YaleUniversity
Bulldogs over Broadway—Oct 29, 2005
Edited by Mike Wehrman
Packet by Yale (Mike Wehrman)
Tossups
1. In 1976 he had three or more hits in six consecutive games, setting a Major League record, and won the first of his three batting titles. More famously, perhaps, was an event the next year against the Yankees when he slid into third base and popped up and started whaling on Graig Nettles. His team, though, lost three consecutive ALCS to the Yankees from 1976-8, before sweeping them in 1980, the same year that he won the AL MVP after hitting .390, the highest full-season average since 1941. FTP, name this pine-tar-loving, Hall of Fame third and first baseman of the Kansas City Royals.
Answer: George Brett
2. It appeared six years after its author’s death as an expanded edition called Several Poems Compiled with a Great Variety of Wit. A theme of this work is the number four, with poems entitled “Four Seasons,” “Four Constitutions,” “Four Monarchies,” and “Four Ages of Man,” though its best known work “Contemplations,” appeared in only the later edition in 1678, as well as the work “On the Burning of Her Home.” First published without the author’s knowledge in London in 1650, it was the first volume of poems written in North America. FTP, name this collection by Anne Bradstreet.
Answer: The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America
3. The name’s the same: a German city in the PfalzForest near the French border that is the namesake of a luxury convertible-top carriage popular in the 18th century. Lev was a Soviet physicist who won a 1962 Nobel Prize for his explanation of helium’s superfluidity. Jon was a Rolling Stone writer who became enamored with the work of Bruce Springsteen, becoming his manager and producing several of his albums. Martin is an actor first famous for his role in the TV series Mission: Impossible. He also is known for his portrayal of Prof. Petrovsky in Rounders and won the 1994 Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood. FTP, give the common name.
Answer: Landau
4. It has two holes known as mental foramen in its center. On either side of it is an ascending portion known as the ramus. On the top of each ramus is a coronoid process, to which the temporalis muscle attaches. At the upper back of each ramus is a chondyle that forms a movable joint with the glenoid fossa of the temporal bone. The masseter muscle does much in bringing its alveolar margin into near contact with the alveolar margin of maxilla, enabling chewing to occur. FTP name this lower jaw bone in humans.
Answer: Mandible (prompt on early “jaw” or “lower jaw”)
5. On a very special 2-hour episode of Blossom where Blossom runs off to Paris, he played the part of Louie, and he starred as Gene in the Alfred Molina CBS vehicle Ladies Man. Better-known TV work includes his roles as the voices of Buck Strickland and Bill Dauterive on King of the Hill. He and Gary Cole both had roles in Dodgeball five years after Cole played his boss in a previous movie. This film also involved his not getting a piece of cake, the moving of his office to Storage Room B, the confiscation of his beloved red Swingline stapler, and his eventual act of arson. FTP name this character actor who played Jimmy James in News Radio as well as Milton in Office Space.
Answer: Stephen Root
6. In the early medieval church, a type of “Lent,” or period of fasting, named for him led up to the season of Advent from his feast day on November 11. Born in what is now Hungary, he was a follower of Hilary of Poitiers before founding his own monastery at Marmoutier. A famous story involving him took place outside the gates of Amiens, when he cut his cloak in half, giving part of it to a beggar. This was noted in Sulpicius Severus’ hagiographical work, and Gregory, his 6th-century successor as bishop, chronicled other miracles. FTP name this 4th-century saint who became the bishop of Tours.
Answer: St. Martin of Tours
7. Its developer taught at the University of Grenoble, and substances that conform to it are known as “ideal.” It was discovered around 1886 when its namesake discovered that the freezing point of a solution is lowered in proportion to the amount of non-electrolytic substance dissolved in it, and it made it possible to determine the weights of dissolved substances. FTP name this law that states that the vapor pressure of each component of a solution will be equal to the vapor pressure of the pure substance times the mole fraction in the solution.
Answer: Raoult’s Law
8. A painting of his studio by Henri Fantin-LaTour was mocked in a caricature known as Jesus Painting Among His Disciples.He traveled to Holland and painted an 1873 homage to the work of Franz Hals entitled Le Bon Bock,or The Good Pint.Edgar Degas bought and reassembled the four surviving segments of his cut-up Execution of Maximilian. His The Fifer was rejected by the Salon in Paris in 1866, though this was nothing unusual, as the so-called “Salon des Refusés” had exhibited his most famous work. FTP name this French painter adored by the Impressionists, known for Olympia and Luncheon on the Grass.
Answer: Edouard Manet
9. A law graduate of CumberlandUniversity, he served as a congressman from Tennessee from 1907 until 1933, when he was appointed to his most famous post, and during his time in Congress he authored the first federal income tax bill. In 1943 he was the US representative at the Moscow Conference, after which he praised Stalin, and he also made numerous agreements with VichyFrance, though DeGaulle later negated them. FDR called him the “Father of the United Nations,” and in 1945 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. FTP name this longtime Secretary of State under FDR.
