Wahoo War of the Minds 1997

Round Twelve


1.  The use of phosphates in detergents has been regulated in recent years
because phosphates released into the ground water fertilize the growth of
algae in lakes.  When the algae die, their bodies fall to the bottom. As
the lake becomes shallower, botto
m-rooted plants take hold, and eventually the lake becomes a marsh and,
finally a meadow.  This phenomenon is known by, FTP, what name derived from
the Greek for =D2well-nourished=D3?

Answer: eutrophication

2.  Possibly born in Wurzburg, he became court painter to the Archbishop
of Mainz in 1508.  His first known work is the Mocking of Christ, but he is
better remembered for a folding altar he made for a hospital for skin
diseases.  FTP, name this subject of
 Hindemith's Mathis der Maler, whose masterpiece is the Isenheim
Altarpiece=2E=20

Answer: Mathis Grunewald

3.  He rebels after his friend, Paul Riesling, goes to jail for shooting
his wife.  After initiating an affair with Tanis Judique, he comes under the
sway of Seneca Doane, a socialist lawyer, and refuses to become a member
of the Good Citizens League.  FT
P, identify this title character of a 1922 novel, a real-estate agent from
Zenith who represented conformity, created by Sinclair Lewis.

Answer: Babbitt

4.  Designed by John Duncan, it stands on a bluff 130 feet above the
Hudson river.  It cost 600,000 dollars to build in 1897, and was made into a
national memorial in 1959.  The center of the monument is an open crypt which
contains two sarcophagi.  FTP,=20
identify this New York City landmark, the final resting place of a general
and president.

Answer: Grant's Tomb (accept General Grant National Memorial)

5.  The one thousand, four hundred and fifty three men of Brigade 2506 did
not fare well.  Within 3 days, 274 had died, and the remainder had been
captured.  Eventually, the prisoners were traded for 53 million dollars in
medical supplies and other goods,
 to the chagrin of the CIA.  FTP, identify this attempt to use Cuban
exiles against Castro, a failed invasion of 1962.

Answer: the Bay of Pigs invasion


7.  Tim Stoddard had a nice career as a pitcher for the Padres, while
Thurl Bailey was a steady performer for the Jazz and Timberwolves.  Derek
Whittenburg is now an assistant coach at his alma mater, while David Thompson is
retired after a Hall of Fame c
areer.  These are the principals from the two championship basketball
teams at, FTP, what Southern school?

Answer: North Carolina State

8.  At the end, Nancy joins her father in India, and the title character
commits suicide.  The German spa of Nauheim has been the site, for nine
years, of meetings between Leonora, the narrator, John Dowell, and Edward
Ashburnham, who has been having an a
ffair with Florence.  FTP, identify this novel, subtitled "A Tale of
Passion," and published in 1915 by Ford Madox Ford.

Answer: The Good Soldier

9.  The German diplomat Ernst von Rath was murdered in Paris by a Polish
student named Herschel Grynszpan (GREEN-span).  In response, Hermann Goering
ordered a 1 billion mark indemnity from the Jews of Berlin, and Reinhard
Heydrich interred 30,000 wealthy
 Jews and took their possessions.  Joseph Goebbels then assembled S.A.
forces to spread fear among Germany=D5s Jewish population, starting a pogrom
that killed 91 Jews and burnt 177 synagogues.  FTP, identify this November
9, 1938 event.
=20
Answer: Kristallnacht

11.  Marie loves Hans, but her father wants her to marry Wenzel, the
half-wit son of Micha.  The marriage broker pays Hans not to marry Marie, but
after signing an agreement that only the son of Micha should marry her, he
reveals that Micha is his father=20
as well.  FTP, identify this comic opera, famous for the "Dance of the
Comedians," which was written in 1866 by Bedrich Smetana.

Answer: The Bartered Bride

12.  He opposed Luther in De Libero Arbitrio, a treatise of 1524.  Latin
secretary to the Bishop of Cambrai, his Novum Instrumentatum, a parallel
edition of the New Testament which replaced the Vulgate, first appeared in
1516, and was followed by his edit
ion of Jerome.  FTP, identify this Renaissance scholar, best known for
such works as The Dagger of the Christian Soldier and In Praise of Folly.

Answer: Desiderius Erasmus


13.  Defeat at the Battle of Lake Erie rendered General Henry Proctor's
positions in Malden and Detroit untenable, and he elected to withdraw his
forces to the north despite the protests of his Indian allies.  Withdrawal
began September 18, but on October
 5, 1813, General William Henry Harrison overtook Proctor and inflicted a
decisive defeat on the British.  FTP, identify this War of 1812 battle in
which future Vice-President Richard Johnson claimed to have personally
killed Tecumseh.

Answer: Battle of the Thames

14.  According to Manetho, the Greeks thought that he was an important
figure, but his name has only recently been discovered on a statue base at
Saqqara.  High priest and chief minister to King Zoser, he later became a
demigod, both as a healer and as an
 architect.  FTP, identify this Egyptian, whose work on the Step Pyramid
laid the basis for large scale stone masonry.

Answer: Imhotep

15.  In 1767 he published Dorando, an allegory of the Douglas inheritance
case, and two years later married his cousin, Margaret Montgomerie, after
many philanderings.  He was so impressed by General Paoli that he wrote An
Account of Corsica, and his late
r work includes essays written under the name =D2Hypochondriack=D3 and The
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides.  FTP, name this Scottish author, who,
on May 16, 1763, met the man whose biography he would publish in 1791 as The
Life of Samuel Johnson.

Answer: James Boswell

16.  Lakes in this state include Torrens and Gairdner.  In the west lies
the Nullarbor Plain, while the Great Artesian Basin lies in the northeast. 
FTP, name this state bordered by the Great Australian Bight and five other
Australian states, whose capita
l is at Adelaide.

Answer: South Australia

17.  His most important economic work was the Elements of Public
Economics, published posthumously in 1804, in which he set forth views on population
that anticipated those of Malthus.  Trained at the Jesuit college of
Parma, he was strongly influenced by
 Montesquieu, and contributed to the reform magazine Il Caffe before
publishing his most famous book at the age of 26.  FTP, name this Italian
thinker, a professor at Milan who argued against torture and the death penalty in
his 1764 On Crimes and Punishm
ents.

Answer: Cesare Beccaria

18.  Newer additions of the work are edited by Eugene Vinaver and rely on
a manuscript discovered at a school in Winchester in 1934.  Divided into 21
books and 8 tales by its publisher, William Caxton, it was probably
completed around 1470, while its auth
or was imprisoned in the Tower of London.  FTP, identify this prose work,
named for the last tale it contains, and written by Thomas Malory.

Answer: Le Morte D'arthur


19.  The youngest of the fourteen children of the first Earl of Cork, he
moved to Oxford in 1654, where his work on an improved air pump proved that
all objects fall at the same rate in a vacuum.  He argued against the
Aristotelian notion of four elements
, proposing that elements were simple bodies that could be combined to
make compounds, in 1661=D5s The Skeptical Chemist.  FTP, name this British
chemist, who showed that the volume of air would be cut in half if the
pressure were doubled, which he generali
zed as the law stating that the product of pressure and volume is always
constant.

Answer: Robert Boyle

20.  The day after his death, the national assembly unanimously elected
Ismet Inonu president.  On May 19, 1919, he arrived at Samsun as the
inspector of the third army, and preceded to set up a provisional government, which
was recognized by the Treaty o
f Sevres.  FTP, identify this nationalist leader and first president of
the Turkish republic.

