Gonzaga Tournament
Game 1
Toss-Ups:
1. Wyoming senator John B. Kendrick introduced the bill that lead to the discovery of this affair. One outcome of it was the court case McGrain v. Daugherty, which created Congress’s right to compel testimony. Thomas J. Walsh became a national hero after uncovering the piece of damning evidence in this case, a $100,000 loan from Edward Doheny. Elk Hills and Buena Vista Hills in California were other sites in this scandal where Harry Sinclair and his company Mammoth Oil, leased the rights to oil fields without competitive bidding. FTP name this scandal during Harding’s presidency in which Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall illegally leased oil fields.
Answer: Teapot Dome Scandal
2. In this novel Homais, the town chemist, and Charles work to cure a boy of clubfoot, but their experiments end up leading to the boy contracting gangrene and having his leg amputated. Charles meets the title character during a bedside doctor’s call to heal a farmer’s broken leg. The title character first falls in love with the law clerk Leon Dupuis and then Rodolphe Boulanger, a rich bachelor, who wants her only to satisfy his sexual cravings. FTP, name this novel where the title character becomes dissatisfied with her life by reading romance novels and eventually kills herself with arsenic, written by Gustave Flaubert.
Answer: Madame Bovary
3. This man’s song cycle Cypress Trees was written to express his despair over one of his pupils, who he was in love with, who was marrying another man. This man’s first symphony subtitled The Bells of Zlonice was named after a town in his home country. His last work, Cello Concerto in B minor, was written for the cellist Hanus Wihan and he achieved great success with works like Scherzo Capriccioso, Gypsy Songs, and his Stabat Mater. However he is best known for combining Spirituals and folk music with classical music as seen in works such as the Slavonic Dances. FTP, name this Czech composer best known for his Symphony From the New World.
Answer: Antonin Dvorak
4. Many attribute it to geographical changes such as the breakup of Rodinia and the drastic climate changes, such as glaciations. Some believe it was caused by the rising levels of photosynthetic atmospheric oxygen, while others hold that it was caused by an increase in atmospheric oxygen, which would have changed the global weathering patterns. FTP, name this event that took place approximately 530 million years ago, which was responsible for a huge number of diverse species suddenly appearing at the beginning of the Paleozoic Era.
Answer: Cambrian Explosion
5. He killed the giant Beli with an antler after he was forced to give up his magical sword to marry his wife the Giantess Geror. This son of Njord was given Alfhemir, the realm of the elves, as a teething present. He is the first god to die at Ragnorak being slain by the fire giant Surtr, and he rode the metal boar named Gullinbustri, built by the dwarves Brokk and Eitri, to Baldur’s funeral. Loki gave him his ship, Skithblathnir as reparation for his theft of Sif’s hair. FTP, name this Norse god of Rain, Sun, and the Harvest who is the twin brother of Freya.
Answer: Frey or Freyr
6. This writer was accidentally blinded in one eye when her brother shot her with a BB gun. The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult chronicles this writer’s struggle with Lyme disease, and her poetry collections includes Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems, Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful, and Once. Her first novel was The Third Life of Grange Copeland and her short stories include Everyday Use and Kindred Spirits, forwhichshe won an O HENRY award. Name this African-Americanwriter best known for The Temple of My Familiar and The Color Purple.
Answer: Alice Walker
7. Its mistreatment of the Mawali clan lead to numerous uprisings such as the Great Berber Revolt which ultimately lead to its downfall. At its height it ruled from The Iberian Peninsula to Pakistan. Its founder Muawiyah I practiced a policy of religious tolerance towards Christians and created diwans to help govern the empire. Its expansion was stopped by Charles Martel and the Franks at the Battle of Tours and it was overthrown by the Abbasids. Name this first of the great Sunni Muslim dynasties, which had its capital at Damascus.
Answer:Umayyad Dynasty
8. This man’s sister was married to the Nobel Prize winning physiologist Archibald Hill. He attacked deflation polices in A Tract on Monetary Reform and his Treatise on Money offered a theory of the credit cycle. He argued for greater taxation and against deficient spending in his work How to Pay for the War and he was heavily involved in the World Bank and the establishment of the Bretton Woods System. His career got a major break through when he was appointed the financial representative for the Treasury to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. FTP name this British economist who is best known for his The Economic Consequences of the Peace and The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money.
Answer: John Maynard Keynes
9. It was applied in economics by Paul Samelson in regards to constraints on maximizing behavior. The Van’t Hoff principal is the best replacement for this law, which suffers from numerous exceptions. First defined in 1888, it states that a system at equilibrium will shift the equilibrium when it experiences a change in temperature, total pressure, or concentration to reduce the effects of that change on the system. FTP, name this principle named after a French chemist?
Answer: Le Chatelier’s Principle
10. The seventeenth one describes a Dionysius metamorphosis story and goes on to describe Venice as a stone forest growing out of the water. The second one describes four different sides of troubadour poet Sordello. Common motifs in it include the Renaissance, the Eleusinian Mysteries, and the corruption of the banking world. It originally began with a direct address to Robert Browning’s ghost, but was rewritten to start with the a re-working of the episode in The Odyssey when Odysseus goes into the Underworld. It initially was a very controversial work due to the author’s support of Mussolini. FTP name this unfinished poem in 120 sections were completed, written by Ezra Pound.
Answer: The Cantos
11. A graduate of McGill University, this man starred in the horror film Incubus, which featured all dialogue spoken in Esperanto. His music career began in 1968 with his first album, The Transformed Man, and he returned in 2004 with Has Been, which featured a cover of “Common People” by the Brit-pop band Pulp. His television career includes guest appearances on Third Rock from the Sun, a stint as the host of Rescue 911, and starring roles in T.J. Hooker and Boston Legal. Who is this Canadian actor best known for his television and film portrayals of Captain Kirk on Star Trek?
Answer: William Shatner
12. A terrorist bombing by the Provisional IRA in 1973 lead to this becoming the Ministry of Defence Library. Founded by Robert Peele with Francois-Eugene Vidocq, it opened in 1829. Its address was at number 4 Whitehall, but the view from the back of the building gave it its name and in 1890 it was moved to a new site overlooking the River Thames. Its crime database is nicknamed HOLMES and it’s the home of the Metropolitan Police Force. FTP; name this building, whose occupants are charged with policing the Greater London area.
Answer:New Scotland Yard (accept The Yard)
13. He was renown for his atheism and an anecdote surrounding him said he once fell off his horse into a mud pit and that an old women passing by, would not help him out until he declared his love for God. His History of Great Britain was a best seller and his Of Superstition and Religion set the foundation for secular thought on the history of religion. He claimed that he “attempt[ed] to introduce the experimental method of reasoning into moral subjects,” in his Treatise on Human Nature and he distinguished from “impressions” and “ideas” in his most famous work. FTP, name this Scottish philosopher best known for An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.
Answer: David Hume
14. This writer’s reception of 1922 Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours ignited a controversy as many felt that Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt was more deserving and that this writer had stolen some of plot of the novel from the film Birth of a Nation. Born in Back Creek Valley, Virginia this writer published her first book April Twilights, her only volume of poetry in 1903. She showed her dissatisfaction with modern society in the novels Lucy Gayheart and Lost Lady. She set many of her novels in Nebraska including O, Pioneers. Name this author of Death Comes for the Archbishop and My Antonia.
Answer: Willa Cather
15. There are three major subsets of these: all of which are based upon the number of carbons bonded to the C-OH carbon group. The functional group of these is the hydroxyl group bonded to an sp3 hybridized carbon. It can be classified as a derivative of water, with an alkyl group replacing one of the hydrogens. The simplest secondary one is isopropanol, and the simplest primary one is methanol. FTP, name these organic compounds in which a hydroxyl group is bonded to a carbon atom of an alkyl.
Answer: Alcohols
16. In the background you can see the artist himself wearing a bowler hat standing next to his cousin. In the foreground half of a woman’s face is visible staring at us under a heavy mask of white make-up. Numerous mirrors reflect the hazy scene accentuating the indistinctness of the room. The famous diva La Goulue can be seen adjusting her hair in the background and three men and two women are seen drinking absinthe in the foreground. Name this painting depicting Parisian nightlife by Toulouse-Lautrec.
Answer: At the Moulin Rouge
17. The nineteenth largest country in the world, among it early tribes are the Xionghu and Donghu. Its highest point is Nayramadlin Orgil, and its largest lake is the Uvs Nuur Lake. Its current president is Nambaryn Enkhbayar, who settled the country’s debt with the former Soviet Union. It reached its pinnacle when it was the largest contiguous land empire in world history under Genghis Khan. FTP, name this country which is the home of the Gobi desert and which has it capital at Ulaanbaatar.
Answer: Mongolia
18. During the War of 1812 this man was captured during the Battle of Queenstown Heights, but was released in a prisoner exchange. In the Mexican American War he landed at Veracruz and took the exact route Hernan Cortez to attack Mexico City. He was the first general since George Washington to gain the rank of lieutenant general and during his brief stint in command during the Civil War he helped form the Anaconda Plan. FTP Name this general who lost to Franklin Pierce in the election of 1852 and who was nicknamed “Old Fuss and Feathers.”