Answer: Cordell Hull
10. One of his better works is an 1827 essay in black humor purporting to be a lecture at the Society of Connoisseurs in Murder, entitled On Murder Considered One of the Fine Arts, and he grew estranged from Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey after publishing Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets. The author of the Gothic novel Klosterheim, many of his works were for The London Magazine, which published his article “On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth” as well as his most famous work about his drugged-out destitution in London. FTP name this essayist and critic who wrote Confessions of an English Opium Eater.
Answer: Thomas De Quincey
11. Located along the EuphratesRiver between Aleppo and Baghdad, it was the site of two major finds in 1921. The first dates from the early third century and contains wall paintings of several events from the Old Testament, unusual because of a commandment barring the use of graven images in synagogues. The second structure found at this site is a 3rd-century Christian one and is also known for its paintings in the baptistery of a domus ecclesiae, or house church, which are now mostly in the YaleUniversityArtGallery. FTP name this archeological site in Syria, a former multi-religious Roman frontier town containing the remains of the oldest preserved Christian church.
Answer: Dura-Europos (-as) or Doura-Europos (now Qalat es Salihiye)
12. His response to atrocities in Bulgaria led him to found a Socialist League in 1884. Two years later in a work modeled on medieval dream visions, he went back to the time of the 1381 Peasants Revolt to speak with a dissenting priest entitled A Dream of John Ball, which was a forerunner of another socialist work entitled News From Nowhere. However, he is probably better known as an artisan. These artistic projects took root in his home known as the Red House, and he designed furniture and stained glass as well as famous patterns for fabrics, tapestries, and wallpaper. Often identified with the Pre-Raphaelites, FTP name this figure who saw high art as being enslaved by capitalism, a major figure in the Arts and Crafts movement.
Answer: William Morris
13. It forms salts with most metals, and these are mostly water-soluble, though the salt formed with chromium is a notable exception. It can be produced industrially by hydrating ethyne and then oxidizing the resulting aldehyde. Its pure form, known as the “glacial” variety was proven by Pierre Adet to be the same kind found naturally in oxidized ethyl alcohol. FTP name this compound also known as ethanoic acid, with chemical formula CH3-COOH, which is found in vinegar.
Answer: Acetic acid (accept early ethanoic acid)
14. The protagonist falls in love with John Thornton despite their immensely different views, though she at first spurns his proposal of marriage. This protagonist, Margaret Hale, moves to the bleak industrial town of Milton Northern, modeled after Manchester, where she supports a group of mill workers against the factory owner Thornton. The author reflected the influence of Charlotte Bronte in her portrayal of Margaret as a tough and confident heroine. FTP name this novel contrasting the two namesake regions of Britain, an 1855 work by Elizabeth Gaskell.
Answer: North and South
15. He mobilized opposition to the crazy doctrines of biologist T.D. Lysenko, and along with Igor Tamm proposed a way to confine hot ionized plasma with torus-shaped magnetic fields as a way to control thermonuclear fusion, the tokamak reactor. In 1968 he published the tract “Progress, Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom,” which called for nuclear arms reductions and criticized the repression of Soviet dissidents. FTP name this scientist who developed the Soviet hydrogen bomb, who won the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize for his stance against nuclear buildup.
Answer: Andrei Sakharov
16. The area took form after the draining of the Collect Pond, though the land was refilled shoddily, creating swampy, pest-filled conditions. It was marked by the intersection of Cross, Anthony, Little Water, Orange, and Mulberry Streets, which formed an intersection ironically named Paradise Square. It was most populated after the Potato Famine, when waves of Irish immigrants moved in, but it was razed in 1880 because of its terrible conditions and replaced with city buildings, forcing many residents into the Lower East Side. Fostering groups such as the Plug Uglies and the Dead Rabbits, FTP name this notoriously crime-ridden Manhattan neighborhood chronicled by Martin Scorsese in Gangs of New York.
Answer: the Five Points
17. Once wanting to be a priest, he joined the Army in 1846 to fight against the US, and went to law school at the behest of Benito Juarez. However, he soon became dissatisfied with Juarez, protesting his re-election and then leading a revolt against new president Sebastian Lerdo de Tejada, which failed. When he was in office, he encouraged foreign investment, though this led to much wealth being sent outside the country. He served two terms in office, the second covering 26 years but was forced to resign in 1911 after a military coup in favor of Francisco Madero. FTP name this longtime Mexican dictator.
Answer: Porfirio Diaz
18. Franz blows a kiss to the title character, which angers his fiancée Swanhilda, who ends up going into the title character’s house to see what’s up. She and her friends are shocked to learn the identity of Franz’s new love. The title character’s creator attempts to drug Franz and put his life spirit inside the creation, but is foiled when Swanhilda puts on the doll’s clothes so that she can rescue Franz. Based on a story by ETA Hoffman called The Sandman, FTP name this 1870 ballet written by Leo Delibes whose title character is a mechanical automaton.
