UMR Fall Tournament – December 1, 2007
Round Six - Tossups
1. Practitioners of this faith follow a strict diet known as Ital. This movement takes its name from the Ethiopian title equivalent to a duke, the pre-coronation title of (*) Haile (hi-lee) Selassie. However, to most people, this movement is best known for ritual smoking of marijuana, and a strong presence in Jamaica, despite being primarily based in Africa. For ten points, name this religion which first gained prominence through reggae musicians such as Bob Marley.
Rastafarianism
2. One poem by this author is about a painting by Pieter Brueghel. That poem, “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus,” helped him win the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Other poems include one that asks forgiveness for eating the plums that were in the icebox, called (*)“This is Just to Say,” and another in which the title object is “glazed with rain/water/beside the white/chickens” and “so much depends/upon” it. FTP, name this author of “The Red Wheelbarrow.”
William Carlos Williams
3. Only a quarter of the German forces saw action at this battle opposed to the 70% of French forces due to the rotation of troops proposed by Field Marshall Philippe Petain. This battle began with a (*)nine hour artillery bombardment firing over 1 million shells and the first use of flamethrowers by Germany troops. FTP, name this longest lasting battle of World War I spanning 10 months fought around the town that lent the battle its name.
Battle of Verdun
4. Also known as the Al-Kashi law, Euclid first wrote it out as Propositions 12 and 13, one for obtuse and one for acute. Used to calculate the angles of a (*)triangle, or the third side of a triangle given two sides and an angle, FTP, what is this mathematical identity, a modification of Pythagoras’s Theorem?
Law of Cosines
5. One work of this artist depicts a girl in a white dress watching a woman in black play the title instrument and is titled At the Piano. Other well known works include Symphony in White, No.1: The White Girl and (*)Nocturne in Black and Gold, but he is best known for an "Arrangement in Gray and Black." For ten points, name this artist, whose "arrangement" was actually a portrait of his mother.
James McNeill Whistler
6. Bill is planning on painting his baby’s bedroom and wants to know how much paint he should buy for two coats on the walls and ceiling. The room measures 6 feet by 8 feet with a 10 foot high ceiling. There is a door 3 feet by 8 feet on one wall and a window 2.5 feet by 4 feet on another wall. If each can of paint can cover 150 square feet, FTP, how many cans of paint will Bill have to (*)buy?
4
7. One of them is best known for two wars against Dacia. Another of them wrote a work of stoic philosophy entitled "Meditations." Yet another ordered the construction of a namesake (*)wall in Britain. Niccolo Machiavelli coined, FTP, what term which describes Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius, who led Rome from 96 to 180 AD?
Five Good Emperors
8. A song by this name claims that the title character's "mind is not for rent" and refers to him as a "modern day warrior." A 2003 film portrays him as a secret service agent played by Shane West. In addition to the song by Rush and the movie The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, this character claimed that the first two disciples were (*)David and Goliath, witnessed the murder of Dr. Robinson, and showed the innocence of Muff Potter by testifying against Injun Joe. FTP name this character, the title character of a Mark Twain novel.
Tom Sawyer
9. Until recently it was commonly harvested from pigs for human injection; now, it is synthesized within bacteria. Secreted into the duodenum by the (*)pancreas, this hormone is responsible for signaling cells to take in and store glucose. FTP, name this hormone that must be injected by type 1 diabetics as their beta cells are destroyed by the immune system.
Insulin
10. One scene in it involves a potted basil which thrives by being watered by Isabella’s tears, and is featured in the story “Filomeno’s Tale of the Pot of Basil.” The premise for this collection is that seven girls and three men flee a (*)plague in Florence, setting up a villa and each telling a story a day for ten days. This constitutes the one hundred stories in, FTP, what collection by Giovanni Boccaccio?
The Decameron
11. A member of the US House of Representatives from New York between 1979 and 1985, this politician took a trip to talk to the contras in Nicaragua and butted heads once again with Reagan and Bush in 1984. The running-mate of (*)Walter Mondale, FTP, name this first female vice-presidential candidate.
