Jaryd W. Gilts Memorial Tournament
Round 7 Tossups
Written by Steven Wellstead and Ike Jose
1. One of the first to hold this position was nicknamed “The Majik Man” and led Virginia to its first bowl win, 1984’s Peach Bowl. Its longest holder was Doug Pederson, and it has been held twice by BYU alumni: Jim McMahon and Ty Detmer. Marc Brunell and Matt Hasselbeck are the most (*) successful quarterbacks to have held this position, which was more recently filled by Brett Ratliff and Kellen Clemens. Occupied for three years by Aaron Rodgers after being drafted out of Cal, for 10 points, identify this position held last season by Sage Rosenfels and Tavarias Jackson after a certain Mississippi native decided, once again, against retirement.
ANSWER: backup quarterback to Brett Favre [generously accept equivalents; prompt on partial answers]
2. While walking in the woods, one character in this work finds a suitcase containing three books, one of which is Milton’s Paradise Lost. That character learns French by listening to members of the DeLacey family, and later frames Justine Moritz for the murder of a boy named William. Elizabeth (*) Lavenza and Henry Clerval are also killed by that man, who flees towards the North Pole to avoid the title character. The title character later dies in the care of ship captain Robert Walton, but not before telling the story of the “miserable monster” he gave life to. For 10 points, identify this work about the title doctor and his “demoniacal” creation, a novel by Mary Shelley.
ANSWER: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
3. Troops under Karl von Bulow arrived near the end of this battle with the intent to capture Plancenoit, while earlier William Ponsonby was killed leading his Union Brigade. The Lion’s Mound is found on the present day site of this battle, which saw the arrival of the Imperial Guard offset by reinforcements under Graf von Zieten. Although the (*) La Haye Sainte was taken by Michel Ney, it was recaptured by Allied forces shortly before victory was declared by Gebhard von Blucher and Arthur Wellesley. Putting an end to the Hundred Days period, for 10 points, identify this 1815 battle that saw victory for the Duke of Wellington over Napoleon.
ANSWER: Battle of Waterloo
4. In the foreground of this work one figure carries another within a mussle shell while several others around them hold large strawberries. Several winged creatures emerge from a small hole on its left side, which also features a lake whose center contains a large pink fountain. An arrow-pierced pair of (*) ears brandishing a dagger and a hollowed out torso supported by two tree trunks are found on its right side, whose background features buildings being destroyed by explosions of fire. The titular setting is featured in the center and flanked by depictions of the Garden of Eden and Hell. For 10 points, identify this 16th century triptych by Dutchman Hieronymus Bosch.
ANSWER: The Garden of Earthly Delights
5. One person in this work smiles and turns away when asked for happy news, and later another character reveals that the music at the sacred store won’t play. Another character, a jester, steals a thorny crown after singing for a royal couple in a coat borrowed from (*) James Dean. The singer describes himself as a “lonely teenage broncin’ buck” and near the end of this work notes that the “three men I admire most…caught the last train for the coast” before telling of characters that drink whiskey and rye and sing “this will be the day that I die.” For 10 points, identify this Don McLean song that commemorates “the day the music died.”
ANSWER: “American Pie”
6. In one of his works, Bengt Gauteson throws a party for the title event, while in another work Ella Rentheim feuds with the wife of the title embezzling banker. In another of his works, a kingdom is promised to Hilda Wangel, who earlier appeared in his The Lady by the Sea. This author of The Feast at Solhaug and (*) John Gabriel Borkman also wrote a play in which Oswald Althing contracts syphilis, another in which Dr. Stockmann discovers the contamination of his town’s baths, and another in which the title character encourages Ejlert Lovborg to commit suicide. For 10 points, identify this playwright of Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, and Hedda Gabbler.
ANSWER: Henrik Ibsen
7. The 1900 Robert Charles Riots occurred in one city of this polity, which was the site of the Coushatta Massacre and German Coast Uprising. Ceded in the 1762 Treaty of Fontainebleau, this polity changed hands with the signing of the Treaty of San Ildefonso three years before it was negotiated away by (*) Robert Livingston. The site of the assassination of (*) Senator Huey Long, this state gave rise to a Supreme Court case that stated “separate but equal” as well as a battle that saw Andrew Jackson stomp British forces two weeks after the signing of the Treaty of Ghent. For 10 points, identify this southern state that lent its name to an 1803 purchase.
