2001 ACF Regionals
Tossups by Silicon Age and Berry University
1. Previously his state's attorney general, he was appointed to the U.S. Senate in 1964 to fill a vacancy that indirectly resulted from the assassination of John F. Kennedy. In 1997 he co-chaired, with Nancy Kassebaum, a committee appointed by President Clinton to look at campaign finance reform. He also served as U.S. ambassador to Japan from 1993 to 1996, though this man nicknamed “Fritz” is best known for his term as vice president and his failed presidential campaign. FTP, name this vice president of Jimmy Carter’s, a Minnesota Democrat who lost to Ronald Reagan in 1984.
Answer: Walter Frederick (Fritz) Mondale [Mondale took Hubert Humphrey's seat when Humprey became VP]
2. As translated to English, the epigraph begins: “If I thought that I was replying to someone who would ever return to the world, this flame would cease to flicker.” That quote is spoken by Guido da Montefeltro, as heard by Dante and Virgil in the Inferno. The line, “I know the voices dying with a dying fall,” refers to a quote from Twelfth Night, and later references include the title character comparing himself to Lazarus and an “attendant lord.” He asks “Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?” all “In the room [where] the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo.” FTP, name this poem, centering on an indecisive title character, by T.S. Eliot.
Answer: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
3. Although it almost forms a perfect cylinder, it is not perfectly vertical; rather, each member of the pair inclines downward and inward towards the other. Near its head can be found the acetabulum and two large prominences, known as condyles, are on either side of its lower end. Initially it shows the development of arcs of bone known as trabeculae, which later disappear. At the upper extremity are two trochanters [tro-KAN-ters], while the lower extremity contains a depression known as the patellar surface. FTP, name this bone that connects the pelvis to the kneecap, the longest and strongest bone in the human body.
Answer: femur
4. Iconography was a series of portraits that was posthumously completed based on his preliminary sketches. His painting career began in the workshop of Hendrick van Balen in his native Antwerp. Soon after graduating his apprenticeship, he traveled to Genoa, where he did a series of famous Baroque portraits of the Genoese aristocracy. His most influential teacher was Peter Paul Rubens, with whom he studied for two years before settling in London in 1632. FTP, name this Flemish painter, whose masterpiece is a portrait of his patron entitled Charles I in Hunting Dress.
Answer: Sir Anthony van Dyck
5. One of the factors that caused it was irritation over members of the Centre Party frequenting the Radziwill salons where they were believed to be influenced by Polish demands. The death of Pope Pius the Ninth calmed down much of the heated battle, but the conflict would go on for another decade. One of the divisive measures, the expulsion of the Jesuits, was soon followed up by minister Adalbert Falk’s so-called “May Laws,” which made civil marriage compulsory and subjected the clergy to state control among other things. FTP, identify this 1870’s struggle for power between the Roman Catholic church and the German government, now synonymous with any type of cultural struggle.
Answer: Kulturkampf
6. The author of this novel used himself as the model for the farmer who writes love poems in chalk to his fiancee. In its final part, essentially an epilogue, that farmer experiences an epiphany while talking to Thedore and then rushes home to make sure his wife and child are not hurt in a thunderstorm. It begin’s with Dolly’s discovery that Stephen has slept with the French governess, but Oblonsky is happy when he learns that his sister will visit. A happy ending comes for the sub-plot dealing with Kostya’s initially unrequited love for Kitty, but the primary story of the woman who leaves her husband for Vronsky, is a tragic one. FTP, name this novel in which the title character throws herself under a train, a work by Leo Tolstoy.
Answer: Anna Karenina
7. Most of its n, or normal, isomer is converted to its diene analog for use in synthetic rubber. It has only one constitutional isomer, and their boiling points differ by an amazing 10 degrees. That isomer, prefixed with an iso, exhibits a methyl group at either the second or third carbon. The first of the alkanes that can exist as other than straight chain, its cyclic variety can simple be represented by a square. FTP, name this four-carbon alkane that follows propane and is commonly used as a household fuel and in lighters.
Answer: butane
8. Among her first films were Don't Bother to Knock and Gorilla at Large. More recently she has played the dying mother who makes her son promise never to marry and the mother of a lovelorn rabbi who can't marry his non-Jewish best friend in the films Honeymoon in Vegas and Keeping the Faith. This wife of Mel Brooks won the 1962 Oscar for Best Actress for her role in The Miracle Worker. FTP, name this actress whose best-known role might be as Mrs. Robinson, the woman who seduced her future son-in-law, Dustin Hoffman, in The Graduate.
Answer: Anne Bancroft or Anne Marie Italiano
9. In one of the traditions that they are used in, they are classified into the Agamas, the Samhitas, and the Saktas. Coming from the Sanskrit for “web” or “warp,” the Buddhist ones simply offer a further explanation of desire-ridding prayer. They are similar to but were written after the Puranas and concentrate on much more occult matters like spells, rituals, and symbols. Most are usually set in the form of a dialogue between the god Shiva and his mistresses and have become popular due to their erotic content. FTP, name this body of esoteric Hindu texts now associated with extended sexual duration.
