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Answer: Paul EHRLICH

16. Identify the philosopher from a famous work FTP

each.

a) The Social Contract

Answer: Jean Jacques ROUSSEAU

b) The Spirit of Laws

Answer: Baron Charles-Louis de Secondat

MONTESQUIEU

c) Being and Time

Answer: Martin HEIDEGGER

17. This year Barry Bonds became the only member

of baseballs 400 home run, 400 stolen base club. He had already been only one of

4 men in the 300-300 club. FTP each identify the other 3.

Answers: Willie MAYS , Bobby BONDS , Andre

DAWSON

18. Answer these questions about U.S. trade policy

for the stated number of points.

a) FTP, it is essentially a guarantee of

establishing equality of trading opportunity among states by making originally

bilateral agreements multilateral. In the past China, Iraq, and South Africa

have had it revoked.

Answer: M ost F avored N ation treatment or

status

b) For 5 points each, what are the two forms of

most-favored-nation treatment?

Answer: Conditional and Unconditional

c) One of the main principles in this 1948 pact

was that under the unconditional status, any tariff concession granted to a

third party is granted to the contracting party.

Answer: G eneral A greement on T ariffs and

T rade

19. Given a country identify its capital FTP

each.

a) Sierra Leone\ \ Answer: Freetown

b) Uruguay\ \ \ Answer: Montevideo

c) Rwanda\ \ \ Answer: Kigali

21. Identify the scientists FTP each

a) This man discovered the planet of Uranus and its

first two moons, Titania and Oberon.

Answer: Sir William Herschel

b) He discovered both the kaleidoscope and

stereoscope, and his namesake law states that a refracted light beam will be

completely polarized when it is at a right angle to the refracted beam.

Answer: David Brewster

c) He first measured the distance of a star using

parallax and also discovered Sirius.

Answer: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
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Tossups by Michigan

1. His life as a middle-class advertising agent is

a far cry from the heroic, and his decade-long sexual estrangement from his wife

and her infidelity are sources of ridicule by his fellow Dubliners. FTP, name

this character of Jewish extraction, a creation of James Joyce, husband of

Molly and brief guardian of Stephen Dedalus.

Answer: Leopold BLOOM

2. In 1826, the first Caucasian to visit the city,

Major A.G. Laing of Britain, was killed by local tribes, leading Frenchman Rene

Caillie to visit it in disguise several years later. Founded around 1100 as a

seasonal encampment for Tuareg nomads, this citys slow rise as a commercial center accelerated under

Mansa Musa\'d5s efforts to make it a center of sub-Saharan Islamic study. FTP,

name this West African city, located near the Niger River in Mali.

Answer: TIMBUKTU (or TOMBOUCTOU )

3. Wolfgang Pauli first posited its existence in

1931 as an explanation for the apparent loss of energy and momentum following

beta decay, while Enrico Fermi more fully developed the theory and gave it its

name. Classified as a lepton, three types of this particle have been found to

exist since the first was discovered in 1959 by

Cowan and Reines; in 1998, it was finally shown that it has mass. FTP, identify

this sub-atomic particle.

Answer: the NEUTRINO

4. An ad run against him featured three models

wearing skimpy clothing and giving the thumbs down sign beneath the slogan Three

women cant be wrong! This, of course, mocked the morals of this three-time

divorced, 54-year-old premier of Lower Saxony. FTP, name this man who defeated Oskar Lafontaine for the

Social Democratic Partys nod for chancellor and just carried his party to

victory over the Christian Democrats.

Answer: Gerhard SCHROEDER (GAIR-hart

SHR-der)

5. She was an influential supporter of the early

troubadours, but her tempestuous marriage to Henry II was of more importance.

Supporting her son in a rebellion against Henry, she was imprisoned before

Richard I won her release. FTP, name this woman-- both the wife and the mother of two kings, whose claim to a

French province fueled Anglo-French rivalry throughout the Middle Ages.