ANSWER: Louisiana [accept “Louisiana Territory” before second power mark]
8. Information theory makes use of a form of this phenomenon named after Claude Shannon, and another form is equal to Boltzmann’s constant times the natural log of the number of microstates. It is multiplied with the temperature when calculating both Helmholtz’s and Gibb’s free energy, and it is the subject of the (*) third law of thermodynamics, which states that this quantity equals zero at absolute zero. Introduced by Rudolf Clausius, this phenomenon always increases according to the second law of thermodynamics. For 10 points, identify this quantity that is symbolized with a capital S and defined as the measure of a system’s disorder.
ANSWER: entropy
9. Minor characters include Cody Underwood, who lost his pinky while working on Driving Miss Daisy, and agent Rick Peck, who is obsessed with getting his client TiVo. Jeff Portnoy is addicted to heroin, which he calls his “jelly beans,” and rapper Alpa Chino continually markets his energy drink (*) “Booty Sweat.” Tugg Speedman gets captured and held for ransom by Flaming Dragon while playing the role of John “Four Leaf” Tayback, whose title Vietnam War memoirs provide the plot for the war film within this film. For 10 points, identify this film that got Robert Downey Jr. a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination, a 2008 comedy directed by and featuring Ben Stiller.
ANSWER: Tropic Thunder
10. This man wrote about Doc Sportello in Inherent Vice. “The Light Over the Ranges” and “Iceland Spar” are two sections of one novel by this author. He wrote about Richard Wharfinger and The Courier’s Tragedy in a novel which features a conspiracy between Thurn and Taxis and (*) Tristero. That book by this author features Oedipa Maas. In his most famous novel,Tyrone Slothrop seems to be targeted by V-2s. For 10 points, identify this author of Against the Day, The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity’s Rainbow.
ANSWER: Thomas Pynchon
11. Albert Mosse and Lorenz von Stein were special advisors during this period, whose beginnings included major battles at Toba-Fushima and Hakodate, the latter of which ended shortly after its leaders issued the Charter Oath. Resisted by Saigo Takamori in the Satsuma Rebellion, its namesake was victorious in conflicts ended by the Treaties of (*) Shimonoseki and Portsmouth. Beginning with the rise of Emperor Mutsuhito, this period included a namesake 1889 constitution and a capital change from Kyoto to Tokyo. For 10 points, identify this era of “enlightened rule,” a 45-year period of rapid modernization in Japan.
ANSWER: Meiji Period [or Meiji Restoration or Meiji Era or basically anything else with “Meiji” in it]
12. For a school in London, this composer used a “Fantasy on the Dargasson movement” to end one of his suites. Colin Matthews extended one of this composer’s works and dedicated it to his daughter Imogen. His operatic works include Savitri and At the Boar’s Head. This composer ended one of his works with a wordless woman’s chorus that fades out, and that work begins with a movement in (*) 5/4ths time. The composer of the St. Paul’s Suite, for 10 points, name this English composer who used the terms “mystic,” “magician,” “winged messenger” “bringer of jollity” and “bringer of war” to title some parts of his The Planets.
ANSWER: Gustav Holst
13. Information linking this game to its sequel can be found in early releases of Unlimited Saga, while an extended re-release of this game let’s you fight the hardest boss “Penance.” Among some of the enemies in this game are the Neslug, and the son of Jyscal who is fought four times, a resident of Guadosalam. Dodging 200 (*) lightning strikes to get one character’s ultimate weapon is notable in this game, whose protagonist wakes up on Besaid Island before learning his father’s Jecht shot to play in Blitzball. For 10 points, name this Playstation 2 game set in Spira and featuring Tidus and Yuna, an the 10th installment in a certain franchise of Square RPGs.
