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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. His books include "Erkenntnisund Internesse", published in 1968, and 1982's "Theorie der Kommunikatives Handelns". For ten points, name the German philosopher and social theorist.

ANSWER: Jurgen HABERMAS

28) For a quick ten points, who in 1975 wrote a book whose subtitle was "A New Ethics For Our Treatment of Animals" and whose main title is "Animal Liberation"?

ANSWER: Peter SINGER

29) Her albums are, in order, "The Kick Inside", "Lionheart", "Never for Ever", "The Dreaming", "Hounds of Love", and "The Sensual World". For ten points, name the English singer with lots of vocal range and whose most famous single is "Wuthering Heights", and who just contributed a version of the -!"... .. I .... Jan 29 00:10 1992 /home/nu/peterf/junk/wis.tossup Page 5

song "Rocket Man" to the Elton John tribute album.

ANSWER: Kate BUSH

30) For a quick ten points, what is the capital of the Central African Republic?

ANSWER: BANGUI ******************************************************************************** ~, . Jan 29 00:10 1992 / home/ nu/ peterf/junk/ wis.boni Page 1

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BONI t(t; frO-e..{2.:S - wkn ~ Sa.v. c. -1>'-(4. 1"'4. ~5~'t- ~ r~u~ ~ c...A7Tr<-<.:r~ J s-""f'J, (~~7 """,,)<)- (30) 1) I'll name six areas of the Roman empire, and all you have to do is 20- 10) tell me in what country they currently lie, for five points apiece. First, Achaea [stop] Second, Regnum Bospori [stop] Third, Cyrene [stop] Fourth, Aquitania [stop] Fifth, Galatia [stop] And sixth, Dacia. ANSWERS: GREECE, UKRAINE, LI~A, F~E, TURKEY, and ROMANIA (25) 2) I'll name four new college football head coaches and their last job. You have to name the universities where they now coach, for five points apiece and a five point bonus for all four. First, former Illinois head coach John Makovic. [stop] Second, that beloved commen­ tator for NBC, Bill Walsh. [stop] Third, the former offensive coordi­ nator for the Washington Huskies, Keith Gilbertson. [stop] And fourth, the former head coach of TCU, Jim Wacker. / , ANSWERS: TEXAS, STANFORD, CALIFORNIA, and MINNESOTA

(25) 3) For a very quick 25 points, give me the collective name by which the successors of Alexander the Great are known .

ANSWER: The DIADOCHI (30) 4) Right now, three boats are racing in the waters off San Diego to see who will win the right to defend the America's Cup against a foreign challenger. For ten points apiece, name the three boats. /' ANSWERS: DEFIANT, JAY HAWK , and STARS & STRIPES

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(25) 6) This man lived during the first half of the 16th century, and he studied .philosophy at Leipzig, Bologna, and Padua, and medicine at Ferrara. He spent his life as a doctor first in a mining town in Bohemia and then at Chemnitz. But he is better remembered for his "De natura fossilium", considered the first mineralogy textbook, and his "De re metallica" , translated into English by Herbert Hoover. For 25 points, name this man considered the father of the field of mineralogy.

ANSWER: Georgius AGRICOLA

(30) 7) It's time to test your knowledge of current events. I'll name the country and the governmental office, and you name the person holding -. Jan 29 00:10 1992 /home/nu/peterf/junk/wis.boni Page 2

said office at the current time, for five points apiece. First, name the King of Nepal. [stop] Second, name the President of Bulgaria. [stop] Third, name the Prime Minister of India. [stop] Fourth, name the Prime Minister of Norway. [stop] Fifth, name the Foreign Minister of Israel. [stop] And sixth, name the President of Zaire.

