Round 1

JCV 2001 Packet by Ezequiel Berdichevsky, Arthur Fleming and John Nam Tossups

1. Hoping to break the enemy center by weight and push, Lucius Aemilius Paulus and Gaius Terentius Varro massed their infantry in a deep, narrow formation and placed cavalry on the wings. When the enemy horse drove off the Roman cavalry and swept around the rear, and the Carthaginian line did not break in the face of the Roman advance, the Romans were surrounded and cut to pieces. FTP, name this battle of the Second Punic War, the classic example of a victorious double envelopment, fought in Apulia in 216 B.C. Answer: Cannae

2. European thinkers in this movement included Giovanni Papini and Maurice Blondel. It first received philosophical expression in the critical group discussions of the "Metaphysical Club," whose members included Chauncey Wright, F. E. Abbot, and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. It was there, apparently, that a version of the classic paper "The Fixation of Belief" was presented by its author, Charles Sanders Peirce. FTP, name this school of philosophical thought which became famous and received by the world at large through the efforts of William James. Answer: Pragmatism

3. At the onset of mitosis, it disappears, only to reappear by telophase, arising from the endoplasmic reticulum. Discovered in 1898 by its namesake using a silver impregnation technique for staining, in some cells it produces so much carbohydrate that the protein! polysaccharide combination it produces is called a mucopolysaccharide. FTP, name this cell structure, involved in cell wall production in plants and protein processing in animals. Answer: Golgi Apparatus (or Complex)

4. Major tributaries in its 195,000 square miles drainage basin are the , , , , and Pripet rivers. More than 300 hydroelectric plants operate in its basin, supplying water to industrial regions and the arid lands of southern and Crimea. FTP, name this river, which rises on the southern slopes of the Valdai Hills west of Moscow and flows generally south through and Ukraine before emptying into the . Answer: Dniepr River

5. By the time he was 10, he was already an apprentice in the workshop of Lorenzo Ghiberti, and at 18, he joined the official guild of painters in Florence. Nothing of his work from that early time remains; his earliest extant frescoes are in the Chiostro Verde of the Santa Maria Novella, representing episodes from the Creation. FTP, name this artist, born Paolo di Dono, famous for studies of perspective and his three panels representing "The Battle of San Romano." Answer: Paolo Ucello

6. It ruined the political careers of, among others, Senator James W. Patterson of New Hampshire, Representative James Brooks of New York, and Vice President Schuyler Colfax, who while serving as Speaker of the House in the 1860s apparently accepted stock in this company. FTP, name this ephemeral construction company, organized by Thomas C. Durant, Oakes Ames and others to take profit from government grants for the building of the Union Pacific Railroad. Answer: Credit Mobilier of America Round 1

7. His poetry collections include _The Arkansas Testament_, _The Fortunate Traveler_, and _Sea Grapes _. In his essay "What the Twilight Says" he addresses the problems of the colonial writer, and it is often featured as a preface to other works, including _The Sea at Dauphin _ and his revision of Homer _ Omeros_. FTP identify this Trinidadian author of works such as _Star-Apple Kingdom_, _Midsummer_, and _Dream on Monkey Mountain_. Answer: Derek Walcott

8. He first entered politics in 1954, voicing opposition to the policies of President Syngman Rhee. Unsuccessful in his first four attempts to win election, he finally won a seat on the National Assembly in 1961, and by 1965 he had earned a reputation as gifted orator and an outspoken critic of Chung Hee Park. He ran unsuccessfully against Park in 1971, then lost again in 1987 and 1992 before [mally winning the 1997 election. FTP, name this man, who won the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to unite North and South Korea. Answer: Kim Dae-Jung

9. Later researches of his contributed to the understanding of fluorescence, phosphorescence, and color in organic substances. The first to isolate deuterium, he prepared a pure sample of heavy water in 1933. However, he is best known for his proposal, around 1916, that a chemical bond could be formed by the sharing of valence electrons as well as by electron transfer. FTP, name this American chemist whose electron pair theory fostered understanding of the covalent bond and extended the concept of acids and bases. Answer: Gilbert Newton Lewis

10. Because of political rivalries, a revolutionary system of voting was adopted, where each of the major power blocs (Italy, England, France and Germany) were each given one vote; later, cardinals were given a vote as a group, and still later Spain gained a vote. The 16th ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church, it was summoned under pressure from Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund by John XXIII, who it later deposed. FTP, name this church council, which saw an end to the Great Schism by electing Martin V pope in 1417. Answer: Council of Constance