ANSWER: Final Fantasy X
14. The Drehet Language is spoken on Manus Island, a holding of this nation, whose second largest city lies on Huon Gulf. That city, Lae, sits in the Morobe Province of this nation, whose southern plain is named after the Digul and Fly Rivers that flow through it. Bismarck Range is home to its highest point, Mount (*) Wilhelm, and its longest river is the Sepik (SEE – pick), which briefly flows west of the 141st east meridian line separating this country from its western neighbor, Irian Jaya. With capital at Port Moresby, for 10 points, identify this South Pacific country that occupies the eastern half of the namesake, second largest island in the world.
ANSWER: Independent State of Papua New Guinea [do not accept or prompt on “New Guinea”]
15. This poem imagines a “gaze blank and pitiless as the sun” and “twenty centuries of stony sleep.” Like The Wasteland this poem was published in The Dial in 1921. Joan Didion’s essay work “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” takes its name from this work, which at another point states “the (*) ceremony of innocence is drowned.” Beginning by mentioning “turning and turning the widening gyre,” this poem asserts “the best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” It more famously states “Things fall apart / the centre cannot hold.” For 10 points, name this poem about the apocalypse by William Butler Yeats.
ANSWER: The Second Coming
16. He ordered the deconstruction and shipment of the Statue of Zeus from Olympia to Rome according to Suetonius, who also claimed that this figure killed his grandmother Antonia, Praetorian prefect Macro, and co-heir Gemellus. Holding only the position of quaestor before becoming emperor, this man was killed by (*) Cassius Chaerea along with his fourth wife Caesonia. Given a nickname meaning “little boot” by troops of his father, Germanicus, this ruler allegedly tried to make Incitatus, his horse, a consul. Known primarily for his cruelty and insanity, for 10 points, name this Roman emperor who ruled for only four years after succeeding Tiberius in 37.
ANSWER: Caligula [or Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus]
17. This actor voiced the skunk Reeko in the third film of the Stuart Little trilogy, Call of the Wild, and he also played Louis, the younger brother of Julius Rock, on the CW show Everybody Hates Chris. Another role saw him play James Stinson, the gay brother of Barney in (*) How I Met Your Mother. In a skit from another TV show, this man is said to be loved by white people because he makes Brian Gumble look like Malcolm X. Earlier in that same skit he receives $100 from a prostitute, then asks if he’s “gonna have to choke” her. For 10 points, identify this host of Don’t Forget the Lyrics! who grew to prominence as a regular cast member of Who’s Line Is It Anyway?
ANSWER: Wayne Alphonso Brady
18. As this work begins, Mary Maloney sits sewing in her living room while awaiting her husband’s return from work. Mary later visits a grocery employee named Sam, and upon returning to her home she calls the police after finding her (*) husband dead. This work ends with Mary laughing at a comment that an officer makes while eating the piece of meat she insisted that several policemen have for dinner. For 10 points, identify this short story by Roald Dahl in which a woman kills her husband with a frozen leg of the titular animal before feeding it to the investigating officers.
ANSWER: “Lamb to the Slaughter”
19. Leading attorneys in this case included Montgomery Blair and sitting Senator Henry Geyer, and it was followed shortly by the resignation of Benjamin Curtis. Precedents set in Winny v. Whitesides and Rachel v. Walker were used by the plaintiff, whose time with John (*) Emerson at Forts Armstrong and Snelling formed the basis of his case. Declaring the unconstitutionality of the Missouri Compromise, it was decided upon two days after President Buchanan’s inauguration. For 10 points, identify this 1857 Supreme Court case which saw Roger Taney declare that the plaintiff could never be a US citizen as a slave.
ANSWER: Dred Scott v. John F.A. Sandford [accept in either order]
20. Gardiners and Napeague Bays are found off the eastern side of this island, whose southern shores are home to Fire Island National Seashores. Bordered to the east by the Block Island Sound, it includes Suffolk and Nassau Counties and is home to Gateway National Recreational Area and (*) Flushing Meadows, the site of the 1939 and 1964 World’s Fairs. Bordered to the north by a namesake sound found on the shores of Stamford and New Haven, this island is the eastern terminus of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, which connects it to Staten Island. For 10 points, identify this New York island home to the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn.