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Craig and Earl BYU 3 Packet by Craig and Earl Caghill TOOSUPS T1. He was prosecuted for blasphemy in 1884. The son of a steamship agent, this dramatist documented his unhappy childhood and his hate for the world in the 1886 work The Son of a Servant. But it was his Wda Rummet, which exposed rackets in Stockholm, that gained him his reputation. FTP, name this Swedish champion of freedom, whose best known plays include Miss Julie and The Ghost Sonata. Ans.: August Strindberg T2. Though it didn't stink, some of its compounds did, so Smithson Tennant gave it a name to reflect this characteristic. Its compounds are used to stain biological tissue and to detect fingerprints. Its pure form is used to anneal platinum and in combination with iridium it is used to make styluses. FTP, name this element found in the ore siserskite with atomic number 76. Ans.: Osmium T3. For ten years, he worked on an oil and lead wire construction, "The Large Glass, or the Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even," while simultaneously churning out such "ready-mades" as his 1913 "Bicycle WheeL" FTP, name this pop and op artist and anti-artist, who caused an uproar with his "Nude Descending a Staircase." Ans.: Marcel Duchamp T4. His real name is unknown. He was born in Phrygia in 60 AD and was bought as a boy by a Roman. After winning his freedom as an adult, he became a teacher of philosophy and remained in Rome until Domitian expelled all philosophers from Italy in 90 AD. He settled in Nicopolis, teaching Stoic doctrines until his death. FTP, name this author of Discourses whose title in Latin means "acquired." Ans.: Epictetus T5. This was one of the best organized West African states of the 1800s, having an army complete with a women's corps. In 1851, it signed a commercial treaty with France which later absorbed it as a colony in 1902. FTP, name this kingdom, the present-day Republic of Benin. Ans: Dahomey (prompt for more information if Benin is given early) T6. Founded in 1936 as a rice mill by Byung-chul Lee, this conglomerate rapidly expanded into real estate, food production, brewing, and imports. Despite being destroyed in the 1950 invasion of South Korea, it came to be the largest of South Korea's trading groups. FTP, name this group, now known for aircraft engines, shipbuilding, and electronics, particularly televisions. Ans: Samsung T7. While training at the Art Students' League, he drew backgrounds for All-American Comics and did window displays at a toy store. Later, he began to illustrate other authors' children's books, such as Ayme's The Wonderful Farm and Krauss' A Hole is to Dig. FTP, name this American illustrator best known for his Caldecott-winning Where the Wild Things Are. Ans: Maurice Sendak T8. Born in Philadelphia in 1893, he grew up to dominate the sport of tennis through the 1920's. An eleven-time member of Davis Cup teams, he helped the US hold the trophy for seven straight years. FTP, name this tennis great, who became the first American to win the men's singles at Wimbledon in 1920. Ans: Bill Tilden T9. Alhough this basketball team gave out no athletic scholarships, they still ahve been amons the top 25 men's college basketball teams in the nation this season. FTP, name this team which currently holds the record for the longest winning streak in the Ivy League. Ans: University of Pennsylvania Quakers T10. One of his most famous opening lines is "Now this bell tolling softly for another, says to me, Thou must die." Another famous line from this work entitiled, "Meditation XVII," is "No man is an island." FTP, name the poet, who also wrote "The Flea," "The Canonization," "Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," and "Holy Sonnet Number 10," which begins with the line "Death be not proud." Ans: John Donne T11. This man was born into a poor family, and early in his life he lost a childhood token of his innocence and ever after longed for the return of Bobo. He was soon adopted by a wealthy family, and later in his life he ran the Springfield atomic power plant. FTP, name this man who is most famous as the boss of Homer Simpson. Ans: Montgomery Burns T12. Son of Sigmund and Hiodis, this Norse mythological figure wakened Brynhild from a mystic sleep and married Gudrun. He bears the appellation "the Dragon-slayer" for killing the dragon Fafnir with the aid of Regin the smith. FTP, name this hero that was eventually slain at Brynhild's bequest by Guttorm. Ans: Sigurd (accept Siegfried with obvious discomfort) T13. While it is not logical that men would ever knowingly do that which would make them unahppy, there seem to be millions of people in the word who knowingly do things that make them unhappy anyway. FTP, give the familiar name for this paradox, made famous by an early dialectician, that men never knowingly choose evil. Ans: Socratic Paradox T14. A production of Fine Line studios, this film documents the lives of two inner-ctiy youths striving for NBA glory. Siskel and Ebert both named it the best film of 1994. FTP, name this film that might make history by becoming the first documentary to receive a best picture nomination from the Academy. Ans: Hoop Dreams T15. The names the same.: a burrowing land tortoise of the southern U.S., a burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae, a distributed document search and retrieval system, Fred Grandy's character on "The Love Boat," and the mascot of the Unviersity of Minnesota. FTP, identify this creature. Ans.: Gopher T16. Darwin and his contemposraries were puzzled by genetic variation in natural populations, but in 1908, a German physician and an English mathemetician simultaneously published a solution. FTP, name the two men and you will name the principle which states that allele and genotype frequencies remain constant in a random-mating population in the absence of inbreeding, selection, or other evolutionary forces. Ans: Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium (or principle) T17. This nation is surrounded by the Little Belt, Great Belt, Fehmarn Belt, Kiel Bay, +resund (er uh-zoont), Skagerak, and Kattegat. It consists of Fyn, Lolland, Falster, Sjaelland, and many other smaller islands in addition to the Jutland penn insula. FTP, name this nation whose only land border is with Germany. Ans.: Denmark T18. Born in 1843 to a wealthy wine merchant that was fond of travel and landscapes, this critic acquired a zest for beauty and art. His works of criticism include The Seven Lamps of Architecture, The Stones of Venice and four volumes of Modern Painters, in which he championed the controversial painter Joseph Turner. FTP, name this most influential English critic of the 19th century. Ans: John Ruskin T19. According to this German naturalist, inventions go through three stages: doubt of existence, denial of importance, and finally, credit for discovery going to someone else. In his five-volume work Cosmos, he tried to describe the physical universe fully. FTP, name this German naturalist who lived from 1769 to 1859 and is known for his extensive travels in Central and South America and his pioneering work in climatology and geography. Ans: Alexander von Humbolt T20. Famous for grunting and singing along with the piece he is playing, this Canadian pianist retired suddenly from the concert stage in 1964. FTP, name the artist who took the classical musical world by storm with his early Carnegie Hall recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations. Ans: Glenn Gould Craig and Earl BYU 3 Ba\lUSES B1. (30) You may be asking "WHY" do I have to answer this question. Good, because for ten points each, give me the name of the letter "y" in the following languages. 1. Spanish I griega (ee gree-egg-uh) 2. French I grec (ee grek) 3. German Ypsilon (,p-si-Ion) B2. (30) Answer the following related art questions for ten points each. 1. The hallmarks of this movement were "streamlined, symmetrical, and smooth." It received its name during the 1925 Paris exposition. FTP, name it. Ans: Art Deco 2. For ten points, give the one-word name of the Art Deco Russian costume and set designer, born Romain de Tirtoff, whose works graced Harper's Bazaar. Ans: ErtE 3. For ten points, name the French jeweler born in Ayneri Reims whose work in enamel, glass, and jewel carving marked the period. Ans: RenE Lalique B3. (30) If you feel that we've been going in circles, you'll have no problem with these questions about benzene derivatives. For 5 points each, name the substituent group in each of these benzene derivatives: 1. Toluene Ans.: Methyl 2. Aniline Ans.: Amine 3. Phenol Ans.: Hydroxyl 4. Styrene Ans.: Vinyl 5. Cumene Ans.: Isopropyl 6. Biphenyl Ans.: Phenyl B4. (25) For five points each, give the author and title of this story, a tale of a brutal double murder solved by the investigator C. Auguste Dupin, which is usually considered to be the first detective story. Ans.: The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe Now, for an additional 15 points, name the real-life private investigator on whose memoirs Dupin's character was based, a reformed thief who opened the first private detective agency in Paris in 1817. Ans.: FranAois-EugEne Vidocq B5. (25) Identify these things from Japanese folklore for the stated number of points. 1. For ten points, name the gargantuan, three-fingered and three-toed, pink, red, or grey-blue demons who could occasionally be converted to Buddhism despite their cruel and malicious nature.