ROUND 9 TOSSUPS

1. Founded in 1910, this academic institution opened its doors in 1913. Initially, it served as two year teaching training school for the rural populace. Currently, it is Ohio’s third largest public university.  A vital part this university’s history are the events of May 4, 1970, when Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on the center campus, where Vietnam protesters were interspersed with students walking to class. FTP, 4 people were killed at which university.
ANSWER:  Kent State University

2. The Missing ‘Gator of Gumbo Limb, The Talking Earth, There’s an Owl in the Shower, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Who Really Killed Cock Robin, Julie of the Wolves and My Side of the Mountain. These books are all by, FTP, what famous environmentalist children’s book author? 
ANSWER: Jean Craighead George

3. Currently, most AIDS virus drug therapies revolve around the use of protease inhibitors to curb the virus’s effects after it has entered the cell, but recently the discovery of integrase inhibitors gives new hope to attacking the virus before it overtakes the healthy cells.  What company’s research laboratory was responsible for this discovery, published in the latest issue of Science?  FTP, name this largest pharmaceutical company in the world.
ANSWER: Merck Pharmaceutical

4.  It grew out of a conscious effort to simplify the elaborate turn-of-the-century Art Nouveau style.  Its symmetry, clean lines, and aerodynamics were inspired by the booming industry of the day.  In the United States, it could be seen in locomotives, skyscrapers, diners, and jukeboxes.  For ten points, name this style of art, used primarily in textiles, furniture, and  jewelry, which reached the height of its popularity in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
ANSWER:  Art Deco

5. Born in 1906, this ambitious Ukranian became a major general in 1944. In the 1950’s he served as head of the communist party in Moldavia and Kazakhstan. He truly rose to power in 1964, when he assumed control of the Soviet Union. He proceeded to crush Czechoslovakian social activists, stockpile strategic nuclear weapons and embark on a policy of diplomatic détente. FTP who, at his death in 1982, left the Soviet Union a military superpower incapable of satisfying the populace’s most basic food needs?
ANSWER:  Leonid Ilich Brezhnev

6.  Ion microprobe oxygen isotopic analysis can be used to “fingerprint” them. Recent tests, on the crown of an Indian ruler and a Roman earring, have indicated that mines for them in Pakistan and Colombia, thought to have been discovered in the twentieth century, were actually known in antiquity. FTP, name these oxygen-rich green gems.
ANSWER: emeralds

7. Controversy still boils over whether the last 40 chapters of this work are forgeries or truly products of its acknowledged author. A blend of realism, romance, daily life and the supernatural, it has 30 main characters and over 400 minor ones. Many historians value it for its faithful reproduction of upper-class life during the Qing dynasty. FTP, identify this work by Cao Xueqin that many consider the greatest of all Chinese novels
ANSWER: Dream of the Red Chamber or Hong Lou Meng (hung-low-mung)

8. Pen and paper ready.  If b=5, c=4, d=2, and e=3 and all are integer variables, what integer value is obtained for the following expression when programming in BASIC?
b + c*d**e (read: B plus C star D star star E) You have ten seconds.
ANSWER: 37

9.  The wild species originated in the Andean area of South America. The Italian called it the “golden apple,” which probably means that the first ones Europeans saw were yellow. It was first grown for decorative purposes only because of its close relation to belladonna and deadly nightshade. Its roots and leaves actually contain the neurotoxin solanine. FTP, name this fruit whose name comes from the Nahuatl word tomatl. 
ANSWER: tomato

10. A certain machine exerts a force of 200 newtons on a box whose mass is 30 kilograms. The machine moves the box a distance of 20 meters along a horizontal floor. What amount of work does the machine do on the box? You have ten seconds to calculate the answer for ten big points.
ANSWER: 4000 Joules

11. This country joined the United Nations in 1993, and is one of the most prosperous nations in the world.  Its 1999 employment rate approached 0%.  Since 1278, this co-pricipality of 65,939 people has been under the joint control of the Spanish bishops of Urgel and the French State.  For ten points, name the only country whose sole official language is Catalan. 
ANSWER: Andorra

12. In his autobiography, Miles Davis recalls his father’s admiration for this controversial black activist. Largely self-taught, he attended school in Jamaica until the age of 14 and lived in London from 1912-1914. Unlike other prominent African-Americans, he preached an independent black economy within the framework of white capitalism. FTP, name this founder of the failed Black Star line who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association.
ANSWER: Marcus Garvey

13. Sam Bottoms was on marajuana, speed or LSD while shooting much of this movie. Lawrence Fishburne was 14 when he starred as Clean. Marlon Brando would only work if he could ad-lib his lines. Martin Sheen even had a heart attack during the shooting. For ten points, name this movie which adapts the story of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness to the Vietnam War, a favorite of everyone who loves the smell of napalm in the morning.
Answer: Apocalypse Now

