Subject: Wesselmania Pack
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 15:37:47 -0400
From: Robert_Whaples@mta.wfu.edu
To: dmlevins@uclink2.berkeley.edu

NC State- Wesselmania '96: Wake Forest University Packet

Tossups

1. Elected to the French Academy in 1896, he, like Zola, became famous for
his outspoken stand on the Dreyfus case.  Some of his works include the
short story collection _Balthasar,_ as well as the novels _The Gods are
Athirst,_ _The Red City,_ and _The Revolt of the Angels_. FTP, identify
this author of the play _Thais_ and winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize, whose
best-known works include _The Opinions of Jerome Coignard,_ _The Crime of
Sylvester Bonnard,_ and _Penguin Island_.

answer-  Anatole FRANCE

2. It was founded by Dane Rossetti, W. Homan Hunt and J.E. Millais in 1848
to encourage painting with the fidelity to nature that they considered
characteristic of Italian art before the Renaissance.  For ten points,
name this movement named for one of the Renaissance's finest painters.

Answer: the pre-Raphaelite (society/brotherhood)

3. On June 27, 1709, Peter I met and defeated Charles XII of Sweden
in battle.  Ftp, name this battle that marked the achievement of permanent
Russian supremacy in north-eastern europe.
                                   -
Answer: the Battle of _Poltava_

4. He believed that poverty existed only because the rents and other
income obtained from the land and its natural resources served to enrich
only a small body of wealthy landowners.  Ftp, name this man who ran for
mayor of New York City, losing in both 1886 and 1897, and who wrote
_Progress and Poverty_.

ans: Henry George

5. After he had been in office for five months, his entire cabinet, with
the exception of Daniel Webster, resigned at the urging of Henry Clay and
other Whigs who thought his presidency was illegitimate.  A resolution
calling for his impeachment- the first ever presidential impeachment vote
in U.S. history- was defeated 127 to 83 in 1843.  Name him, for ten points.

ans: John Tyler

6. Past winners of the oxymoronic Ghaddafi Human Rights Award include
Nelson Mandela.  For a quick ten points, who was the 1996 winner?

ans: Louis Farrakhan

7. One of the heroes against Troy, he was reputed to have invented
lighthouses, scales, the discus, and dice, and to have added four letters
to the orignal alphabet of Cadmus.  FTP, name the mythological figure who
detected the feigned madness of Odysseus, by placing the infant Telemachus
in the way of Odysseus's plow.

Answer: Palomedes

8. This type of electrical conductor is important in the study of nuclear
fusion. It is affected by magnetic fields and is believed to exist in
interstellar gas and in the interior of stars.  FTP, give the name of a
fully ionized gas containing equal numbers of positively and negatively
charged ions.

Answer: Plasma

9. The operator of this property of quantum mechanical particles is a
generator of the group SU(2).  Because it obeys SU(2), it can have
half-integer values, which means that some particles have the strange
property that they are not the same if you rotate them by 2 pi.  FTP, name
this property that determines whether a particle is a fermion or a boson.

answer: spin

10. He was a British shipmaster, who in 1731 was engaged by the Spanish
coast guard in a skirmish off Florida.  In 1739 his testimony was used as
an excuse for the English to declare war on Spain.  For ten points, name
this man famous for exhibiting his shriveled ear before the House of
Commons.

ans: Robert Jenkins

11. Their names mean "gullet" and "all thirsty."  The first was born
through his mother's ear shouting, "Drink, drink, drink!" and stole the
bells of Notre Dame to hang around his mare's neck.  The second was the
son of the first and Badebec and was so strong as an infant that he was
chained to his cradle but broke his bonds into 500 pieces with a single
blow of his fist.  For ten points, name his pair of title characters from
Francois Rabelais.

answer: Gargantua and Pantagruel

12. She served as a U.S. Circuit Court Judge from 1968 to 1979.  President
Carter wanted her to serve in his cabinet and it is rumored that he
promised that if she agreed to serve, she would be in line for his first
Supreme Court appointment and thus become the first woman on the Supreme
Court.  Of course, Carter never got to make a nomination for the Supreme
Court, so we'll never know for sure.  FTP, name this woman recently
appointed to head the Commission on Immigration Reform, who served as
Secretary of Education under Carter.

