1996 BOAT Hi!!! My Name is Brak!!!

1. The name's the same. A 1950s GoodsonlT odman game show where panelists quizzed guests on the appelation they shared with a famous person, and a four-word designation beginning a tossup that indicates the coincidental nomenclature of two or more things. For ten points, repeat the first 4 words of this question.

ANS : THE NAME'S THE SAME

2. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid was not written by the Wild West hero, but rather by this Canadian author, whose own memoir "Running In The Family," details his search for his roots in his native Sri Lanka. For ten points name this writer better known for his poetry and the novel "The English Patient. "

ANS : Michael ONDAAT JE

3. San Diego Charger running back Rodney Culver was on this airline's Flight 592 on May 11 along with 108 others when it crashed in the Everglades, killing all passengers and crew. For ten points name this airline whose safety practices have since been called into question.

ANS: VALUJET

4. The Sardinians got in to get aid in repelling Austria from the Italian Kingdoms. The Russians got involved on the pretext of settling a dispute between Catholics and Orthodox. And the British got involved when they advised the Ottomans to reject Russian demands of control of Constantinople. For ten points, these great powers got involved in these manners in what war?

ANS: CRIMEAN War

5. These unstable particles consisting of a quark, an anti-quark and binding gluons can be found in isolation and are color neutral. They differ from other bosons because they have an even number of fermion constituents. For ten points name this class of sub-atomic particles including pions and kaons.

ANS: MESONS

6. Trained as a portrait painter by Thomas Hudson in the 1750s, he painted moonlit and candlelit scenes which depicted the technology of the Industrial Revolution in both a romantic and realistic light. For ten points name this painter of The Air Pump and The Orrery, who was also noted for portraits of English Midlands industrialists and intellectuals.

ANS : Joseph WRIGHT (accept: WRIGHT OF DERBY)

7. He gained the patronage of the Count of Artois and King Louis IX through his piety and diligence, and he became the King's personal confessor. In 1257 the king helped him obtain property on which he founded a theological college for the poor. For ten points name this theologian whose school rapidly became a center of European learning and the heart of the University of Paris.

ANS : Robert de SORBON

8. He left Germany in 1933 to lecture on sociology at the London School of Economics, where he expounded his theory that conflict is caused by varying methods of thought and definitions of truth, and continued his work on leadership and consensus. For ten points name this sociologist who is best remembered for his "sociology of knowledge" and a namesake steamroller. ANS : Karl MANNHEIM

9. Its Tynwald Court and House of Keys make up one of the oldest legislative bodies in the world, and its 67,000 residents are mostly engaged in the tourism industry. The highest point is at Snaefell in the central massif, and chief towns include Ramsey, Peel, and the capital of Douglas. For ten points name this British isle, roughly equidistant between Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.

ANS: ISLE OF MAN (accept: ELLAN VANNIN, MANNIN, MONA, or MONAPIA)

10. It's name comes from the Dutch for "burnt wine", referring to the use of heat in its distillation from wine or fruit mush. Usually served alone or with a soda as an after-dinner drink, this alcohol generally contains about 50 percent alcohol by volume. For ten points name this drink whose varieties include grappa, kirsch, ouzo, and cognac.

ANS:BRANDY

11. He believed that civilization had turned · man into a sick and repressed creature and that the true function of the theatre was to rid man of these repressions and liberate his instinctual energy, though he only produced one play of his own. For ten points name this dramatic theorist, author of The Theatre and Its Double, and proposer of the Theatre of Cruelty.

ANS : Antonin ART AUD (are TOE)

12. Used in semiconductors for making infrared detectors, diodes, and Hall-effect devices, this silvery grey metal was known to ancients but was often confused with lead. For ten points name this toxic element which greatly increases lead's hardness and mechanical strength when used in alloys and with atomic number 51.

ANS: ANTIMONY

13. The Florida Floridians, Memphis Pros, Baltimore Claws, Dallas Chapparals, , Pittsburgh Pipers, , and . These and 4 current NBA teams were included in, For ten points, what ill-fated sports league.

ANS : American Basketball Association (ABA)

14. When Pepin of Herstal died, he left his three grandchildren as heirs, but did not mention his illegitimate son in his will. That son was imprisoned by Plectrude, but he escaped, formed an army, and conquered the Neustrians. For ten points name this Frank, best known for defeating the Moors at the 732 Battle of Poitiers or Tours.

ANS : Charles MARTEL (accept: Carolus MARTELLUS or Karl MARTELL)

15. Awarded the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal in 1979, he recieved the National Medal of Liberty in 1986. His works include the Jacob Javits Center in New York and the East Building of the National Gallery in Washington. For ten points, whose pyramidal lobby at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame echoes his previous work outside the Louvre?

ANS : leoh Ming PEl

16. The major tool of this psychological school was introspection, a careful set of observations made under controlled conditions by trained observers using a stringently defined descriptive vocabulary. Functionalism, Gestalt, and behavioralism were all to some extent reactions to it. For ten points name this school which lost influence when its founder, Edward Titchener, died in 1927.

ANS:STRUCTURALISM

17. In 1738 he settled in Stockholm as a practicing physician, and in 1741 he received the chair of medicine at the University of Uppsala, but he soon exchanged it for a chair of botany, where he studied flower parts. For ten points name this botanist who wrote a treatise classifying diseases known in his time and who also classified the plant and animal kingdoms.

ANS : Carolus LlNNAEUS (accept: Carl Von LINNE)

18. Founded by Chu Yuan-chang, who later assumed the title Hung-wu, it extended the Chinese empire into Korea, Turkistan, and Myanmar, making it the farthest-reaching native Chinese dynasty. For ten points name this dynasty, which provided an interval of native rule between the Mongol and Manchu dominations.

ANS : MING dynasty

19. In 1969 12 Columbia University students began singing a capella '50s songs in the school's cafeteria, and before the end of the year they found themselves play Woodstock. For ten points name this band, who went on to have a variety series in the late '70s, fronted by Jon "Bowser" Baumann.

ANS : SHA NA NA

20. Her father, Thomas Dudley, was chief steward to the Puritan Earl of Lincoln, and in 1630 she, her husband, and her parents sailed with other Puritans to settle on Massachusetts Bay. For ten points name this early American poet best known for her Meditations.

ANS : Anne BRADSTREET (nee Dudley)

21. The Norse gods amused themselves by throwing things at this beautiful and just favorite, knowing he was immune from harm, but the blind god Hod, under Loki's deception, hurled mistletoe, the only thing that could kill him. For ten points, name th is son of Frigg and Odin.

ANS:BALDERorBALDR

22. Alava (ALL of a) is the most rural of this region's three provinces, with its open lands suitable for growing grapes and cereals. Vizcaya and Guipuzcoa (guee POO scoa uh) are heavily industrialized, especially with metalworks along the Nervion (nerve EE on) River and in Bilbao. For ten points these provinces make up what semi-autonomous region of Spain?

ANS: BASQUE country (accept: EUSKARDI or PAIS VASCO)

23. Though his much of early poetry is considered parody, his later works, collected in _The Magnetic Mountain,_ and _The Gate_, show a more reflective view. Among his Marxist writings are _Revolutions in Writing_. During the 1960's, he wrote mystery novels under the psuedonym Nicholas Blake. For ten points, identify this Poet Laureate of Britain from 1968 to 1972, whose son won the Best Actor Oscar for 1989.

ANS : Cecil DAY LEWIS

24. Though he died in 1914, he predicted the defeat of the Central Powers in World War I based mainly upon the weakness of the German Navy. A Civil War veteran and Annapolis graduate, he served as president of the American Historical Association in 1902. For ten points name this war historian and theorist, known for his Influence of Sea Power upon History 1660-1783.

ANS : Alfred Thayer MAHAN

25. On May 14 1,849 refugees aboard the freighter Bulk Challenge docked in Takoradi, Ghana, and were housed in a refugee camp. This was a reversal of policy in Ghana, which had previously refused those fleeing its war-torn neighbor. For ten points name this country where fighting flared up again this April in and around Monrovia.