14.  This East Prussian, born in 1474, studied at Krakow, before moving on to study law and medicine in Bologna, Padua, and Ferrara. In 1543, he dedicated the culmination of his life work to Pope Paul III. For ten points, name this heliocentrist who, while lying on his deathbed, revealed the existence of his revolutionary book “On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres” which repopularized the notion that the Earth was not the center of the Solar System.
ANSWER: Nicolaus Copernicus

15. According to modern cosmology, the Universe began about 10 or 15 billion years ago in an incident called the Big Bang. If the density of matter in the Universe is sufficiently large, gravitational forces will eventually cause the Universe to stop expanding, and then to start falling back in upon itself. If that happens, the Universe will end in a cataclysmic event that, for ten points, cosmologists call what?
Answer: the Big Crunch

16.  His was studying law and economics at the University of Moscow, but later traveled to Paris, where he was influenced by Fauvism and postimpressionism. His famous works include Black Spot I and Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle). He along with Franz Marc and several other German expressionists, formed the artistic group Der Blaue Reiter. FTP, name this artist who created the first totally abstract paintings in modern art. 
ANSWER:  Wassily Kandinsky

17.  This author was born in Russia in 1905. Her first screenplay, Red Pawn was sold to Universal Studios in 1932. One of her novels was rejected 12 times by publishers, until Bobbs-Merrill finally published it in 1935. Her lesser known works include The Night of January 16th and Anthem. For ten points, name this author, well known for her book Atlas Shrugged and her objectivist philosophy. 
ANSWER: Ayn Rand

18.  Born in 1969, this NBA player began his career with the Cleveland Cavaliers, later playing for the Charlotte Hornets. Known as more than just an athlete, he was praised for his charity and kindness in the Charlotte community as well as his home of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His number 13 jersey will be retired February 9, when the Cavaliers visit the Hornets at the Charlotte Coliseum. For ten points name this player who died in a car crash on January 12, 2000 racing with his teammate David Wesley from the Charlotte Coliseum. 
ANSWER: Bobby Phills

19. The marriage to his 15 year old cousin Maria lasted only two years, as she died due to complications during childbirth with his son, don Carlos, who only lived to the age of 23.  He married three more times, as his luck producing a male heir was horrendous. In 1556, he rose to power, moving the Spanish capital to Madrid and ruling Spain with an iron fist. FTP, name this monarch who sent the Spanish Armada against England..
ANSWER:  Felipe (Phillip) II

20. Their new album Reinventing the Steel is scheduled to hit stores March 21st. Their first major label album, 1990’s Cowboys From Hell, made small waves upon release. Things only got better from there though as they released classic songs like “Mouth for War” and “Five Minutes Alone” from their albums Vulgar Display of Power and Far Beyond Driven. FTP, name this hostile band featuring Rex Rocker, Vinnie Paul, “Dimebag” Darrell and Phil Anselmo.
ANSWER: Pantera

21. In The Theory of Moral Sentiments, he wrote on “the general principles of law and government.” This man taught moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow and had a specialty in "natural theology." Believing in the “Invisible Hand” that determined the actions of an economy, this Scottish professor helped establish economics as a separate social science with the publication of his famous Wealth of Nations in 1776. FTP, name him.
ANSWER:  Adam Smith

22.  It’s a story of Professor James Murray, who set out to create the ultimate reference book. Dr. William Chester Minor sends Murray more than ten thousand definitions and quotations for the work. The two men communicate only by letters for 20 years until Murray visits Minor and finds him to be a psychotic murderer in England’s Broadmoor asylum. FTP, name Simon Winchester’s non-fiction bestseller about the making of the Oxford English Dictionary. 
ANSWER: The Professor and the Madman

23.  Born in the Ukraine, he debuted with the Saint Petersburg Imperial ballet in 1907. He went on to star in Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes.  His unconventional choreography and subject matter earned him worldwide acclaim, but also prompted allegations of obscenity. For ten points, name this premier danseur whose struggle with schizophrenia ended his career in 1919, and whose sister, Bronislava Nijinska, was the teacher of Maria Tallchief.
ANSWER:  Vaslav Fomich Nijinsky

ROUND 9 BONI 

1.  Thirty pilgrims travel to the Shrine of Thomas à Beckett in The Canterbury Tales. Although the frame tale was originally to have had 60 tales, Geoffrey Chaucer never finished it. For fifteen points each, name these characters, given a description of their tale. 
a. His tale is in response to the Miller’s Tale. His fabliau is based on Jean Bodel’s Gombert and the Two Clerks and tells of two college students who trick their way into sleeping with the Miller’s wife and daughter after he cheats them out of grain. His occupation is a high officer of local administration. 
Answer: Reeve 
b. His tale makes fun of a friar who preaches on the evil in anger in response to an old man named Thomas. Offended by Thomas’ flatulence, he is doomed to even more by the lord of the manor’s squire. His occupation is to be a messenger for the courts. 
Answer: Summoner

2.  Given a phylum, name the major organism for ten points each:
a.  Cnidaria (Ni-dare-ee-ah)
Answer: jellyfish
b. Porifera (Pore-if-er-a)
Answer: sponges
c.  Lepidoptera
Answer: butterflies or moths