ANSWERS: King BIRENDA, Zhelyu ZHELEV, P.V. Narasimha RAO, Gro Harlem BRUNDTLAND, David L~, and MOBUJU Sese Seko (25) 8) Identify the sons of the following Greek heroes for five points apiece, and a five point bonus for all four. First, Achilles [stop] Second, Nestor [stop] Third, Odysseus [stop] And fourth, Agamemnon . . L / / ANSWERS: NEOPTDLEMUS or PYRRHUS, ANTILOCHUS, TELEMACHUS, and ORESTES (30) 9) This is one of those 30-20-10 things. Your first clue: he went to Mexico on a Guggenheim Fellowship to write a poem on the Spanish Conquest. [stop] Your second clue: his lesser known works include "Key West: An Island Sheaf" and "For the Marriage of Faustulus and Helen". [stop] Your last clue: he also wrote "The Bridge1f and "White Buildings1f.

ANSWER: Hart CRANE

(30) 10) This is another of those 30-20-10 things. Your first clue: he com­ posed the tone poems "Death and Transfiguration" and "A Hero's Life". [stop] Your second clue: born in 1864, he also composed "Symphonia Domestica" and "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks". [stop] Your third and last clue: he is better known for his operas "Der Rosenkavalier" and "Salome", and the work "Thus Spake Zarathustra" . ANSWER: Richard STRAUSS

(30) 11) Today's guests of honor are the Mogul emperors, and here is another question on them. For five points apiece, name the first five Mogul emperors of India. You'll get a five point bonus for correct chron- OljiCal ordpr. / / ./' ANSWERS: BABER, HUMAYUN, AKBAR, JEHANGIR, and SHAH JEHAN

(30) 12) Identify the following directors on a 10-5 basis. Each ten point clue will gives the years that a certain director won the Oscar and the corresponding five point clue will name the films. First: Your ten point clue: 1929, 1933. [stop] Your five point clue: "The Divine Lady" and "Cavalcade". Second: Your ten point clue: 1934, 1936, and 1938. [stop] Your five point clue: "It Happened One Night", "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town", and "You Can't Take It With You". Third: Your ten point clue: 1928 and 1932. [stop] Your five point clue: "Seventh Heaven" and "Bad Girl". / /' ANSWERS: Frank LLOYD, Frank CAPRA, and Frank BORZAGE

(30) 13) Identify the first winners of each of the named Nobel Prizes, for five points each. Note that there are TWO answers for the Peace prize. The prizes we are interested in are Peace, Chemistry, Physics, Physio- j ~ ( I· , Jan 29 00:10 1992 /home/nu/peterf/junk/ wis.boni Page 3

logy and Medicine, and Literature. Go to it. ./ ANSWERS: Peace- J.H. DUNA~ afo~ Frederic ~SSY, Chemi~ry­ J.H. van't HOFF, Physics- W. C. /ROENTGEN, P & M- E.A. van BEHRING, and Literature- R.F.A. SULLY-PRUDHOMME (30) 14)1 will name four winners of children's book awards for 1992, and the four awards. All you need to do is match them. Ready? The four authors are Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, David Wiesner, Walter Dean Myers, and Marcia Brown. The four awards are the Newberry Award, the Caldecott Award, the Coretta Scott King Author Award, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award . You get five points for each correct answer, and a ten point bonus for all four. ANSWERS: NAYLOR - NEWBERRY, WIESNE~- CALDECOTT, MYERS - KING, BROWN - WILDER (30) 15) Bill Clinton of Arkansas has made some curious acquaintances during his years as governor. For ten points each, first: name the man who claims he was wrongfully dismissed from his state job in 1988 but is now dropping his suit against Clinton. [stop] Second, name the man who claims that Clinton agreed to pay him $25,000 to quash negative pUblicity. [stop] The news-reporter-turned-nightclub-singer who claims she was Clinton's lover for 12 years? / ANSWERS: Larry NICHOLS, Robert "Say" MCINTOSH, Gennifer FLOWERS (30) 16) It's those damn genotypes again. I'll name 'em, and you give the associated disease, for t~ points each. Re~dy to write down all three? The genotypes are:W45 X,~45 XXY, and~46 XY, trisomy 21. ,/ / / ANSWERS: TURNER'S syndrome, KLINEFELTER'S syndrome, and DOWN'S syndrome (30) 17) Do you know the counties of England? Well, who cares, because what we want here is for you to name any 8 of the 16 autonomous regions of Spain, for 30 points, 6 for 20 points, or 4 for 10. Do not try to include the North African cities of Ceuta and Melilla.