Answer: ELEANOR of Aquitaine

6. Filmed in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, the

oversized set of this television program requires four-foot-tall plastic flowers

and a breed of sheep-sized rabbits produced specifically for the show. Filming

can only proceed in bursts of ten minutes at a time, as the actors pass out if sealed in their suits any

longer. FTP, identify this show, the BBC\'d5s entry into the six-months to

two-years old TV audience.

Answer: the TELETUBBIES

7. The concept was used for the first time by

Tertullian, who articulated the idea to criticize Christianity as absurd, but it

took 1600 years to develop a pithy name for it. Soren Kierkegard coined the term

in his Concluding Unscientific Postscript in an attempt to describe mans

willingness to commit to an unprovable concept like

God. FTP, identify this term, formulated as an acceptance of Christianity with

complete knowledge and acceptance of its unprovability, which is also the title

of a recent Steve Martin film.

Answer: LEAP OF FAITH

8. He lived a mostly reclusive life, rarely

associating with the artists with whom he would be categorized. While he

displayed some tendencies associated with the Impressionists, his emphasis of

mass over light and his belief that geometry was the essential ingredient of art differentiated him from that group.

FTP, identify this painter, creator of House of the Hanged Man, Mont Sainte

Victoire , and The Card Players , as well as many still lifes.

Answer: Paul CEZANNE

9. These astronomical features are visible to the

naked eye in the Southern Hemisphere, while their existence could not be noted

in the north until the sixteenth century. Approximately 150,000 light years

from the sun, the larger is located in the Dorado constellation while the smaller

is in Tucana. FTP, identify these two irregular

galaxies, named for the leader of the first successful attempt to circumnavigate

the globe.

Answer: the MAGELLANIC CLOUDS

10. This poet pursued a personal variety of poetry

and wrote of intensely human acts and emotions, shunning the more conventional

epic style of the day. An innovator in verse form and content, she did some of

her writing in Sicily where she was apparently exiled for a time, but most of her work was written in

Mytilene on the island of Lesbos. FTP, name this classical poetess who helped

create the genre of lyric poetry.

Answer: SAPPHO

11. The Celtic sea god Manannan is his likely

precursor, although his relevance in literature is due to his role in Christian

Grail mythology. A wound by the spear of Longinus results in the loss of his

virility, a condition that is reflected in the famine throughout his kingdom, and provides an example of

symbolism for Eliots The Wasteland . FTP, name this regal protector of the

Holy Grail.

Answer: the FISHER KING

12. Its sacred book, the Adi Granth, was compiled

by Arjun, the fifth guru, whose execution helped transform the religion from a

pacifist sect to a militant one. This transformation was complete by the time

of the tenth and final guru, Gobind Singh, the successor of the religions

founder, Guru Nanak. FTP, name this religion of

the Indian subcontinent, an amalgamation of Islam and Hinduism.

Answer: SIKHISM

13. His political career in a shambles, this man,

assisted by the governor of the Louisiana Territory led an armed expedition down

the Ohio River with the ostensible aim of conquering Mexico. In Washington,

rumors spread that he planned to carve out his own kingdom from the American Southwest, and he was soon

tried for treason. FTP, name this Vice President of the United States, most

famous for killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel.

Answer: Aaron BURR

14. This dramatist sought to create an epic

theatre by using non-standard techniques to alienate the audience from his

plays, thus giving spectators a chance to see the ideological underpinnings of

his work. A committed Marxist, in his final years he directed the Berliner Ensemble with support

from the East German government. FTP, identify

this dramatist, whose works include The Life of Galileo and with Kurt Weill

The Threepenny Opera .

Answer: Bertolt BRECHT

15. Substances of this family of amines are

generally basic and are most often found in the seeds, leaves, and bark of

plants. These heterocyclic compounds are noted for their diverse and powerful

physiological effects on animals, and their uses range from analgesics to psychedelics to

poisons. FTP, name this type of organic compound,

of which morphine, nicotine, quinine, and cocaine are all members.