Answer: Tantras
10. “Let me speak… Let the voice of the people be heard,” shouted Albert Parsons before he was hanged, while Lewis Lingg, also associated with this event, escaped the hangman by exploding a dynamite cap in this mouth. August Spies, the acknowledged leader, was also hung, and only two of the eight ring leaders escaped death. The turmoil began when a dynamite bomb was thrown into the crowd gathered outside the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. Governor John Altgeld objected to the calling in of federal troops as a result of this incident. FTP, name this event, whose fallout destroyed the Knights of Labor, an event that occurred on May 5, 1886, in Chicago.
Answer: Haymarket Square Riot
11. The love of this novel’s title character was a depiction of the author’s wife, Charlotte Cradock. The title character has fallen into bad favor with his guardian because of his tryst with Molly Seagrim and decides to travel. Along the way occurs the immoral, at that time, episode where the title character lives with Lady Bellaston, who supports him. He had grown up being tutored by Thwackum and developed a rivalry with his evil half-brother Bilfil, who, like our hero, loves Sophia Western. All ends happily when it is discovered that he is Bridget’s son and thus his guardian, Squire Allworthy’s nephew. FTP, name this roguish title character of a novel by Henry Fielding.
Answer: Tom Jones
12. Approximately 1,100 light years distant from the Earth, it is 25,000 times as luminous. In the night sky it can be found below and to the right of Mintaka, Alnilam, and Alnitak, which are in the same constellation. It neighbors the Witch Head Nebula to which it lends a brilliant blue color, and this supergiant has a companion star of the sixth magnitude that also appears bluish-white in appearance. Literally meaning “left foot of the giant,” FTP, name this star ahead of Bellatrix and Betelgeuse as the brightest star in Orion.
Answer: Rigel
13. His posthumous Violin Concerto includes the opening notes of a hymn melody used by J.S. Bach in his Cantata no. 60. His first major success on his own, Five Orchestral Songs, was quickly followed by his Three Pieces for Orchestra. In 1926 he finished his most controversial work, the Lyric Suite for string quartet, but that was counteracted by his two biggest successes, based on plays by Frank Wedekind and Georg Buchner. FTP, name composer in the atonal style, a student of Arnold Schonberg best-known for the two operas Lulu and Wozzeck.
Answer: Alban Berg
14. He tells King Hezekiah not to ally with Egypt but rather to acknowledge the power of Assyria. It is now known that chapters 56 through 66 of his book were written during the ministry of Nehemiah. At first he predicts doom for both Assyria and Judah, but the second part of his book points to the redemption of Israel through the divine instrument that is Cyrus the Great. This son of Amoz was, according to tradition, martyred in either 701 or 690 BC. FTP, name this Biblical prophet, whose Old Testament book comes between Song of Songs and Jeremiah.
Answer: Isaiah
15. The founder of this empire had been a governor under Diodotus. Its earliest capital was at Dara and later moved to Hecatompylos. It was eventually overrun by the Sassanids, who took its city of Ctesiphon for their own capital. Conquered in 226 A.D. by Artaxerxes, it had existed for almost 500 years from when Arsaces I liberated it from the Seleucid Turks in 247 BC. FTP, name this Asian empire between the Euphrates and Indus Rivers that probably took its name from the name for ancient Persia, which was Parsa.
Answer: Parthia or Parthian Empire
16. He dropped a promising musical career to write such plays as Butterfly’s Evil Spell. This followed early poetry collections like Impressions and Landscapes and First Songs. His first successes included The Shoemaker’s Prodigious Wife and Mariana Pineda. The lines “Green how I want you green. / Green wind. Green branches,” appear in his poem “Romance Sonambulo,” but even more famous is the refrain, “At five in the afternoon,” from his Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter. Notable poetry collections include the posthumous Poet in New York and his first success, Gypsy Ballads. FTP, name this Andalusian native best-known for the trilogy consisting of Yerma, Blood Wedding, and The House of Bernarda Alba.
Answer: Federico Garcia Lorca
17. It utilizes the mass of a particle, Planck’s constant, the total energy of the particle, and a linear relationship to the Laplacian of its representative variable. It then describes, in the steady-state case, the variation of that variable throughout a field with potential energy V. For a specified number of electrons and protons its solution will yield a set of corresponding eigenstates. It is always time-dependent, can be used in one-dimensional and three-dimensional systems, and always works in terms of psi, or the wave function. FTP, identify this fundamental equation of quantum mechanics named for the Austrian physicist who proposed it.
