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. His name meant “serpent”, which did not help his image when his legacy became unpopular. He came into power very popular among both hoplites and commoners, having replaced the tyrant Cylon. For 10 points, name this Athenian who, in the seventh century BCE, wrote a law code noted for its harshness.
ANSWER:Draco
BONUS. The year 2001 is the year of the Snake in the Chinese Horoscope. Answer these questions on people born in other years of the Snake.
•1791 is the year of the birth of this Austrian composer known for composing over 140 lieder.
ANSWER:Franz Peter Schubert
•Born in 1905, the profits from his aviation company based in Culver City, California, were used to establish an eponymous Medical Institute. He would later be known as an owner of RKO Pictures and TransWorld Airlines.
ANSWER:Howard Hughes
Tossup Two. At the foreground are several prone bodies. In the back right-hand corner a few buildings can be seen through some smoke. A bearded man holding a rifle stands to the right of a pale woman, who is holding a French flag. For 10 points, identify this painting of the French revolution by Eugene Delacroix.
ANSWER:Liberty Leading the People
BONUS. For 10 points apiece, identify these other early-nineteenth century paintings.
•This painting by Theodore Gericault was created in response to the French’s government’s mishandling of the wreck of a ship off the coast of Africa.
ANSWER:The Raft of the Medusa
•This 1821 John Constable painting shows the title vehicle being pulled across a creek by horses.
ANSWER:The Hay Wain
Tossup Three. The Catholic Church really did not like this movie. Was it the angels running amok, or the appearance of a so-called “thirteenth apostle” named Rufus? For 10 points, name this movie, Kevin Smith’s fourth offering, whose stars included Chris Rock, Matt Damon, Ben Afleck, and of course, Kevin Smith himself.
ANSWER:Dogma
BONUS. From the movie Dogma, to the dogma of the Catholic Church. For 10 points each, identify the following terms associated with the Catholic Church.
•This is the dogma that in the Eucharist the bread and wine become, upon consecration, the actual body and blood of Jesus Christ.
ANSWER:transubstantiation
•This is the event traditionally understood as the revelation of the glory of Jesus Christ as the son of God.
ANSWER:transfiguration
Tossup Four. The stubbornness of the title character is an example of a worker rebelling against the humdrum workaday world. For 10 points, name this Herman Melville short story in which the title character repeatedly replies to requests to do work with the line, “I’d prefer not to.”
ANSWER:“Bartleby the Scrivener”
BONUS. Identify these other Herman Melville works for 10 points apiece.
•Melville’s first novel, it is a semi-autobiographical account of the narrator’s experience with the title Polynesian tribe.
ANSWER:Typee
•This novel, which, along with Billy Budd and others, is one of many Melville works dealing with naval life, was written in protest of the British flogging of their sailors.
ANSWER:White Jacket
Tossup Five. It encountered Jupiter on February 8, 1992, but its mission was not to explore Jupiter. Rather, using Jupiter’s gravitational pull, this spacecraft was accelerated into a larger six-year-period orbit in order to study interplanetary space at higher solar latitudes. For 10 points, name this NASA spacecraft named for the Greek hero who endured a long “Odyssey.”
ANSWER:Ulysses [do NOT accept “Odysseus”]
BONUS. Answer these questions on the creatures confronted by Ulysses in the Odyssey.
•Ulysses escaped from the grasp of this son of Poseidon by clinging to the belly of a ram.
ANSWER:Polyphemus the Cyclops [prompt on Cyclops]
•This enchantress transforms some of Ulysses’s men into pigs…real pigs.
ANSWER:Circe
Tossup Six. He obtained over four thousand convictions as a U.S. Attorney and supervised drug enforcement operations as Associate Attorney General. This pro-choice, pro-gun control Republican lost in his first bid for his current office in 1989 but captured the office in 1993. For 10 points, name this mayor of New York City.
ANSWER:Rudolph William Giuliani
BONUS. Name these other figures in New York politics for 10 points each.
•This controversial racial justice campaigner and veteran of movements from anti-Bernie Goetz to pro-Tawana Brawley ran against Giuliani in the 1997 election.
ANSWER:Reverend Al Sharpton
•This longtime Senator is retiring at the end of his term, setting up the Giuliani versus Clinton race.
ANSWER:Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Tossup Seven. A standard 56K modem is the “0” model. The “1” model can carry 1.5 megabytes per second, the “2” model 6.3, the “3” model 44.7, and the “4” model 274.2. They can transmit Internet data or multi-stream voice. For 10 points, identify these high-capacity transmission lines developed by AT&T.
ANSWER:T-carriers [accept T-lines; do not accept specific numbers]
BONUS. Identify this event, 20-10.
•20: Lendall Pitts was the leader of the group responsible for this event, which destroyed the property of the Davison and Newman company.
•10: This 1773 protest of an act which favored the East India Company also involved Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and Paul Revere.
