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Invitational Series #35 Packet 4 Tossups

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The most significant one in history was issued to pay for the repairs of St. Peter's basilica in Rome and, while theologians were clear that real (*) penitence was still required, unscrupulous agents made sweeping claims about purchasing divine forgiveness among the peasants. For 10 points—name these remissions of sin whose sale by Johann Tetzel [TET-sul] led Martin Luther to write his Ninety-Five Theses.

answer: 2.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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In theory, they can be detected because they would cause Cherenkov [CHUR-eng-kuf] radiation even in a vacuum. Proposed by Arnold Sommerfeld, these particles, unlike tardons, would violate (*) causality and special relativity, and they would lose energy as their speed increased. For 10 points—name these hypothetical particles that must always travel faster than the speed of light.

answer: 4.

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His nonfiction works include an 1841 children's history of England and a campaign biography of his friend Franklin (*) Pierce. After a consulship to Liverpool, he traveled to Italy, the setting of his final novel, The Marble Faun. For 10 points—name this writer whose novels set in New England include The Blithedale Romance, The House of the Seven Gables, and The Scarlet Letter.

answer: 3.

indulgences

tachyons [TAK-ee-on]

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This opera features a 999-year contract with a monthly renewal option. When Sharpless, the American consul, warns Lieutenant (*) Pinkerton that the title character might take the contract quite seriously, Pinkerton scoffs and expresses his intent to marry a “real” wife some day. For 10 points—name this Puccini [poo-CHEE-nee] work whose title character is not a female moth, but a disappointed Japanese bride.

answer:

Madame Butterfly or Madama Butterfly

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He was the only Federalist senator to vote for appropriations that funded the Louisiana Purchase. His support of the Embargo Act angered his (*) Massachusetts constituents and his party, but still he garnered enough support to win a presidential election and, afterward, a House seat. For 10 points—name this son of the second president.

answer: 6.

(anterior) pituitary gland or (adeno)hypophysis or (adeno)hypophysial gland

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Tess of the D'Urbervilles [DUR-bur-villz]

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In the Symposium Socrates claims to have received this from the prophetess Diotima [DEE-oh-TEE-muh]. Manifest in the (*) intellectual or physical beauty of another person and non-sensual in nature, this is—for 10 points—what kind of love or affection for another without sexual attraction?

answer: 9.

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The author remarked that this novel's subtitle, which he added at the last minute to protest Victorian hypocrisy, was “disputed more than anything else.” That subtitle, “A Pure (*) Woman Faithfully Presented,” describes a Wessex girl who bears an illegitimate son after being seduced by her sophisticated cousin Alec. For 10 points—name this 1891 novel by Thomas Hardy about Teresa Durbeyfield.

answer: 8.

John Quincy Adams (prompt on “Adams,” do not accept or prompt on “John Adams”)

It contains several types of specialized cells, including lactotrophs, gonadotrophs [goh-NAH-doh-trohfs], thyrotrophs [“THIGH”-roh-trohfs], and corticotrophs [KORE-tih-koh-trohfs]. These cells produce substances like (*) growth hormone and FSH that act independently, as well as hormones like prolactin that control the action of other glands. For 10 points—name this ”master gland” of the human body.

answer: 7.

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Platonic love

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The strategy ultimately used in solving it, first outlined by Kempe in 1879, called for creating a catalog of 1,936 configurations, each with up to 500,000 different options. The process eventually (*) consumed over 1,000 hours of computer time. For 10 points—name this mathematical problem of finding the maximum number of colors required for a planar map such that adjacent regions will always be a different color.

answer:

four-color problem (or map or theorem)

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10. He won both the 2002 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship and the Kroger St. Jude at Memphis. In both the 2001 and 2002 U.S. Opens he lost to the eventual champions in quarterfinal matches, the (*) Hewitt match ending in the fifth set shortly after he lost a controversial line call and then lost his cool. For 10 points—name this U.S. tennis player who turned 20 during the 2002 Open. answer:

