Subject: Tar Heel Cup '96
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 15:38:04 -0400
From: Robert_Whaples@mta.wfu.edu
To: dmlevins@uclink2.berkeley.edu

UNC Tournament, Fall 1996

Wake Forest University Packet

Toss Ups:

1. This quantity in physics has the dimensions of energy times time, and
Hamilton's Principle says that it is extremized in any physical situation.
FAQTP, name this quantity given by the integral of the Lagrangian function
over time.

Answer: Action (as in The Principle of Least Action)

2. Born in 1892, to Absalom and Caroline Sydenstricker, this author
graduated from Randolph-Macon College in 1914.  FTP, name this daughter of
Presbyterian missionaries, best known for her works such as Dragon Seed,
Pavilion of Women, The Living Reed, all set in the Far East.

Ans: Pearl Buck

3. By the time he reached the rank of Major, he was an attache at
Leningrad.  This bad experience was probably the source of his virulent
anti-communism.  He was so opposed to unions and other socialistic
organizations that he resigned from the cabinet and founded the Nasjonal
Samling party, and he even assisted the Germans in their invasion of his
country in 1940.  For this, he got to be their puppet for four years,
whereupon he was brought to trial, sentenced to death, and shot.  FTP,
name this traitor, whose name is synonymous with "Traitor" to any
Norwegian.

Vidkun QUISLING

4. His first wife was Arisbe, daughter of Merops the seer.  His father was
Laomedon, who, because he reneged on promises, was killed by Heracles.  As
king, he extended his city's dominance over the Hellespont.  He saw 13 of
his sons die, and he was eventually killed by Neoptolemus, son of
Achilles.  FTP, name this last king of Troy.

Answer: Priam

5. According to valence electron theory, the electron orbitals in
molecules can be described by linear combinations of energy eigenstates.
FTP, name the type of hybridized orbital found in both nitrogen in ammonia
and oxygen in water.

Answer: sp^3

6. Known as Operation Vittles, it began in April 1948 and delivered nearly
2.5 million tons of food, fuel, and supplies, mostly to Tempelhof airport.
FTP, name this military operation which ended when the Russians removed
the blockade through East Germany.

Answer: Berlin Airlift

7. A student of Anaxagoras, he derived his dialectical technique from
Zeno. Calling his teaching process "midwifery," he showed those in labour
for knowledge that the answers to their inquiries were contained in their
own mind. Usually, he pursued a comprehensive examination of an abstract
subject such as justice and, while humbly feigning total ignorance, he
would embarrass opponents with his wit and policy of understating the
truth to comic effect. FTP, identify this man whose claim that a "divine
sign" functioned as an inner voice to deter him from doing evil, and whose
claim to be the gadfly of progressive thinking made him considerable
enemies among Athenian democrats.

answer--  SOCRATES

8. Set in the late 1940's, it is the story of a woman who, while a
prisoner in Auschwitz, was forced to decide which of her two children
would live and which would die.  Identify this novel by William Styron
which was made into a movie which in 1982 earned Meryl Streep the best
actress Oscar.

Answer: Sophie's Choice

9. By a treaty signed in Paris in 1920 major European powers recognized
Norway's sovereignty over this island, but the Soviet Union was granted
rights to mine its rich coal deposits.  Mount Newton is its highest point,
but Mount Opera was the site of a di sastrous airplane crash in the summer
of 1996.  For ten points, name this Arctic island, the largest of the
Svalbard group.

Answer: Spitsbergen

10. His writings include The State in its Relations to the Church, Letters
on the State Persecutions of the Neapolitan Government, Studies on Homer
and the Homeric Age, Juventus Mundi, Bulgarian Horrors, and Gleanings of
Past Years.  From 1868 to 1874, fr om 1880 to 1885, again in 1886, and
finally from 1892 to 1894, he served the Liberal Party as Prime Minister
of Britain.  Name him for ten points.

Ans: William Gladstone

11, Their name means "hollow spined". They were thought to be extinct
until 1938 when scientists found a living specimen.  FTP, name this
lobe-finned fish, considered to share a possible ancestor with lungfish,
which thrived millions of years ago but is now represented by only one
species found near the Comoro Islands.