11. The main plot focuses on the recovery of a bond that has been paid to extricate Jeremy's master from debt. Other characters affected by this effort include Miss Prue, the daughter of Foresight, an old astrologer, who is promised to Ben, and Angelica, whose dedication for Valentine causes her to woo his father, Sir Sampson Legend. FTP identify this comedy by William Congreve whose title refers to the noble form of exchange that Angelica finally chooses. Answer: Love for Love

12. He studied art in San Francisco and then, from 1890 to 1893, in Paris at the Academie Julian. From 1896-1901, he was in England, where he received important commissions and royal recognition, before establishing himself in New York City. It was in New York that he produced the first piece of American sculpture bought for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "The Mares of Diomedes." FTP, name this son of Danish immigrants, who revived the Egyptian practice of giant stone sculpture of politicians in natural rock formations. Answer: John Gutzon de la Moth Borghlum Round 1

13. He posited that man had progressed from a hunting-and-gathering stage known as "savagery" to a more advanced one he termed "civilization" in his work _Ancient Society_. This idea grew from research done on the Iroquois and Seneca. But his most famous discovery involved his realization that the Ojibwa utilized nearly identical ways of designating relations as other tribes, which he published in 1871 's _Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family_. FTP, name this founder of scientific anthropology who established the study of kinship. Answer: Lewis Morgan

14. Founded by Nolan Bushnell in 1972, its first product was developed with less than $1,000 and put into operation in a bar in Sunnyvale, California. By 1974, it had released a home version, but competition from Magnavox and a machine known as "the Fairchild" forced Bushnell to sell out to Warner Brothers for $28 million. It was under Warner Brother's auspices that its first major system, the 2600, was developed and marketed. FTP, name this classic game company, which introduced the first coin-operated video game, Pong. Answer: Atari

15. The most radical action in this play is prompted by a decision to move to Finland, at which point the title character lashes out by firing two shots; these miss their mark and the professor and his wife Yelena leave. Meanwhile, Sonya has tried to woo the doctor Mikhail Astrov to no avail, and Marya keeps churning out pamphlets. FTP identify this 1899 work which focuses on Ivan Voynitsky's relation to the professor's daughter. Answer: Uncle Vanya

16. First and last names required. The left defensive tackle of the Miami Dolphins' famous "no­ name defense" who after his rookie season in 1968 was named the Dolphins' outstanding defensive lineman for the next 6 seasons. The wrestler currently in New Dimension Wrestling who is best­ remembered for holding the NWA tag team title as a partner of both Dusty Rhodes and "Ravishing" Rick Rude. FTP, give the shared name, which is also the name of the starting goaltender of the expansion Minnesota Wild. Answer: Manny Fernandez

17. Nineteenth-century composer Giovanni Bottesini was one of this instrument's greatest practitioners. Known for its solo in the "Elephant" movement of Saint-Saens' _Carnival of the Animals_and for its unusual inclusion in Schubert's "Trout" Quintet, it is the only stringed instrument that is tuned in fourths rather than fifths. FTP, name this largest and lowest-pitched of the strings. Answer: Double Bass (or contrabass or string bass)

18. The characteristic frequency associated with this device is given by q B over 2 pi m, where B is the magnetic field strength and q and m are the charge and mass of the particles. In this device, an oscillating potential difference is established between two hollow metal objects called dees; the particles are accelerated each time they cross the gap between the dees. FTP, name this device, whose invention won the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics for its inventor, Ernest Lawrence. Answer: Cyclotron Round 1

19. While teaching at the Ferrer Modem School in 1913, he met and married one of his pupils, the 15-year-old Ada, or Ida, Kaufman. A year later, he became director of adult education at the progressive Labor Temple School in New York City, and in 1917 he took on added duties as a professor of philosophy at Columbia. That same year saw the publication of this first work, _Philosophy and the Social Problem_. FTP, name this philosophy and history writer, best known for his collaborations with his wife, who legally adopted the name he called her, Ariel. Answer: William James Durant

20. In "The Strength of God," Rev. Curtis Hartman is obsessed with sexual desire. "Godliness" features Elmer Cowley and is a retelling of the biblical David story. "Queer" focuses on Jesse Bentley, who is driven from the title location. These are just some of the 23 stories collected in, FTP, what 1919 work, in which small town America is seen through the eyes of George Willard, the masterpiece of Sherwood Anderson.