ans: Shirley M. Hufstedler

13.  He became president of Cincinnati College in 1836 and was later
professor of moral philosophy at the University of Virginia until his
death in 1873.  His books were largely collections of poems, stories,
proverbs, mottos and drawings.  FTP, name the man whose books sold 122
million copies and shaped the minds of three generation of American school
children.

ans: William Holmes McGuffey

14. This Unitarian minister was a well-known poet and essayist. His poetry
includes "Threnody," "The Problem," and "Brahma." Essays and other works
include "Gifts," "Civilization," and his famous address to the Harvard
chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, titled "The American Scholar."  FTP, name him.

Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson

15. Its name means bull-headed.  Philip II had determined to destroy this
high-spirited horse which no one could mount, but allowed his son to try
his
skill first.  Observing that the horse was terrified by its own shadow,
Alexander turned its eyes into the sun, and was able to mount.  By taming
him Alexander fulfilled an oracle concering the succession to the throne
of Macedon.  Name the horse for ten points.

ans: Bucephalis

16. This painter and sculptor once said, "Art is deformation." His work is
characterized by smooth, inflated shapes and themes from a variety of art
periods. Some of his work includes "Still Life with Mandolin," "Bridal
Chamber: Homage to Mantegna," and "Mona Lisa, Age Twelve." FTP, name this
Latin American artist.

Answer: Fernando Botero

17. A sequence is said to converge if all the terms with index greater
than N are within epsilon of the limit, in simple terms.  What type of
convergence does a sequence of functions have if for every epsilon greater
than zero, there is an N such that that f sub k (x) is within epsilon of
the limit function f(x) for every x and k greater than N?

answer: uniform convergence

18. He was a T'ang court poet, and, when he left the court, the emperor
ordered that he be given an inexhaustible supply of wine, which he
undoubtedly enjoyed since many of his poems deal with the pleasures of
drink.  Most of his works are lost, but around 2000 of his works were
collected in 1080 and survive today.  FTP, name this Taoist poet, one of
the greatest figures of Chinese literature, who died, according to legend,
when he fell out of a boat trying to embrace the reflection of the moon.

answer: Li Po

19. For ten points, give the most recent name that goes on this list.  No,
they are not heads of the Federal Reserve.  Edwin Nourse, Leon Keyserling,
Arthur Burns, Raymond Saulnier, Walter Heller, Gardner Ackley, Arthur
Okun, Paul McCracken, Herbert Stein, Alan Greenspan, Charles Schultze.
Murray Weidenbaum, Martin Feldstein, Beryl Sprinkel, Michael Boskin, and
Laura Tyson.  Yes, they've all been head of the Council of Economic
advisors.

answer: Joseph Stiglitz

20. It takes the form of a dialogue in which Piscator tries to convince
Venator (a hunter) that Piscator's sport is superior.  It was writen in
1653 and its subtitle is The Contemplative Man's Recreation.  For ten
points, name this work by Izaak Walton.

Answer: The Compleat Angler

21. This type of soil is responsible for the color of the Yellow River,
and it also made much of Europe fertile for agriculture and forests at the
end of the Pleistocene and the beginning of the Holocene.  FTP, what is
this fine dust created by glacial action?

answer: loess

22. In Italian is it "chiocciolina" meaning little snail.  Likewise, in
French it is "petit escargot".  In German it is "klammeraffe" meaning
spider monkey.  In Norweigian it is "kanel-bolle" meaning a spiral-shaped
cinnamon cake.  In Danish it is "snabel"  meaning an "A" with a trunk.  In
Finnish it is "miau"  meaning a cat's tail.  In Spanish it's "un arroba,"
a unit of about 25 pounds.  It was made famous by Ray Tomlinson, a
researcher at BBN in Boston who, in 1971, selected this sign as the
separator between an email name and email location.  Since that time, it
has become our standard.  FTP, what is it?

answer: the "at" sign, i.e @.

