Last checked: 2116/94 Semifinal-Joel Goldberg 1 1994 Cardinal Classic ~ S(!.w.·e~ (JBe-\ GvUbe.-J) Toss-Ups 1. The tomato is not culinary history's only "love apple" with aphrodisiac properties. If you know this other member of the nightshade family, then -- for 10 points -­ press your purple thumb, and name the principal ingredient of baba ghannooj? ANSWER: EGGPLANT 2. Code name: Chicago. Its target: to replace Version 3.11 for Workgroups, and 3.1 for the stand-alone PC. Due date: real soon now. For 10 points -- name this forthcoming operating system? ANSWER: MICROSOFT WINDOWS ~ OR MICROSOFT WINDOWS 4.0 "WINDOWS" prompts "More specific" 3. Baseball purists opt for wood over aluminum. Some vintners, however, are more flexible. California's St. Francis Winery is adding an ingredient to its bottles, sealing its entire 1993 production with-for ten points-what synthetic product? ANSWER: PLASTIC ACCEPT: ARTIFICIAL CORK OR ARTIFICIAL STOPPER OR EQUIVALENT DO NOT ACCEPT "CORK" 4. Answer needed in French, teams. As night fell upon Waterloo, an English officer asked the commander of Napoleon's Imperial Guard to surrender. For 10 points -­ s'il vous plait (see vu play) -- what was his gritty one-word response? ANSWER: MERDE! 5. Occasionally you'll see Wilson's profile on Horne Improvement. But that's more than you ever saw of Rhoda Morgenstern's doorman. What Lorenzo Music's moronic character sounded-for ten points-so much like Garfield the cat? ANSWER: CARLTON 6. Fearing another Hitler diary fraud, Time-Warner backed out from printing the memoir of James Maybrick. He took arsenic daily, which unhinged his mind, allowing him to play out a fantasy revenge on his wife by killing 5 prostitutes, Copyright 1994 by Joel Goldberg Not for unauthorized sale or trade Last checked: 2116/94 Semifinal-Joel Goldberg 2 perhaps proving that he, not Queen Victoria's grandson, was-- for 10 points -- what Whitechapel murderer? ANSWER: JACK THE RIPPER Accept: DIARY OF JACK THE RIPPER 7. Folks in Wyoming can lay claim to most of Yellowstone Park -- but for a quick 10 points -- what two other states fall within the great park's borders? ANSWER: IDAHO AND MONTANA 8. Antonyms are out. Vocabulary words appear in context. Calculators are encouraged. And there are "grid-in," not just multiple choice, math questions, to be found -- for 10 points -- in what newly overhauled three-word college preparatory examina tion? ANSWER: SCHOLASTIC ASSESSMENT TEST "S.A. T." prompts "More specific" DO NOT ACCEPT "SCHOLASTIC APTITUDE TEST" 9. If the stain is not removed by soap or detergent, put a few drops of ammonia on it, and repeat the treatment with detergent. For 10 points -- Lady Macbeth may have used this advice to remove what type of damned spots? ANSWER: BLOOD STAINS 10. Based on the Greek root "ode," for "sing" -- for 10 points -- what word is exemplified by works such as The Ditches of Edison County and Bored of the Rings? ANSWER: PARODY 11. Of all the municipal elections on November 2, no loss was more surprising, and perhaps more sad, than Teddy Kolleck's. Likud's (lee-KUHDZ) Ehud (Eh-HUDE) Olmert ended Kolleck's 28-years as mayor --for 10 points -- of what capital city? ANSWER: JERUSALEM 12. It is the process of duplicating printing plates made from set type. And for the politically incorrect, it is a means of cate-gorizing a person using oversimplified traits. For 10 points --what is this word? Copyright 1994 by Joel Goldberg Not for unauthorized sale or trade Last checked: 2116/94 Semifinal-loel Goldberg 3 ANSWER: STEREOTYPE or STEREOTYPING Copyright 1994 by Joel Goldberg Not for unauthorized sale or trade Last checked: 2116/94 Semifinal-Joel Goldberg 4 13. ''It was me and a gun and a man on my back" she sings with telling urgency. Lyrics like these that have brought gradual healing and fame to this 29-year-old singer. For 10 points -- whose "Under the Pink" is the follow-up album to "Little Earthquakes"? ANSWER: TORI AMOS 14. In one sense, Helen Keller suffered from it. In another sense, so did Frank Kennedy, Ashley Wilkes, and Rhett Butler. For 10 points -- what is this infection caused by streptococcal (STREP-toe-COCK-all) bacteria, or the yearning for a southern belle? ANSWER: SCARLETT FEYER 15. Subtitled "Necessary Disorganization for the Nanosecond Nineties," the Financial Times called it the "Best Management Book of the year". For 10 points -- name this book as pertinent for the 90s as author's Tom Peters' In Search of Excellence was for the 80s? ANSWER: LIBERATION MANAGEMENT 16. A Quaker abolitionist and feminist, her philosophy was outlined in her Discourse on Women. For 10 points -- who helped found both Swarthmore College and the Seneca Falls meeting with Elizabeth Cady Stanton? ANSWER: LUCRETIA MaTT Moderator: READ THIS USING YOUR BEST POSSIBLE "BUTTHEAD" VOICE. IF THE TEAM INTERRUPTS INCORRECTLY, SAY "YOU SUCK." IF THEY GET.IT RIGHT, SAY "THAT WAS COOL". YOU'LL DO FINE. RELAX. 