ANSWER:Boston Tea Party
Tossup Eight. Served by the Yesilkoy International Airport seventeen miles west, this city is home to some of the longest and largest highway suspension bridges in the world. For 10 points, name this home to Yildiz and Marmara Universities located on the Bosporus Strait at the entrance of the Black Sea.
ANSWER:Istanbul [prompt on Constantinople; prompt on Byzantium; prompt on New Rome]
BONUS. Even old New York was once New Amsterdam…identify the city by its modern name from an ancient/older name.
•Tenochtitlan
ANSWER:Mexico City [or Ciudad de Mexico]
•Lutece (loo-TESS)
ANSWER:Paris, France
Tossup Nine. Although composed centuries after Dante’s death, its author related that it was written “in a wood that skirts the Arno, near Florence”, and this poem is in terza rima (TERTZ-ah REE-ma) meter. It concludes with the verse, “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” For 10 points, name this 1819 poem by Percy Bysshe Shelly.
ANSWER:“Ode to the West Wind”
BONUS. For 10 points each, identify these fictional Western personalities.
•Dissatisfied with his parents’ attitudes, he leaves Texas to find himself by riding through Mexico, a story told in Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses.
ANSWER:John Grady Cole [prompt on John Grady]
•When Trampas insults him, this Owen Wister title character with a geographic moniker replies, “When you call me that, smile!”
ANSWER:The Virginian
Tossup Ten. The name for this color comes from the Hindu for “dust.” This came to pass when British soldiers fighting in India threw dust on their uniforms in order to camouflage themselves. For 10 points, identify this word now associated with a style of pants advertised heavily by the Gap.
ANSWER:khaki
BONUS. Let’s see how well you have been paying attention during TV commercials. For 10 points each, given products that a company produces, name the company.
•Cargo pants and drawstring shorts
ANSWER:Old Navy
•The fragrances One and Be
ANSWER: Calvin Klein [prompt on CK]
SCORE CHECK
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Category Quiz Tossups
Tossup One. It must be reached in order to use a hygrometer to measure humidity. The higher it is, the more uncomfortable the air. For 10 points, give the name for this temperature at which water vapor in the air condenses into liquid water.
ANSWER:dew point
Tossup Two. The Tug and Big Sandy Rivers form part of this state’s eastern boundary, while its southern boundary is a four hundred and twenty-five-mile-long straight line. For 10 points, name this state bounded on its north by the Ohio River.
ANSWER:Kentucky
Tossup Three. Their second generation includes Ben Gali, Lynx-O, Pumyra, and Scooper. Their main enemies include the mutants and Mumm-Ra, found on third Earth. For 10 points and sight beyond sight, identify this group made up of Jaga, Claudis, Snarf, Willy Kit and Willy Kat, Tygra, Cheetarah, Panthro, and Lion-O.
ANSWER:The Thundercats
Tossup Four. In 1879, Pope Leo XIII wrote an encyclical declaring this to be the undisputable basis of Roman Catholic theology. Written for novices, this Latin treatise was left unfinished by its Dominican author. For 10 points, name this work by Thomas Aquinas.
ANSWER:Summa Theologica
Tossup Five. It first appeared in the writings of Abul-Wefa and received its name from Albert Girard. Its name is from a Latin verb meaning “to cut”, which refers to its geometric representation as a line cutting through a circle at two points. For 10 points, name this function equal to the reciprocal of cosine.
ANSWER:secant
Tossup Six. Her ashes were kept on file at a Manhattan law firm for fifteen years after her death, and she is credited to have as her epitaph, “Pardon my dust.” For 10 points, name this writer who, despite many attempted suicides, wound up the longest-living and only female member of the Algonquin Round Table.
ANSWER:Dorothy Rothschild Parker
Tossup Seven. It became a sensation after an 1840 concert at the Odeon Theater in Paris, as French dance teachers were swamped with people interested in learning it, with certain refinements. For 10 points, name this dance, translated as “half-step” from Czech, a lively 2/4 Bohemian dance.
ANSWER:polka
Tossup Eight. Although this procedure dates back to ancient times, it was first documented in 1610, with the patient eventually dying about a month later. Indications for this procedure include diabetes and placenta praveia. For 10 points, name this surgical procedure performed on the mother of Macduff in which the child is “untimely ripped.”
ANSWER:Caesarean section [accept C-section]
SCORE CHECK AFTER THE BONUS
Category Quiz Boni
Biological Sciences: Those Raging Hormones
This process is initiated by the steroid hormone ecdysone in the blood, although other hormones affect the timing of this process between instar stages. For 15 points, name this process in invertebrates, arthropods, and nematodes in which an exoskeleton is shed and replaced.
ANSWER:moulting
Language: Words from the Welsh
Made in plain or twill weaves, its name is derived from the Welsh word gwlanen, meaning “wool.” For 15 points, name this soft fabric that holds still air in its napping, making it a comfortable material to use as pajamas or lumberjack shirts.