Answer: Coppelia
19. He was taken to Brittany after Vortigern became king and killed Constans his older brother. Merlin sent him to Ireland to retrieve the Giants’ Ring, which was taken apart by Merlin, and inside of which he was buried many years later. After seeing a dragon-shaped meteor in the sky, he defeated his enemies and was crowned king. All of these events appear in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain. Better known is the time when, in the guise of Gorlois, he visited that man’s wife Igraine at Tintagel, fathering an even more famous king. FTP name this father of King Arthur.
Answer: Uther or Uter or Uther Pendragon
20. The most important rites in their religion involved the sacrificing of a bear. The men of the culture grew long beards and mustaches, and women tattooed their upper lips to resemble mustaches. Adherents to the prehistoric Jomon culture, fewer than 25,000 people are still considered part of this group, and its language is nearly extinct. Generally calling themselves Utari, some reside in the Kuril Islands and on Sakhalin, though mostly they were confined to Hokkaido due encroachment and assimilation with the Japanese. FTP name this indigenous people of Japan.
Answer: Ainu (prompt on Utari)
YaleUniversity
Bulldogs over Broadway—Oct 29, 2005
Edited by Mike Wehrman
Packet by Yale (Mike Wehrman)
Bonuses
1. Answer the following related questions on 18th century art and its study for ten points each.
A. This German writer’s interest in ancient Greek art was instrumental in kindling Neo-Classical and Romantic thinkers’ passion for the classical ideal. Such works as his 1764 History of Ancient Art are famous for both their passionate descriptions and systematic studies.
Answer: Johann Joachim Winckelmann
B. This Swiss-born painter made her international reputation with a 1764 portrait of Winckelmann, and other works include Leonardo Da Vinci Dying in the Arms of Francis I. A founding member of the RoyalAcademy, she was also known for her interior paintings in homes designed by architect Robert Adam.
Answer: Angelica Kauffmann
C. In England, this portraitist and RoyalAcademy member championed Kauffmann’s work and had his portrait painted by her. His own works include Garrick between Tragedy and Comedy and Lady Caroline Scott as Winter. His rival Gainsborough remarked, “Damn him, how various he is!”
Answer: Sir Joshua Reynolds
2. Not everybody loves Ray Liotta. FTPE answer the following about his on and off-screen work.
A. One of Ray’s finest performances was in this 1995 film co-starring Danny Glover, in which a US Army unit must find a new sacred elephant for a village whose previous one was killed by the North Vietnamese.
Answer: Operation: Dumbo Drop
B. This movie’s most memorable scene is perhaps of a post-lobatomic Ray eating his own brain as Clarice Starling looks on.
Answer: Hannibal
C. Perhaps because part of his brain was missing, Liotta was linked romantically to this tiny, annoying blonde perhaps best known for her Broadway musical roles of Sally Brown and Glinda the Good Witch. She also has a recurring role as Annabeth Schott on the West Wing because she’s rumored to be sleeping with Aaron Sorkin.
Answer: Kristin Chenoweth
3. Answer the following related literary questions for ten points each.
A. This early Thomas Hardy novel, written in 1872, concerns the peddler Dick Dewey and his rivalry with Farmer Shiner and Parson Maybold for the hand of Fancy Day.
Answer: Under the Greenwood Tree: or, The Mellstock Quire
B. Under the Greenwood Tree takes its name from a song sung by Amiens and Jaques in Act 2 of this Shakespeare play.
Answer: As You Like It
C. Hardy wasn’t too successful with any of his novels, including Under the Greenwood Tree, prior to the publishing of this 1874 novel concerning Gabriel Oak and Bathsheba Everdene.
Answer: Far from the Madding Crowd
4. He lost at the battle at Pltava in 1719 and is the subject of a Byron poem, a Liszt etude, and a Delacroix painting, among other works. Answer the following about a Cossack leader and his name for ten points apiece.
A. He aligned his forces with the Swedes under Charles XII against Peter the Great in an attempt to remove Ukraine from Russian control.
Answer: Ivan Mazeppa
B. Mazeppa was the title character in an 1883 opera by this Russian composer, who adapted it from a Pushkin poem shortly after he had great success by turning another Pushkin work into an opera.
Answer: Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Eugene Onegin is the other work)
C. An aging stripper in this musical with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim is also named Mazeppa. Ethel Merman and more recently Bernadette Peters played Mama Rose in its Broadway runs.
Answer: Gypsy
5. Identify these structures of the pancreas for ten points each.
A. These cells of the pancreas produce digestive enzymes, and their name comes from the Latin for “grape,” since they form bundles shaped like bunches of grapes.
Answer: Acinar cells
B. For ten points, name either of the two ducts that connect the pancreas to the duodenum in humans, enabling the flow of digestive enzymes.