Berkeley, II WIT 4: "Where's Gaius?" Questions Scrounged from Multiple Sources by Nick and Gaius
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Berkeley, II WIT 4: "Where's Gaius?" Questions scrounged from multiple sources by Nick and Gaius TOSSUPS 1. Born in 1907 in London, she moved to Paris at an early age. After being schooled in France, she returned to England where she began to write, mainly period romances and novels set in the West Country. FTP, identify this author whose most famous work is Rebecca. Answer: Daphne _du Maurier_ 2. In 1972, the U.S. Army reversed its 66 year old decision, and ruled that the discharge of 167 men from the 1st Battalion, 25th Infantry, Company B had been honorable. At the time, the men were found guilty without trial, and President Roosevelt referred to the incident as a "conspiracy of silence". The only evidence found against them was 40 spent cartridges, which led the army to conclude that the company was responsible for a shooting spree which wounded two white men. This only known mass punishment in U.S. Army history, which affected a company of African-American soldiers, occurred in, FTP, what Texas city? Answer: _Brownsville_ 3. Born in 1936, this author of plays and poetry was involved with the Committee to Defend the Unjustly Prosecuted. His works deal with topics such as human relations and communication. Arrested on political grounds twice, he tells the story of one of his imprisonments in Letters to Olga. FTP, who is this Czech, author of The Memorandum, The Increased Difficulty of Concentra tion, and The Garden Party, and the leader of his country? Answer: Vaclav _Havel_ 4. He thwarted three attacks by Hannibal on Nola in 216 B.C. He had earlier celebrated the _spolia opima_ for slaying a Gallic chief. He is most famous, however, for his successful siege of Syracuse in spite of Archimedes' defenses. FTP, name this man, nicknamed the Sword of Rome. Answer: Marcus Claudius _Marcellus_ 5. In 1957, the dictator of the Dominican Republic, ordered the slaughter of black Haitians who could not pronounce the "r' in the Spanish word for parsley. An American poet created a work based on that subject, told from both the perspective of the people and the tyrant. She studied at both Miami of Ohio and The University of Tubingen. FTP, who is this author of The Yellow House on the Corner, Thomas and Beulah, Museum, and Grace Notes, named U.S. Poet Laureate in 1993? Answer: Rita _Dove_ 6. He first trained as a lawyer in Russia and was a brilliant and persuasive man. However, when he was in his thirties, he decided to go to Munich and study art. By the time The Blue Rider was established, he was already "abstracting" from the image, using it as a creative springboard. FTP, name this artist, a member of The Blue Rider group, whose works include Heavy Circles, The Gray, Cossacks, and Improvisation 31. Answer: Wassily _Kandinsky- 7. Educated at Hamilton College and Harvard, this psychologist argued that mass conditioning was a proper form of social control in his book _Beyond Freedom and Dignity_. He developed a method of teaching known as programmed instruction where a student was fed bits of information and had to demonstrate knowledge of those facts before proceeding to the next level. Gaining a reputation while teaching at the Universities of Minnesota and Indiana, he joined the faculty of Harvard in 1948 and became the leading spokesman for behaviorism. FTP, name this author of _Walden Two_. Answer: Burrhus Frederic _Skinner_ 8. He entered Harvard at age 16 and was interested in both writing and engineering. Upon graduation he entered the army with the hope of writing the "great war novel," and his service in the Pacific theater during World War II became the basis for that work, one of his best known. FTP, identify this author of such works as _The White Negro_, _The Deer Park_, _Armies of the NighL and _The Naked and the Dead_. Answer: Norman _Mailer_ 9. The name is almost the same. The student of Daedalus also known as Perdix who was killed for his invention of the saw, the 'yron man' attendant to Sir Artegal in The Faerie Queen who was 'swift as a swallow and as lion strong', the bronze giant of Greek myth which protected Crete and was destroyed by the magic of Medea, and the planetary system visited by the Enterprise in the Star Trek pilot "The Cage". FTP, give the common name. Answer: _Talus_ or _Talos_ 10. The putative subject of this book is a fable of three brothers and the coats that their father left to them; however, it is the numerous digressions that appear in it that carry the main satiric force of the work. Among the subjects that the author attacks in his digressions are pedantry, scientific credulity and quackery, madness, and religious fanaticism. FTP, name this Jonathan