ANSWER:flannel
Law: Revenge is a dish best served cold.
Best stated, this principle of ancient legal systems is summed up as “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, an arm for an arm, a life for a life.” For 15 points, name this legal philosophy, which, translated from Latin, means “the law of retaliation.”
ANSWER:lex talionis
Mathematics: Ace of Base
[Distribute log table located at end of packet to both teams now.] Ready your pencil and paper. Using this table to aid your efforts, consider the expression log3 6 – log8 7 (log base three of six minus log base eight of seven). For 15 points, evaluate this expression, giving your answer as a decimal number rounded to three digits. Bounceback, if any, will be immediate. You have thirty seconds.
ANSWER:0.695
Music: A Little Rearrangement
Incidental music for this Alphonse Daudet play was arranged into two suites for concert performance, and includes the Farandole. For 15 points, name this work by Georges Bizet, often accompanied on recordings by selections from Carmen.
ANSWER:L’Arlesienne [accept The Maid from Arles)
Religion, Mythology, Philosophy: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Pope?
Upon his death in 1334, he was the richest man in the world, insisting in his papal bull Cum Inter Nonnulus that poverty was not an integral part of religious life. For 15 points, name this antipope who succeeded Clement the V and practiced alchemy.
ANSWER:John the XXII [accept Jacques D’Euze]
U.S. History: It’s About Time
Failed efforts to take this city include the use of ironclad ships and even building a canal around the city. For 15 points, name the Confederate stronghold which General Pemberton finally surrendered, on July 4, 1863, to General Grant.
ANSWER:Vicksburg, Mississippi
World Geography: Extinct Animals
It is believed that Przewalski’s horses lived in the western region near the Tien Shan Range. For 15 points, name this desert area of roughly five hundred thousand square miles and relatively few Chinese and Mongols.
ANSWER:Gobi Desert
World History: In One Door And Out the Other
Responsible for the August 1953 ouster of the Shah, this dictator of Iran lost the support of the United States later that year and was eventually overthrown by a CIA-sponsored mob. For 15 points, name this leader who nationalized the Iranian oil industry.
ANSWER:Muhammed Mossadegh
World Literature: Make Believe
This character’s wife Martine punishes him for his bad behavior by saying that he can cure Geronte’s daughter Jacqueline from her muteness, which Jacqueline is faking to avoid marrying Lucas. For 15 points, name this Molière play about Sganarelle, who takes advantage of his pretended stature despite his lack of medical credentials.
ANSWER:The Doctor In Spite of Himself [accept Le Médecin malgré lui]
Stretch Round
Tossup One. A company started by nine people, fifty thousand dollars of the founders’ money, and only one point five million dollars in venture capital, it soon gained a reputation for producing computer chips reliable enough for the US military specs for semiconductors. For 10 points—name this company primarily run by founder Jerry Sanders, whose K Six chips are trying to supplant Intel’s Pentiums in the PC computer market.
ANSWER:Advanced Micro Devices, Incorporated
BONUS. In architecture, the style was marked by arabesques, plant forms, and volutes, and various curves. For 10 points each:
•Name this style, also characterized by light-heartedness, dainty figures, and pastel colors, which began in 18th century France.
ANSWER:Rococo
•French Rococo painting was epitomized by this painter, when he submitted The Departure from Cythera to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1717.
ANSWER:Jean-Antoine Watteau
•The Academy had to create a new classification for Watteau’s painting, this one, for well-dressed people at leisure in an elegant outdoor scene.
ANSWER:fête galante
Tossup Two. Charles meets and falls in love with a farmer’s daughter, Emma. When Charles’s older first wife, Heloise, dies, Charles marries Emma and everything is fine–for a very short time. Emma becomes bored and starts having affairs with other men,plunging Charles deep into debt. For 10 points—name the novel thus described, which ends with the suicide of Emma and the death of Charles, perhaps the best known work by Gustave Flaubert.
ANSWER:Madame Bovary
BONUS. 30-20-10, name the non-American, non-Canadian politician.
•30: When he announced he would seek a third term as president in the year 2000, his country’s Supreme Court warned him that his pursuit would be unconstitutional; three Justices were soon dismissed.
•20: He earned an agronomic engineering degree in 1961 before doing graduate work at the University of Strasbourg and the University of Wisconsin, and he hosted the TV show Getting Together.
•10: At first a political outsider, this politician of Japanese descent formed the political party Cambio, Change, and went on to win the Presidency of Peru in a June 1990 runoff.
ANSWER:Alberto Fujimori
Tossup Three. While growing up in Brandon Mill, South Carolina, he began playing baseball on a factory team. In the major leagues, he named his bat “Black Betsy” and proceeded to hit three fifty-six over his thirteen-year career. For 10 points—name this left fielder whose career was cut short by a lifetime ban on baseball as a result of his minor involvement the Black Sox scandal.