23 He was a Nobel winning physicist, but he is perhaps more important for
the philosophy of science that he developed in line with the logical
empiricist school of thought.  His theories strongly influenced both
Skinner's behavioralism and the psychological theory of S.S. Stevens.
FTP, who is this developer of the philosophy of operationalism?

answer: Percy Bridgman

24. When she is born it is prophesied that she will become the most
beautiful woman of Ireland and that she will bring bloodshed and death.
To avert the prophecy, Conchobar, king of Ulster, determines to marry her
when she comes of age.  She is raised by the nurse Lavarcham.  Lavarcham's
stories about Noisi, nephew of Conchobar, fire her imagination.  They
meet, fall in love and flee to Scotland.  Upon return he is killed and she
commits suicide.  Name her for 10 points.

ans: Deirdre

25. Tony Gwynn of the San Diego Padres has now won seven National League
batting titles.  Ty Cobb holds the major league record, having won twelve
batting titles, but Gwynn has just tied the NL mark.  For ten points, name
either of the other NL Hall of Famers who have won 7 batting titles.

Answer:: Rogers Hornsby and Stan Musial

26. FAQTP, solve this logical problem.  Suppose there is a garden with
red, blue, and yellow flowers -- at least one of each color.  No matter
what three flowers you pick, at least one will be blue, and no matter what
three flowers you pick, one will be red.  How many flowers are there in
the garden?

answer: three

27. They were a race of brutish, degraded creatures having the form and
all the vices of man.  In Swift's Gulliver's Travels they were subjects of
the equine Houyhmhmns. The term now refers to any vicious, coarse person.
What is it, for ten points?

Answer: Yahoo

28. It rises near the Ecaudoran border, flows between the Cordillera
Oriental and Cordillera Central northward toward the Caribbean, which it
reaches at Baranquilla.  For ten points, name this 956-mile-long
Colombian river.

Answer: the Magdelena

29.  States were given powers of taxation and regulation of commerce while
the federal government controlled declarations of war, treaties, the
raising of military forces, the issuance of currency, and the ability to
float loans.  For 10 points, what document, written in 1777, ratified in
1781, resulted in the division of these powers?

ANSWER:  the ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION

30.  Lack of this compound leads to sickle-cell anemia, epileptic
seizures, and an increase of ammonia in the bloodstream.  For 10 points,
name this amino acid formed by the transdeamination of glutamine, coded in
messenger RNA by GAA or GAG, and abbreviated as Glu.

ANSWER:  GLUTAMATE or GLUTAMIC ACID

Boni:

1. Here it is already: the mathematical bonus for the round.  Answer the
following questions for ten points each.

Whose theorem states that any function analytic on a region of the complex
plane except for a set point A can be written as a series of powers of
(Z-A), including negative powers?

answer: Laurent (accept Laurent series)

Give the first four terms, all or nothing, of the Laurent series of "e to
the 1 over z" expanded around z = 0.

answer: 1 + 1/z + 1/(2z^2) + 1/(6z^3) (accept 3 factorial as well as 6 in
the denominator of the fourth term)

What is the integral of e^(1/z) (read as in the question above) on any
closed loop that winds around z = 0 exactly once?

answer: 1

2. Lake Chad borders three African nations.  One is, duh, Chad.  For ten
points each, name the other three.

Answer: Nigeria, Niger, and Cameroon

3.  30-20-10-5 Name the author

30- His works _A Confession,_ _A Criticism of Dogmatic Theology_ and _I
Cannot Be Silent_ (1905) detail his view of mankind as a being of mystical
inner light who should lead a simple life of poverty and toil. In
addition, they reveal his dislike for the orthodox doctrines of the
divinity of Christ and of the afterlife.

20- Some of his works include _The Raid,_ _The Kreutzer Sonata_ and
_Sevastopol Sketches_

10- One of his famous anti-heroines throws herself under a train when she
feels that her beloved Vronski no longer loves her, while another of his
characters, the thoughtful Olenin, tires of urban life in Moscow and
retires to the Caucasus.

