1994 Heinrich Bowl Question Packet 6

1. He broke Dizzy Dean's thirty game winning streak by striking out 17 men and allowing no runs in a Hollywood All Stars game in which Dean stuck out 15 and allowed one run to score. For 10 points, identify this man who started 29 games in 29 days for the South Dakota team for which he played in 1933 before moving on to become the first black pitcher in the American League. Answer: Satchel Paige

2. Along with the muses, Aglaia, Thalia, and Euphrosne served as the source of inspiration for poetry and the arts. For 10 points, what is the collective name of these Greek goddesses, the personification of charm and beauty? Answer: Graces or Charites

3. It was described by Lloyd George as "the lean and trusty mastiff which is to watch over our interests, but which runs away at the first snarl of the trade unions." For 10 points, what is this highest judicial body of Britain and upper house of the legislature. Answer: House of Lords

4. First published in 1965, it follows a small boy's odyssey through Eastern Europe during World War II. For 10 points, identify this Jersy Kosinski novel in which the boy is treated cruelly by small-minded peasants who believe him to be a gypsy or a Jew. Answer: The Painted Bird

5. In 1729, British astronomer James Bradley used the star Etamin in this constellation to discover the aberration of light. For 10 points, what is this constellation located between the big and little dippers just below the celestian pole which shares its name with a legendary Athenian lawgiver. Answer: Draco

6. When she became editor of The Westminster Review, she restored it to the respectablity it had under the editorship of John Stuart Mill. In 1855 she began writing the three short novels that appared as Scenes of Clerical Life in 1858. For 10 points, identify this woman who with 1859's Adam Bede made her repuatation as a great moral realist. Answer: George Eliot

7. It originally provided for re-unification elections to be held in 1956, but they did not occur. It divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel and lasted from April 27 to July 20. For 10 points, what was this major international conference of 1954. Answer: Geneva conference

8. Though he was hailed as the leader of painters outside the academic establishment, he did not gain recognition until late in life when his portraits became much sought after. In 1882, he was granted the Legion of Honor the same year he produced "The Bar at the Folies-Bergere", one of his finest paintings. For 10 points, identify this impressionist painter of Olympia. Answer: Edouard Manet

9. Becoming interested in the phenomenon of electricity, he wrote a long Latin poem on the subject. In 1774 he was apppointed professer of physics in the Como high school and the next year invented the electrophorus which he described first in a letter to Priestley. For 10 points, identify this physicist born in Como in 1745 who after inventing this charge accumulating device invented the battery. Answer: Alessandro Volta

10. He succeeded Paul Reynaud as premier of France and on June 22nd 1940, signed an armistice at Compeigne with Germany. For 10 points, identify this man who on July 2nd of that year established a government with its headquarters at Vichy. Answer: Marshal Henry-Phillippe Petain

11. According to a 1984 survey, over half its trees have been damaged by acid rain. Its highest elevations occur at Feldberg, the Herzogenhorn, and Hornisgridne and near Breisah is the volcanic mass of the Kaiserstuhl. For 10 points, identify this region noted for the production of cuckoo clocks which gives rise to numerous rivers including the Neckar and Danube. Answer: Black Forest or Schwarzwald

12. In the 1940s she did work demonstrating that the nucleus has a structure of successive proton-neutron shells and for this work, she was awarded a Nobel prize. For 10 points, identify this Polish born woman physicist who won in 1963 along with Eugene Wigner and J Hans Jensen. Answer: Maria Goeppert-Mayer 13. He is best known for a paper he first presented at a meetin of the American Historical Association in 1893. In it, he rejected the traditional emphasis on the influence of the East of Anglo-Saxon political institutions, stating instead that the form and spirit of American democracy were the product of the frontier. For 10 points, identify this American historian. Answer: Frederick Jackson Turner

14. It was based on an incident recorded by historian August Mariette and the libretto was expanded by Camille du Locle and the poet Antionio Ghislanzoni. For 10 points, identify this opera that premeried in 1871 in which the warrior Radames is chosen to lead Egypt's army against the enemy Ethiopians. Answer: Aida

15. He was killed at the instigation of Hakon IV of Norway, whose wrath he incurred during his three terms as law-speaker of the Icelandic commonwealth. For 10 points, identify this man who told the story of the history of the kings of Norway in his Heimskringla who is better known for the Prose or Younger Edda. Answer: Snorri Sturluson

16. A proflic author, according to the account of his life by Diogenes Laertius, he left 300 manuscripts including 37 treatises on physics and number other writings. His philosophy was delineated in the works of Roman writers, especially in Lucretius De Rerum Natura. For 10 points, identify this 2nd and 3rd century BC Greek philosopher whose essential doctrine was that pleasures, especially intellectual ones, are the supreme good and main goal of life. Answer: Epicurus

17. It can be detected with a device called a tonometer and in the acute, narrow-angle form may cause redness, pupil dilation, clouding of the cornea and severe vision loss. For 10 points, what is this family of eye diseases that cuases one-eighth of all blindness in the US due to increased intraocular pressure. Answer: glaucoma

18. Thought attempts had been made all through the 19th century to manufacture this item, it wasn't until the 1938 invention of a viscous, oil-based ink by Georg Biro that it was possible to manufacture. For 10 points, what is this type of writing implement made possible by Biro that had several advantages over the fountain pen. Answer: ball point pen

19. His well-known poetic manifesto includes the statement "My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the Pity." Killed a week before the Armistice in World War I, he was unknown as a poet until Siegried Sasson published his Poems in 1920. For 10 points, identify this poet of "Strange Meeting", "Anthem for Doomed Youth", and "Dulce Et Decorum Est". Answer: Wildred Owen

20. In a 1974 biography, Fawn Brodie made a convincing case for the long-held suspicion that he father several illegitimate children by Sally Hemings, a slave and the half-sister of his wife. For 10 points, identify this president born April 13, 1743 at Shadwell Plantation, Goochland county Virginia, not far from his home at Montecello. Answer: Thomas Jefferson 1994 Heinrich Bowl Question Packet 6

1. Give the years of the following events in U.S. history. 5 pts. each. 1. Passage of Homestead Act Answer: 1862 2. Monroe doctrine issued Answer: 1823 3. Haymarket Square Riot Answer: 1886 4. Seneca Falls Convention Answer: 1848 5. Pullman strike Answer: 1894 6. Tariff of Abominations Answer: 1828

2. For 5 points each, identify the following Poe short stories from brief descriptions. 1. Prince Prospero and his court hide from a plague. Answer: The Masque of the Red Death 2. Montressor kills Fortunado Answer: The Cask of Amontillado 3. A victim of a nervous disease is overcome by homicidal mania and murders an innocent old man. Answer: The Tell-Tale Heart 4. Roderick and his twin sister Madeline are the only surviving members of their family. Answer: Fall of the House of Usher 5. The narrator's wife dies, and when he remarries a second wife, Rowena, she dies of the same malady and is reborn as the first wife. Answer: Ligeia 6. The title character of this short story kills his alter ego or conscience and inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to write Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde. Answer: William Wilson

3. Identify the following classes of organic compounds for ten points each. 1. This class of organic compounds consist of hydrocarbons with a triple bond. Answer: alkynes 2. This class of aromatic compounds consists of a benzene ring with a hydroxyl group attached. Answer: phenols (ask for more specific if alcohol is given) 3. This class of organic compounds have a cyanide group attached to it. Answer: nitriles

4. Identify the state capitals located on the following rivers for 10 points each. 1. Boston Answer: Charles river 2. Denver Answer: South Platte river 3. Annapolis Answer: Severn river

5. Given the title of a current or upcoming, i1994 Heinrich Bowl Question Packet 1dentify the group or individual who recorded it for five points each. 1. Without A Sound Answer: Dinosaur Jr. 2. File Under: Easy Listening Answer: Sugar 3. Whip Smart Answer: Liz Phair 4. Hungry for Stink Answer: L7 5. Monster Answer: REM 6. Vidalogy Answer: Pearl Jam

6. Identify the following short story collections from stories in them for ten points, or for five points if you need the author. 1. 10: Why the Leopard Has Spots, How the Elephant Got His Trunk 5: Rudyard Kipling Answer: Just-So Stories 2. 10: Ivy Day in the Committee Room, Clay 5: James Joyce Answer: Dubliners 3. 10: The Story of a Panic, The Road from Colonus 5: E. M. Forster Answer: The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories 7. Answer the following questions about teeth for 10 points each. 1. What is the hard yellow substance that makes up most of the structure of teeth? Answer: dentin or dentine 2. What botanical sounding name is given to the milk or baby teeth in man? Answer: deciduous 3. What name is given to the sharp, chisel-shaped teeth found at the front of the mouth? Answer: incisors

8. Identify the following jazz composers from their works 10 pts. each. 1. Ornithology Answer: Charlie "Bird" Parker 2. Giant Steps Answer: John Coltrane 3. Kind of Blue Answer: Miles Davis