17. Creator--creation? What the hell is that? Huh-huh, huh-huh, uh... like, uh .. for some points or something, uh, huh-huh, who invented me and Beavis? ANSWER: MIKE JUDGE 18. This sign is reputedly derived from the astronomical symbol for Jupiter, leader of the gods and patron of medicines. Used by Roman apothecaries, it meant "recipere," or "take this." For 10 points -- what two letters are combined to denote a prescrip­ tion? ANSWER: R,X Copyright 1994 by Joel Goldberg Not for unauthorized sale or trade Last checked: 2/16/94 Semifinal-Joel Goldberg 5 19. You may recall that during World War II, the classification of 4F meant unfit to serve. But -- for 10 points -- 4E was what designation, often carried by Quakers? ANSWER: CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS 20. Citizen groups around the country are preventing historic streets from being expanded into highways. In Minnesota, efforts are being made to save Sauk Center, the real-life model for Gopher Prairie in -- for 10 points -- what 1920 Sinclair Lewis novel? ANSWER: MAIN STREET 21. If kids don't break in and steal the bricks for lunar landers or tractors, this new theme park will open in Carlsbad, California in 1999. Modelled after its Danish predecessor --for 10 points --what interlocking bricks will the park be made of? ANSWER: LEGO accept: "LEGOLAND" 22. Up to 35 feet long, the minke (MIN-KAY) is the smallest of the rorquals (ror-kwalz), those long, slender, furrow-throated baleen whales that are more streamlined than other big whales. For 10 points -- what is the largest rorqual, also the largest animal ever? ANSWER: BLUE WHALE "Whale" prompts "More specific" 23. Eithne Ni Bhraonain (ETH-na Nee VREE-ah-non), was named for a Celtic goddess and speaks Gaelic fluently. Words, however, are just one element of her "cathedrals of sound." For 10 points --who is this singer for the new age as well as Crystal Lite? ANSWER: ENYA 24. Long before the information superhighway, he said "... in the future wires will unite the head offices of the Telephone Company in different cities ... I am aware that such ideas may appear to you in Utopia." What inventor shared-for ten points-this vision in 1878? ANSWER: ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL 25. They are at least as American as apple pie. The inventor got the idea from the practice of ancient rebels exchanging covert messages inside buns. For 10 points -­ name these after-dim sung treats which, since 1916, have spread maudlin messages Copyright 1994 by Joel Goldberg Not for unauthorized sale or trade Last checked: 2116/94 Semifinal-Joel Goldberg 6 by the millions? ANSWER: FORTUNE COOKIES 26. Mahler's Titan, Robert Schumann's Spring, and Tchaikovsky's Winter Daydreams are all symphonies with-for 10 points -- what auspicious number? ANSWER: FIRST SYMPHONY (IES) "SYMPHONIES" prompts "More specific" 27. It is a corrupt rendering of the Dutch for "beautiful passage." For 10 points -- name this once-dangerous channel between the East River and Long Island, neither a portal to the underworld, nor guarded by three-headed dog? ANSWER: HELL GATE 28. "Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away ... " However, one grove of redwoods named for him stands protected as a National Monument. For 10 points -- name this Scottish-born conservationist? ANSWER: JOHN MUIR 29. "It will touch the life of everyone who enters and leave everyone forever changed -­ a place of deep sadness and a sanctuary of bright hope ... " For 10 points -- President Clinton made this dedication on April 22nd, 1993 at what museum? ANSWER: UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM Copyright 1994 by Joel Goldberg Not for unauthorized sale or trade BONUSES 1994 CARDINAL CLASSICJOEL C. GOLDBERG 1994 Cardinal Classic Semifinals (Joel Goldberg) Bonuses 1.25 POINT BONUS At 18, he was named heir to Julius Caesar. In 43 BC, following Caesar's death, he became one of three triumvirs. Within 20 years later,he was the first Roman emperor. For 25 points, name this administrative genius and founder of the Pax Romana. ANSWER: CAESAR AUGUSTUS ACCEPT "GAIUS OCTAVIUS" or "GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR OCTAVIANUS" ("Augustus" was the title he accepted four years before becoming emperor). 2.20 POINT BONUS The resurrection of rambunctious Texas ranger Augustus McCrae surely would have made two 1993 sequels a whole lot more fun. For 10 points apiece, which sequel: 1. Aired on television: ANSWER: RETURN TO LONESOME DOVE 2. Showed up at bookstores: ANSWER: STREETS OF LAREDO 3. 20 POINT BONUS Sacramento is the capital of California, but Stockton, California is considered the "Asparagus Capital of the World." For 10 points apiece -- given a California city, name the vegetable it's the world capital of: 1.