Answer:Schrodinger wave equation
18. He was the adopted son of Gordias and Cybele and became ruler of Pessinus. Later in his life, his barber whispered his biggest secret into a hole in the ground, but whenever the wind blew through the reeds growing from that hole, those reeds told the world that he had the ears of an ass. That was his punishment for preferring the music of Pan to that of Apollo. His greatest reward came for taking care of Silenus, but that reward resulted in the death of his daughter. FTP, name this king of Phrygia, who was gifted and cursed with the ability to turn everything he touched into gold.
Answer: King Midas
19. Its first king, Eudes, is not officially a member of this house. Three of its members were emperors of Constantinople for 45 years, while another branch of the family served as kings of Hungary for 72 years. All of its rulers descended from Robert the Strong, whose progeny assumed permanent power upon the death of Louis the Do-Nothing. Probably the most notable members of this house were Philip II, who fought King John, and Saint Louis, though its name comes from its first ruler Hugh. Coming into power after the Carolingians, FTP, name this ruling house of France from 987 to 1328.
Answer: House of Capet or Capetian dynasty
20. The first edition was prefixed with an “Advertisement,” warning that much of the content was “to be considered an experiment.” The second edition contained an famous “Preface” that included among other things an essay entitled “Emotion Recollected in Tranquility.” Some of the themes for pieces like “Idiot Boy,” “Mad Mother,” “Forsaken Indian,” and “We Are Seven,” were explained, though the other contributor offered his own theories fifteen years later in his Biographia Literaria. It included such simple tales as “Simon Lee the Old Huntsman” and was always to have ended with “Lines composed above Tintern Abbey.” First published in 1798, FTP, name this collaborative poetry collection of Wordsworth and Coleridge.
Answer: Lyrical Ballads
21. His first book Prophesy Deliverance!, attempted to fuse Marxism and Christianity through a study of writers like W.E.B. DuBois and Toni Morrison, and later, along with Michael Lerner, he co-wrote Jews and Blacks: Let The Healing Begin. Both his Baptist roots and his studies of the Black Panthers influenced his speaking style and his calls for justice, though such works as Keeping Faith and Restoring Hope show some optimism. FTP, name this progressive postmodern philosopher, a Harvard professor perhaps best-known for his book Race Matters.
Answer: Cornel West
22. He built the city of Niani and made it his capital. Earlier in his career, he freed the small state of Kangaba, of which he was an heir, and reorganized its army. Following this, he gained revenge for the death of his ten brothers by defeating Sumanguru at the Battle of Kirina. This hero of the Malinke people furthered his territorial gains by razing Kumbi Saleh, thus effectively ending the Ghana Empire. FTP, name West African man who ruled from 1240 to 1255 as the first emperor of Mali.
Answer: Sundiata Keita
23. Collections of her poetry include And No One Knows Where to Go and Flight and Metamorphosis. Her best known play is entitled Eli: A Miracle Play of the Sufferings of Israel, while her best known poem is also the title of her best-known collection, O the Chimneys. With the help and intercession of her pen pal, Selma Lagerlof, she was able to flee to Sweden in 1940. Sharing the Nobel with Yosef Agnon in 1966, FTP, name this German poet and dramatist.
Answer: Nelly Leonie Sachs
24. He adapted Aristophanes’ The Wasps into a three-act comedy that he entitled The Litigants. His last two works were a pair of Biblical plays for the girls of Saint-Cyr, Esther and Athalie. He had been convinced to write them by his patron Madame de Maintenon [MON-te-noh] shortly after his appointment as official historiographer by Louis XIV. Before gaining that position, this Jansenist had quit the theater in disgust over failure despite the early success of plays like The Thebiad, Andromaque, and Berenice. FTP, name this arch-rival of Pierre Corneille, whose masterpiece is his play Phedre [FAY-drah].
Answer: Jean Baptiste Racine
2001 ACF Regionals
Bonuses by Silicon Age and Berry University
1. FTP each, name these German poets.
A. He was famed for his ballads and lyrical poems, many of which were set to music by Robert Schumann. His most famous work was probably an ode to the Lorelei maidens.
Answer: Heinrich Heine
B. This son of an army captain was more famous for plays like Don Carlos and Wallenstein, though he did write the “Ode to Joy” that Beethoven used for his Ninth Symphony.
Answer: Friedrich von Schiller
C. Oden is a collection of his religious poems, but he’s best-known for the religious epic The Messiah.
Answer: Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
2. FTP each, name these U.S. Civil War engagements, all of which took place in Tennessee:
A. This 1862 encounter began with a surprise attack by A.S. Johnston. By nightfall on April 6, Grant's forces were pushed back over a mile, but Johnston’s death and reinforcements helped the Union troops rally near Pittsburgh Landing.
Answer: Battle of Shiloh
B. Nathan Bedford Forrest launched a surprise cavalry raid here on July 13, 1862. By late afternoon, all Union troops had surrendered.
Answer: Battle of Murfreesboro
C. On November 23 and 24, 1863, Union troops captured Orchard Knob and Lookout Mountain. On the 25th they defeated a seemingly impregnable Confederate position in this city.