Andy Roddick

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11. The Ming added a second tier, the shengyuan [shung-yoo-ahn], to the already existing jinshi [jin-shur], offered in the capital. The Taipings called for opening them to (*) women and using the Bible instead of traditional Confucian texts. For 10 points—name this means of selecting qualified scholars for the Chinese bureaucracy. answer:

civil service examinations or examination system (accept equivalents, prompt on “civil service”)

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12. His film soundtracks include the original Of Mice and Men, The Heiress, and Our Town. Neoclassicism influenced his Short Symphony and jazz his Music for the Theatre, but American (*) folksongs inspired his best known works. For 10 points—name this composer of the ballets Rodeo [ROH-dee-oh] and Appalachian Spring. answer:

Aaron Copland

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13. Pencil and paper ready. Three specimens of gold alloy weigh 2, 3, and 5 grams and have respective purities of 22, 20, and 18 karats. They are melted together to form a fourth specimen of total mass (*) 10 grams and purity equal to the weighted average of the original specimens. For 10 points—in karats, what is the purity of the new nugget? answer:

19.4 karats

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14. Gaining his own Saturday morning TV show in September 2002, this Warpstar knight-in-training has the ability to absorb his (*) opponent's powers. After crash-landing on the planet Popstar, he has protected all the happy things that originate in Dreamland. For 10 points—name this round, pink Nintendo character. answer:

Kirby

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15. He included a translation of Book VI of the Aeneid [uh-NEE-id] in his collection Seeing Things, though he is better known for translating the Irish story Suibhne Gealt in [SWEE-nee GALT] Sweeney Astray. He won fame in (*) 2000 for his best-selling, prize-winning translation of Beowulf. For 10 points—name this Irish poet, the 1995 Nobel Laureate in literature. answer:

Seamus (Justin) Heaney [SHAY-mus HAY-nee]

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16. In the Middle Ages it was a unit of time equal to 1/376th of a minute. From the Greek for “indivisible,” it was used by (*) Democritus to describe the tiny particles he thought made up all matter. For 10 points—name this word that now describes the smallest unit of matter retaining the properties of a chemical element. answer:

atom

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17. Although nowhere near Washington, D.C., its residents include the President, the House, the Senate, General Lee, and General Sherman. Other sites here include Moro (*) Rock, Crystal Cave, Mineral King Valley, and Mount Whitney. The second-oldest national park in the U.S., it borders Kings Canyon National Park. For 10 points—what is this park named for the trees found in its Giant Forest? answer:

Sequoia National Park [The “residents” mentioned in the first sentence are all trees.]

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18. He leaves Kamala, not knowing that she is carrying their child, to search for meaning in life. That search also prompts him to leave his best friend Govinda, who decides to become a (*) disciple of the Buddha. Ultimately he gains understanding by staying with Vasudeva [VAH-soo-DAY-vuh], a ferryman. For 10 points—name this title character of a novel by Hermann Hesse [HEH-suh]. answer:

Siddhartha

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19. Glosa, Loglan, and Novial are three lesser-known ones. Two mildly successful ones are Ido and Volapük [VOL-uh-puk]. Other examples include (*) Interlingua and Basic English. For 10 points—give the usual term for languages like Zamenhof's Esperanto that did not evolve naturally. answer:

artificial languages or planned languages or constructed languages

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20. They originally lived in the Great Lakes area but moved to the southern Appalachians after losing a series of wars. After gold was discovered in their territory in the 1830s, they were (*) relocated to Oklahoma in a forced march known as the ”Trail of Tears.” For 10 points—name this tribe whose most famous member, Sequoyah, developed a writing system for their language. answer:

Cherokee

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21. It's said that the gods fashioned this object out of red fire, green water, and blue air. Every day the gods (*) cross it to meet at the Well of Urd near the base of Yggdrasil [YIG-drah-sill]. Since it links Asgard and Midgard, the gods asked Heimdall [HIME-doll] to be its watchman and warn them when Ragnarok began. For 10 points—name this rainbow bridge of Norse myth. answer:

Bifrost (accept rainbow bridge until “rainbow”)

