this heresy, which is a homonym for the Sanskrit word meaning "noble". ANSWER: ARrAN (accept the -ISM as clear and present knowledge) 6) The name's the same: the surname of the English historian, essayist, and politician best known for the work "History of England", and the first name of the pint-sized star of "Home Alone" and "Alone Again" . For ten points, give the common name. ANSWER: MACAULAY 7) Once again, the name's the same: it's the name given to the 1388 Battle of Otterburn between Henry Hotspur and the Scots in a famous English ballad, and it's also the name of the first Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time player to leave Saturday Night Live for prime time. For ten points, give the common name. Jan "29 00:10 1992 /home/nu/peterf/junk/wis.tossup Page 2 ANSWE~--Bl~ 8) This character appears in "Indemnity Only", "Deadlock", "Killing Orders", "Bitter Medecine" , "Blood Shot", "Burn Marks", and the 1992 book "Guardian Angel". She is a now 40ish tough-as-nails Chicago detective who drinks Johnny Walker and is the creation of Sara Paretsky. For ten points, name this character played on film by Kathleen Turner. ANSWER: V. I. WARSHAWSKI 9) He married the daughter of Thomas Love Peacock, who later left him and eloped with the painter Henry Wallis to Capri. Born in Portsmouth, England, in 1828, his works include "The Tragic Comedians", "One of Our Conquerers", and "The Adventures of Harry Richmond". For ten points, name this writer better known for "Modern Love" and "The Egoist". ANSWER: George MEREDITH 10) According to one myth, she was the daughter of Phorcys and Hecate, and was loved by Poseidon. The god's jealous wife, Amphitrite, poisoned the pool where she bathed turning her into a six-headed, twelve-legged monster. For ten points, name the creature of Greek mythology that ate sailors that came close to the whirlpool of Charybdis. ANSWER: SCYLLA 11) Considered the forerunner of German opera, the libretto was by Emmanuel Schikaneder. The opera is Masonic in its symbolism. It takes place in Egypt and centers on Sarastro, the high priest of Isis, and his abduction of Pamina, the daughter of the Queen of the Night. For ten points, name this work praised by Goethe and Hegel as a masterpiece, and which was composed by Mozart. ANSWER: THE MAGIC FLUTE 12) The characters in his novels include David Kepesh, Otto Spielvogel, and Peter Tarnopol. He himself was born in Newark in 1933, and his lesser known works include "The Ghost Writer", "The Professor of Desire", and "When She Was Good". For ten points, name the author known more for his character Nathan Zuckerman and his works "Goodbye, Columbus" and "Port noy's Complaint". ANSWER: Philip ROTH 13) He tried his hand at writing with such novels as "Farmington" and "An Eye for an Eye". He has also appeared as a character in such novels as u...nm.eri~ t:fie Wind" 6lucil--"Compulsion". For ten points, identify this lawyer known for his defense of Bill Haywood, Eugene V. Debs, and Leopold and Loeb. ANSWER: Clarence DARROW 14) His emotional, forceful, and colorful formulation was rejected by the critics of his time, who said that he painted "with a drunken broom." Combining the styles of the Baroque masters, he led the French Romantic movement of the early 19th century. For ten points, identify this pain~ r urvl-rlP{ ~,) '.' Jan 29 00:10 1992 / home/nu/ peterf/ junk/ wis.tossup Page 3 ~ of "Massacre at Scio" and "Liberty Leading the People". ANSWER: Eugene DELACROIX 15) On October 17, 1978, Congress unanimously restored his citizenship. When imprisoned after the Civil War, his bail was supplied by ten men, inclu ding the abolitionist Horace Greeley. As Secretary of War under Franklin Pierce, he attempted to introduce camels into the cavalry of the South west. For ten points, identify the politician best known for being President of the Confederacy. ANSWER: Jefferson DAVIS 16) They were opposed to the Holy Roman Empire (weren't we all), and they were pro-papacy. They resisted the authority of the Hohenstaufen family, and they eventually dominated Florentine politics. For ten points, name this Italian party of the 13th and 14th centuries. ANSWER: The GUELPHS 17) This Basque town now produces furniture and food, but it once produced art- specifically, when it was bombed by the Germans during the Spanish Civil War and Picasso painted it. For ten points, name the town. ANSWER: GUERNICA 18) Set at Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, this poem is considered to be the masterpiece of its author, Thomas Gray. For ten points, name it. ANSWER: "An ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD" 19) He won the British Open three times, the u.S. Open four times, the U.S. Amateur title five times, and the British Amateur title once. In 1930, he won them all, completing golf's greatest Grand Slam. For ten points, name this golfer who remained an amateur all his life and who died in 1971. ANSWER: Bobby JONES 20) Also called the "Just in Time" system, this ensures efficient manufacturing without large warehouses. Parts are supplied to the production line "just in time" and are ordered from the parts makers only when the stock is low. For ten points, name this Japanese manufacturing system. ANSWER: KANBAN 21) The Madeira and Purus rivers are the 17th and 18th longest rivers in the world, but you've perhaps never heard of them. That's because they are tributaries of a larger river. For ten points, name the larger river, the second longest in the world. ANSWER: AMAZON 22) Some may claim that it is becoming a winter version of summer stock theater. Its production of "A Little Hotel on the Side" is most well known because of its casting of Rob Lowe in one of the more minor roles. This production Jan· " 29 00:10 1992 / home/nu/ peterf/junk/ wis.tossup Page 4 was this theater's second, the first being "The Crucible". For ten points, name this theater whose lofty aim is to provide stellar productions of stellar plays with stellar actors, and which was the brainchild of Tony Randall. ANSWER: NATIONAL ACTOR'S THEATER 23) In 1256 Hulegu Khan set out across the Amu Darya river to do battle with the Arabs of Syria. But along the way he took care of a nasty problem. By February of 1257, one hundred of this order's castles has been destroyed and their occupants slaughtered. One survivor was the Master of the Order, Rukn ad-Din, who was soon kicked to death by his guards anyway. For ten points, name this order which had through terror imposed their will upon Arab leaders for 200 years. ANSWER: Ismaili Order of the ASSASSINS 24) It is known to students of pop culture as the means by which Monty Python presented their adaptation of a certain famous Bronte novel. Developed by Claude Chappe in the late 18th century, its use spread quickly after the success of the first line from Paris to Lille. For ten points, name this method of communication also known as the visual telegraph. ANSWER: SEMAPHORE 25) This concept of magnetic confinement was developed in the early 1950s by Tamm and Sakharov, and independently by Spitzer. For ten points, give this one word which is most closely associated with fusion reactors, such as the one at Princeton. ANSWER: TOKAMAK 26) Modern linguistics is said to have begun with the posthumous publication of this book, which introduced the essential distinction between diachronic (historical) and synchronic (descriptive) linguistics. For ten points, give the English title of Ferdinand de Saussure's landmark book. ANSWER: COURSE IN GENERAL LINGUISTICS 27) Born in Dusseldorf, educated at Gottingen and Bonn, he was the director of the Max Planck Institute.