3.  Identify the common surname for ten points each.
a. The father was the legendary director of such movies as Meet Me in St. Louis, Ziegfeld Follies, and An American in Paris.  The daughter won an Academy Award for Cabaret in 1972 and recently ended a successful 1-month solo run on Broadway.
ANSWER:  (Vincente and Liza) Minnelli
b. One was Bob Hope’s costar in a series of “Road”movies and created a beloved recording of the song “White Christmas”.  The other was recently revealed to be the biological father of Melissa Etheridge and Julie Cypher’s children.
ANSWER:  (Bing and David) Crosby
c. He was a tap and ballet dancer, choreographer, actor, and director probably best known for the film Singin’ in the Rain.  She won an Academy Award in 1954 for her performance in The Country Girl but left acting two years later to marry Prince Rainier III of Monaco.
ANSWER:  (Gene and Grace) Kelly

4. Do you know your Japanese history? If you do, good. If you don’t, too bad. FTPE, answer the following questions.
a. Begun in 1603, this last shogunate of Japan had an isolationist policy against the west. Its inability to maintain this stance in the face of western military power led to its overthrow during the Meiji Restoration.
ANSWER: The Tokugawa Shogunate
b. This emperor shocked the nation by renouncing the quasi-divine status of the emperor on January 1, 1946. He was the longest reigning ruler in Japanese history.
ANSWER: Emperor Michinomiya Hirohito
c. We all know that premodern Japan’s military class consisted of warriors called samurai, but do you know the term given for the powerful local landholding class whom the samurai served?
ANSWER: shugo or sengoku daimyo 

5.  For fifteen points each, identify the opera from the plot description.
a. The Queen of the Night hires Tamino to rescue her daughter from the evil Sarastro, who turns out to be a good guy and inspires Tamino to go through lots of Masonic rituals.  In the end, Tamino gets the girl, evil is defeated, and the bird-catcher Papageno finds true love.
ANSWER:  The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte)
b. In this Violetta, a consumptive courtesan, falls in love with Alfredo. Alfredo’s father convinces her to leave him for the honor of her family. Alfredo insults Violetta at a party, much to the surprise of the guests. Violetta dies. Everybody’s sad.
ANSWER:  La Traviata

6.  Name the following computer programming languages from the descriptions for ten points each:
a.  This programming language was developed by IBM in 1954 and its name reflects its goal of forumla translation.
Answer: Fortran
b.  In the late sixties, this language was the most successful of several proposals for an evolutionary successor to Algol, defined in 1970 by Prof. Niklaus Wirth at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
Answer: Pascal
c. In 1991 on January 15, the "Stealth Project" began this language named
by Scott McNealy, developed in a meeting among Bill Joy, Andy Bechtolsheim, Wayne Rosing, Mike Sheridan, James Gosling and Patrick Naughton.
Answer: Java

7. Identify the South American Countries by their respective revoultionary leaders, ten points each:
a. Juan Velasco Alvarado came to power here promising social and economic reforms in 1968. 
ANSWER:  Peru
b. General Juan Carlos Onganìa promised a return to greatness for this country in his 1966 acceptance of the title of president.
ANSWER:  Argentina
c. Che Guevara was killed during the attempted revoultion in this country in 1967.
ANSWER:  Bolivia

8.  Many people in remember the glory days of television in the 1980s when TV shows actually lasted more than one season. For ten points each, answer these questions about shows from the 1980s. 
a.  Originally airing from 1982 to 1989, this show featuring the Keaton family starred Meredith Baxter Birney, Michael Gross, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman, Tina Yothers and Brian Bonsall. 
Answer: Family Ties 
b.  For ten points, name this show about “A shadowy flight into the life of a man who does not exist” but drives a talking Trans Am. The main character is called “A young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless, in a world of criminals who operate above the law.” 
Answer: Knight Rider 
c.  This show began in 1986 and ended in 1993. It starred Mark Linn-Baker as Larry Appleton, Bronson Pinchot as the Myposian (mee-PO-si-an) Balki Bartokamous, Melanie Wilson as Jennifer Lyons-Appleton, and Rebeca Arthur as Mary Anne Spencer-Barktokamous. 
Answer: Perfect Strangers

9.  This bonus has to do with a poet married to the creator of Frankenstein.
a.  For five points, name this poet. 
Answer: Percy Bysshe Shelley 
b.  For ten points, name this poem about Ramses II, the “king of kings” of Egypt in the 13th century B.C. 
Answer: “Ozymandias” 
c.  For fifteen points, name this 70 line poem about “the breath of Autumn’s being.” 
Answer: “Ode to the West Wind”

10.  Answer these questions pertaining to European history for the stated number of points.
a. This country went through a period of statelessness throughout the entire 19th cenury. In its first free presidential elections, its people elected a former electrician.
ANSWER:  Poland
b. If you can name all three states that partitioned off Poland in 1795, you’ll get 10 points.
ANSWER: Prussia (Germany), Russia, