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TOSSUPS - U. OF CENTRAL FLORIDA MOON PIE CLASSICIPUBFEST 2002 - UTC & PRINCETON Questions by Chris Borglum I) As a nine-year old, he narrates the short story "That Evening Sun Go Down," in which Nancy, subbing for the iII Dilsey, fears for her life. As a Harvard undergrad, overwhelmed by his archaic Southern emphasis on honor, he cannot accept Dalton Ames' seduction of his sister, so he drowns himself in the Charles River. This is, FTP, what brother of Caddy, Benjy and Jason in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury? Answer: Quentin Compson 2) It was thought to have first took place in 1775, and has since been an established town holiday, occurring every May loth. Bart, however, discovers a discrepancy, noting that on the day Jebediah Springfield founded the holiday, he also was supposedly besieging Fort Ticonderoga. He and Lisa then enlist Barry White's basso profundo to lure away the serpentine victims. This is, FTP, what snake-killing day featured on "The Simpsons"? Answer: Whacking Day 3) Rumors persist that one of her sex scenes in Boxcar Bertha with then-lover David Carradine wasn't simulated. We know for certain that the ones in The Entity were, though, since her character was being assaulted by a ghost. Better roles include the femme fatale Harriet Bird in The Natural, actress Nina Franklin in The Stunt Man, and teacher Myra Fleener in Hoosiers. FTP name this actress, nominated for an Oscar for The Portrait ofa Lady and honored at Cannes for Shy People, but perhaps more recognized as Bette Midler's unlikely friend in Beaches. Answer: Barbara Hershey 4) It has a low work ratio, and its thermal efficiency can be derived from the difference between its hot and cold reservoir temperatures. It begins with isoentropic expansion, moves through isothermal heat rejection, then to isoentropic compression, and ends with isothermal heat supply. FTP name this theoretical engine, the most efficient allowed by the second law of thermodynamics. Answer: Carnot engine ( or cycle) 5) Lazy B: Growing up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest is a recent non-fiction bestseller by this woman and her brother, Alan. She served out a vacated seat in the Arizona state senate from 1969 through 1974, but then left politics for the bench. Having only served on Arizona's Court of Appeals for 18 months, FTP what woman's conservative decisions caught Ronald Reagan's eye, leading to her selection as first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court? Answer: Sandra Day O'Connor 6) The prone figure in the bottom center is very short, and none of the other eight figures is looking at him. Rather, they look at the title instructor, who has a scissors buried in the prone figure's flayed left arm. The first painting signed with Rembrandt's full name, FTP this is what pedantic painting? Answer: The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp 7) According to a 13 th century book, it is a mountain located on an island in the ocean on the opposite side of the Earth from Jerusalem. It has two ledges, one for the negligent and one for the excommunicated, and seven terraces, one for each of the deadly sins, where souls work off their minor Earthly trespasses. FTP name this middle realm of Dante's Divine Comedy. Answer: Purgatorio (acc. purgatory) 8) They established a foothold in northern Europe after Conrad of Mazovia requested their help in battling insurgents. The 1226 Golden Bull ofRimini granted them all lands conquered from heathen Prussians outside the Holy Roman Empire. Stymied in their attempt to enter Russia by their defeat at Lake Peipus, FTP name this order of knights founded in Acre in 1190. Answer: Teutonic Knights 9) Its name derives from a Seminole word meaning "black muddy water", and it joins the Withalacoochee south of the Georgia border. Headed in the Okeefenokee Swamp, it flows south-southwest to the Gulf of Mexico. FTP name this river, best known because its two-syllable pronunciation fit the scansion of a song by Stephen Foster. Answer: Suwanee River 10) There is some debate over which is its north pole, as it is either true that its axial inclination is a bit over 90 degrees and its rotation is direct, or it's a bit less than 90 degrees and the rotation is retrograde. Its name was originally proposed by Titius Bode, and upon discovery it was called Georgium Sidis by William Herschel. FTP name this bluish planet whose moons include Oberon and Titania. Answer: Uranus 11) His Sauroctonus depicts Apollo slaying a lizard, and his Hermes Carrying the Infant Dionysos is one of his few original works that still exists. His Aphrodite of Cnidos was described by Lucian and Pliny the Elder. FTP who is this Greek sculptor of the 4th century BCE whose marble faun in Rome provides the basis for a Hawthorne novel? Answer: Praxiteles 12) His roommate