9. Identify the following battles in world history from a brief description for ten points each. 1. This October 1813 battle of the Napoleonic wars was also known as the Battle of the Nations. Answer: Leipzig 2. The last pitched battle between wooden sailing ships, this 1827 battle was the most important battle of the Greek war for Independence. Answer: Navarino 3. Prince Charles Edward Stuart was defeated in this 1746 battle, the last of the Jacobite rebellion. Answer: Culloden Moor

10. Answer these questions about early American literature for 10 points each. 1. Published in London in 1650, this collection of poems consists chiefly of rhymed discourses and chronicles using a form the author called "quarternions" or groups of four. What is it? Answer: The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America 2. Subtitled "the transformation" and written by Charles Brockden Brown, this is considered the first Gothic American novel and tells of a sinister ventriloquist named Carwin. Answer: Wieland 3. This 1662 poem by Michael Wigglesworth was bought by one out of every 20 people in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Answer: The Day of Doom

11. Identify the following artist given a list of his works on a 30-20-10 basis. 1. Battle of the Minotaur, War and Peace, and Man With a Sheep 2. Goat's Head and Bottle, The Charnel House, and La Vie 3. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and The Frugal Repast Answer: Pablo Picasso

12. Answer the following questions about Dickens' Oliver Twist for the stated number of points. 1. For five points, what is the real name of the character known as The Artful Dodger. Answer: Jack Dawkins 2. For ten points, what character accidentally hangs himself? Answer: Bill Sikes 3. For fifteen points, what is the subtitle of the novel? Answer: the Parish Boy's Progress

13. Identify the following questions about the myth of Perseus for the stated number of points. 1. For five points, identify his mother who was exiled because her son was prophecied to kill her father. Answer: Danae 2. For ten points, identify the king who Perseus did indeed kill accidentally in a freakish discus accident. Answer: Acrisius 3. For fifteen points, identify the king who fell in love with Danae and sent Perseus on the quest to retrieve the head of Medusa. Answer: Polydectes

14. Identify the following about modern peace talks for ten points each. 1. In which city were the SALT I talks held? Answer: Helsinki, Finland or Vienna, Austria 2. What Korean city was the site of peace talks from 1951 to 1953? Answer: Panmunjon 3. What arms reduction treaty was signed in 1987 in Washington D. C. by Reagan and Gorbachev? Answer: INF treaty or Intermediate Nuclear Forces treaty 15. For 10 points each, whose laws are defined as the following. 1. The temperature of a black body times the maximum wavelength of light emitted is equal to a constant. Answer: Wien's law 2. The index of refraction of a substance is equal to the sine of the angle of incidence over the sine of the angle of refraction Answer: Snell's law 3. If a wire carries a steady current, the magnetic field at a point P associated with an element ds, is inversely proportional to r squared, the distance between P and ds. Answer: Biot-Savart law

16. For 10 points each, identify the authors of the following works in the social sciences. 1. The Raw and the Cooked Answer: Claude Levi-Strauss 2. The Language and Thought of the Child Answer: Jean Piaget 3. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword Answer: Ruth Benedict

17. Identify the losing presidential candidates from his running mate for ten points or from the year for five points. 1. 10: G. H. Pendleton 5: 1864 Answer: George B. McClellan 2. 10: Robert J. Dole 5: 1976 Answer: Gerald R. Ford 3. 10: Charles W. Fairbanks 5: 1916 Answer: Charles Evans Hughes

18. For 5 points each identify the 20th century English composer of the following. 1. Pomp and Circumstance Answer: Edward Elgar 2. Billy Budd Answer: Benjamin Britten 3. The Lark Ascending Answer: Ralph Vaughn Williams 4. Starlight Express Answer: Andrew Lloyd Webber 5. Savitri Answer: Gustav Holst 6. A Village Romeo and Juliet Answer: Frederick Delius

19. Identify the Germans who wrote the following works. 5 pts. each. 1. The Sorrows of Young Werther Answer: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 2. Ode to Joy Answer: Friedrich Schiller 3. The Beloved Returns Answer: Thomas Mann 4. The Tin Drum Answer: Gunter Grass 5. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge Answer: Rainer Maria Rilke 6. The Clown Answer: Heinrich Boll

20. Answer the following questions about cave formations. 1. For 5 points, what name is given to spikes hanging down from a cave ceiling resembling icicles? Answer: stalactites 2. For 5 more points, what metal saturates the water that forms stalactites? Answer: calcium 3. For 10 points, what gas, dissolved in the water, aids in the formation of the final compound of which stalactites are composed? Answer: carbon dioxide (CO2) 4. For 10 points, what is the name given to the mushroom shaped rock formations of igneous rock layered between sedimentary rock. Answer: laccolith