The Seventh Annual Governor’s School Academic Competition—March 25, 2000. Questions by and © Governor’s School for Government and International Studies BoB Squad and Case Western Reserve University College Trivia Club.
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Related Tossup/Bonus Round
Tossup One. One of the first Native American tribes that the Spanish tried to convert, these Plains Indians lived in skin tepees during hunting expeditions and were known for the extensive use of tattoos. For 10 points, name this tribe that had lived along the Arkansas River, for which a city in south central Kansas is named.
ANSWER: Wichita
BONUS. Identify the following words derived from Native American languages for 10 points each.
• This location’s name is derived from the Choctaw words for “red people.”
ANSWER: Oklahoma
• Translated as “crooked river” is this word that names a northeast Ohio county.
ANSWER: Cuyahoga
Tossup Two. Ironworker Jean Tijou did the iron gates of its choir, master woodcarver Grinling Gibbons did the choir stalls and organ case, and architect Nicholas Hawksmoor also played a role in this edifice, constructed of Portland stone, in a classical Baroque style. For 10 points, name this London landmark, rebuilt between 1675 and 1710.
ANSWER: Saint Paul’s Cathedral
BONUS. Identify these pupils from Saint Paul’s School, which was located in the churchyard of St. Paul’s Cathedral.
• Made a duke by Queen Anne, this English general coordinated the Grand Alliance against Louis XIV. His victories included the Battle of Blenheim.
ANSWER: John Churchill [prompt on Churchill; prompt on Reichsfürst; accept 1st Duke of Marlborough; accept Marquess of Blandford; accept Earl of Marlborough; accept Baron Churchill of Sandridge; accept Lord Churchill of Eyemouth]
• In 1685, he created the first meteorological map, but he is better known for his conjecture that objects seen in 1531, 1607, and 1862 were the same thing.
ANSWER: Edmund Halley
Tossup Three. In 1989, because of untimely availability, two items were dropped in favor of the index of consumer expectations and change in manufacturers’ unfilled orders of durable goods. For 10 points, name this grouping of eleven data points, which signals a change in the level of economic activity months in advance.
ANSWER: leading economic indicators
BONUS. Identify these other economic measures.
• Also called the Cost of Living Index, the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes one for for All/Urban Consumers and another version of this index for Urban Wage Owners and Clerical Workers.
ANSWER: Consumer Price Index
• The index of industrial production is among this set of economic indicators which measure how well the economy is doing at the moment.
ANSWER: coincident indicators
Tossup Four. His antiwar novel Three Soldiers came from his experience as a World War I ambulance driver, but increasing conservatism and disillusionment with New Deal liberalism appear in later works, such as Adventures of a Young Man, Number One, and The Grand Design, the books of his District of Columbia trilogy. For 10 points, name this novelist, whose best known trilogy includes The 42nd Parallel.
ANSWER: John Dos Passos
BONUS. For 10 points each, name the authors of the following trilogies.
• The Good Earth, Sons, A House Divided
ANSWER: Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
• The Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength
ANSWER: Clive Staples Lewis
Tossup Five. Alfred and Ludwig Nobel owned oil refineries in this city, which was conquered from Persia by Peter the Great in 1723. It remains a major center of world trade in oil and caviar. For 10 points, identify this city, lowest in elevation of all world capitals, the seat of government in Azerbaijan.
ANSWER: Baku
BONUS. Garry Kasparov was born in Baku. Answer the following regarding Kasparov and Russian chess for 10 points apiece.
• This man was world chess champion from 1947 to 1957, 1958 to 1960, and 1961 to 1963, losing the championship to Vassily Smyslov, Mikhail Tal, and Tigran Petrosian, respectively.
ANSWER: Mikhail Botvinnik
• Kasparov has played IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer twice. Deep Blue is one of the most advanced examples of this processing technique, in which several operations are executed simultaneously and work is evenly divided among available processors—256 in Deep Blue.
ANSWER: parallel processing [prompt on multiprocessing; do not accept “coprocessing”]
Tossup Six. The name’s the same. The guardsman in Hamlet who observes that “something is rotten in the state of Denmark”. The Roman general who was victorious at Syracuse and Capua during the Second Punic War. For 10 points, give the monniker which they share with the first name of the crime boss in Pulp Fiction.
ANSWER: Marcellus
BONUS. Identify the common name, 20-10.