Answer: ALKALOIDS

16. The occurrence of this type of word is rare in

English, with cleave and sanction the best known examples. Often arising from

the convergence of two distinct words, these words bear contradictory senses

and their meaning must be determined by context in each particular case. FTP, identify this linguistic

oddity whose name is derived from a two-faced Roman god.

Answer: JANUS WORDS

17. This theory of motivation claims that the

process of reaching self-actualization must be done in a manner in which the

more basic human needs are met first, with the need for food, shelter, and

safety shared by all people. Not until the lower needs have been satisfied can the higher

needs, like feelings of belonging and self-esteem,

become factors which influence behavior. FTP, identify this psychological

concept formulated by Abraham Maslow.

Answer: HIERARCHY OF NEEDS

18. After spending his formative years on the

Great Plains, he pursued his education at Wisconsin and later Johns Hopkins,

where he studied the popular germ thesis about the development of American

culture. He would reject this theory, however, and in 1893 delivered a paper which

drastically changed historiography and implicitly

supported the notion of manifest destiny. FTP, name this historian, the author

of The Significance of the Frontier in American History .

Answer: Frederick Jackson TURNER

19. Its first act is entitled \'d2Men and

Maggots\'d3 and opens with a highly symbolic shot of waves crashing over a

harbor jetty. One sailors call for a mutiny is quashed, but the firing squad

refuses to shoot its fellow sailors and the crew rises up to kill all the officers and clergy aboard. Soon the sailors are

welcomed by the people of Odessa, whose massacre by tsarist Cossacks is the

centerpiece of the film. FTP, identify this early film by Russian director

Sergei Eisenstein.

Answer: The BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN

20. Amid much fanfare it was climbed for the first

time on July 4, 1893, with the aid of a 350-foot ladder and a rather mysterious

flagpole that had managed to find its way atop the summit. Native American myth

about this geographical landmark links its creation to that of the Pleiades asterism, while a

geographical survey determined that it was once the core of a volcano. FTP,

name this 365-foot Wyoming landmark, the nations first national monument despite

its satanic sounding name.

Answer: DEVILS TOWER

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Bonus questions by Michigan

1. Answer the following questions about Buddhism

for FTPE:

a) Attainment of nirvana can only be reached by

following this code for righteous living.

Answer: the EIGHTFOLD PATH [DNA the 8-fold way, a

physics term]

b) The most important scripture of East Asian

Buddhism, this text establishes much of the religions tolerance of other

religious values.

Answer: the LOTUS SUTRA

c) From the Sanskrit for being of wisdom, this

term denotes one who has attained enlightenment but delays entry into nirvana to

help others attain the same status.

Answer: BODDHISATTVA

2. Identify the following figures associated with

the exploration of North America, 5-10-15.

For 5: While searching for gold in the American

Southeast, this Spaniard reached the banks of the Mississippi, where he died and

was buried.

Answer: Hernando DE SOTO

For 10: This Scottish fur trader was the first

European to cross the continent, and also discovered major Canadian rivers and

lakes including the river that now takes his name.

Answer: Alexander MACKENZIE

For 15: After failing to find the source of the

Mississippi, he explored the Red and Arkansas rivers and was influential in

advocating American expansion into Texas and New Mexico, which he also helped

explore.

Answer: Zebulon PIKE

3. Answer the following about a famous

paleontologist, 5-10-15.

For 5: In 1988, this Harvard paleontologist and

geologist, best known for co-formulating the theory of punctuated equilibrium,

published the influential book Wonderful Life .

Answer: Stephen Jay GOULD

For 10: Much of Goulds argument revolves around

fossils from this excavation site in British Columbia.

Answer: the BURGESS SHALE

For 15: Gould\'d5s argument revolves around this

controversial concept which states that chance and not any special trait

possessed by a species is what accounts for survival during a mass

extinction.

Answer: CONTINGENCY

4. Identify the following works by Christopher

Marlowe FTPE:

a) This historical drama chronicles the rise of

its title character from a shepherd-robber to the ruthless head of an Asiatic

empire.

Answer: TAMBURLAINE the Great

b) Machevil speaks the prologue, and the title

character, after killing his own daughter and betraying his state to the Turks,

is killed in grand Machiavellian style after turning against the Turks.

Answer: The JEW OF MALTA

c) While titled as a tragedy, scholars have

wondered if this tale of a proto-Byronic hero selling his soul to the devil is

actually an attack on religion and society by Marlowe, a radical atheist.

Answer: The Tragicall History of DOCTOR FAUSTUS

[DNA Faust, prompt on Faustus]

5. Answer the following about famous

cartographers, 5-10-15:

For 5: This Flemish cartographer developed a

cylindrical map style which exaggerates areas near the poles for greater

accuracy in shape and the ability to draw both latitudinal and longitudinal

lines straight.

Answer: Gerardus MERCATOR (also accept: Gerhard

KREMOR )

For 10: This Muslim was one of the most extensive

travellers of the Middle Ages; his journeys ranged from the Sahara to China, and

he is still considered a reliable source of information on the Islamic culture

of the period.

Answer: IBN-BATUTA

For 15: This German map-maker either believed

Vespuccis claims that he discovered the New World or meant to honor his

realization that it was not Asia. Either way, his 1501 map features the first

use of the name America.

Answer: Martin WALDSEEMULLER

6. Answer the following questions about sculpture

FTPE:

a) This sculptors visit to a logging camp in the

Pacific Northwest inspired him to create his unique type of sculpture, dubbed

the mobile by Marcel Duchamps.

Answer: Alexander CALDER

b) Sculptors of this chief Italian school looked

to automobiles, trains, and other sleek items of the modern world as

inspirations for their dynamic style. Umberto Boccioni\'d5s works are its best

known examples.

Answer: FUTURISM

c) This Dutch style of the early twentieth century

was the logical offspring of Cubism and sought to create a distillation of pure

form.

Answer: DE STIJL

7. Answer the following about alternative music

for the stated number of points:

a) The Dust Brothers met while at Pomona College

and have produced numerous hits and groundbreaking albums, including work for

Tone Loc and Young MC. For ten points apiece, give the real names of this

duo.

Answer: Mike SIMPSON and John KING

b) For ten points, in an ever-expansive attempt to

broaden their talents and resumes, the Brothers produced MMMBop for this

Tulsa-based outfit.

Answer: HANSON

8. Answer the following about geometry,

5-10-15.

For 5: This 13-volume work by Euclid is considered

to be the foundation of the analytic study of geometry.

Answer: ELEMENTS

For 10: Of Euclid\'d5s five postulates, this one

has proven to be the most problematic. Mathematicians have created valid

non-Euclidean systems by replacing it with either of two alternatives.

Answer: the PARALLEL POSTULATE or the FIFTH

POSTULATE

For 15: This Russian mathematician developed a

hyperbolic, non-Euclidean geometry in 1826, only to discover that Hungarian

Janos Bolyai developed a similar system three years earlier.

Answer: Nikolai LOBACHEVSKII

9. Answer the following questions about a school

of literature FTPE:

a) This movement saw its development in France in

the late nineteenth century and influenced similar schools throughout England

and America. The movement shared its concern with everyday life with realism and

sought to show how life was shaped by forces beyond human control.

Answer: NATURALISM

b) This American writer is frequently labelled as

a naturalist, especially in regard to his Maggie: A Girl of the Streets , in

which the title character kills herself after life as a prostitute.

Answer: Stephen CRANE

c) His works are considered to be the best

examples of naturalism, especially his collection Les Rougon-Macquarts and the

work Nana . The sometimes fatalistic view of his work did not prevent him from

becoming one of the most prominent social critics of 1890s France.