Answer: Winesburg, Ohio

21. In response to a request by the Air Force on behalf of the Central Intelligence Agency for a single-seat, long-range, high altitude reconnaissance aircraft, an unsolicited proposal was made by Lockheed in November 1954. Just eight months later, Lockheed's "Skunk Works" produced the first of these aircraft, which made its maiden flight on August 6, 1955. FTP, name this spy plane, whose most famous pilot was Francis Gary Powers. Answer: U-2

22. The subject of a drama by Euripides of which only fragments survive, according to some sources he was the son of Mars, though most sources list him as the son of King Oeneus. According to the _Iliad_, the spoils from his most famous action were the cause ofa war between his city and the Curetes, neighboring warriors who had aided him, who besieged Calydon before he finally repulsed them. FTP, name this man, the leader of the Calydonian boar hunt. Answer: Meleagar

23. Following in the footsteps of his famous uncle, C. V. Raman, he earned a physics degree from Presidency College in 1930 before studying and teaching at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1937, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago, where he remained for the rest of his career. Among his students were Lee and Yang, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957 for their work on particle physics. FTP, name this man, who won his own Nobel in 1983 with William Fowler for formulating the currently accepted theory on the later evolutionary stages of massive stars. Answer: Subrahrnanyan Chandrasekhar Round 1

JCV 2001 Packet by Ezequiel Berdichevsky, Arthur Fleming and John Nam

1. Answer these seemingly unrelated questions FTP each. 1. The smallest operable unit of storage in computer technology, it can represent a single character or a number from 0 to 255. Answer: Byte 2. In solfege, this word refers to the third tone ofthe major scale. Answer: Mi 3. The headmistress of Bryn Mawr Preparatory School in Baltimore for 26 years, after her retirement in 1922 she started writing scholarly articles on Greek drama. At age 63, she published _The Greek Way_ comparing ancient Greek life and modem times. Answer: Edith Hamilton

2. Answer these somewhat height-related questions FTP each. 1. Their 2001 tour is called the "Elevation" tour Answer: U2 2. You can gain some elevation if you climb one of these, the accumulation of rock debris carried or deposited by a glacier. Answer: Moraine 3. The 5th pick of the 1991 NBA draft, this current Portland Trail Blazer with some mad ups is still the 2nd leading scorer in Michigan State history. Answer: Steve Smith

3. Answer these questions about the Cruise-Kidman breakup for the stated number of points. 1. For 5 points, rumor had it that this actor, seen with Nicole at the Golden Globes, was the cause of the breakup. Answer: George Clooney 2. For an additional 10 points, in two interviews, Nicole said that she considers herself a member of this religion at heart, despite the fact that she and Cruise are scientologists. Her desire to raise the couple's adopted children in this religion may be the real reason for the divorce. Answer: Roman Catholic 3. 5 points for one, 15 for both, give the first names of this ex-couple's two adopted children. Answer: Isabella and Connor

4. Identify these poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson from important lines FTP each. 1. "Out on the wharfs they camel Knight and burger, lord and dame/ And round the prow they read her name." Answer: The Lady of Shalott 2. "Below the thunders of the upper deep/ Far, far beneath in the abysmal seal His ancient dreamless uninvaded sleep" Answer: The Kraken 3. "One equal temper of heroic hearts/ Made weak by time and fate, but strong in willI To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield" Answer: Ulysses Round 1

5. Answer the following concerning the doctrine of states' rights for the stated number of points. 1. For 5 points, the doctrine is based on what constitutional amendment, which states that powers not delegated to the federal government are reserved to state governments? Answer: 10th Amendment 2. Passed in opposition to the Alien and Sedition Acts, the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions are considered the first notable statements of states' rights doctrine. For 5 points each, what two men authored the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions? Answer: Thomas Jefferson and James Madison 3. Dissatisfied with government policy during the War of 1812, several New England Federalists met secretly in December of 1814 to consider secession. FTP, name this meeting which sealed the destruction of the Federalist Party. Answer: Hartford Convention 4. For 5 points, this moderate Federalist chaired the Hartford convention. Answer: George Cabot

6. Answer the following Icelandic questions FTP each. 1. This strait separates Iceland from Greenland. Answer: Denmark Strait (or Strait of Denmark) 2. Iceland's parliament, it was founded in 930 and is the world's oldest legislative body. Answer: The Althing 3. Iceland won its only medal in the 2000 Olympics in this event, in which Stacy Dragila and Tatiana Grigorieva took home gold and silver. Answer: Women's Pole Vault

7. Identify the following about psychology FTP each. 1. This movement was founded with the 1912 publication "Experimental Studies of the Perception of Movement." It argues that we experience consciousness in meaningful, intact configurations. Answer: Gestalt 2. This man wrote that article as well as the book _Productive Thinking_ and is usually credited as the founder of Gestalt psychology. Answer: Max Wertheimer 3. This man taught at Swarthmore after fleeing Germany and is best known for his work on learning at the tum of the century; most of these experiments were done on apes. Answer: Wolfgang Kohler