5- He wrote _War and Peace_

answer-  Leo TOLSTOY

4. Provide the names of the poets who penned each of these lines, for ten
points each.

Because I could not stop for Death-
He kindly stopped for me-
The Carriage held but just Ourselves-
And Immortality

Answer: Emily Dickinson, (Because I could not stop for Death)

Pigeons on the grass alas,
Pigeons on the grass alas,
Short longer grass short longer longer shorter yellow grass

Answer: Gertrude Stein (Pigeons on the Grass from _Four Saints in Three
Acts_)

The Pool Players,
Seven at the Golden Shovel.
We real cool.  We
Left school.  We
Lurk late.  We
Strike Straight.  We
Sing sin.  We
Thin gin.  We
Jazz June.  We
Die soon.

Answer: Gwendolyn Brooks (We Real Cool)

5. How much do you know about Albanian history? For a stated number of
points, answer each of the following questions.

First for five points, Albania declared its independence in 1912.  From
which great power did it break away?

Answer: The Ottoman Empire

The first step in the drive for independence was a meeting in 1878 in a
house near the banks of the Bistrica River.  For ten points, name the city
where this meeting took place.  The league which was thereby established,
bears the city's name.

Answer: Prizren

Finally, for fifteen points which communist ruled Albania from 1946 until
his death in 1985?

Answer: Enver Hoxha

6. Arthurian legend time, for ten points each:

He was conceived when Elaine tricked Lancelot into thinking he was meeting
and sleeping with Guinevere.  For ten points, name this knight who is best
known as the knight who achieves the quest for the Holy Grail.

Answer: Gallahad

For ten points, give the name of the seat at the Round Table that is
reserved for the Grail Knight.

Answer: the Siege Perilous

Finally, who was the bastard son of Queen Margawse and King Arthur.

Answer: Mordred (or Modred)

7. Answer these questions from the Book of Genesis.

He greeted two angels when they entered Sodom and invited them to his
home, but a mob which included all the men in town surrounded the place and
demanded that he send out the two guests so that the mob could have
intimate relations with them. Naturally, the host refused.  For five
points, name the gracious host.

ans: Lot

b. Lot's unnamed daughters each had famous sons who founded nations.  One
was Moab, the other Ammon.  For five points each, name the father of Moab
and the father of Ammon.

ans: Lot; Lot (his daughters got him drunk)

c. For five points, name Lot's uncle.

ans: Abraham

d. Lot was taken prisoner during a war and Abraham's forces rescued him.
Afterward they celebrated with a priest who offered a sacrifice of bread
and wine.  For ten points, name the priest.

Melchizedek

8.  For five points each and a five point bonus for all five, name the
sculptor from the works:

Spider's Thread, Woman's Armor, Natsukaze Douji

answer: Satoshi Yabuuchi

Burghers of Calais, the Gates of Hell

answer: Auguste Rodin

Apollo and Daphne, Bust of Innocent X, Pluto and Proserpina

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Running Fence, The Umbrellas, Wrapped Riechstag

answer: Christo

Abraham and Isaac, Ascension, Crucifix, Geremia

answer: Donatello

9. The greatest problem in physics at the end of the 19th century was
understanding the nature of blackbody radiation, and a number of
individuals made significant contributions to the theory before Max Planck
finally solved the problem at the turn of the century.  Identify the
individuals from their contributions for the stated number of points:

For five points each, the two individuals who independently derived from
thermodynamic principles that the intensity was proportional to the fourth
power of the temperature.

answer: Josef Stefan and Ludwig Boltzman

Also for five points each, name the members of a pair that developed the
classical prediction for the intensity per unit wavelength that was
proportional to the temperature and inversely to the fourth power of the
wavelength.  Their formula often bears the name "ultraviolet catastrophe."

answer: Lord Rayleigh and Jeans

FTP, this thermodynamicist deduced a valid property of blackbody radiation
for which he is most remembered today, but he also developed a formula for
the intensity per unit wavelength that was inversely proportional to the
wavelength to the 5th power and proportional to an exponential of -1 over
lambda*T.

answer: Wilhelm Wien

10. Five universities or colleges have had more than one alum who went on
to become president of the United States.  For five points each, and a
five point bonus for all five.  Name them.

Answer: Harvard (Adamses, Roosevelts, JFK); Yale (Taft, Bush, Clinton);
William and Mary (Jefferson, Monroe, Tyler); Princeton (Madison, Wilson),
and the U.S. Military Academy/ West Point (Grant and Ike)

11. Here is the mandatory econ definitions bonus.  For ten points each:

What is the name of the curve which shows the negative relationship
between the interest rate and the level of income that arises in the
market for goods and services.  It is almost always paired with the LM
curve.

Answer: the IS curve

What type of money is not intrinscially useful but is valued because it is
used as money and has the backing of the government?  It shares it name
with a type of automobile.

Answer: Fiat money

What is the ratio of the market value of installed capital to its
replacement cost, or alternatively the ratio of the market value of a
company to the value of the company if broken up and sold in pieces.
This ratio is often linked with the name of Nobel winner James Tobin.

Answer: Q-value, Q, or Tobin's Q

12. For fifteen points each, name these disgraced former South Korean
leaders.

a. He was president of South Korea from 1980 to 1987.  In August, 1996 he
was given a death sentence for treason, mutiny, and corruption.

ans: Chun Doo Huan

b. He was president from 1988 to 1992.  In August, 1996 he was given
22 1/2 years for treason, mutiny, and corruption.

ans: Roh Tae Woo

13. Charles Dickens' _A Christmas Carol_ gave us many memorable characters
such as good ole' Ebeneezer Scrooge.  For five points each, identify these
other characters from _A Christmas Carol_.

Bob Crachit's three children.

Answer: Peter, Martha, and (Tiny) Tim

Scrooge's deceased partner.

Answer: Jacob Marley

Scrooge's nephew who invites him to dinner.

Answer: Fred

Scrooge's employer when he was a young man.

Answer: Mr. Frezziwig

14. The scientific community has produced some unusual characters in the
past century, and Richard Feynman was certainly one of them.  Answer the
following questions about the eccentric genius for the stated number of
points.

For five points: Although Feynman once played something resembling a
frying pan in a Brazilian band, for five points, he was most noted for
playing what musical instrument?

answer: bongo drums

Once, a physics colloquium wanted to bring culture to the physicists by
inviting a lecturer on the mathematics of an American indigenous
civilization. Imagine the coordinator's surprise to learn that Feynman was
the leading expert! FTP, what civilization' s astronomical tables did
Feynman decode for fun while on honeymoon with his second wife?

answer: the Mayans'

For fifteen points: Once when another research group presented a talk on a
type of Feynman diagram named after an odd type of bird, Feynman protested
that the diagram looked nothing like its fowlish namesake.  His protests
provoked the response, "Shut up, Richard!  Feynman diagrams don't look
anything like you!" What non-flying avian's honor was Feynman defending?

answer: penguin (The researchers had lost a bet, so they had to use the
word penguin in their research.  They chose to name the type of Feynman
diagrams Penguin diagrams.)

14. Name the individual: 30-20-10:

30: He rose to the rank of Major General during the Civil War, and served
as governor of both Indiana and New Mexico, and as U.S. minister to
Turkey.

20: We know him better as an author.  Among his works are The Life of
Benjamin Harrison, the Prince of India, The Fair God, and his most famous,
whose subtitle is A Tale of the Christ.

10: He is the author of Ben-Hur.

Answer: Lew Wallace

15. How much do you really know about transcendentalism? For ten points
each, answer the following questions about the transcendentalist movement:

This author and poet became editor of *The Dial* in 1840 and was also a
critic for the New York Tribune from 1844 to 1846.

Answer: Margaret Fuller

This commune was set up by transcendentalists in New England in 1841. It
lasted until 1846.

Answer:  Brook Farm

He started out a Presbyterian, but later became a Universalist, a
Unitarian, then started his own church, and finally became a Roman
Catholic.  He shares his name with Electra's brother.