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22. According to a theorem formulated in the early 1970s, they have no hair. Three numbers—their mass, their total electric charge, and their (*) angular momentum—completely describe their properties, as the nature of the mass they contain cannot be detected. For 10 points—name these objects from which even light cannot escape. answer:

black holes

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23. The North American river of this name drains Utah Lake into the Great Salt Lake. The Asian river of this name begins at the confluence of the (*) Hasbani, Baniyas, and Dan Rivers and meanders south through the Ghor valley and the Sea of Galilee. For 10 points—give the common name of these rivers, the latter of which flows into the Dead Sea. answer:

Jordan River or Nahr al-Urdun

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24. It failed because Francis Tresham warned his brother-in-law, Lord Monteagle, not to attend a dinner that evening at the (*) Parliament building. Although led by Robert Catesby [KAYTS-bee], the man who was to detonate the explosives has since received more notoriety. For 10 points—what was this 1605 “Plot” that ended with the arrest of Guy Fawkes [fox] that was named for the explosive used? answer:

Gunpowder Plot (prompt on “Guy Fawkes Plot” or similar)

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1.

For 10 points each—give these “super” answers:

A.

This 1985 classic of Japanese origin ends with the defeat of Bowser and the rescue of Princess Toadstool.

answer: B.

John Updike's famous 1961 short story A & P takes place inside one of these.

answer: C.

Super Mario Bros. supermarket (prompt on “grocery store” or similar)

This principle states that motion resulting from simultaneous forces can be computed with simple vector addition.

answer:

superposition principle

2.

Name these heroes from The Three Musketeers:

A.

For 5 points for one, 10 points for two, or 20 for all three—name the three title characters.

answer:

B.

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Athos Porthos Aramis

For 10 points—name the young Gascon whose fiery temper gets him involved in duels with all three title characters within an hour of meeting them.

answer:

D'Artagnan [dar-TAN-yun]

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The liver has many functions. For 10 points each—

A.

The liver produces what fluid, stored in the gall bladder, that helps digest fats?

answer: B.

bile

The buildup of this bile pigment produced from the breakdown of red blood cells leads to jaundice [JAWN-duss].

answer: C.

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bilirubin [bih-lih-ROO-bin]

Alcoholism and infection are the major causes of this disease in which healthy liver cells are replaced by scar tissue.

answer:

cirrhosis [sih-ROH-sis]

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4.

A 19th-century nationalist movement sought to reunify Italy as an independent kingdom. For 10 points each—

A.

What movement's Italian name means “rising again”?

answer: B.

What Piedmontese [PEED-mahn-teez] count is credited as the political mover behind the success of the Risorgimento?

answer: C.

Il Risorgimento [ree-ZOR-jih-MEN-toh]

Camillo Benso, count of Cavour [kuh-VOOR]

The unification of Italy was completed in 1870 with the annexation of Rome, the political center of what theocratic entity?

answer:

the Papal States or Church States or Stati Pontifici or Stati della Chiesa

5.

For 10 points each—name the board game in which you would use these cards:

A.

Soldier, road-building, brick

answer: B.

Settlers of Catan or Die Siedler von Catan (prompt on “Die Siedler”)

Candlestick, conservatory, Mrs. White

answer: C.

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Clue

Irkutsk, Siam, Eastern United States

answer:

Risk

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Pencil and paper ready. For 5 points for one, 10 points for two, 20 points for three, and 30 points for all four—classify these elements as alkali metals, alkaline earth metals, transition metals, metalloids, or rare earth elements:

A.

Magnesium

answer: B.

Palladium

answer: C.

transition metal

Germanium

answer: D.

alkaline earth metal

metalloid

Curium

answer:

rare earth metal

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7.

It was principally their influence on Mao that led him to bypass the vice premier in 1976 and appoint Hua Guofeng [hwah gwoh fung] as acting premier when Zhou Enlai [joh en-lye] died. For 15 points each—

A.

Name this radical elite that included Mao's wife and Yao Wen-yuan [yao wun yoo-ahn].

answer: B.