Answer: Emile ZOLA

10. Answer the following questions about members

of the House Judiciary Committee for the stated number of points:

For 5: This Illinois Republican chairs the

committee; a past member of the Iran-Contra committee, he gives his name an

amendment barring federal funding for abortion.

Answer: Henry HYDE

For 10: This Michigan congressman is the longest

serving African-American representative in history, and now serves as the

ranking Democrat.

Answer: John CONYERS

For 15: This twice-divorced gun nut from Georgia

sponsored the Defense of Marriage Act, and has been calling for President

Clinton\'d5s impeachment since last fall.

Answer: Bob BARR

11. Answer the following about classical

assassinations FTPE:

a) After witnessing his own deification ceremony

in 336 BC, this Macedonian king was killed by a bodyguard.

Answer: PHILIP II

b) The first Roman emperor to be assassinated, he

was known for a streak of legendary madness and cruelty that may have been the

result of an illness soon after his succession.

Answer: GAIUS Caesar or CALIGULA

c) The mother of Nero, she has been accused of

assassinating Claudius in an attempt to maneuver her son into power; Nero

returned the favor by having her killed.

Answer: AGRIPPINA THE YOUNGER (Prompt on just

Agrippina)

12. Identify the following 20th-century

philosophers for 15 points apiece:

a) Her lesser known feminist tract Memoirs of a

Dutiful Daughter deals with her relationship with her mother, while her novel

The Mandarins is a roman a clef with portraits of numerous intellectual

contemporaries.

Answer: Simone de BEAUVOIR

b) This Germans first landmark text deals with man

in extreme situations while his analysis of individuals Weltanschauung, or

world-view, marked his move into philosophy.

Answer: Karl JASPERS

13. Identify the following soccer stars FTPE:

a) This Brazilian superstar and two-time World

Player of the Year recently admitted to taking a tranquilizer hours before his

dismal performance in the World Cup championship game.

Answer: RONALDO

b) This Dutch striker, famous for his fear of

flying, led English team Arsenal to the premier league crown, and may have the

scored the Goal of the 1998 Cup, a last second stunner which eliminated

Argentina.

Answer: Dennis BERGKAMP

c) This charismatic Paraguayan goaltender, known

for taking his team\'d5s penalty kicks, is considering a run for political

office in his native country.

Answer: Jose- Maria CHILAVERT

14. Answer the following about the discovery of

DNA FTPE:

a) This woman produced the first usable picture of

DNA and its structure. Her untimely death disqualified her from the Nobel shared

by Watson and Crick, the latter of whom wrote a now discredited book minimizing

her role.

Answer: Rosalind FRANKLIN

b) Franklin produced her photograph using this

method, in which a molecule is bombarded with a beam of X-rays and the pattern

of the scattered rays is analyzed.

Answer: X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY or X-RAY

DIFFRACTION

c) Franklin worked in the laboratory of this

British biochemist, who was able to produce the best DNA samples for study and

who shared in Watson and Cricks Nobel Prize.

Answer: Maurice WILKINS

15. Answer the following questions about

non-Western literature FTPE:

a) His works have been roundly misinterpreted as

Indian mysticism by Western critics, while his status as Indias lone Nobel

Prize-winner for literature and his focus on native themes have made him a

revered figure in his homeland.

Answer: Rabindranath TAGORE

b) The complexities of modern Egypt, as seen in

his well known Cairo Trilogy , are recurrent subjects for this novelist, while

his treatment of secular themes has earned him the condemnation of Islamic

militants in his homeland.

Answer: Naguib MAHFOUZ

c) This Japanese novelist is known for his

stylistic inventiveness, while his treatment of post-war Japan is considered

more accurate than Mishima\'d5s. His later works deal with the pain of raising a

brain-damaged child.

Answer: Kenzaburo OE (last name is pronounced

OH--ay)

16. Answer the following questions about

architecture FTPE:

a) In a 1932 work, architects Philip Johnson and