Answer: Winfield Scott
19. It was inspired by the party game called the Imitation Game. Objections to it were made by Ada Lovelace, who said that it discounted the importance of originality and the ability to learn independently. In it a judge asks various questions that are answers by two sources: one human and one computer and then the judge tries to determine which answer was given from the computer. FTP, name this test developed by a famous English mathematician to assess the “thinking” ability of computers?
Answer: Turing Test
20. This author worked in British Intelligence during the Russian Revolution, which served as the basis of his novel Ashenden. He was sent to live in England with uncle, the vicar of Whitstable, when he was orphaned at the age of ten.He trained to be a doctor at St. Thomas’ medical school, but turned to writing after the success of his first novel Liza of Lambeth. He satirized London’s literary circles in his novel Cakes and Ales and based the protagonist of The Moon and Sixpence on Paul Gauguin. Name this British author of The Razor’s Edge and the exploits of Phillip Carey in Of Human Bondage.
Answer:W. SomersetMaugham
Gonzaga Tournament
Game 1
Bonuses:
1) FTPE, Name these works of Edith Wharton.
1. The title character of this novel, set in the fictional town of Starkfield, cheats on his wife Zenobia by having an affair with her cousin Mattie.
Answer: Ethan Frome
2. This novel centers on the attempts of New York socialite Lily Bart to get a husband and the title comes from Ecclesiastes 7:4.
Answer: House of Mirth
3. Ellen Olenska tempts Newland Archer in this novel, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921.
Answer: The Age of Innocence
2) FTPE, Identify the type of magnetism being described.
1.It is the tendency of the atomic magnetic dipoles to align with an external magnetic field. Its magnetization is determined by Curie's Law.
Answer:Paramagnetism
2. It is the product of changes in the orbital of electrons due to the influence of an externally applied magnetic field. It was discovered in 1778 when an experiment found that Bismuth and Antimony were repelled by magnetic fields.
Answer:Diamagnetism
3. This is the most frequently encountered form of magnetism, examples of which include refrigerator door magnets. Some elements that exhibit it are Cobalt, Nickel, and Iron.
Answer:Ferromagnetism
3) FTPE, Name these things about the Ballet Russes.
1. This man, the founder of the Ballet Russes, commissioned many great ballets including Stravinsky’s Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite of Spring and Debussy’s Jeux.
Answer: Sergei Diaghilev
2. The company included this Polish-born male dancer, who is legendary for his leaping ability and who choreographed the premiere of The Rite of Spring.
Answer: Vaslav Nijinsky
3. The Ballet Russes commissioned this ballet by Maurice Ravel, based on a novel by the Greek writer Longus, about the two title characters that are abandoned at birth and are found and raised by shepherds and the love affair that ensues between them.
Answer: Daphnis and Chloe
4) FTPE, Name the following things about the controversy surrounding the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
1. This Illinois senator who was a proponent of popular sovereignty proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Answer: Stephen A. Douglas
2. This proposed constitution supported slavery and slave-owners in Kansas and was advocated by James Buchanan before it was rejected by Kansas in a statewide vote.
Answer: Lecompton Constitution
3. John Brown killed five pro-slavery settlers in response to the Sacking of Lawrence in this gory episode, which was part of the greater bloodshed over the controversy surrounding the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Answer: Pottawatomie Massacre
5) FTPE, Answer these questions about a psychologist and his work.
1. This Swiss psychologist is famous for his work with children and his theory of cognitive development.
Answer: Jean Piaget
2. According to Piaget this is the first stage of development that lasts for the first two years of a baby’s life and includes the development of reflexes, habits, logic, and the beginnings of creativity.
Answer: sensorimotor
3. This is last stage of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development begins at puberty and comprises the beginnings of abstract thinking and the ability to draw conclusions.
Answer: Formal Operational
6) FTPE, Name the following writers from South Africa.
1. This writer won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature and is best known for The Life and Times of Michael K and Disgrace.
Answer: J.M. Coetzee
2. This writer, married to the famous art dealer Reinhold Cassirer, won the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature and has written many novels including The Conservationist and Burger’s Daughter.
Answer: Nadine Gordimer (Note to Father: There is no “the” in front of Burger and Burger is spelled correctly)
3. This dramatist’s anti-apartheid message is illustrated in
such works as Master Harold...and the Boys and My Children, My Africa brought him into conflict with South African government.
Answer: Athol Fugard
7) FTPE, Identify the measurements being described.
1. The number of moles of a given substance per kilogram of solvent.
Answer:Molality
2. The number of moles of a given substance per liter of solution.
Answer:Molarity
3. The number of moles of a given substance per kilogram of solution.
Answer:Molinity
8) FTPE, Name these sects of Buddhism.
1. This conservative sect is the longest surviving faction of Buddhism and its name literally means “The Way of the Elders.” The highest goal of the sect is to achieve Nibbana through study and meditation.