8. For the stated number of points, identify these Maurice Ravel works that are a lot better than Bolero. 1. For 15 points, this piece is an orchestral version of the fourth of his _Miroirs_ for piano; its title means "Morning Song of the Jester". Answer: Alborada del Gracioso 2. FTP, one of Ravel's best short pieces, this melancholy work is based on the Spanish court custom of solemn ceremonial dance at a time of mourning. Answer: Pavane Pour Vne Infante Defunte (or Pavane For A Dead Princess [or Infanta or Child]) 3. For 5 points, Ravel created the most often-performed orchestration of this Modest Mussorgsky work. Answer: Pictures At An Exhibition Round 1

9. Identify the following about an author FTP each. 1. This man first won recognition with _Monsieur Beaucaire_and his 1899 novel about a crusading editor in his home state, _The Gentleman from Indiana_. Answer: Booth Tarkington 2. Booth Tarkington's most famous work may be this 1918 novel, the second in his trilogy "Growth," which focuses on Eugene Morgan's lifelong relationship with Isabel of the title family. Answer: The Magnificent Ambersons 3. This 1921 novel features a secret formula for glue, a thieving brother named Walter, and a girl who wants to marry into Arthur Russell's family, but instead ends up a typist. Answer: Alice Adams

10. For the stated number of points, answer the following concerning black holes. 1. For 5 points, this is the point of infinite density at the center of a black hole. According to the law of cosmic censorship, there cannot be any naked ones. Answer: Singularity 2. Black holes have only three measurable properties. Name them for 5 points each. Answer: Mass, Charge, Angular Momentum 3. In the 1930s, a really famous scientist and his colleague discovered that a black hole can connect our universe with another space-time domain. FTP, give the term, named after the two scientists, for this theoretical connection between universes. Answer: Einstein-Rosen Bridge

11. FTP each, identify the book of the Bible from the opening verse. 1. "In this book are the words that Moses spoke to the people of Israel when they were in the wilderness east ofthe Jordan River." Answer: Deuteronomy 2. "From his royal throne in Persia's capital city of Susa, King Xerxes ruled 127 provinces, all the way from India to Sudan." Answer: Esther 3. "This is a list of the ancestors of Jesus Christ, a descendant of David, who was a descendant of Abraham." Answer: Matthew

12. The movie "The Right Stuff' had many actors who went on to bigger and better things. FTP, given the character from "The Right Stuff," name the actor who was in that role. If you need a more famous role, you'll get 5 points. 1. 10 points--Gordo Cooper 5 points--Jerry Lee Lewis in "Great Balls of Fire" Answer: Dennis Quaid 2. 10 points--Glennis Yeager 5 points-Hillary Essex in "Beaches" Answer: Barbara Hershey 3. 10 points--John Glenn 5 points--Cristof (the Producer) in "The Truman Show" Answer: Ed Harris Round 1

13. Identify these people from Austrian history FTP each. 1. The period between 1815 and 1848 is sometimes called the "Age of' this man. Austria's foreign minister beginning in 1809, he was the guiding force at the Congress of Vienna. Answer: Clemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lother, Furst von Metternich 2. He became Austria's chancellor in 1934, after the assassination of Engelbert Dollfuss. He was the sole head of the semi-fascist Austrian government until German troops occupied Austria in 1938, and he was taken prisoner. Answer: Kurt von Schuschnigg 3. This former UN secretary general served as president of Austria from 1986 to 1992. Answer: Kurt Waldheim

14. Identify the following about literature which may have something in common FTP each. 1. Although Master Humphrey is the narrator of the first few chapters, this 1841 Dickens novel is better known for Dick Swiveller, the Garlands, and Kit Nubbles' love for Nell Trent. Answer: The Old Curiosity Shop 2. _The Old Curiosity Shop_ features a hideous and deformed man named Daniel Quilp, who is well known for being this type of character, which also names a 1945 work by Par Lagerkvist. Answer: Dwarf (prompt on little dude or the like) 3. The most deranged dwarf in literature does not apppear in a Dickens novel, but in this Carson McCullers work instead, where both Marvin Macy and Amelia Evans are seduced by Lymon Willis Answer: Ballad of the Sad Cafe

15. Sorry, no clever lead-in. For 5 points each, name the six least-populous nations in the world, according to the 2001 World Almanac. Answer: Vatican City, Tuvalu, Nauru, Palau, San Marino, Monaco

