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ADVANCED SET 6

TOSSUPS

1. In 2010, its voters passed one law requiring a government ID to vote and another law that forbids its

judges from considering either international or Islamic law in deciding matters that come before them.

Name this U.S. state that also elected Governor Mary Fallin and re-elected Republican Senator Dr. Tom

Coburn.

answer: Oklahoma

2. Like Jerry Lewis, she is “beloved” in France and received France’s Legion of Honor in 2010 for her

stories that stamp her “the greatest American woman novelist of her time" in spite of being “a black child

born into a poor family in deepest Ohio, in the years of segregation.” Name this Nobel laureate and

former Princeton professor whose novels include Tar Baby, Jazz, and Sula.

answer: Toni Morrison

3. His right hand holds a hat, while his left arm is bent against his side. Against a brownish background

and wearing brown shoes, he stares proudly at the viewer. Identify this title subject of a Thomas

Gainsborough painting, thought to be his friend Jonathan Buttall, who is clothed primarily in one color.

answer: The Blue Boy

4. After a Colonel Shcherbakov, the head of Russia’s spy activities in the U.S., defected to the U.S. in

2010, a Kremlin official stated that a “Mercader” had been sent after him—a reference to the assassin

Ramon Mercader who went to Mexico in 1940 and used an ice pick to kill—what Russian revolutionary

who had been exiled by Stalin after the death of Lenin?

answer: Leon Trotsky (or his real name, Lev Bronstein)

5. More than 100 years after his body was exhumed the first time, it was exhumed again in Prague in

2010 (where he was living at his death) to see if he really died of a bladder infection—or of mercury

poisoning. Name this man whose calculations helped Kepler formulate his laws of astronomy and should

always be who quizbowl players think of when they hear the phrase “Danish astronomer.”

answer: Tycho Brahe (accept either)

6. Pencils and paper ready! For “f of x equals x”, use _ to calculate the volume of the solid generated by

rotating “f of x” about the x-axis between x = 0 and x = 4.

answer: 64_ (integrate _ x3 between 4 and 0)

7. A near-epidemic of it is being seen in Britain for the first time since Victorian days. This time,

however, it’s caused by parents who never make children play outside in the sun or smother them in

sunscreen if they try. Name this disease that softens and weakens human bone and is caused by a lack of

the Vitamin D that can be easily obtained from sunlight or milk.

answer: rickets

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8. After Frank Troy’s girlfriend Fanny dies in childbirth, Frank is killed by William Boldwood. This puts

Boldwood away in a mental institution and leaves Bathsheba Everdene a friendless widow. Name the

Thomas Hardy novel that ends with Bathsheba finally marrying her longtime suitor and employee, the

dependable shepherd Gabriel Oak.

answer: Far from the Madding Crowd (not "maddening crowd")

9. Its second day on April 7, 1862, helped the Union control the Confederate railroad at Corinth,

Mississippi and resulted in a win for the Union after the death of Confederate General Albert Sidney

Johnston. Name this Tennessee battle of the Civil War, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing.

answer: Shiloh

10. Her November 2010 op-ed piece for USA Today defends her agency’s use of Advanced Imaging

Technology, as well as the recently controversial pat-downs for passengers who set off an alarm while

going through an airport’s metal detector. Name this current Secretary of Homeland Security, often

referred to as “Big Sis.”

answer: Janet Napolitano

11. He taught that planetary movement produced a "music of the spheres", that reality is mathematical in

nature, and that certain symbols have mystical significance. Name this ancient Greek whose school of

philosophy he founded in Italy is less famous today than his theorem involving right triangles.

answer: Pythagoras of Samos

12. Louis Armstrong wrote a 1928 jazz piece by this name because this name was used by jazz musicians

of that time as a slang term for marijuana. Give this word that, in Harry Potter’s world, describes two

people with no magical ability.

answer: Muggles

13. In economics, it describes a tax system where the more money you make, the higher percentage of

your money goes for taxes—such as the system in the U.S. Give this adjective, also used by some

liberals to describe their political views without using the now-stigmatized word “liberal.”

answer: progressive

14. Every increase of 3 on its scale reduces the amount of time needed to cause permanent damage by

half. Thus, a hair dryer would take an hour or more to cause hearing loss, while a leaf blower can do it in

a minute or less. Identify this logarithmic scale on which a stereo is about 110, normal conversation about

50, and dead silence is zero.

answer: dB (or decibel) scale

15. It runs south of the Philippines and through the middle of present-day Indonesia, with the islands of

Bali and Borneo on one side and Sulawesi and Lombok on the other. Identify this "line", named for a

19th-century British scientist, that separates Asian fauna like tigers from Australian fauna like kangaroos.

answer: (Alfred) Wallace line

16. Pencils and paper ready! Calculate the slope of a line between the two points (-4, -7) and (9, 19).

answer: 2 (26/13)

17. Its 1957 football team was coached by Shug Jordan and won AP’s national championship in spite of

being ineligible for a bowl game. Its top players since then have included Heisman winners Pat Sullivan

and Bo Jackson. Identify this university, named for the town where it was once called East Alabama Male

College, whose football team for 2010 is led by quarterback Cam Newton.

answer: Auburn Univ.