Answer: coelocanths

12. Since 1991 its infant mortality rate has climbed seven-fold to 140 per
1000 and its per capita income has fallen from over $4000 to under $1000,
according to CIA director John Deutsch.  For ten points, name this nation
whose cities include Irbil, Kirk uk, and al-Basrah.

Answer: Iraq

13.  He became wealthy when he purchased British government securities
four days before Waterloo. He was born in London in 1772, the son of
wealthy Jewish immigrants.  While on vacation in 1799, he read The Wealth
of Nations.  He gained widespread attention from his opposition to the
Corn Laws.  His landmark book, The Principles of Economy and Taxation,
wsas published in 1817.  FTP, name this economist, who developed the
concept of comparative advantage.

Answer: David Ricardo

14. Studying with Gerome in Paris, he became an admirer of Velazquez
during a tour of Europe. Also a photgrapher and sculptor, he married the
American artist Susan Hannah MacDowell in 1884. A forerunner of the
realism seen in the Ash-can school, most of his career was spend in bitter
isolation while he lived off of his father's fortune. FTP, identify this
artist forced to resign his post of head of the Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts in 1876 because of his unprecedented use of a fully nude male
model, who is best known for such works of anatomical precision as _The
Agnew Clinic_ and _The Gross Clinic_.

answer--  Thomas EAKINS

15. FAQTP, name the only city on the island of Hokkaido to be specifically
targeted for bombing during World War II.  It is also the largest city on
that Island, and it gives its name to a beer.

Answer: SAPPORO

16.  Arthur Balfour said he was "firm, modest, restrained," and "as good
rounda table as he was on paper."  John Maynard Keynes said "he had no
plan, no scheme," and "not only was he ill-informed- that was true of Mr.
Lloyd-George also- but his mind was slow and unadaptable."  FTP, what
American were they describing while at the conference in Paris to discuss
peace after World War I?

Answer: Woodrow Wilson

17.  His work, based on the caloric theory of heat, was largely unknown
until long after his death, although his theorem was one of the first
statements of the second law of thermodynamics.  FTP, who stated that all
reversible engines have the same efficiency, the man for whom the most
efficient heat engine is named?

Answer: Sadi Carnot

18. His son recently signed a peace treaty that will hopefully bring an
end to years of fighting in his home nation.  He himself was exiled from
his nation in 1954, after serving as an ambassador to three other
countries, probably because of his harsh criticism of dictatorships in his
writings, which include _El sen~or presidente_, _Mulatta_, and _Strong
Wind_.  FTP, who is this Guatemalan recipient of the Nobel Literature
Prize?

Answer: Miguel Angel Asturias

19.  He studied philosophy and law at the University of Paris, and was
associated with Jean-Paul Sartre's intellectual circle.  He gained popular
recognition with the autobiography, A World on the Wane.  He also
published the four volume Mythologiques.  FTP, name this author of The
Elementary Structures of Kinship, a leading exponent of anthropological
structuralism.

Answer: Claude Levi-Strauss

20. Born with the surname Vercelli, he studied under Giovanni Bellini, as
well as Giorgione. His work is largely marked by the contrasting of bright
colors and sensous postures, breaking away from the restrained
intellectualism of classical art. Probably born closer to 1490 than the
1477 he often claimed, his works include _Charles V at the Battle of
Muhlberg,_ _The Three Ages of Man,_ and _Madonna Suckling the Child_. FTP,
identify this painter best known for such works as _Assumption of the
Virgin,_ _Christ Crowned with Thorns,_ _Bacchus and Ariadne,_ and _Sacred
and Profane Love_.

answer-- TITIAN (Tiziano Vercelli)

21. It forms the border between New York and Pennsylvania.  Further west
it is the northern border of Utah, Nevada, and California.  For ten
points, name this latitude associated with John Dos Passos.

Answer: 42nd Parallel

22. According to urban legend, this disaster was caused by a rogue Jewish
Doctor travelling from town to town and dropping dragon's eggs in the town
well.  Florence, though it took elaborate precautions, got ravaged.  Pisa
remained relatively untouched, despite lax security.  Beatings were
rampant, and almost always self-inflicted.  Rome saw its population cut in
half.  FTP, name this disaster, which inspired the Decameron and gave new
life to millenial movements.

Answer: THE BLACK DEATH or THE BLACK PLAGUE

23. He claimed to be the latest redeemer in a line that includes the
Buddha, Hebrew prophets, Zoroaster and Jesus and taught that the purpose
of religion is to liberate the spiritual particles of light imprisoned in
one's body, since the material world is inherently evil. Initially well
recevied in his homeland under the Persian emperer Sapor I in the third
century, he was eventually jailed and executed by the Zoroastrian
priesthood. FTP, identify this man whose teachings were once followed by a
young St. Augustine, before his famed conversion to Christianity in the
Garden of Milan.

answer-- MANI or MANES
                                                 (do not accept
Manichaenism
                                                    or Manichaeus)

24. Everyone knows that Venus is the planet closest to the Earth in size,
and that Mars has the closest day length to an Earth-day, but, for 10
points, which planet has a density almost equal to the density of Earth?

Ans: Mercury

25. Despite his musical gifts, his parent sent him to Florida in 1882 to
become an orange planter. However, he wound up entering the Leipzig
conservatory in 1886, where he studied with Grieg. Living mostly in France
after 1890 and never becoming associated with any particular school, he
was blinded and paralyzed in 1928 but still managed to produce such works
as _A Song of Summer,_ _Idyll_ and _Songs of Farewell,_ with the help of
friend Eric Fenby. FTP, identify this English composer, best known for
such works as _Sea Drift,_ _Appalachia,_ and _A Mass of Life,_ as well as
the operas _Koanga_ and _A Village Romeo and Juliet_.

answer--  Frederick DELIUS

26. Two-forty-three.  Seventy-five.  Four-fifty-eight.  Two-two-three.
Three-oh-eight.  Thirty-thirty.  Thirty-ought-six.  FAQTP, what do all
these numbers represent?

Answer: RIFLE CALIBERS or RIFLE BULLETS (prompt on "guns," "rifles," or
"bullets")

27. Grace, steady, union, solid, sorry, West Virginia and of the art are
all, FTP, what?

Answer: STATES

28. Japan and China had an informal break of diplomatic relations.
Manners were became important that poor taste was criminalized.  FAQTP,
name this period of Japanese history, noted as much for its decadence as
for it art, in which The Tale of Genji was written.

Answer  HEIAN or FUJIWARA

29. Born in Madison, Wisconsin, he served in both wars, becoming a
lietenant-colonel in 1944. His first novel _The Cabala,_ appearred in
1927, and his play, _The Matchmaker,_ formed the basis for the musical
_Hello, Dolly_. FTP, identify this author known for such works as _The
Woman of Andros,_ _Heaven's My Destination,_ _The Ides of March,_ and _The
Long Christmas Dinner,_ whose most famous characters include Harry
Antrobus, the Marquesa de Montemayor, Brother Juniper, Rebecca Gibbs and
Emily Webb.

answer--  Thornton WILDER

30. This Pulizer Prize winner features Elwood Dowd.  FQTP, identify this
play by Mary Chase, named for Dowd's six-foot tall invisible companion.

Ans: _Harvey_

Boni:

1. Four times in British history there have been three Kings in the same
year.  One such occasion was 1483 when Edward IV died, his son Edward V
was murdered in the Tower of London, and Richard III seized the throne.
For 5 points a year, give the other t hree years of three kings.  For an
additional 15 points (5 points apiece), name any three of the nine kings
who were king in one of those three years.

Answer: years are 1016, 1066, 1936

Kings are:
Ethelred II (the Unready)   [1016]
Edmund II (Ironside)         [1016]
Canute the Great               [1016]
Edward the Confessor        [1066]
Harold II                      [1066]
William I                      [1066]
George V                      [1936]
Edward VIII                   [1936]
George VI                     [1936]

2.  What ship did Jason command?  No, I won't ask you one that easy, but
I will ask you some questions about Jason.

For five points, who was Jason's wife?
                         Answer:   Medea

FTP, within ten, how many people sailed on the Argo?
                         Answer:   51 (i.e. 41 to 61)

For 15 points, what king of Colchis and father of Medea would not
give up the golden fleece?
                         Answer:   Aeetes

3.  Answer the following questions about star death for ten points each:

Stars of differing masses end up as different things when they die.  Order
the stars that result in these end states from least to most massive for
ten points: pulsar, white dwarf, black hole

answer: white dwarf, pulsar, black hole

One of the most spectacular ways a star can die is by going supernova.
Name the nebula that created by a supernova that appeared in 1054 and also
resulted in the first-known pulsar.

answer: Crab nebula

This type II supernova appeared in the Large Magellanic cloud and gave
astronomers a chance to test their theories of supernovae.  For ten
points, what is the supernova that swamped neutrino detectors on the
earth, over 150,000 light years away, less than ten years ago?

answer: SN1987A (accept 1987A, SN stands for supernova)

4.  Unemployment is not as bad as you think.  In fact, there is a natural
rate of unemployment, about 5% in the U.S.  Two types of unemployment
cause this natural rate.

FTP, what type of unemployment is a result of people lacking the skills
necessary to hold certain jobs?

Answer: Structural

FTP, what type of unemployment is a result of people moving from one job
to another?

Answer: Frictional

FTP, what type of unemployment is caused by recessions and booms, and is a
measure of the health of the economy?

Answer: Cyclical

5.  The late 1800's saw many great innovations.  Answer these questions
about them.

FTP, who succeeded in his project of laying the first trans-Atlantic cable?

Answer: Cyrus W. Field

For five points, William Kelly developed a process of blowing air through
molten iron to burn out impurities.  This process was simultaneously
developed by what Englishman?

Answer: Henry Bessamer

For five points each, give the inventors of the following:
     typewriter               answer: Christopher Sholes
     cash register            answer: James Ritty
     spinning mule            answer: Samuel Crompton

6. 30-20-10  Identify this writer.

30 - Born in 1905, in Hungary (now Slovakia), this author worked as an
interpreter for a French shipping company.  He wrote articles about exotic
ports and life aboard ship during this time.

20 - From 1933 to 1938 he was a travel correspondent in Prague and London.
His first book, _1936-On the Continent_ was a best-seller in Europe and
America.

10 - In 1949 he settled in Paris and founded a company that still
publishes guidebooks in his name.

Ans: Eugene _Fodor_

7. FTSNOP, identify the following concerning Ludwig Van Beethoven.

5- the "Eroica Symphony," Beethoven's third, is connected with this
historical figure

answer-- NAPOLEON

5- the nickname of Beethoven's fifth concerto, it is dedicated to Archduke
Rudolph

answer-- the EMPEROR CONCERTO

10- Identify either the three string quartets from Beethoven's middle
years named after a Russian count who served as an ambassador to Austria,
or, the Goethe play commemorating a historical figure executed in
connection with the Dutch revolt against Spanish imperialism in the
1560's, for which Beethoven wrote the music

answer-- THE RASOUMOVSKY QUARTETS or EGMONT

10- In this moving letter to his brother, Beethoven movingly describes his
personal troubles and impending deafness at a time when his popularity was
just beginning to spread

answer-- THE HEILIGENSTADT TESTAMENT

8.  On March 9, 1862, the Monitor and the Merrimack met in a pitched and
indecisive battle.  Answer these questions about this first battle of the
ironclads.  The Merrimack was a scuttled frigate that the Confederates
raised and covered with iron plates.  The ship was then renamed for the
state where the battle took place.  For five points, what was this new
name?

Answer: Virginia

Answer: Hampton Roads

recorded its first successful strike.  FTP, name this new idea.

Answer: Submarine

9. Pencil and paper ready?  Actually, you probably won't need it to answer
these questions about the linear operator M for ten points each.

We know that M* (read "M-adjoint") = -M ("negative M").  Is it possible to
diagonalize M orthogonally?

answer: Yes

What name is given to any matrix M with adjoint equal to the opposite?

answer: anti-Hermitian

What type of matrix S will orthogonally diagonalize M according to the
formula S* M S ("S adjoint times M times S)?

answer: unitary

10. FFPE and a 5-point bonus for all five, given a director, year and list
of characters, identify the popular movie.

   5- 1903, starring George Barns and AC Abadie; directed by Edwin S Porter

answer-- THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY

   5- 1950, starring Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, and George Sanders;
     directed by Joseph L Mankiewicz

answer-- ALL ABOUT EVE

   5- 1959, starring Charlton Heston and Stephen Boyd; directed by
     William Wyler

answer-- BEN HUR

   5- 1971, starring Malcolm MacDowell and Patrick Magee; directed by
Stanley
     Kubrick

answer-- A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

   5- 1981, starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons; directed by Karel Reisz

answer-- THE FRENCH LIETENANT'S WOMAN

11. For ten points each, identify the speaker by the quote and a bit of
additional info.

The entertainer who lived from 1892 to 1980 said, "Marriage is a great
institution, but not ready for an institution yet."

Answer: Mae West

This Frenchman who lived from 1913 until 1960 said, "Integrity needs no
rules."

Answer: Albert Camus

"At twenty-one or twenty-two so many things appear solid and permanent and
terrible which forty sees are nothing but disappearing miasma.  Forty
can't tell twenty about this; that's the pity of it!  Twenty can find out
only by getting to be forty."  This line comes from his book, The
Magnificent Ambersons.

Answer: Booth Tarkington

12. For ten points each, name these people who share their names with the
children of Jacob from the Old Testament.

He was known as the "brains of the Confederacy" serving as attorney
general, secretary of war, and secretary of state.  He shares both first
and last names with sons of Jacob.

Answer: Judah Benjamin

He explored the Southwest in 1806-07 as a U.S. Army Lieutenant and was
killed in the battle of York as Brigadier General during the War of 1812.

Answer: Zebulon Pike

A New York financier, he served as Vice President under Benjamin Harrison.

Answer: Levi Morton

13.  What do you know about granite besides that the Granite City is also
known as Mayberry RFD in the Andy Griffith Show?  Answer the following
questions about granite!

For fifteen points, all or nothing, what three types of mineral make up
the bulk of any type of granite?

Answer: quartz, mica, and feldspar

For another five points, is granite igneus, metamorphic, or sedimentary?

Answer: igneus

For your final ten points, what rock does granite become when it is
exposed to extreme heat and pressure?

Answer: gneiss (pronounced "nice")

14. Identify these "Swift" characters for the stated number of points:

For 5 points - Irish author of _A Modest Proposal.  His most famous
character is named Lemuel.

Ans: Jonathan Swift

For 10 points - Boyfriend of Mary Nestor and boss of Eradicate Sampson and
Koku, he overcomes all obstacles and outsmarts all villains by using
science in this series created by Victor Applegate.

Ans: Tom Swift

For 15 points - English author of Waterland, _Learning to Swim and other
Stories, Shuttlecock, and _The Sweet-Shop Owner, he was born in London in
1949.

Ans: Graham Colin Swift

15. For five points apiece, given the event in European history, tell
which Dynasty ruled China at the time.

Caesar is assassinated

answer: HAN

Giotto lives

answer: YUAN (accept Mongol)

Britain fights the Boers

answer: QING or CHING (accept Manchu)

Louis XIV rules France

answer: QING or CHING (accept Manchu)

Charlemagne builds the Holy Roman Empire

answer: TANG

Ethelred the Unready urinates in a baptismal font

answer: SUNG

16. It's time for the Computer Science/ENGLISH continuation bonus!  I'll
give you two items, and you put them together to form a continuous (if not
entirely sane) thought.  For instance, if I said "The wrestling move
performed on Ray Stevens by the Blue C yclone" and "The oscar-winning
movie about an aging southern belle and her chauffeur," you'd be right if
you answered, "Pile Driving Miss Daisy." FTP apiece, here we go:

First, the general-purpose mail utility that uses the infamous port 25 and
an
anti-Semitic forgery popularized in Russia in the early 20th century.

Answer: SIMPLE MAIL TRANSFER PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION

Next, the book that really landed Chuck Darwin in hot water with religious
types and the handy troff (TEE ROFF) and nroff (EN ROFF) formatted online
descriptions of usage and syntax.

Answer: THE DESCENT OF MAN PAGES

Finally, the mnemonic, dot-delimited entry in your local DNS and the
Umberto Eco mystery solved by the mendicant monk.

Answer: HOSTNAME OF THE ROSE

17. For five points each, name these African cities with over one million
residents.

First name both of the two Nigerian cities with over one million

answers: Lagos and Ibadan

Name the capital of Mozambique, which was once known as Lorenzo Marques

answer: Maputo

Name the capital city which sits on the Indian Ocean and lies just south
of the island of Zanzibar.

Answer: Dar-es-Salaam

Name the capital situated on the coast of Lake Victoria

answer: Kampala

Finally, name the capital of Cote d'Ivoire.

Answer: Abijan

18. Name these Middle Eastern minorities for ten points each.

There are about 15 million of them who lives in the mountainous areas of
Morocco and Algeria.

Answer: Berbers

There are about 10 million of them.  They are Christians with there own
language and live in Egypt.

Answer: Copts

There are roughly 1.7 million of them living in Syria, yet they dominate
the state apparatus thanks to leader Hafez Assad, who is a member.

Answer: Alawites

19. I bet you were waiting for another one of those questions about the
Compton effect.  Sorry!  Name this effect on a 30-20-10 basis:

30 points) In 1959, Robert Pound and Glen Rebka used this effect to
measure the gravitational blue shift due to the earth's mass on a photon
falling through only a few stories of a building.

20pts) This effect is a way around the recoil of a nucleus when the
nucleus decays from an excited state and allows the reabsorption of the
photon by other similar nuclei.

10pts) It was discovered in 1957 by the physicist for whom it is named,
and it gets around the recoil problem by putting the nucleus in a crystal,
which absorbs all the recoil momentum, reducing the velocity of recoil to
practically zero.  The German physicist shared the 1961 Nobel with Robert
Hofstadter.

answer: Mossbauer Effect

20.  It's time to play take the money and run!  After you identify the
author of each work, you can choose to take your points or gamble all your
points on the next question, which is worth more.  So, for example, if you
get the first one right, you will have 5 pts.  You can then either take
the 5 pts or the second question.  If you get that one right, you will
have 15 total points, but if you miss it, you will get none.

5 points) Fathers and Sons

answer: Ivan Turgenev

0 points) Goodbye, Mr. Chips

answer: James Hilton

15 points) Indiana

answer: George Sand (aka Amandine Lucie Aurore Dupin, Baronne Dudevant)

21. FFPE and a 5-point bonus for all 5, identify the following from the
field of art. Hint: watch for the common theme

    5- a neo-Classicist widely regarded as the greatest French painter of
        the 17th century, his works include _The Burial of Phocyon,_ _The
     Martyrdom of St. Erasmus,_ _The Holy Family,_ and _The Worship of
     the Golden Calf_

answer-- Nicolas POUSSIN

    5- this term denotes any work showing the Virgin supporting the dead
     Christ on her lap

answer-- PIETA

    5- an early 16th century mannerist known for his elongated figures,
     works include _The Vision of St. Jerome,_ _Cupid Carving His Bow,_
     and _Madonna of the Long Neck_

answer-- PARMAGIANINO

    5- this 2nd-century Greek traveller's treatise _Description of Greece_
     is the most important surviving literary source of information on
     ancient Greek art.

answer-- PAUSANIAS

    5- a French impressionist born of a Jewish father and creole mother
     in the West Indies, he was the only artist to exhibit at all 8
     impressionist exhibitions

answer-- Camille PISARRO

22. Test your knowledge of Islamic History. Identify the following Islamic
dynasties, FTSNOP.

   5- this dynasty ruled the Islamic world from Baghdad during the
"classical
     period" of Islamic history in the eighth and ninth century until its
     final destruction at the hands of the Mongols in 1258. By then, the
     position of caliph had long since become merely a figurehead
              subject to the various ruling tribes of Seljuks throughout
     the middle east.

answer-- the 'ABBASIDS

    10- this dynasty took their name from the wife of 'Ali, the cousin of
       the prophet and fourth Caliph of Islam. Proclaiming their first
       North African Caliph in 910, this Shiite dynasty primarily
            from its capital in Cairo until its destruction by Saladin in
1171.

answer-- the FATIMIDS

    15-  this dynasty ruled Persia from 1501 to 1722 and reached their apex
        under the leadership of Shah Abbas I "the Great". A continual
        nuisance to the Ottomans in the East, the Ottoman need to divert
        considerable military resources to the maintenance of their Eastern
        possessions probably prevented them from mounting a large-scale
        invasion of Western Europe

answer-- the SAFAVIDS
  (NOT the same as the Sassanids)

23.  Name these lesser Greek goddesses from the clues, for ten points each.

This goddess of Justice revealed that Thetis would bear a son, Achilles,
who would be greater than his father.

Answer: Themis

This goddess of discord threw the golden apple.

Answer: Eris

This goddess of oblivion shares her name with a water in the infernal
regions.