ANS : LIBERIA

26. It contains a Great Dark Spot accompanied by bright, white clouds which change rapidly, along with a bright spot scientists have nicknamed Scooter. Its average distance from the sun is 30.06 astronomical units, and it completes a revolution every 164.8 Earth years. For ten points name this occasionally ninth but usually eighth-most distant planet.

ANS : NEPTUNE

27. He acted rudely in public for several months, in order to allow the stigma of a broken engagement to fall squarely upon himself. His works used literary examples to describe his idea of two paths of life: the aesthetic, and the ethical, a view laid out in his works "Either/Or" and "Fear and Trembling." For ten points, identify this existential Dane.

ANS : Soren KIERKEGAARD

28. After working with the Red Cross during World War II, she served as an officer and adviser of the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing, but it was as an early Hollywood actress that she gained her fame. For ten points, name this star of The Best Years of Our Lives, The Red Pony, and The Thin Man, who personified the foreign vamp in the 1920s and early '30s.

ANS : Myrna LOY (accept: Myrna WILLIAMS)

29. The municipal authorities in Leipzig commissioned him to assist the organist of Thomaskirche by composing church cantatas and gave him a position as an organist, and he later became director of the Leipzig Opera. For ten points name this composer known for over 50 operas, including the Death of Socrates, and 46 passions.

ANS : Georg Philipp TELEMANN

30. "I have an intense desire to return to the womb. Anybody's." "Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right." and "Some people want to achieve immortality through their work; I want to achieve it by not dying." are some of the more notable quotes by, for ten points, what neurotic turned stand-up comedian turned director of films such as Zelig and Annie Hall.

ANS : Woody ALLEN 1996 BOAT Hi!!! My Name is Brak!!!

BON I

1. I dentify the following operas from a list of characters on a 15-5 basis. 15). Wagner, Siebel, Martha Scheverlein 5) Valentine, Marguerite, Mephistopheles

ANS: FAUST

15) Rangoni, Pimen, Marina Mnichek 5) Xenia, Prince Shoiusky, The Pretender Dmitri

ANS: BORIS GUDONOV

2. Identify these seminal texts in American political science for ten points each.

Globalization and localization of conflict are among the phenomena described in this E.E. Schattschnieder work that also explains why big government may be necessary to check the power of big business

ANS : The SEMI-SOVEREIGN PEOPLE

The study of interest groups was pioneered by Mancur Olson in 1965 with this book, which explains why small groups mobilize easier than large ones.

ANS : The LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION

3. Just when you thought you'd heard every one-hit wonder of the '80s asked, I dug up some more. 5 pts. each, 5 more for all correct, given the song, name the one-hit wonder.

1. Tired of Toein' The Line ANS : Rocky BURNETTE 2. I've Never Been To Me ANS : CHARLENE 3. I'm Digging Your Scene ANS : The BLOW MONKEYS 4. Theme from "Greatest American Hero" ANS : Joey SCARBURY 5. I Wanna Be A Cowboy ANS : BOYS DON'T CRY

4. For the stated number of points, identify these colorful rivers.

1. For five points, come and sit by my side if you love this river which flows through Ho Chi Minh City.

ANS : RED River

2. For ten points, this river in the Ozarks flows into the White River near Newport, Arkansas after 280 miles, and it contains the Clearwater Dam.

ANS : BLACK River

3. For ten points, its the longest river in Southern Africa.

ANS : ORANGE River

5. For the stated number of points, name the major treaty the ended each of the following wars. 1. For five points, 30 Years War

ANS : Peace of WESTPHALIA

2. For ten points, War of Spanish Succession

ANS : Treaties of UTRECHT

3. F15P, the Boer War

ANS: Peace of VEREENIGING

6. The Booker Prize is awarded annually to the best novel written in English by a citizen of the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth. For five points each, and a 5 pt. bonus for all correct, identify the authors of these recent BookerPrize-winning works.

1. The Ghost Road ANS : Pat BARKER (1995) 2. Possession: A Romance ANS : A.S. BYATT (1990) 3. Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha ANS: Roddy DOYLE (1993) 4. The Remains of The Day ANS : Kazuo ISHIGURO (1989)

7. For ten points each, identify these geological terms.

1. The concept that the features of the Earth's surface were formed by physical processes over the course of geological time

ANS: UNIFORMITARIANISM

2. The branch of hydrology dealing with the study of bodies of fresh water, particularly lakes and ponds.

ANS : LIMNOLOGY

3. A landform created near the foot of a mountain or mountain range by debris deposited from shifting streams. Named for an Italian region.

ANS: PIEDMONT

8. For five points each, name the Five Pillars of Sunni Islam.

ANS : (accept equivalents, and in no particular order)

PROFESSION OF FAITH (SHAHADAH) ritual PRAYER (five times a day) (SALAT) ALMSgiving (ZAKAT) FASTING during RAMADAN (SAWM) PILGRIMAGE to MECCA (HAJJ)

9. For five points each and a bonus 5 for all correct, given a category from the 1995 U.S. Statistical Abstract, tell which state finished first in each category. Note: first means most or highest, not necessarily best.

1. Median Household Income ANS : ALASKA 2. Birth Rate ANS: UTAH 3. Infant Mortality ANS : MISSISSIPPI 4. Violent Crimes per Resident ANS : FLORIDA

10. In May the Food and Drug Administration approved the first over-the-counter home test for AIDS.

1. For ten points, what is the name of this test.

ANS : CONFIDE

2. In March the FDA approved an AIDS treatment drug in record time, 42 days. For ten points each, name this drug and the pharmaceuticals company that invented it and is controlling its supply.

ANS: INDINAVIR and MERCK and Co.

11. Five NFL teams are scheduled to start the upcoming season with new coaches. For five points each, name those five coaches.

ANS : Ted MARCHIBRODA, Jimmy JOHNSON, Vince TOBIN, Tony DUNGY, Lindy INFANTE

12. Identify the following poems from a quote, For ten points each.

1. Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

ANS: KUBLA KHAN

2. Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death rode the six hundred.

ANS : CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE

3. What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things.

ANS : RAPE OF THE LOCK

13. For ten points apiece, given an example, name the type of network-based attack on a computer's security.

1. A hacker makes his machine claim to have the same Internet address as a host your machine trusts.

ANS: IP SPOOFING

2. A hacker compromises a machine on your network and sets it to read every data packet that passes by on the wire, including those containing sensitive data like passwords.

ANS: PACKET (or NETwork) SNIFFING

3. A hacker sets out to crash your computer by pinging it 100 times per second and by sending you ten thousand 1 Meg email messages.

ANS : DENIAL OF SERVICE 14. For ten points each, identify the year in which each of the following groups of countries was granted independence.

Angola, Mozambique, Suriname

ANS : 1975

Bangladesh, Qatar, Bahrain

ANS : 1971

Singapore, The Gambia, Maldives

ANS : 1965

15. Identify the following as a musical instrument, a fruit, a rock, or a city in Bulgaria, 5 points each and a 5 point bonus for all correct.

1. Varna ANS : CITY IN BULGARIA 2. Samisen ANS : MUSICAL INSTRUMENT 3. Yambol ANS : CITY IN BULGARIA 4. Plantain ANS: FRUIT

16. Don't hide, these questions are about Sikhs. Answer them For ten points each.

Sikhism was founded and is still centered in this controversial Indian state.

ANS : PUNJAB

The writings of the early Gurus were compiled by Arjun into this book, the holy text of Sikhism.

ANS : Adi GRANTH or (GRANTH Sahib)

Sikhs consider themselves disciples of him, the First Guru .

ANS: NANAK

17. 30-20-10, name the city.

30: Founded in the ealry 16th century by Sikandar Lodi, it served as capital of the Mogul empire several times and contains Akbar's Pearl Mosque 20: Under British rule, it served as capital of the North-West province from 1833-1868. 10: It is the site of the Taj Mahal

ANS : AGRA, India

18. 30-20-10, name the playwright from works.

30: "Bobby Gould in Hell" and "Edmond" 20: "Duck Variations" and "Sexual Perversity in Chicago" 10: "American Buffalo" and "Glengarry Glen Ross "

ANS : David MAMET 19. Everyone remembers Perot, Clinton, and Bush, but for ten points a piece see if you remember these other 1992 presidential candidates given the party they represented.

