2004 Maryland High School Classic
Round 8
Tossups by the University of Virginia
1. The fact that he wears a pink shirt is cited as evidence that this character is not in fact an Oxford man, as he claims to be. This man’s shirts play a role in another scene, as his ex-lover cries over their beauty. He is killed in his swimming pool by George Wilson, right by where he could often be found staring at a glowing green beacon while fantasizing about Daisy Buchanan. For 10 points, name this title character of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel.
ANSWER: Jay Gatsby [accept The Great Gatsby]
2. William English Walling, Oswald Garrison Villard, and Mary Ovington were among its founders. A 1908 riot in Abraham Lincoln’s hometown sparked these individuals to convene a national conference, and they appointed W.E.B. DuBois as its first black member. Its current chair is Julian Bond and President is Kwesi Mfume. For 10 points, name this civil rights organization.
ANSWER: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
3. A trivial version of it was created in order to bootstrap operating systems onto network-computers. Originally providing two modes, binary and ASCII, later modifications to the standard enabled encryption to protect passwords, which in the original were distributed in plain text. Using well-known port TCP/21, for 10 points, name this protocol abbreviated FTP.
ANSWER: File Transfer Protocol (accept FTP before mention)
4. Twenty-one year old Jann Wenner founded it 1967, after being involved in the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley. Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show sings he will buy his mother five copies of it, if he can get his smiling face on its cover. Among its most famous historical contributors include P.J. O’Rourke, Lester Bangs, and Hunter S. Thompson. For 10 points, name this quintessential rock magazine.
ANSWER: Rolling Stone
5. “Morning Song” is essentially an ode to motherhood, and “Cut” is an almost surrealist look at a sliced finger. She is known for the collections Ariel and The Colossus, and her most famous poem begins, “You do not do, you do not do” and ends “Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I’m through.” Perhaps more famous is a novel about Esther Greenwood. For 10 points, name this suicidal author of The Bell Jar.
ANSWER: Sylvia Plath
6. It was introduced circa 1780 by Sebastian Zerezo. In two-four or three-four time for solo or duo dancing, it resembles the fandango and is to be accompanied by guitar, castanets, and the voices of the dancers. For 10 points, name this famously repetitive dance, on which a number of composers have written pieces, including a ballet by Chopin, and a more famous piece sharing the title of the dance by Ravel.
ANSWER: Bolero
7. There are five different kinds of these found in the human body, called isotypes. Two isotypes are distinguished only by differences in splicing of the mRNA that codes for them. The most common, IgM, occurs as a pentamer, while IgA is a dimer that can cross epithelium in search of its matching antigen. For 10 points, name this class of protein, sometimes called immunoglobulins, that has a trademark ‘Y’ shape and binds foreign particles starting up an immune response.
ANSWER: antibodies [accept immunoglobulin before it is mentioned; prompt on gamma globulin]
8. In addition to his first wife, he had at least four other wives and a large harem. He liked to claim that he had over 100 sons. One of his temples, at Abu Simbel, had four enormous statues of him carved out of a rock-wall. He fought the battle of Kadesh, after which the Hittite king agreed to split the disputed territory between them. For 10 points name this son of Seti I and husband of Nefertiti.
ANSWER: Ramses II (accept Ramses the Great)
9. Jude Wannisiki coined this term in 1975, and was partly an attempt to account for the failures of the dominant thought at explaining historical economic changes. It sprang from a monetarist critique of Keynsian economics, and argued that production is the central key to economic wealth. Famously adopted by Reagan in the 1980s, for 10 points, name this school of economic thought.
ANSWER: supply-side economics [do not accept Reaganomics or voodoo economics]
10. He served as a general practitioner and nerve specialist for 30 years after graduating from his hometown University of Vienna in 1895. He felt that sexual drive was less important than the Nietzschean “will to power” in explaining human behavior, and in 1911 broke with Freud. For 10 points, name this psychologist, author of Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology and Understanding Human Nature, and inventor of the term “inferiority complex”.