Swift work whose title can refer either to flim-flam or to a nautical method of scaring whales away from ships. Answer: A _Tale of a Tub_ 11. Named in 1852 after the Earldom held by Sir Francis Egerton, its northernmost point, Cape Columbia, was finally reached by Charles Francis Hall in 1871 who passed through the Nares Strait which separates it from Greenland. FTP, name this northernmost of the Canadian islands, the ninth largest in the world and the second largest in Canada. Answer: _Ellesmere_ Island 12. The grandson of Cretheus and Tyro and brother of Bias, as a small boy, he chanced upon a dead female serpent which he gave a solemn funeral and whose young he looked after. He discovered how to cure the sexual impotence of Iphiclus, and cured the mad daughters of Proteus, for which he was given one of the daughters and two-thirds of the kingdom of Argos. FTP, who was this ancestor of Polyidus (poli-eye-dus) who could heal the sick and understood the language of animals after the young snakes purified his ears? Answer: _Melampus_ 13. He first suggested the idea of non-directed or client-centered psychotherapy in 1945's "Counseling and Psychotherapy." Along with Maslow he is considered a father of humanistic psychology. FTP, identify this famous psychologist, best known for his 1961 work "On Becoming A Person. " Answer: Carl _Rogers_ 14. This novel ends as a young man hitchhikes across America still seeking the place where the American dream of riches and fame will be fulfilled . Sketches of real people like Henry Ford, Isadora Duncan, and the Wright brothers intrude on the main story of Charley Anderson, a returned war hero, who marries an heiress, has an affair, becomes involved in land fraud, and dies in an accident. FTP, what is this novel by John Dos Passos, the third book in the USA trilogy? Answer: _The Big Money_ 15. They can be broadly classified as globular or fibrous; the globular variety have compact rounded molecules and are usually water soluble, while the fibrous variety are generally insoluble in water and consist of long coiled strands or flat sheets which co nfer strength and elasticity. They are comprised of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen, and most also contain sulfur, and molecular weights range from 6000 to several million. When heated over 50 degrees Celsius or subjected to strong acids or alkali s, they lose their specific tertiary structure and may form insoluble coagulates. FTP, name this organic compounds, found in all living organisms, examples of which include myosin, keratin, antibodies, and enzymes. Answer: _protein_s 16. After losing all his money when the South Seas Bubble collapsed, he got a job as Secretary to the Duchess of Monmouth, but never was able to solve his financial difficulties, dying nearly penniless in 1732. Buried in Westminster Abbey, the epitaph he wrote reads, "Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought it once and now I know it.· FTP, name this British poet and playwright of Polly, the sequel to The Beggar's Opera. Answer: John _Gay_ 17. "A Simple Inquiry" and "The Undefeated" are two of the works in this short story collection. Another story, concerning Ole Anderson, who is to be killed by a duo of gunmen, also features Nick Anderson. Along with "The Killers, " the collection also features "Fifty Grand" and "Hills Like White Elephants." FTP, what is this 1927 Ernest Hemmingway collection? Answer: _Men Without Women_ 18. Resistance or disregard for affirmative action takes different forms. At this public university, an administrator gave 49 of 54 scholarships earmarked for minority students to white students in a fraternity with which he was associated. When exposed, David Deuillier was forced to resign from this southern university, whose mascot is the Tigers. FTP, name it. Answer: _LSU_ or _Louisiana State_ University 19. 54 inches long with a 500-yard range, it inspired the German Panzerschrek. Officially known as the M-1 rocket launcher, it is operated by a 2-man team. It fires a thin stabilized projectile with a shaped warhead. FTP, what is this weapon, originally designed to be used against tanks? Answer: Bazooka_ 20. It is about 1370 watts per square meter at the top of the earth's atmosphere. According to satellite instruments, this value varies by about 0.1 % over the course of a sunspot cycle, with short-term variations of as much as 0.2%. FTP, what is this ironically misnamed astronomical term? Answer: _Solar constant_ 21. Speaking of the incident, James Monroe said southerners could no longer "count with certainty" on the slaves' "tranquil submission." Several hundred slaves armed with axes, pikes, and rusty muskets made a six mile march on Richmond and may have succeeded in taking the city were it not for the weather conditions.