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18. Located where the Indo-Australian plate is sliding beneath the Eurasian plate, it has erupted regularly

since the Middle Ages and twice in the last 5 years, including the 2010 eruption that has displaced some

300,000 people. Identify this Indonesian volcano whose name means “mountain of fire.”

answer: Mount Merapi

19. In masonry, it is the number of layers of bricks put on top of each other to make a wall. When

navigating, it is a path you intend to take. In cooking, it is a part of a larger meal and often includes

“soup”, “salad”, or “meat.” Give this 6-letter word that, in school, is “a class that lasts the whole term”

and also follows the word “of ” in a phrase meaning “affirmative.”

answer: course

20. Its highest point is Pico de Aneto [PEEK-o day a-NAY-toe], and it stretches from the Mediterranean

to the Bay of Biscay. This setting of the ancient Song of Roland was crossed by soldiers of Charlemagne

to reach Spain. Identify this mountain range that surrounds Andorra and separates Spain from France.

answer: Pyrenees [PEER-a-neez]

21. Many Americans who use canvas grocery bags to help save the environment are finding that the

painted designs on such bags, especially if made in China, often contain toxic levels of—what chemical

element that has been removed from American house paint and gasoline but is still found in the shield you

wear while receiving an X-ray?

answer: lead or Pb

22. John Steinbeck didn’t like him as a person but thought he would be great as Cal Trask in the movie

version of East of Eden. Name this brooding young actor who died in a head-on car wreck in 1955 at age

24 after making East of Eden, as well as Giant and Rebel Without a Cause.

answer: James Dean

23. At its opening in 1976, a time capsule was created with a letter from Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, a

letter from each Canadian province, and copies of Toronto’s main newspapers. Name this structure,

topped by a 335-foot-tall steel broadcast antenna, that is billed the “World’s Tallest Building.”

answer: CN Tower

24. Begun in the late 1600’s by Native American tribes who buried their weapons to mark a peace

agreement, it is still literally done at the end of each election season in Delaware when opposing

politicians do it to symbolically agree to forget their differences and work together. Give this 3-word

figure of speech.

answer: bury the hatchet

25. She was recently freed from house arrest and quickly vowed an attempt to speak with the military

junta that has governed her land since 1962 and denied her the election victory she clearly won in 1990.

Name this daughter of the founder of the Burmese Army who has won a Nobel Peace Prize for her

attempts to bring democracy and human rights to the nation of Myanmar [mee-on-MAR].

answer: Aung Sun Suu Kyi

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FOUR-PART BONUSES

(NOTE: Areas that use 2-part bonuses should split these in half; couple those with the lightning rounds

and you should have a bonus for every correct tossup above.)

1. Name these cable TV channels from pairs of their currently-airing shows:

A. Mad Men and The Walking Dead

answer: American Movie Classics or AMC

B. Ace of Cakes and License to Grill

answer: Food Network

C. The Singing Bee and Trick My Truck

answer: Country Music Television or CMT

D. Army Wives and Drop Dead Diva

answer: Lifetime

2. Pencils and paper ready for these chemistry calculations!

A. If a mole has exactly 6 x 1023 atoms, how many atoms are in six grams of carbon-12?

answer: 3 x 1023 (C = 12 grams/mole, so ½ mole)

B. A solution contains 2 moles of substance X and 6 moles of substance Y. If X and Y are the only two

substances in the solution, calculate the mole fraction of substance X.

answer: 0.35 or 1/4 (2 [2 + 6])

C. Calculate the molality of a solution with 3 moles of a solute dissolved in 9 kilograms of solvent.

answer: 0.333 or 1/3 (3/9)

D. Calculate the volume (in liters) of 1 molar HCl needed to completely neutralize 600 milliliters of a 2-

molar solution of sodium hydroxide.

answer: 1.2 liters (not "1,200 ml" because question calls for liters) ([2 x 0.6]/ [1])

3. Give the words that fit each of these definitions from Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary:

A. “The hair commonly cut off by those who execrate the absurd Chinese custom of shaving the head.”

answer: beard

B. “Fermented grape-juice, known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor…"

answer: wine

C. “A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and [be] counted.”

answer: reveille [REV-a-lee]

D. “The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance…”

answer: Cerberus

4. It cost about three billion French francs to build--and was rendered worthless in 1940, when Germany

attacked around it.