Answer: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk



Boni:

1.  Identify the following concerning a Russian play, for the stated
number of points.
1.  10 points:  The main character of this play is a civil servant from
St. Petersburg who takes advantage of being mistaken for a government
official to collect bribes and romance the daughter of a small town's mayor.
Answer: The Inspector General
2.  5 points:  Name the author of The Inspector General.
Answer: Nikolai Gogol
3.  15 points:  Name the main character of The Inspector General, who
leaves town before he is revealed as a fraud.
Answer: Khlestakov

2.  Identify the following photographers FTP each.
1.  The first photographer to receive a Guggenheim fellowship, the methods
of this magic realist inspired the formation of the f.64 group in 1932.
Answer: Edward Weston
2.  Along with Edward Weston, he organized the American section of the
Stuttgart exposition of 1929.  He is best known for "The Family of Man," a
display he organized as a director at the Museum of Modern Art.
Answer: Edward Steichen
3.  He was associated with Edward Steichen early in his career, publishing
Steichen's work in his magazine Camera Notes.  Founder of the 291 gallery,
he is best known for his photographs of Georgia O'Keeffe.
Answer: Alfred Stieglitz

3.  FTP each, identify these types of isomers.
1.  These isomers have the same chemical composition but differ in the
covalent arrangement, or bonding partnerships, of their atoms.
Answer: structural isomers
2.  These isomers have the same covalent arrangement, but differ in the
spatial arrangement of the atoms about an inflexible double bond.  The
biochemistry of vision involves the light-induced change of rhodopsin between
isomers of this type.
Answer: geometric isomers
3.  These are mirror-image pairs of isomers, which cannot be superimposed
on each other, however rotated.  Usually one of the pair is biologically
active, the other not.
Answer: enantiomers

4.  Identify the following TV shows of the 1960s, FTP each.
1.  This TV western, the #1 show in 1961-62 season, focused on a different
member of the traveling group each week.
Answer: Wagon Train
2.  Kate Bradley watched over her 3 daughters and Hooterville in this
sitcom that ran from 1963 to 1970.
Answer: Petticoat Junction
3.  Richard Chamberlain interned at Blair General in this medical drama.
Answer: Doctor Kildare

5.  Identify the following people associated with the life of Cinna FTP
each.
1.  Cinna became consul in 87 BC after swearing an oath to this man that
he'd not disturb the Constitution while he was off fighting Mithridates VI
in the east.
Answer: Sulla
2.  Nonetheless, Cinna impeached Sulla and, with the help of this popular
leader, massacred those supporters of Sulla remaining in Rome.
Answer: Marius
3.  Which daughter of Cinna became Julius Caesar's wife?
Answer: Cornelia

6.  Name the terms from Islam FTP each.
1.  Islamic sacred law derived from the Qur'an, actions of the Prophet,
and consensus of the community.
Answer: shari'ah
2.  Collection of sayings and acts ascribed to the Prophet.
Answer: hadith
3.  These are alms given to the poor.
Answer: zakat

7.  Answer the following questions about an icosahedron for the stated
number of points.
1.  5 points: How many faces does it have?
Answer: 20
2.  10 points: How many edges does it have, considering that the faces are
triangular?
Answer: 30 (=3D20*3/2 since each edge is shared by two faces)
3.  15 points: How many vertices does it have, knowing that the Euler
characteristic is 2?
Answer: 12 (F-E+V=3D2)

9.  Identify the following concerning an American author FTP each.
1.  He was a professor of anatomy and physiology at Harvard from 1847 to
1882, writing books on homeopathy and the contagiousness of puerperal fever.
Answer: Oliver Wendell Holmes
2.  In 1857, Oliver Wendell Holmes co-founded this magazine with James
Russell Lowell.
Answer: the Atlantic Monthly
3.  Holmes wrote three novels, the most famous of which was this 1861
romance of destiny whose title character is associated with a rattlesnake.
Answer: Elsie Venner

10.  Answer these questions about an interesting time in Swedish history
FTP each.
1.  This King of Sweden defeated Poland in war in 1629, after which he
took Swedish forces to the continent to participate in the Thirty Year=D5s
War.
Answer: Gustavus (II) Adolphus
2.  This statesman served as chancellor of Sweden for the whole of
Gustavus Adolphus=D5s reign, skillfully handling foreign relations.
Answer: Count Oxenstierna
3.  After Gustavus Adolphus=D5s death in battle in 1632, this woman, his
daughter, ruled as queen.  She abdicated in 1654 after having secretly
converted to Catholicism.
Answer: Queen Christina