(Note to reader: be generous if the answer is decently close to what's below.) ANSWERS: ANDALUCIA'- CATALUNA ARAGON ,/' ESTREMADURA ASTURIAS GALICIA CANTABRIA ISLAS BALEARES (or BALEARIC ISLANDS) NEW CASTILE LA RIOJA (or CASTILLA Y LEON) Communidad de MADRID OLD CASTILE Region de MURCIA (or CASTILLA-LA MANCHA) Communidad Foral de NAVARRA

(~:~ ~ '('f\.(If.t. :5"L~l;c. PAIS VACO .:(- jvsr 'C ... sr;le' rc; ~"'~1 Communidad de VALENCIA (30) 18) For a somewhat easier 10 points each, name the three Magi of the Nativity Story I a..c..c.&<"~\ . J t-o yo-( .r-~ . ANSWERS: GASPAR, MELCHIOR, and BALTHASAR

(30) 19) This is another 30-20-10 thing. Your first clue: its chemical · , . Jan 29 00:10 1992 /home/nu/peterf/junk/ wis.boni Page 4

formula is 3,4,5-trimethoxyphenethy1amine. [stop] Your second clue: its structure is similar to amphetamine and dopamine, and it behaves like LSD. [stop] Your third clue: it is the hallucinogenic drug found in the peyote cactus. /'

ANSWER: MESCALINE

(20) 20) The 1991 Bush crime bill stalled while on the verge of passage. For ten points, name the amendment act of this bill which was dropped by the House and was called by the House the "Fairness in Death Sentencing Act". [stop] And for another ten points, name the Act that was substituted for the Racial Justice Act and which did not allow for the use of statistical evidence in appealing death sentences at the state or federal levels.

ANSWERS: RACIAL JUSTICE ACT and EQUAL JUSTICE ACT

(30) 21) Why not another 30-20-10 thing? Your first clue: his sister Beth won a bronze medal at the 1980 Winter Olympics. [stop] Your second clue: in the mid 1980 1s he rode for the 7-Eleven professional cycling tern. [stop] And your last clue: he won five gold medals at the 1980 winter Olympics.

ANSWER: Eric HEIDEN

(20) 22) They say cultural diversity is a must, but I believe a little bit of the morbid is always in order. 1111 name a state, and for five points each, you name the method of execution. First, Alabama [stop] Se­ cond, California [stop] Third, the way Utah took care of Gary Gil­ more in 1976. [stop] And fourth, Montana uses lethal injection and what other method of execution? / ANSWERS: ELECTROCUTION, Lethal G~, FIRING s6UAD, HANGING (25) 23) 1111 name the country, and you name the current defending First Divi­ sion soccer champion, for five points each. First, England [stop] Second, France [stop] Third, Italy [stop] Fourth, West Germany [stop] And fifth, a team made famous by a mention in the Billy Bragg song "Sexuality", the Yugoslav champion.

ANSWERS: ARSENAL, Olympique de MAR(EILLES, SAMPDORIA, KAISERSLAUTERN, and RED STAR BELGRADE

(30) 24) The new generation of British dance bands coming across the pond are known as the Brit pack. 1111 name an album, and you name the Brit pack band, for ten points each. First, "Screamadelica" [stop] Second, "Spartacus" [stop] And third, "Schubert Dip".

ANSWERS: PRIMAL SCREAM, THE FARM, and EMF

(25) 25) Lying about 45 parsecs from the Sun, this open cluster is very important in the cosmological distance ladder, providing the main example of how distances can be calculated by the moving cluster method. For 25 points, name this open cluster.

ANSWER: The HYADES