calls him "bullock-befriending bard" because of the letter he carries for Mr. Deasy to the National Library. Later, he destroys the chandelier at Bella Cohen's brothel with his ashplant. Still later he shares a late-night drink at the cabman's shelter with his symbolic father, Bloom. FTP this is what protagonist of the first three sections of Ulysses? Answer: Stephen Dedalus 13) Chemically related to terpenes, they are responsible for the characteristic color of autumn leaves. Composing yellow, red, orange and brown pigments, one member's beta variety yields vitamin A on breakdown. FTP name this class of pigments whose name comes from the member which colors carrots and tomatoes. Answer: carotenoids (grudgingly accept "carotenes") 14) He was regarded as a model of piety for his generous offerings to the Delphic oracle, often leaving solid gold ingots. He misunderstood the oracle when it told him that if he attacked Cyrus the Great, a great empire would crumble: it was his, not Cyrus's, that ended. FTP name this last king of Lydia, known for his proverbial wealth. Answer: Croesus (CREE-sus) 15) After the Revolution he served in the state Senate, where he was a vocal advocate ofleniency toward former Loyalists. Serving under Benjamin Lincoln at Savannah, he escaped capture in 1780 because he was on sick leave when Charleston fell. After the British victory at Camden, the irregular unit he organized became a key colonial force in the Carolinas, and intimidating Loyalists was one of his regular tactics. FTP name this elusive guerilla leader, nicknamed "the Swamp Fox." Answer: Francis Marion 16) He wrote a series of novels based on Thomas Cole's painting cycle The Course a/Empire called The Crater. Incredibly prolific, he wrote The American Democrat, arguing for a democracy led by an intellectual elite, and a political trilogy called The Littlepage Manuscripts, of which the first book is Satanstoe. Better known for adventure novels like The Pilot and The Spy, FTP name this 19th century American creator of the characters Uncas, Chingachkook and Natty Bumppo. Answer: James Fenimore Cooper 17) His early experience with the Samaniyah order of Sufis caused him to rebuke his teachers for their worldliness; his warriors wore jibbas, robes with colorful patches that indicated their poverty. In 1883 they annihilated the Egyptian forces sent against them by William Hicks and Valentine Baker, replacing their spears with breech-loading rifles and artillery manufactured by Krupp. These heavy guns assisted in his capture of Khartoum two years later. FTP, name the Sudanese leader who was the "expected guide" oflslam to his followers, but the deadly enemy of Charles Gordon. Answer: the Mahdi (or Mohammed Ahmed ibn Al-Sayid Abdullah) 18) Pythagoras used this term to describe the unity from which all numbers and multiplicity are derived. In their more common, modern use, they are extensionless mental entities, self-sufficient and capable of perception. FTP, what are these entities considered the only true substances by Leibniz? Answer: monads 19) In vertebrates, it forms a disc on the surface of the yolk. They usually resemble a hollow ball with the dividing cells of the embryo forming a layer around a central cavity. Resulting from the cleavage of a fertilized egg, FTP name this developmental stage that precedes the gastrula. Answer: blastula 20) Their lesser works included the planh, mourning a dead lord or king; the tenso, a form of musical debate between two voices; and the pastourelie, in which a knight attempts to seduce a shepherdess. They were most famous, though, for the cansos, which denounced the poet's rivals or lauzengiers, who attempted to deny him the joy ofjin 'amors, courtly love. FTP name these poets and singers of medieval France who wrote in Old Provencal. Answer: troubadours 21) Starch can be used as one of these in iodine titrations; red cabbage extract and alzarin are other general examples. In reactions using them, the equivalence point is where equivalent quantities of acid and base are added, and the end point occurs when they change color. Including methyl orange and phenolphthalein, FTP what are these substances used to show the presence of chemical substances or ions, which include litmus. Answer: indicators 22) This island nation claims French-held Tromelin Island as well as the British-held Chagos archipelago, and it was first populated by Dutch settlers from the Cape of Good Hope. Discovered by Portuguese sailors in 1505, its population is 52% Hindu, and its most famous residents no longer exist. FTP name this island with capital at Port Louis, once home to the Dodo. Answer: Mauritius 23) It was noxious to the Confucians, as it applied to all men of all ranks; to Mo-ists because they thought man's primary obedience was to Heaven, not to the state's requirements; and to Taoists because man's laws impede one's individual path.