ANSWER: Alfred Adler
11. Along with Pierre Laplace, this man proposed the first modern theory of solar system formation. Housewives would set their watches by his daily walks at 3:30 p.m. in his hometown of Königsburg. His most famous idea states that a single moral obligation explains all other duties that a person has, regardless of one’s will or desires. For 10 points, name this German philosopher, creator of the categorical imperative and author of Critique of Pure Reason.
ANSWER: Immanuel Kant
12. This is governed by the Bunsen-Roscoe law and is more easily seen in early developing tissue than fully differentiated tissue. Understood to be caused by auxin, there is still no good evidence for the mechanism by which auxin levels are altered in one part of the tissue but not another. For 10 points, name this plant growth response to light, which can be positive or negative depending on whether the plant grows toward a light source or away from it.
ANSWER: phototropism
13. After three years of joint rule with his brother, Carloman died, leaving him the only king. After the siege of Pavia he retook the Papal States from the Lombards and returned them to the Pope. He began construction of a cathedral in the Byzantine style for his capital of Aachen in 792. For 10 points, name this man, crowned by Pope Leo III on Christmas Day, 800.
ANSWER: Charlemagne
14. It was formed when the Titan Asteria hurled herself as a flaming meteor into the sea. It was under the control of Naxos during the seventh and sixth centuries BC, but was seized by Athens for its strategic position on the Aegean Sea. Leto fled here after being forced by Hera to find a place to give birth. Since Hera blocked off terra firma and the sea, this was the only locale Leto could find. The most famous of the Cyclades, for 10 points, what is this floating isle in the Aegean, the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis?
ANSWER: Delos
15. The illegitimate son of his father Ambrose and his mother Isabel, he used his mother’s last name as his surname for many years. Adopting his father’s surname before returning to his father’s estate in 1802, he led the revolutionary army at the battle of Rancagua in 1814. After that defeat he joined forces with Argentine general Jose de San Martin and won the battle of Chacabuco, defeating the Spanish forces. For 10 points, name this liberator of Chile.
ANSWER: Bernardo O’Higgins
16. The son of a cobbler, this author wrote a tragedy about a gay king in Edward II, and a long erotic poem called “Hero and Leander.” His mysterious death has led some to believe that he was linked to a spy network, but before his death at 29, he had already written The Massacre at Paris, The Jew of Malta,, and Tamburlaine the Great. For 10 points, name this English playwright, author of The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus.
ANSWER: Christopher Marlowe
17. Transformers fans may know that the alternate title for their 1984 movie was “super BLANK robot force.” Arundati Roy wrote of one of small things, and Madalyn Murray O'Hare was sometimes referred to as its greatest enemy. In a Zora Neale Hurston work, their eyes watched it. For 10 points, name this religious entity, whom Nietzsche famously declared dead.
ANSWER: God
18. Its name means “farthest land of the setting sun” in Arabic, and their currency is the dirham. This country’s largest city contains the Hassan II Mosque, built in 1993, the world’s third largest religious monument. Perhaps this country’s most famous geographic landmark is the Atlas Mountains. For 10 points, name this country that includes Tangier, Marrakesh, Rabat, and Casablanca.
ANSWER: Morocco
19. Several of his characters include the Tooth Fairy, a sumo wrestler, a pimp, a member of Osama's harem, a German dancer, and General Lee. His parent is a hermaphrodite who pampers and feeds him far too much for his own good. He lights his pet Kitty on fire after a certain flatulent incident involving an anal probe. His favorite foods include chocolate chicken pot pies and the ever popular cheesy poofs. For 10 points, name this rather pudgy star of Comedy Central's animated series South Park.
ANSWER: Eric Cartman
20. The leaders of this movement forbade polygamy, prostitution, and theuse of opium.
It wrested much of southern and Central China from the Ching dynasty, establishing their
capital at Nanjing. The head of this uprising, Hong Xiuquan, believed he was the brother
of Jesus, and decreed that land would be communally owned and farmed by the
peasantry. For 10 points, name this 1850-1864rebellion.