• 20: It’s the surname of the Polish general who led an insurrection against Russian rule after serving as a colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolution.
• 10: It also names the highest mountain in Australia, named for the Polish colonel.
ANSWER: Kosciusko
Tossup Seven. Located inside the inner ear, this structure has three parts, the superior, posterior, and lateral chambers, each of which is set in a different plane of space. For 10 points, name these fluid-filled chambers that are never in equilibrium, critical for balance.
ANSWER: semicircular canals
BONUS. [Distribute handout from end of packet.] Prepare for a visual aid. Identify the following geometric curves that involve circles for 10 points each.
• This curve in Figure A is traced by a point on the circumference of a circle rolled inside a larger fixed circle.
ANSWER: hypocycloid [do not accept any variations or partial answers]
• A cardioid as shown in Figure B is formed by a circle of radius A rolling around another circle. Give the value in terms of A of the second circle’s value.
ANSWER: A
Tossup Eight. In Roman myth, she was the only daughter of Numitor, the king of Alba Longa. After her father’s death, she was forced to become a Vestal Virgin, but she was put to death after an ill-fated affair with Mars. For 10 points, name this woman, the mother of Romulus and Remus.
ANSWER: Rhea Silvia
BONUS. Answer these related questions about Romulus for 10 points each.
• Plutarch recorded the legend that Romulus invited members of this tribe to a feast and wound up carrying off their women.
ANSWER: Sabines [or Sabinus; or Sabini]
• Romulus and the Sabine leader Tatius stand ready for battle, but between them is a large group of women and children led by a toga-clad Sabine woman Hersilia in this painter’s Intervention of the Sabine Women, which supposedly took place a few years after the abduction of the women.
ANSWER: Jacques-Louis David
Tossup Nine. The composer and the leading performer of the oratorio The Manger, he formed a noted trio with violinist Jacques Thibaud and pianist Alfred Cortot. For 10 points, name this founder of the Prades music festival and noted Bach performer, one of the great cellists of the mid-twentieth century.
ANSWER: Pablo Casals
BONUS. Identify these Johann Sebastian Bach works for 10 points each.
• Glenn Gould made a career out of playing this 1742 set of harpsichord practice exercises.
ANSWER: The Goldberg Variations
• An 1829 performance of this oratorio by an orchestra under Felix Mendelssohn may have renewed interest in Bach. It interprets a gospel’s telling of Christ’s final hours.
ANSWER: Saint Matthew’s Passion [accept The Passion of Saint Matthew; accept The Passion According to Saint Matthew; accept Matthäuspassion]
Tossup Ten. The taking of Petrograd through the complicity of the government’s forces led to the dissolution of the Duma. Nicholas II abdicated in favor of his brother, who then ceded power to the provisional government. For 10 points, name this 1917 event that ended the Russian tsardom.
ANSWER: The February Revolution
BONUS. For 10 points, identify the following regarding other February revolutions.
• His followers seized the government of Reza Shah Pahlevi and Shahpur Bakhtiar in February 1979.
ANSWER: Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini [accept The Ayatollah]
• This government was formed on February 4, 1861, in Montgomery, Alabama.
ANSWER: Confederate States of America [prompt on The Confederacy]
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Category Quiz Tossups
Tossup One. The father was an adulterer who caused the death of Gorlois, husband of the father’s mistress. The son’s wife had an affair with the son’s best friend, and the son accidentally slept with the daughter. For 10 points, name this dysfunctional family which ruled mythical Britain, members of which included Uther and Arthur.
ANSWER: the Pendragons
Tossup Two. This term was coined in 1866 by German biologist Ernst Haeckel, from the Greek for “household.” Haeckel defined it as “the science of relations between the organism and the surrounding outer world.” For 10 points, name this science, which studies the relationships interlinking members of Earth’s household.
ANSWER: ecology
Tossup Three. During the 1999-2000 season, Pavel Bure (Boo-RAY) accomplished this feat twice in six days. But he still has a long way to go to catch all-time leader Wayne Gretzky, who has over 60 of these to his credit. For 10 points, name this single game goal-scoring feat that often leads to headgear finding its way on to the ice from the stands.
ANSWER: hat trick
Tossup Four. Poking fun at Clisthenes, a noted homosexual; Dionysus dressing as Heracles; Dionysus being mistaken for his slave Xanthias; gibing Cleophon, a leader who opposed peace in the Peloponnesian War; and a contest between Aeschylus and Euripides to see whose writing is better. For 10 points, name the play in which one can find these elements, a 405 BCE comedy by Aristophanes.