1. Libertarian Party ANS : Andre MARROU 2. New Alliance Party ANS : Lenora FULANI 3. Socialist Party USA ANS : J. Quinn BRISBEN

20. For ten points each, given a list of movies, identify the actor or actress that was in each.

1. JFK, Friday the 13th, Flatliners, Diner

ANS : Kevin BACON

2. Mulholland Falls, Higher Learning, Rocketeer, Career Opportunities

ANS : Jennifer CONNELLY

3. Raging Bull, Michael Jackson: Moonwalker, Betsy's Wedding, With Honors

ANS : Joe PESCI

21. A number of 19th century painting schools took their names from place names. For ten points each, given some painters, identify the geographically named school.

Asher Durand, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Cole

ANS : HUDSON RIVER school

James Stark, John Sell Cotman, John Crome

ANS : NORWICH school

Anton Mauve, Jozef Israels, Jacob Maris

ANS : HAGUE school

22. For ten points each identify these postmodernist philosophers.

In his Birth of the Clinic and Discipline and Punish, he describes the rise of the disciplines psychiatry and criminology respectively.

ANS : Michel FOUCAULT

He traces the alienation of the self back to an initial misrecognition of an infant of itself in a mirror and was an original interpreter of Freud.

ANS : Jacques LACAN

Disapproving of the search for ultimate meaning or certainty led him to develop his deconstructionist system.

ANS: Jacques DERRIDA 23. For ten points each, identify these parts of the brain.

A broad, horseshoe-shaped mass of transverse nerve fibres that connect the medulla with the cerebellum.

ANS:PONS

The mass of white matter connecting the two hemispheres of the brain.

ANS : CORPUS CALLOSUM

Nuclear masses situated above the brain stem concerned with the initiation of voluntary movements.

ANS : BASAL GANGLIA

24. Only 2 Cabinet members served in the same position throughout Franklin Roosevelt's entire stint as president. For ten points for one, 25 for both, name them.

ANS : Frances PERKINS and Harold ICKES

25. Modern satires are general placed into two categories based on their harshness or subtlety. For ten points each, 5 more for putting them in this order, name the 2 Roman writers from whom harsh and subtle satires are said to be derived.

ANS : JUVENAL and HORACE

26. For ten points each identify the language family containing each of the following lists of languages.

Mon, Khmer, Vietnamese

ANS : AUSTRO-ASIATIC

Manchu, Mongolian, Turkic

ANS: ALTAIC

Albanian, Armenian, Latvian

ANS : INDO-EUROPEAN

27. Ah, Montana, that quiet place of refuge, sort of. Answer the following questions for the stated number of points.

For five points identify the separatist group that began its standoff with the FBI in late March.

ANS : The FREEMEN

For ten points, identify the township the Freemen claim to have formed.

ANS : JUSTUS Township

For 15 points, identify the Colorado legislator sympathetic to the militia movement called in by the FBI as a mediator, but who quickly quit. ANS : Charles DUKE

28. Identify these physicists on a 15-5 basis.

15) This American showed that a proton is not an anti electron as postulated by Dirac. 5) He headed the Los Alamos Nuclear Research Facility.

ANS : J. Robert OPPENHEIMER

15) Born in Moravia, he unsuccessfully tried to found the science of psychophysics. 5) His name is forever immortalized as the sound barrier.

ANS : Ernst MACH

29. Both of last year's baseball MVP awards left a lot of people scratching their heads in wonder: For ten points for one, 25 for both, name 1995's controversial American and National League Most Valuable Players.

ANS : Mo VAUGHN and Barry LARKIN

30. For ten points each, identify these architectural features or terms.

1. A triangular section of wall at the end of a pitched roof, extending from the eaves to the peak. In Greek temples they are called pediments.

ANS : GABLE

2. Referring to rectangular walled structures with an open hall extending from end to end, usually flanked by side aisles set off by colonnades, it is a term of honor in the Catholic church.

ANS : BASILICA

3. The decorated projection at the top of a wall provided to protect the wall face or to ornament and finish the eaves.

ANS : CORNICE