ANSWER: Taiping Rebellion
21. Notes on the origins of this poem can be found in Biographia Literaria, and one of its famous final lines is, “He prayeth well, who loveth well, / Both man and bird and beast.” The teller is saved by a Pilot and his son, after a series of strange, metaphysical encounters, and it was the author’s friend Wordsworth that suggested adding dead men boarding and steering the ship, and the fatal shooting of the albatross. For 10 points, name this poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
ANSWER: Rime of the Ancient Mariner
22) These stars’ spectra show lines for ionized and neutral helium, weak hydrogen lines,and not much else. Their temperature can be as high as 60,000 Kelvin, and they often appear blue. Examples of this rare class include Meissa, the star that forms Orion’s head. For 10 points, name the spectral class of stars ranked highest in terms of temperature and luminosity, that starts out the now infamous mnemonic.
ANSWER: O class
23. Born in 1875, he went on to be arguably one of the most influential American chemists ever. Working at MIT and Berkeley, he molded the latter’s Chemistry Department to his vision, allowing free exchange among students and emphasizing fundamentals. He pioneered the idea that electron pairs are shared between two atoms, something represented in one of his namesake diagrams. For 10 points, name this man, who also posited an acid-base theory based on accepting or donating electron pairs.
ANSWER: Gilbert Newton Lewis
REPEAT
24. This opera was first performed at La Scala in Milan in 1926. It begins as the Prince of Persia is being escorted to the execution block, having failed to ANSWER the title character’s three riddles. Another suitor of the title character, prince Calàf, correctly responds to the questions and poses the counterchallenge that he will kill himself if his identity is discovered by dawn. The slave girl Liù is the only one who knows Calàf’s identity, but she refuses to divulge his name and instead commits suicide. For 10 points, name this opera about a legendary princess of Peking, written by Giacomo Puccini.
ANSWER: Turandot
REPEAT
25. No Longer at Ease is often referred to as this novel’s sequel, and its title is taken from Yeats’ “The Second Coming”. The main character was initially famous for his wrestling prowess, including beating a man with the epithet “The Cat.” Trouble starts when that main character is involved in the ritual murder of his adopted son, earning this novel a comparison to the great Greek tragedies. For 10 points, Okonkwo is at the center of this novel by Chinua Achebe.
ANSWER: Things Fall Apart
[end of tossups]
Bonuses
1. A Tennessee schoolteacher was found guilty of teaching evolution in 1925. For 10 points per part:
[10] Name this part-time school teacher, the center of his eponymous “Monkey Trial.”
ANSWER: John T. Scopes
[5,5] For 5 points each, name the main lawyers for the prosecution and defense. One was a three-time presidential candidate, and the other a lawyer famous for defending Eugene Debs and Leopold and Loeb.
ANSWER: William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow
[10] This Baltimore Sun reporter and author of The American Language came out to cover the trial, but left before Darrow dramatically called Bryan to the stand.
ANSWER: H. L. Mencken
2. Name the painter from works for 10 points each.
[10] Madonna of the Meadows, School of Athens
ANSWER: Raphael
[10] The Oath of the Horatii, The Coronation of Napoleon
ANSWER: Jacques-Louis David
[10] Liberty Leading the People, The Women of Algiers
ANSWER: Eugene Delacroix
3. Give the authors of these works written in English with foreign titles.
[10] “La Belle Dame sans Merci”
ANSWER: John Keats
[10] “Dulce et Decorum est”
ANSWER: Wilfred Owen
[10] “Ars Poetica,” which includes the lines “A poem should not mean, but be”
ANSWER: Archibald MacLeish
4. Answer the following about regions of France for 10 points each.
[10] This section of France nearest to England was a favorite home of Gauguin, and includes historical cities like Nantes.
ANSWER: Brittany
[10] This region, often contested with Germany, is on the western edge of France, and includes the home of the European Parliament, Strasbourg.