ANSWER: The Frogs [or Batrachoi]
Tossup Five. Between 1975 and 1980, the population of this area was reduced from six hundred thousand to barely three hundred thousand by war, first civil and then against an invading power. For 10 points, name this country, colonized by Portugal, which became independent of Indonesia in 1999.
ANSWER: East Timor
Tossup Six. His earlier compositions found their basis in Hindu literature. He earned his living as a trombonist and conductor before receiving a teaching position at the London Royal College of Music in 1919. For 10 points, name this British composer of Savriti, At the Boar’s Head, Hecuba’s Lament, and The Planets.
ANSWER: Gustav Holst
Tossup Seven. Linda is humiliated at being pregnant and leaves her son John accidentally in a reservation in New Mexico, where Bernard and Lenina meet him twenty years later. For 10 points, name this 1931 novel set in 632 A.F. where one meets these characters, about a hedonistic, genetically-controlled society, created by Aldous Huxley.
ANSWER: Brave New World
Tossup Eight. He only served in political office for ninety days in 1848, filling in for an indicted Congressman from New York City, but he lost favor with his colleagues by reporting various incidents of legislative fraud and corruption. For 10 points, name this politician better known as owner of the New York Tribune.
ANSWER: Horace Greeley
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Category Quiz Boni
American Literature: The 1900s
He admired the times of Thebes, Camelot, and Priam’s neighbors, while he loathed khaki suits and money. For 15 points, name this man who was “born too late,” the subject of a 1907 poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
ANSWER: Miniver Cheevy
Biological Sciences: The 1910s
He moderated his criticism of Darwinism in his 1913 work Heredity and Sex and his 1916 work A Critique of the Theory of Evolution, based on his own experiments with fruit flies. For 15 points, name this embryologist and geneticist who developed the chromosome theory of heredity.
ANSWER: Thomas Hunt Morgan
Dance: The 1920s
Following its use in the 1923 black musical Runnin’ Wild, this dance became a national craze. For 15 points, name this social dance characterized by toes-in heels-out twisting steps.
ANSWER: the Charleston
Physical Sciences: The 1940s
1947 was the year that John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley of Bell Labs finalized their design of it. For 15 points, name this solid-state device.
ANSWER: transistors
Pop Culture: The 1950s
He won an Oscar for his portrayal of the luckless soldier Maggio in the 1953 film From Here to Eternity. For 15 points, name this entertainer better known for his one thousand, four hundred and fourteen studio recordings and smooth voice.
ANSWER: Francis Albert “Frank” Sinatra
Religion, Mythology, Philosophy: The 1960s
It was held between 1962 and 1965, having been called by Pope John XXIII. For 15 points, name this convention aimed at reforming the Catholic Church and at evaluating its relationship with other world religions.
ANSWER: Second Vatican Council [accept Vatican Ii]
U.S. Culture: The 1970s
First organized by Senator Gaylord Nelson and Denis Hayes, it is now coordinated by an international council overseeing smaller national and local celebrations. For 15 points, name this day set aside for publicizing environmental causes, held on April 22.
ANSWER: Earth Day
World Geography: The 1930s
Originally built to incarcerate political opponents, the first Nazi concentration camp established near this town served as a laboratory using human subjects. For 15 points, identify the Bavarian town on the Amper River associated by name with this camp, located just northwest of Munich.
ANSWER: Dachau
World History: The 1980s
First and last name required. Though sentenced to death on charges of murder and subversion, he left the United States in 1980 for treatment of a heart condition. For 15 points, name this politician assassinated in 1983 upon arriving home at the Manila Airport, presumably by the orders of President Marcos.
ANSWER: Benigno “Ninoy” Simeon Aquino, Jr.
World Literature: The 1990s
Rents, Sick Boy, Mother Superior, Swanney, Spuds, and Seeker are a rag-tag bunch of heroin-addicted Edinburgh youths in what critically acclaimed 1994 Irvine Welsh book?
ANSWER: Trainspotting
Stretch Round
Tossup One. It stated, “Every age and generation must be free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The variety and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.” For 10 points—name this response to Edmund Burke’s Reflexions on the Revolution in France, a stirring pamphlet by Thomas Paine.