A. Identify this string of fortifications along the French-German border.

answer: Maginot Line [MADGE-a-no]

B. The idea of building that string was favored by this man who collaborated with the Nazis in the French

government during World War II.

answer: Marshal Henri Petain [pa-TAN]

C. The string was not along the whole border, as the French thought this forest was impenetrable.

answer: Ardennes Forest

D. The Germans got around it by using this “lightning war” tactic.

answer: blitzkrieg

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5. Name the U.S. state that borders Alabama mostly on the:

A. north

answer: Tennessee

B. south

answer: Florida

C. east

answer: Georgia

D. west

answer: Mississippi

6. Pencils and paper ready! A high school has 2,000 students. There are 35 more freshmen than juniors,

90 more sophomores than juniors, and 115 more seniors than juniors. Calculate the number of students in

each class.

answer: 475 freshmen, 530 sophomores, 440 juniors, 555 seniors [x + (x + 35) + (x + 90) + (x + 115)

= 2,000]

7. There are currently about 30 million of them worldwide, and about 5 million of them live in Iraq.

A. Name this ethnic group that has long wanted more power in Iraq.

answer: Kurds

B. Name the member of that group who is now Iraq’s President.

answer: Jalal Talabani

C. and D. Name the two other countries that each have more than 6 million of that group living within

their borders.

answer: Turkey and Iran

8. Name these Nobel laureates in Literature from their works:

A. The Jungle Books and Gunga Din

answer: Rudyard Kipling

B. Doctor Zhivago

answer: Boris Pasternak

C. Demian and Siddhartha

answer: Hermann Hesse

D. The Forsyte Saga

answer: John Galsworthy

9. Name the order of mammals that contains:

A. rats and beavers

answer: rodents

B. the echidna and duckbilled platypus

answer: monotremes

C. monkeys, apes and humans

answer: primates

D. lions, dogs and bears

answer: carnivores

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10. In her early forties, she was partly paralyzed after a train accident, but by then, her fame was secure

and she had already married fellow performer Frank Butler.

A. Name this female sharpshooter and subject of a Broadway musical.

answer: Annie Oakley

B. Name the Broadway musical based on her life.

answer: Annie Get Your Gun

C. Name the song from that musical that says, “Everything about it is appealing, everything the traffic

will allow.”

answer: “There’s No Business Like Show Business”

D. Name the song from that musical that Annie and Frank sing to show that they’re each better than the

other.

answer: Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better

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LIGHTNING ROUNDS

(Areas that do not use these 60-second rounds in their local format can either use them as extra bonuses

or as warm-up “speed check ”questions to improve buzzer speed.)

1. REPUBLICANS IN THE NEWS

Name the states governed, past or present, by these Republicans considering a presidential run in 2012.

1) Sarah Palin Ans. Alaska

2) Mike Huckabee Ans. Arkansas

3) Mitt Romney Ans. Massachusetts

4) Bobby Jindal Ans. Louisiana

5) Jeb Bush Ans. Florida

6) Tim Pawlenty Ans. Minnesota

7) George Pataki [pa-TACK-ee] Ans. New York

8) Haley Barbour Ans. Mississippi

9) Mitch Daniels Ans. Indiana

10) Rick Perry Ans. Texas

2. CHEMICAL ANIONS

Give the most common chemical formulas for each of these anions [ANN-eye-onz].

1) hydroxide Ans. OH

2) carbonate Ans. CO3

3) thiosulfate Ans. S2O3

4) sulfate Ans. SO4

5) phosphate Ans. PO4

6) cyanide Ans. CN

7) acetate Ans. C2H3O2

8) nitrate Ans. NO3

9) dichromate Ans. Cr2O7

10) hypochlorite Ans. ClO

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3. LATIN MUSIC

Answer these about the 2010 Latin Grammy Awards.

1) Awards went to Best Christian Album in both Spanish and this language Ans. Portuguese

2) Ranchero, Banda and Norteño are styles from this country Ans. Mexico

3) Samba and Sertaneja [sair-ta-NAY-zha] are styles from this country Ans. Brazil

4) This music style shares its name with a type of hot sauce Ans. salsa

5) The “cumbia” style is described by this adjective meaning “hot and humid” Ans. tropical

6) One nominee arranged music by this composer of Swan Lake Ans. P. Tchaikovsky

7) The show was held in this U.S. city’s Mandalay Bay Hotel Ans. Las Vegas, NV

8) One Grammy went to this Canadian singer of “I’m Like A Bird” Ans. Nelly Furtado

9) This singer of “Livin’ la Vida Loca” presented one Grammy Ans. Ricky Martin

10) The Record of the Year, called “Mientes” [mee-EN-tase], accuses someone of doing this.

Ans. “Mientes” means “you lie”

4. STARTS WITH A

1) Mythical food of the gods Ans. ambrosia

2) Your mother’s sister Ans. aunt

3) Collective term for guns, missiles and bombs Ans. armaments

4) It carries blood from the heart to another organ Ans. artery

5) Chemical term for “lacking water” Ans. anhydrous [ann-HIGH-druss]

6) Former Soviet republic with capital at Baku [baw-COO] Ans. Azerbaijan [ozz-er-bye-ZHON]

7) To become integrated into a new culture Ans. assimilate [a-SIM-a-lait]

8) A solution created by dissolving something in water Ans. aqueous [A-quee-uss]

9) A person whose job is to settle insurance claims Ans. adjuster

10) Military phrase abbreviated by letters AWOL Ans. absent without leave

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