16. For the stated number of points, given the colonial name of a current African nation, identify the name by which it is known today. Sorry, no Dahomey this time. 1. For 5 points, Gold Coast Answer: Ghana 2. FTP, Bechuanaland Answer: Botswana 3. For 15 points, Ubangi-Shari Answer: Central African Republic

17. FTP each, given the title of an art piece, the medium and the year, name the sculptor. 1. _Unique Forms of Continuity in Space_, bronze, 1913 Answer: Umberto Boccioni 2. _Pauline Borghese as Venus_, marble, 1808 Answer: Antonio Canova 3. _Recumbent Figure_, Green Hornton stone, 1938 Answer: Henry Moore Round 1

18. Identify the following about a 16th century epic FTP each. 1. The title emotion in this work is engendered after the hero recognizes a jeweled bracelet given to a huntsman who helped Medoro and Angelica as they escaped to Cathay. Answer: Orlando Furioso 2. This author of _La Lena_ and _II N egromante_ wrote _Orlando Furioso_. Answer: Lodovico Ariosto 3. Much of the epic is actually focused on this converted Saracen knight, whose marriage to Bradamante was meant to flatter Ariosto's patrons, the Este family. Answer: Ruggiero

19. FTP each, given the incarnation of Vishnu, name the animal associated with that avatar. For example, if! said Rama, you'd say, "human" to receive the points. 1. For 5 points, Krishna Answer: Human 2. FTP, Vamana Answer: Dwarf 3. For 15 points, Narasimha Answer: Man-Lion (do not prompt on "human")

20. FTP each, name these national parks. 1. This park's main attraction is the deepest lake in the U.S., which was created when Mt. Mazama erupted about 7,700 years ago. Answer: Crater Lake National Park 2. Adjacent to Kings Canyon National Park, Mt. Whitney is in this park that is better known for its big-ass trees. Answer: Seguouia National Park 3. This park covers Mount Desert Island, Isle au Haut, and the Schoodic Peninsula. It is the easternmost national park in the continental U.S. Answer: Acadia National Park

21. FTP each, given some consumer products, identify the parent company. 1. Cheerios, Wheaties, Betty Crocker Answer: General Mills 2. Velveeta, Oscar Mayer, Marlboro cigarettes Answer: Phillip Morris 3. Duracell batteries, PaperMate pens, Right Guard deodorant Answer: Gilette

22. Thanks to the Penn Bowl moratorium on election questions, there just haven't been enough questions on the Florida recount. Name these playas from that controversy for the stated number of points. 1. For 5 points, name the Republican Secretary of State who certified the vote any number of times. Answer: Katherine Harris 2. FTP, name the Democratic Florida Attorney General who also chaired Al Gore's state campaign. Answer: Bob "Don't Call Me Mrs." Butterworth 3. For 15 points, see how fast their 15 minutes of fame have passed, and name anyone of the Palm Beach County canvassing board members. Answer: Charles Burton, Theresa Lepore, Carol Roberts Round 1

23 . 30-20-10 Name the philosopher. 30) He studied Muslim jurisprudence under his father, a Cordoba jurist, and he also studied theology, philosophy and mathematics under Ibn Tufayl and medicine under Avenzoar. 20) After the death oflbn Tufayl, he became personal physician to caliph Abu Ya'qub Yusufin addition to his duties as chief _gadi_, or judge, in his hometown of Cordoba. It was at the behest of Abu Ya' qub that he produced his most famous work. 10) This Islamic religious philosopher is best known for his series of summaries and commentaries on most of Aristotle's works. Answer: Averroes (or Abu al-Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Rushd)

24. Given works, name the opera composers on a 10-5 basis. 1. 10 points--_I Capuleti ed i Montecchi_ (1830), based on_Romeo and Juliet_ 5 points--_Norma_ (1835) Answer: Vincenzo Bellini 2. 10 points-- (1843) 5 points--_Daughter of the Regiment_ (1840) Answer: Gaetano Donizetti 3. 10 points--_La Perichole_ (1868) 5 points--_Tales of Hoffman_ (1881) Answer: Jacques Offenbach

25. For 5 points each, given the title of a song receiving major love from the music video channels in February of2001, name the artist who performs it. 1. "I Wish" Answer: R. Kelly 2. "If You're Gone" Answer: Matchbox Twenty 3. "Don't Tell Me" Answer: Madonna 4. "Crazy for the Girl" Answer: Evon and Jaron 5. "Love Don't Cost a Thing" Answer: Jennifer Lopez 6. "AM Radio" Answer: Everclear