Answer: Orestes Augustus Brownson

17. Are you familiar with various crystal types?  If you've had inorganic
chemistry, you are.  Match the crystal type: monoclinic, orthorhombic,
hexagonal, or cubic, with their associated point groups for 10 points
each.

a) T sub d, the full point group of a tetrahedron.

answer: cubic

b) C sub 2, in which rotations of 180 degrees map the crystal onto itself.

answer: monoclinic

c) D sub 3h, the symmetries of a regular triangle in the plane and another
reflection plane.

answer: hexagonal

18. At the beginning of the 1996 NFL season, there were only 6 coaches who
had ten or more years of experience as a head coach, not necessarily with
their present team.  For five points a piece, name them.  One of the them
resigned during the season.

Answers: (teams names and years as a coach are also noted)

New York Giants     Dan Reeves           16
New Orleans         Jim Mora       11
Buffalo             Marv Levy      11
New England         Bill Parcels         12
Baltimore Ravens    Ted Marchibroda           14
Kansas City         Marty Schottenheimer      13

19. For five points each, answer these questions about literary bridges.

First, who wrote the poem "The Bridge"

answer: Hart Crane

Second, which bridge is the central symbol in Crane's poem.

Answer: the Brooklyn Bridge

Next, name the 1927 novel by Thornton Wilder in which a Peruvian bridge
collapses.

Answer: The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Now, what is the name of the protagonist of Wilder's book, who
investigates the lives of the people killed in the collapse of the Bridge
of San Luis Rey.

Answer Brother Juniper

Name the Nobel Literature Prize winning Bosnian who wrote The Bridge of
the Drina.

Answer: Ivo Andric

Finally, name the title of the Pierre Boulle novel about prisoners of war
put into slave labor by their Japanese captors.

Answer: Bridge on the River Kwai

20. Mitosis, everyone's favorite subject!  5-10-15, answer the following
questions:

First, for an easy five points, name all four phases of mitosis in the
order they occur.

answer: prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase (in that order)

Now, for ten points, name the structure at which the two chromatids
connect until they separate during anaphase.

answer: centromeres

Finally, for a big fifteen points, name the proteins around which DNA
curls when it forms chromatids from the more amorphous chromatin.

answer: histones

21. Identify these musical works for ten points each.

What did Brahms call the 1881 composition, which he wrote to acknowledge
the
completion of his doctorate from Breslau University?

Answer the Academic Festival Overture

Name the 1892-94 Debussy work written to illustrate a famous poem by
Stephane Melllarme'.

Answer: The Afternoon of a Faun (aka L'apres-midi d'un faune)

He composed the opera Alfonso and Estrella in 1854 and Symphony No. 7,
the Great Symphony in C major.

answer: Franz Schubert

22, Identify these famous Americans, for ten points each.  All have last
name's beginning with R.

A successful corporation lawyer, he was Secretary of War, 1899-1904,
Secretary of State, 1905-09, and winner of the 1912 Nobel Peace Prize.

Answer: Elihu Root

On July 1, 1776, Delaware's delegates to the Continental Congress were
split on Lee's resolution to adopt the Declaration of Independence.  This
delegate made an 80 mile voyage, using a relay of fresh horses, to gallop
to Philadelphia and break the Delaware delegate's tie.

Answer: Caesar Rodney

Born of free parents in Fayetteville, NC in 1827, and educated at Knox
College, this minister of the African Methodist Church, served as chaplain
of the Negro regiment at Vicksburg, Miss, served as president of Alcorn
Agricultural College, and was chosen by the Mississippi legislature in
1870 to complete the Senate term begun by Jefferson Davis, becoming the
first black to serve in the U.S. Senate.

Answer Hiram Rhoades Revels

23. Answers these musical questions, the first is worth ten points, the
others are worth five.

Name any year in which Antonio Stradivari lived.

Answer: 1644-1737

Of what instrument was the sackbut a predecessor?

Answer: the trombone

What group sang the rock-n-roll classic, Louie Louie?

Answer: The Kingsmen

Now identify the composers of these patriotic songs:
First, You're a Grand Old Flag

answer: George M. Cohan

Second, Stars and Stripes Forever

answer: John Philip Sousa

24. Name the writer: 20-15-10, with an additional 10 pointer at the end.

20: A selection of 100 of her poems have been translated into English
under the title "View with a Grain of Sand."  Poems range from "Calling
out to Yeti"; written in 1957, to "The End and the Beginning" written in
1993.  The Yeti in her poems is associated with Josef Stalin.

15:  From 1953 to 1981, she was on the editorial staff of the Polish
intellectual magazine Zycie Literackie (Literary Life).  One of her best
known poems is The Joy of Writing, which includes the passage
     The joy of writing.
     Power of preserving.
     The revenge of a mortal hand.

10: She won the Nobel Literature Prize in 1996.

Answer: Wislawa Szymborska

Szymborska is the fourth Pole to win the literature prize.  For five
points each, name any two of the other three.

Answer: Henryk Sienkiewicz (1905), Wladyslaw Reymont (1924), Czeslaw
Milosz (1980)

25. Answer these questions about the U-2 Incident for five points each and
a five point bonus for getting them all correct.

Who was president of the U.S. and who was Soviet Premier at the time of
the incident?

Answer: Eisenhower and Khruschev

Who piloted the U-2 which was shot down on May 1, 1960?

Answer: Francis Gary Powers

For which Soviet spy was Powers exchanged in February, 1962.

Answer: Col. Rudolph Abel

In which city did the exchange take place?

Answer: Berlin

26. This bonus features adventures in plasma physics!!!!! For ten points
each, give the following terms from their definitions:

A magnetic field used to confine plasma during nuclear fusion.

Answer: a magnetic bottle

The flow of plasma ejected into space from a star.

Answer: stellar wind

Constriction of plasma produced by the plasma's own electric current.

Answer: pinch effect

27. Give the authors of these recent political best sellers, for a stated
number of points each.

5:  Between Hope and History

answer: Bill Clinton

10: Bare Knuckles and Back Rooms

answer: Ed Rollins

5: Unlimited Access

answer: Gary Aldrich

10: Primary Colors

answer: published as "anonymous" (5 points), now known to be Joe Klein (10
points)

28. For ten points each name these figures of the Middle Ages

He received his doctorate from the University of Paris in 1245, was active
at the Council of Lyons, and died at Cologne in 1280.  He was learned in
biology, chemistry, physics, astronomy, geography, and his knowledge was
so encyclopedic that he was thought have magical powers.  He pioneered
the Scholastic method, so brilliantly developed by his pupil and friend
Thomas Aquinas.  He is often called the "Universal Doctor."

Answer: Albert the Great, Albertus Magnus

Born in Lisbon in the late 12th century, he went to Morocco to preach.
Later he was assinged to preach in Italy and was sensationally successful.
When he died his contemporaries called him the "Hammer of the Heretics,"
and the "Living Ark of the Covenant."  He is the patron of the poor and is
often called upon to help find lost objects.  For ten points, name his
saint who died at age 36, on his way home to the city of Padua.

Answer: Anthony of Padua

Lady-in-waiting of Blanche of Namur, wife of King Magnus II of Sweden,
after a pilgrimage and visions she denounced the king and queen for their
frivolous lives, and founded a monastery.  She later moved to Rome,
impressed everyone with her holiness and worked ceaselessly to have the
Pope return from Avignon.  She is the patron saint of Sweden.

Answer: Bridget

29. Answer these questions about the comic strip Dilbert.

For ten points, who is the creator of the strip?

Answer: Scott Adams

Now for five points each, identify these coworkers of Dilbert

The bald guy.

Answer: Wally

The Asian intern.

Answer: Asok

The woman with triangular hair.

Answer: Alice

The animal who is the "evil human resources" manager.

Answer: Catbert

30. For five points each, name the French authors of the following works:

No Exit

Answer: Jean-Paul Sartre

J'Accuse

Answer: Emile Zola

The Plague

Answer: Albert Camus

The Red and the Black

answer: Stendahl

The Black Tulip

answer: Alexandre Dumas

The Mandarins

answer: Simone de Beauvoir