Gang of Four or Sirenbang or Ssu-jen-pang

This man, the vice premier, was then purged but later returned to power to control Chinese politics until his 1997 death.

answer:

Deng Xiaoping [dung shao-ping] or Teng Hsiao-p'ing

8.

For 10 points each—name the unhappy literary farmers with these problems:

A.

Peter Rabbit invading his garden while he's trying to plant cabbages.

answer: B.

Mr. McGregor

Alcoholism, economic ruin, a proletarian revolution among his livestock.

answer: C.

Farmer Jones

Poverty, an affair with his wife's cousin Mattie Silver, a crippling sledding accident.

answer:

Ethan Frome

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For 10 points each—what particle is formed from:

A.

Two down quarks and an up quark?

answer: B.

neutron

Two up quarks and a down quark?

answer: C.

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proton

A charm quark and an anti-charm quark? It was discovered independently by two teams in 1974.

answer:

J/psi particle

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10. A gunman named Abdur Rehman tried to assassinate him at the palace of governor Gul Agha Sherzai in September 2002. For 10 points each— A.

Name this leader of Afghanistan.

answer: B.

Rehman is widely believed to have had ties to this religious group that held power in Afghanistan until November 2001.

answer: C.

Hamid Karzai

Taliban

Sherzai governs what province, the namesake of a southern Afghan city?

answer:

Kandahar or Qandahar

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11. For 10 points each—name these things about the song ”Landslide”: A.

Stevie Nicks originally wrote the song for this band's 1975 self-titled album.

answer: B.

On its 1994 B-side/rarities collection, Pisces Iscariot, this Billy Corgan-fronted band did a version that was previously heard on the B-side of the British version of the ”Disarms” single.

answer: C.

Fleetwood Mac

The Smashing Pumpkins

On its 2002 Home album, this all-female country group covers the song, having done so with Nicks at the VH1 Divas: Las Vegas special.

answer:

Dixie Chicks

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12. It sits on both banks of the Vltava [VUL-tuh-vuh] River and was formerly the capital of Bohemia. For 10 points each— A.

What city is also the nickname of Mozart's 38th Symphony?

answer: B.

What May 23, 1618, event at Hradcany [HRUD-chah-nee] Castle precipitated the Thirty Years' War?

answer: C.

Prague or Praha Defenestration of Prague

Washington Capital Jaromir Jagr [YAR-meer YAH-gur] wears what number on his hockey jersey as a reminder of the ”Prague Spring”?

answer:

68 [The event occurred in 1968.]

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13. For 10 points each—name these scientists who each won two Nobel Prizes: A.

He won Chemistry Prizes in 1958 for determining the structure of insulin and in 1980 for determining the sequence of nucleotides in the DNA of a virus.

answer: B.

In 1956 he shared one Physics Prize for inventing the transistor; in 1972 he shared another for a theory explaining superconductivity.

answer: C.

Frederick Sanger

John Bardeen

The only person ever to win two unshared Nobels, he won the 1954 Chemistry and 1962 Peace Prizes.

answer:

Linus (Carl) Pauling [The only other person besides these three to win two Nobels is Marie Curie.]

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14. In August 2002 a company announced that preliminary clinical studies had shown that CP-529,414 raised the level of “good cholesterol” by 55% and lowered the level of “bad cholesterol” by 20%. For 10 points each— A.

Name the manufacturer of this experimental drug who hopes to combine it with Lipitor in a single pill.

answer: B.

Give the three-letter abbreviation for the relatively heavy class of chemicals meant by “good cholesterol.”

answer: C.

Pfizer, Inc. HDL [High Density Lipoproteins]

Doctors occasionally prescribe this vitamin for people with low HDL levels, but it causes flushing and headaches and never results in more than a 30% increase.

answer:

niacin or vitamin B 3

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15. For 10 points each—name the rivers into which these other rivers flow: A.

Missouri River

answer: B.

Paraná [pah-rah-NAH] River

answer: C.

Mississippi River Río de la Plata

Marne River

answer:

Seine [sen] River

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16. He is reported to have declared ”Iacta alea est,” or “The die is cast.” For 10 points each— A.