Answer: Lethe

24. Here we go - another of everyone's favorite....It's an S.I. Units
bonus.  I will give you the composition of a unit, for example "Newton
meter," and for 10 points you have the opportunity to identify the SI
Unit.  If you need it, I will then give you the quantity that the unit is
for, for the above example "work."  You would then receive 5 points for
identifying the "Joule."

1 - first: Ampere second
    second: charge

ans: Coulomb

2 - first: Newton per square meter
    second: Pressure

ans: Pascal

3 - first: Tesla meter squared
    second: Magnetic flux

ans: Weber

25. FTSNOP, identify these Old Testament characters whose names begin with
an "A" in English translation.

  5-  In the book of Genesis, both Abraham and Isaac fool Phillistine
       kings of this name by claiming that their wives (Rebecca and Sarah,
       respectively) are really their sisters. Although the Genesis text
       does not clearly state whether or not the two were the same, the
       name was probably a generic title used by Phillistine kings.

answer-- ABIMELECH

  5-  He is the first of the minor prophets alphabetically, and probably
       chronologically, as well

answer-- AMOS

  10- A former commander in Saul's army whom David had previously taunted
       for not being an able bodyguard to his superior, he served David
after
       the death of Saul but joined the breakaway faction led by Saul's
       son Ishbosheth, until he was killed by Joab and Abishai, as is
       recorded in 2 Samuel 15

answer-- ABNER

  10- A northern prophet from Shiloh who opposed the idolatry of Solomon
       and his successors, he predicts the separation of the nation of
       Israel because of the oppressive taxation policies of Solomon's
       son Rehoboam, through a symbolic tearing of his robe in 1 Kings 11

answer-- AHIJAH

26. Answer these questions from the field of economics:

When the price of a normal good drops a person always buys more of that
good.  Economists identify two effects that are at work causing this to
occur.  The first is called the substitution effects.  For ten points,
what is the other called?

Answer: the income effect

For ten more, which theorem concludes that if property rights are properly
defined and enforced, then people will be forced to pay for any negative
externalites they impose on others, and market transactions will produce
efficient outcomes?

Answer: the Coase theorem

For a final ten points, what type of curve shows the cumulative proportion
of income that goes to each cumulative proportion of the population,
starting with the lowest income group.  The Gini coefficient is based on
this curve.

Answer: the Lorenz curve

27. Its time for a grab bag bonus with a common theme of transportation
and fuel.

First, for a quick ten points and within three inches, tell me what is the
width of the standard gauge for railroad tracks in the United States.

Answer: 4 feet 8.5 inches (i.e. 4' 6.5'' to 4' 10.5'' is acceptable)

Now, suppose that the schooner America had lost its race back in 1851.
We'd probably call the America's Cup by the name of the other yacht.  For
ten points, name the ship that came second to the America in the race
around the Isle of Wight.

Answer: Aurora

Finally, it might seem obscure to ask you to name the state owned oil
company of Malaysia whose recent profits have reached into the billions of
ringgit.  However, you may well know the company's name for their
headquarters, located in Kuala Lumpur, is in a building named for the
company and is the world's tallest building at 1483 feet.  For ten points,
name the company.

Answer: Petronas

28. Five points apiece, name any six of the provinces of China.

Answer: KANSU, SHENSI, SHANSI, CHIHLI, SHANTUNG, HONAN, KIANGSU, ANHWEI,
CHEKIANG, KIANGSI, HUPEI, SZECHWAN, KWEICHOW, YUNNAN, KWANGSI, KWANGTUNG,
HUNAN, FUKIEN, HAINAN, TAIWAN

29. We all know Children's Lit, and we know the classics, but what about
all those books in between?  Identify these authors of Juvenile fiction.
I'll give you two books, if you get it after the first you get 10 points,
after the second, 5 points.  There are three different authors.

1) - first: _The Moon by Night_
    second: _A Swiftly Tilting Planet_

Ans: Madeline _L'Engle_

2)- first: _Tehanu_
    second: _A Wizard of Earthsea_

Ans: Ursula _LeGuin_

3) - first: _The Outlaws of Sherwood_
    second: _The Hero and the Crown_

Ans: Robin McKinley

30. Originally scientists divided life into only two kingdoms- plants and
animals.  But now they've added three additional kingdoms.  You'd know
this if you took sixth grade science today.  For ten points each name

these three additional kingdoms.

Answers: Fungi, Monerans, Protists