12.  Identify the poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley from quotes for 10 points
each; if you need a second clue about the poems, you will only receive 5
points.
1.  10 points:  "Till the future dares forget the past, his fate and fame
shall be an echo and a light unto eternity"
5 points:  It is an elegy on the death of John Keats.
Answer: Adonais
2.  10 points:  "I fall upon the thorns of life!  I bleed!"
5 points:  This ode ends by asking "if winter comes, can spring be far
behind?"
Answer: Ode to the West Wind
3.  10 points:  "The earth doth like a snake renew / her winter weeds
outworn"
5 points:  The quote comes from "The world's great age begins anew," the
second chorus from this drama on the Greek war of independence.
Answer: Hellas

13.  Identify the following early church councils FTP each.
1.  This council called in 325 decided against Arianism.
Answer: Nicaea (I)
2.  This council held in 431 deposed Nestorius as bishop of Constantinople.


Answer: Ephesus
3.  The first of four councils in this city was held in 381 and is said to
have composed the final Nicene Creed.
Answer: Constantinople

15.  Identify the following concerning a morality play FTP each.
1.  Dating from around 1495, the hero of this play, a version of the Dutch
Elckerlijk (EL-ker-LIKE), becomes resigned to his approaching death.
Answer: Everyman
2.  When Everyman searches for companions to accompany him on his final
journey, this is the only one who will come with him.
Answer: Good Deeds
3.  Everyman experienced a revival in 1911 when this German playwright
published a verse translation of it.
Answer: Hugo von Hofmannsthal

16.  Answer the following questions about 1854 FTP each.
1.  He established himself as President of the new Republic of Sonora,
which consisted of the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California.
Answer: William Walker
2.  The ports of Shimoda and Hakodate were opened to trade with the U.S.
per the terms of this treaty with Japan.
Answer: Kanagawa
3.  John Mason, Pierre Soule and James Buchanan wrote of Cuba, "We shall
be justified in wresting it from Spain, if we possess the power" in this
document.
Answer: Ostend Manifesto


17.  The DSM-IV recognizes disorders such as autism as belonging to a
categories labeled as PDDs. FTP each,
1.  What does PDD stand for?                          =20
Answer: Pervasive developmental disorder
2.  One PDD was described in Europe during WWII, simultaneously with
Kanner's description of autism in the U.S.  Also labeled autism originally,
sufferers develop=20
normal speech with less intellectual impairment than Kanner's autism, but
have severe social deficiencies and also exhibit repetitious behavior. =20
Answer: Asperger's syndrome
3.  Described only in females, in this PDD development begins normally,
but between the ages of 5 months and 2 years comes to a halt and then
regresses permanently to the earliest infantile states.                           
                    =20
Answer: Rett's disorder

18.  FTP each, give these terms from genetics.
1.  The ability of a single gene to have multiple phenotypic
effects.
Answer: pleiotropy
2.  A condition where a gene at one locus alters the phenotypic expression
of a gene at a second locus.
Answer: epistasis
3.  The X chromosomes, one in each cell of a female mammal,
which are inactivated during embryonic development.
Answer: Barr bodies

19.  Given a country, name its capital for the stated number of points.
1.  5 points: Kenya
Answer: Nairobi
2.  10 points: Nigeria
Answer: Abuja
3.  15 points: Lesotho
Answer: Maseru

20.  Name the following agreements from the 1920s, FTP each.
1.  This 1924 agreement reduced the amount of German reparations.
Answer: Dawes Plan
2.  This 1925 agreement signed by Germany and its neighbors recognized
their common borders.
Answer: Locarno Pact
3.  This 1928 agreement replaced the Dawes Plan and furthered decreased
reparations.
Answer: Young Plan