Geraldine Ferraro
12. Short stories by this author include one in which a nameless lieutenant is shot in the arm while serving coffee and must have it amputated, An Episode of War, and one inspired by the author’s being shipwrecked en route to Cuba, The Open Boat. His better-known works include (*)Maggie, A Girl of the Streets and a Civil War novel in which Jim Conklin’s death inspires Henry Fleming to face his fears and fight. For ten points, name this author of The Red Badge of Courage.
Stephen Crane
13. A natural constituent of crude oil that serves as a precursor in the production of drugs, plastics, and synthetic rubber, this compound is an important industrial solvent. Replacing a hydrogen atom with an amine molecule or a methane molecule produces (*) aniline and toluene respectively. FTP, name this aromatic hydrocarbon with formula C6H6.
Benzene
14. The Colonial Army’s victory was due in part to General William Howe’s decision to take Philadelphia rather than support General Burgoyne. A combination of two smaller battles, the Battle of Freeman’s Farm and the Battle of (*)BemisHeights, this American victory secured against further British invasion from Canada and prevented the isolation of New England. FTP name this decisive Revolutionary War battle where Horatio Gates and Benedict Arnold captured an entire British Army.
Battle of Saratoga
15. This alum of St. Michaels University School in Victoria, British Columbia had his number 11 jersey retired at Santa Clara University, where he led his team to an NCAA tournament upset over second-seeded Arizona his freshman year. This point guard played for (*)Dallas between 1998 and 2004, and won MVP honors in 2005 and 2006 while playing alongside Amare Stoudamire (uh-MAH-ree STAW-duh-my-ur) and Shawn Marion. FTP name this point guard for the Phoenix Suns.
Steve Nash
16. This author wrote a historical play about the Roman emperor Caligula, and short stories such as “The Growing Stone” and “The Adulterous Woman” are included in his collection “Exile and the Kingdom.” One of his novels is the story of the murderer Meursault (mur-so) and is entitled (*)The Stranger, an example of his absurdist works. He may be best known for a novel about Dr. Bernard Rieux (ree-OH), whose many patients have contracted the titular disease. FTP, name this Algerian-born French author of The Plague.
Albert Camus (cah-MOO)
17. The previous one, in 1988, lasted 22 weeks and cost an estimated $500 million. Primary issues include residuals for DVD sales, new media like podcasts, and jurisdiction in reality and animation. It has also been reported that in a show of support David (*) Letterman is paying his entire staff through the end of the year. FTP name this event that began on November 5th, which has halted the production of the majority of currently airing television shows.
2007 Writers Guild of America strike(or similar, but both underlined parts are needed)
18. The DevilMountainLakes located on the northern portion of this peninsula are the largest maar lakes in the world. This peninsula is located between the ChukchiSea, the Norton Sound, and the (*)Bering Strait. FTP, name this large peninsula on the western coast of Alaska, named after the man who purchased Alaska.
Seward Peninsula
19. Believed to have formed through the symbiosis of one bacterium within another, its parts contain (*)cristae, matrix, and proton pumps. Name this organelle found in both plant and animal cells that is, FTP, responsible for ATP production – the cell’s “power house.”
Mitochondria
20. His composition call for large orchestras, some more than 1000, and small ones as is evident by his 50 solos. He was also an avid literary master with his Treatise on Instrumentation. FTP, name the French Romantic who composed The Childhood of Christ, (*)Harold in Italy, and the Symphonie Fantastique.
Hector Berlioz
21. Using a known electric field produced by two parallel plates with a large potential difference and balancing the gravitational and electric forces on a liquid substance, the (*)charge of that substance could be determined assuming no mass is lost due to vaporization. FTP name the experiment conducted by Harvey Fletcher and Robert Milikan to determine the charge of an electron.
Oil Drop Experiment
22. Winners include Danielle Evans, CariDee English and Yoanna House. Most episodes cover a week of real time, or three to four days when on location overseas, and begin with training followed by a related challenge, a (*)photo shoot and judging. FTP name this CW reality show hosted by Tyra Banks.
America’s Next Top Model