Illinois Novice Tournament 2001 – Round 7 
Packet by Loyola “S” Words for $200 and Case Western

Tossup

1. It first gained media attention after its members shot Marcus Jones with a cyanide bullet.  Its symbol is a seven-headed cobra, and its name means “coming together for a mutual benefit.”  For 10 points, name this right-wing organization, headed by Donald DeFreeze, who kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst.

Answer:    Symbionese Liberation Army    

2. She earned a degree in English from UCLA, which explains why, in addition to being a prolific choreographer, she also wrote many books, including a controversial biography of Martha Graham.  Among her best-known works are The Black Crook, the dances from Romeo and Juliet and Oklahoma!, and the ballet Rodeo.  For 10 points, name this choreographer whose uncle was the famous director Cecil B. De Mille.

Answer:   Agnes De Mille  (must have first name if the buzz is after the end of the question)

3. They are dark and heavy-looking, and rise like mountains high into the atmosphere. They often show an anvil-shaped veil of ice clouds at the top. They can exist as individual towers or form a line of towers called a squall line, which is often present at cold fronts. For 10 points, name these clouds, which are popularly known as thunderheads and are usually accompanied by heavy, abrupt showers.

Answer: Cumulonimbus clouds

4. This area was once inhabited by the Chickasaw tribe, and was first settled by Europeans circa 1811.  It is bounded on the north by the Tallahatchie, and on the south by its eponymous river.  In 1936, this 2400 sq. mile area was home to 15,611 individuals, including the Griersons, the Bundrens, the de Spains, the Sartorises, the Compsons and the Snopes.  For 10 points, name this mythical county created by William Faulkner, which is based on Lafayette County, Mississippi.

Answer: Yoknapatawpha (yok-nah-pah-tahw-fa) County (accept reasonable pronunciations)

5. Had he not forgotten his camera in his hotel room, this man would have been touring the World Trade Center the morning of September Eleventh. This athlete won three gold and two silver medals – all by the age of 18 – in three relays and the 200 and 400 meter individual freestyles at the Sydney Olympics. FTP, name this Australian swimmer nicknamed the “Thorpedo.”

Answer:    Ian Thorpe (need first name if they buzz after Thorpedo)

6. This man assisted in League of Nation humanitarian efforts in Russia, and as minister of defense he repressed a hydroelectric workers’ strike. In 1933 he founded the Nasjonal Samling Party, and after his country was invaded in April 1940, he served under commissioner Josef Terboven as head of state. For ten points, name this traitor and Norwegian Nazi collaborator.

Answer: Vidkun Quisling 

7. This composer of Le Devin du village spent several years in Savoy living with Baronne de Warens, a self-styled “amoral Catholic missionary,” and he feuded with Jean-Philippe Rameau over the superiority of Italian opera to French. Better known as a philosopher, Immanuel Kant was struck by the educational theories he put forth in Emile. FTP, name this Enlightenment thinker who held that in the state of nature people are good but are corrupt by society, the author of The Social Contract. 

Answer:  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

8. After converting to Roman Catholicism, this Jesuit tried to abandon poetic composition, but when he was encouraged by his superiors to immortalize a group of shipwrecked German nuns in what would become “The Wreck of the Deutschland,” his creative fire was rekindled. For ten points, what poet introduced innovations such as sprung rhythm and ‘inscape’ to beatify God’s creation through verse in works like “Henry Purcell” and “Pied Beauty.”

Answer:  Gerard Manley Hopkins

9. An Italian immigrant to France, he dominated the continental music scene as the master court musician of Louis XIV. He created a distinctly French style of opera and developed countless ballets and court compositions, which shaped the musical identity of the nation and the age.  For ten points, name this collaborator with Moliere on Le Mariage forcé and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme who died by the infection of an accidental wound to his foot, done with his own directing staff.

Answer:  Jean-Baptiste Lully

10. It was composed of continental sial [sy-al], a granitic rock, which was balanced in a layer of denser material, called sima, constituting the uppermost portion of the Earth’s mantle. Proposed by Alfred Wegener, late in the Triassic period it had segmented and formed the Atlantic Ocean. Prior to that, Panthalassa surrounded this precursor to Laurasia and Gondwanaland. FTP, name this prehistoric supercontinent.