Name this general whose action while making that statement amounted to a declaration of war.

answer: B.

Caesar made this remark on the occasion of crossing what river that marked the boundary between Cisalpine Gaul and Italy?

answer: C.

(Gaius) Julius Caesar

Rubicon (or Rubico or Rubicone)

Caesar is believed to have borrowed the phrase from which Greek New Comedy poet and author of The Curmudgeon?

answer:

Menander

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17. Given the year and the book that won the National Book Award for fiction, name its author, for 10 points each. A.

1953, Invisible Man

answer: B.

1992, All the Pretty Horses

answer: C.

Ralph (Waldo) Ellison Cormac McCarthy (or Charles McCarthy, Jr.)

1960, Goodbye, Columbus

answer:

Philip (Milton) Roth

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18. For 10 points each—name these Congressmen who faced trouble in 2002: A.

This Ohio representative was expelled from the House for corruption and fraud.

answer: B.

Jailed businessman David Chang's gifts caused an ethics inquiry into this New Jersey senator.

answer: C.

James Traficant Robert “Bob” Torricelli [torr-ih-SELL-ee]

This California Democrat lost a congressional primary after his relationship to vanished intern Chandra Levy became public; he was the only member to vote against Traficant's expulsion.

answer:

Gary Condit

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19. For 10 points each—name these painters who died in 1944: A.

This Dutch “neoplasticist” is famous for his primary-colored squares and thick black lines on white backgrounds.

answer: B.

This Norwegian said his Expressionist works reflected “the scream of nature.”

answer: C.

Piet Mondrian or Mondriaan Edvard Munch [MOONK]

Along with Franz Marc, this Russian founded the Blue Rider group.

answer:

Wassily Kandinsky or Vasily Vasilyevich Kandinsky

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20. For 10 points each—what is the only nation that touches both: A.

The Red Sea and the Persian Gulf?

answer: B.

The Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea?

answer: C.

(Kingdom of) Saudi Arabia (Republic of) Turkey

The Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf?

answer:

(Islamic Republic of) Iran

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21. For 10 points each—give these answers that are SI units, sort of: A.

Her debut LP, Pieces of You, was a bigger hit than her 1998 poetry collection Night Without Armor.

answer: B.

This burrowing pest from the family Talpidae is one of the protagonists of The Wind in the Willows.

answer: C.

Jewel (Kilcher) [joule] mole

This Sanskrit word for “yes” or “so be it” is called “the mother of mantras” by Hindus, Buddhists, and Sikhs.

answer:

om (or aum) [ohm]

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22. For 10 points each—answer these questions about U.S. action before entering World War II: A.

The arms embargo was repealed in 1939 because what alliterative clause of the Neutrality Act of 1937 concerning payment for arms had expired?

answer: B.

In 1941 Congress passed what program authorizing military and economic aid to nations the president deemed vital to national security?

answer: C.

cash and carry

Lend-Lease Act

In August 1941 Roosevelt and Churchill met off the coast of Newfoundland and issued what joint statement concerning the shape of the postwar world?

answer:

Atlantic Charter

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23. Name these parts of a car's exhaust system, for 10 points each: A.

This oval device contains a series of plates, tubes, and holes to reduce engine noise.

answer: B.

This valve reduces pollution by sending gas back into the cylinders, lowering its temperature.

answer: C.

muffler exhaust gas recirculation valve or EGR valve

Gas passes through a reduction and oxidation stage in this device before reaching the control system that monitors exhaust.

answer:

catalytic converter

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24. For 10 points each—name these authors who based “beautiful” books on their own lives: A.

The Beautiful and Damned is based on this writer's troubled marriage to Zelda Sayre.

answer: B.

All Things Bright and Beautiful is a volume of memoirs by this Yorkshire veterinarian.

answer: C.

F(rancis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald James Herriot (or James Alfred Wight)

A Beautiful Mind tells about this Nobel laureate's battle with schizophrenia.

answer:

John (Forbes) Nash

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