Answer: Pangaea 

11. This ship was sailing from Havana to Puerto Principe (PRIN-si-pay), Cuba, when it was commandeered and told to sail to Sierra Leone.  The Spanish navigator instead sailed it northward and it was seized by the U.S. Navy.  Martin Van Buren ordered that the rebel passengers be returned to Cuba, while John Quincy Adams argued on behalf of the mutineers.  For 10 points, name this slave ship whose revolt was led by Joseph Cinqué.

Answer: Amistad

12. Inspired by Matthew 19:21, “Go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven” this man abandoned the comforts of his home in favor of a life of asceticism.  His hermitic lifestyle, along with his apparent mastery of self through divine aid, attracted many followers, who would become the first participants in the monastic tradition.  For ten points, name this first Christian monk.

Answer: St. Anthony of Egypt

13. American production of this item was halted between 1978 and 1981, and the “silent city” scenario that it produces is science fantasy, not fact. Unlike conventional atomic weapons, it produces a reduced physical blast zone in addition to a radiation zone several hundred meters across. For ten points, name this weapon designed by Edward Teller that produces a lethal, concentrated wave of gamma and neutron radiation to destroy the enemy.

Answer:  Neutron Bomb

14. Born in Cuba to Italian parents, he moved to Italy to join the resistance during World War II.  He settled there and worked as a journalist, editor, and leftist political advocate.  However, it was his remarkable storytelling abilities that would earn him the reputation as one of Italy’s preeminent twentieth century authors.  For ten points, name this author of the magical realism genre whose works include The Path to the Nest of Spiders, Cosmicomics, and If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler.

Answer:  Italio Calvino

15. This character first appeared in a 1919 pulp fiction novel, The Curse of Capistrano by Johnston McCulley.  The following year, he made his first big-screen debut in a film starring Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.  He has since appeared in more than fifty other novels and short stories and more than a dozen films. FTP, name this fictional character, whose mark is the subject of the 1920 and 1940 films and whose mask is the subject of the 1998 rendition.

Answer: Zorro, also accept slashing “Z” motion

16. This historical battle resulted in more than 26,000 American casualties, including 6,800 dead. Twenty-seven Medals of Honor were awarded, more than were awarded for any other single operation during the war. The Marines landed at the battle site, whose name means “sulfur island,” on February 19th, 1944.  For ten points, name this assault remembered in a photograph and monument of  Marines raising the flag on Mt. Suribachi.

Answer: The Battle of Iwo Jima

17. This sculpture has been referenced in Steve Martin’s play Picasso at the Lapin Agile and is used to describe Picasso upon his entrance to the bar. Originally commissioned in 1891 by the Society of Men of Letters, the artist interviewed the subject’s tailor to obtain accurate measurements, but it was rejected on account of its depiction as a standing nude. For ten points, name this Rodin sculpture of the French author of The Human Comedy.

Answer: “Balzac”

18. This poet was interned for associating with supposed spies during World War I, an experience that was symbolically recounted in The Enormous Room.  A part-time member of the American expatriate circle in Paris, his first book of poems was Tulips and Chimneys. FTP, name this poet, author of “The Cambridge Ladies”, “in Just-“, “the greedy the people”, and “nobody lived in a pretty how town”, famous for inventing words and refraining from capitalization.

Answer: E.E. Cummings (or Cummings)

19. This Austrian physicist and philosopher took empiricism to its logical conclusions by insisting that science should restrict itself to the description of phenomena that could be perceived by the senses.  His ideas cleared the way for the development of the theory of relativity in physics, while his experimentation in ballistics served as a platform for the theory of flight and aerodynamics.  For ten points, name this man, whose name we use to describe the ratio of the speed of an object to the speed of sound in the atmosphere.

Answer:  Ernst Mach

20. His childhood advisor Adrian of Utrecht eventually became Pope Adrian VI and he himself declared war on Protestantism at the Diet of Worms.  In 1525 his armies defeated and captured Francis I of France and subsequently forced the signing of the Treaty of Madrid. Although he was born in Ghent, this son of Philip the Handsome and Juana la Loca became the king of Spain in 1516. For ten points, who was this last Holy Roman Emperor to be crowned by a pope and who opted to abdicate in 1556?

Answer: Charles V, (or Charles I of Spain)

21. It is very shallow near the coast but its depth increases to as much as 650 feet. It forms the northwestern arm of the South China Sea, and for much of the last 2000 years, has been a major trade route. In addition, it played a major role in the Vietnam War as the site where the U.S.S Maddox was attacked. For 10 points, name this body of water, which is bordered on its west by Vietnam and on its north and east by China.

Answer: Gulf of Tonkin

Bonuses

1. Given a description, name the following Biblical siblings.

A. For five points each: These twins, sons of Isaac were rivals from the very start, when one grabbed on to the other’s heel at birth.  Later, the younger stole the birthright from the older for a pot of porridge:

Answer: Jacob and Esau

B. FTP each: These sons of Joseph also got their blessings the other way around when the elderly Jacob crossed his arms and blessed the younger with his right hand and older with his left:

Answer: Ephriam and Manessah

2. Given the number of dead and manner of death, name the play FTPE.

A. One dead due to ear poisoning, one due to drowning, one to poisoning, one to stabbing and poisoning, two to being stabbed with poison lances, one due to stabbing, and the death of the other two occurs offstage, cause of which is unknown.

Answer: Hamlet

B. The same amount of dead as the above, although in this play the latter two characters “die” by simply walking offstage.

Answer: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

C. One character has already been dead for some time in this play due to a roadside duel.  The only character that dies in the course of events of the play does so through suicide, while another also invokes ocular self-punishment, though it is not fatal.

Answer: Oedpius Rex (Oedipus the King also acceptable)

3. Name these characters from 16th century European history FTP each. 

A. Although he suppressed Protestants at home, this French king, the son of Francis I, signed the Treaty of Chambord in 1552 with Protestant German princes to exchange troops for control over the bishoprics of Metz and Verdun.

Answer: Henry II

B. Henry married this daughter of a powerful Florentine family.

Answer: Catherine de Medici

C. For five points each, name any two of the three of Henry’s sons by Catherine who went on to become King of France.

Answer:  Francis II, Charles IX, Henry III

4. The Chicago Bears have been more successful this year than anyone would have imagined, achieving a six and one record in their first eight games. Answer these questions about the New Bears.

A. For ten points, name this head coach of the Bears, formerly the defensive coordinator of the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Answer:  Dick Jauron

For five points each, name the two Bear rookies, one a running back, one a wide receiver, who hail from the University of Michigan.

Answer:  David Terrell and Anthony Thomas

C. For ten points, name the second-year middle linebacker who is at the center of the Bears defense.

Answer: Brian Urlacher

5. Answer the following questions about mathematical or physical constants FTPE.

A. In SI units, this constant has the value 8.314 J/mol·K.

Answer: Ideal gas constant (prompt for more on “R.”)

B. Its value was first approximated as 256/81 by an Egyptian scribe around 1650 BC. Later, Archimedes calculated it to within .0003 of its actual value.

Answer: Pi

C. It can be described as a conversion factor between units of force and units of charge, or as the constant of proportionality between electric displacement and electric field intensity.

Answer: Permittivity of free space

6. Name these poetry terms FTPE.

A. This form consists of six stanzas, the first five consisting of three lines and the last of four lines. It uses an A-B-A rhyme scheme in the three-line stanza and an A-B-A-A scheme in the quatrain. An example is Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”

Answer: Villanelle

B. This is a stanza of eight decasyllable lines concluded by a ninth, six-foot hexameter line, and has the rhyme scheme A-B-A-B-B-C-B-C-C.

Answer: Spenserian stanza

B. This standard French heroic line is in iambic hexameter and appears as the final line of a Spenserian stanza.

Answer: Alexandrine

7. Recently, President Bush established a new Cabinet-level office whose mission is to “to develop and coordinate the implementation of a comprehensive national strategy to secure the United States from terrorist threats or attacks.”  FTPE:

A. Name this office.

Answer:  The Office of Homeland Security

B. The Assistant to the President for Homeland Security who heads this office.

Answer: Tom Ridge

C. The state of which Tom Ridge was governor prior to being selected.

Answer: Pennsylvania

8. Answer the following astronomy questions FTPE.

A. Around which star was the first extra-solar system planet found to be orbiting?

Answer: 51 Pegasi

B. Which Swiss observatory first observed 51 Pegasi?

Answer: Geneva  Observatory

C. The method most commonly used to observe exoplanets is the observation of a “wobble” in the wavelength of emitted starlight due to what effect?

Answer: Doppler shift

9. FTPE name these men associated with Charlemagne.

A. His grandfather, who defeated the Arabs at Tours and helped St. Boniface evangelize Germany.

Answer: Charles Martel

B.  His father, who was anointed by the Pope as king in 1754.

Answer: Pepin III or Pepin the Short    

C.  His youngest son, who inherited Charlemagne’s entire empire due to the early deaths of his older brothers.

Answer: Louis the Pious

10. FTPE identify the following about Stoicism.

A. This man founded that school of philosophy named for the painted colonnade from which he lectured.

Answer: Zeno of Citium 

B. This third head of the Stoic school formalized its teachings and came to the conclusion that logic and physics are prerequisites to the formation of ethics.

Answer: Chrysippus

C. On of the last notable Stoics of the classical world was this Roman emperor who wrote Meditations.

Answer: Marcus Aurelius

11. Answer these questions about a series of French comic books. 

A. This protagonist is considerably younger than the other recurring characters and is always accompanied by a small, white talking dog. His adventures have taken him to Chicago, Tibet, Congo, and even the surface of the moon.

Answer: Tintin

B. Name the creator of Tintin.

Answer: Hergé

C. A frequent companion of Tintin is this old sea captain, who is easily upset and often prone to mild profanity.

Answer: Captain Haddock

12. For 10 points apiece, from the song title and the name of the musical, name the character who sings the song.

A.  “On My Own,” Les Misèrables

Answer: Eponine

B.  “Tomorrow,” Annie

Answer: Annie

C.  “If I Were a Rich Man,” Fiddler on the Roof

Answer: Tevye (TEV-ee-ya)

13. For 10 points each, answer the following questions about Dashiell Hammett.

A. Name the protagonist from The Maltese Falcon, portrayed by Humphrey Bogart in John Huston’s film version.

Answer:  Sam Spade

B. After working menial jobs throughout his teenage years and twenties, he eventually got a job as a detective for this private investigation agency.

Answer:  Pinkerton National Detective Agency

C. In his later years, this playwrite became his romantic companion.  She described their love affair in her prose collection Pentimento.

Answer:  Lillian Hellman

14. Identify these Lucasian Professors of Mathematics FTPE.

A. Appointed to the post in 1849, this physicist formulated a simple model for explaining the behavior of a solid sphere in a viscous fluid.

Answer: Sir George Stokes

B. Serving from 1828 to 1839, this mathematician developed plans for an analytical engine which could compute differences accurately to thirty-one digits.

Answer: Charles Babbage

C. Serving for the two years prior to Babbage, this man, known for his studies of interference fringes, stepped down to become astronomer royal, a position he would hold for forty-five years. During that time, he reorganized the Royal Greenwich Observatory.

Answer: Sir George Airy

15. Identify these related characters from Greek myth.

A. This son of Aeacus married the nymph Thetis and was the father of Achilles.

Answer: Peleus

B. This brother of Peleus was jealous of the athletic prowess of their half-brother Phocus, and so he killed him and fled from the kingdom of Aegina.

Answer: Telamon

C. This bastard grandson of Peleus killed King Priam during the taking of Troy.

Answer: Pyrrhus or Neoptolemus

16. In wartime, women are often employed by the enemy to demoralize American soldiers.  For 10 points each, from a short description, give their popular nicknames.

A.  Among the most famous of the WWII propagandists was Iva Toguri, who was sentenced to ten years in prison for treason, in addition to being stripped of her American citizenship. She eventually received a presidential pardon and now runs a store on Clark and Belmont in Chicago.    

Answer:  Tokyo Rose (accept Orphan Ann)

B.  Her real name was Mildred Gillars, and she was an aspiring actress.  After WWII, she was sentenced to 10 to 30 years in prison for her collaboration with the Nazis, but was paroled after 12 years in 1961. After her release, she became a Roman Catholic nun as well as a high school teacher.

Answer:  Axis Sally 

C.  Her real name was Thu Houng, and she broadcasted ideas crafted to raise doubts in the minds of American soldiers as to why they were asked to fight, and for whom they were fighting, in Vietnam.  She reminded GIs that "Vietnam is not American soil" and that "you could go home in a body bag."

Answer:  Hanoi Hannah

17. Practice makes perfect!  If you are a well-trained musician who practices diligently, you’ll have a good time with this bonus:

A. Progressively, students playing this instrument will encounter music written by Wolfhart, Hrmaly, Dont, Kayser, and Rode before tackling Rodolphe Kreutzer, who wrote the most fundamental studies for this instrument in his 42 Studies or Caprices.

Answer: Violin 

B. This composer of Vienna March studied with Beethoven, who once fired him as a student because he played super fast without any passion.  His music, mostly études for the piano, is characterized by super fast scales and arpeggios. 

 Answer: Carl Czerny 

C. Pianists looking for more substance in études might consider this composer’s Opus 10 and 25 compositions, which include études entitled “Butterfly,” “Aeolian Harp,” “Torrent,” “Winterwind,” and “Revolutionary.”

Answer: Frédéric Chopin 

18. Identify the following about a sixteenth century French satire FTPE.

A. For five points each, name the son and grandson of the giant king Grangosier [gran goo-see-ay] after whom the work is titled.

Answer: Gargantua and Pantagruel

B. This French author created Gargantua and Pantagruel.

Answer: François Rabelais

C. Pantagruel accompanied this best friend on his quest to the Oracle of the Holy Bottle.

Answer: Panurge

19. Answer the following about chaos theory FTPE.

A. One of the hallmarks of chaotic systems is their sensitivity to initial conditions. What is this effect that describes how a minor motion in the rain forest can influence the next month's weather in New York?

Answer: Butterfly Effect

B. Many chaotic systems exhibit self-similar patterns that appear similar on all scales. What are these patterns characterized by fractional dimensions, commonly seen in the formation of a snowflake?

Answer: Fractals

C. This fractal set can be constructed by taking the interval from zero to one, removing the middle third, then subsequently removing the middle third from each remaining interval infinitely.

Answer: Cantor set

20. For 10 points each, name the Supreme Court case based on a description.

A.  It resulted in a ruling that specified a code of conduct for police interrogations of criminal suspects held in custody. Guidelines include informing arrested persons prior to questioning that they have the right to remain silent, that anything they say may be used against them as evidence, and that they have the right to the counsel of an attorney.

Answer: Miranda v. Arizona

B.  In this landmark decision the high court declared an act of Congress unconstitutional, thus establishing the power of judicial review.

Answer: Marbury v. Madison

C. The Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty was being imposed in a discriminatory manner and constituted “cruel and unusual punishment.”  As a result, capital punishment was outlawed for several years.

Answer: Furman v. Georgia

21. For 10 points each, name the Chinese dynasty from its description.

A. This is the first Chinese dynasty for which there is both documentary and archaeological evidence

Answer: Shang dynasty

B. Founded by Liu Pang, this dynasty reunited China after the fall of the Ch’in dynasty.  It is known as the golden age of Chinese philosophy.

Answer:  Han dynasty

C. This dynasty provided an interval of native rule between eras of Mongol and Manchu dominance. 

Answer: Ming dynasty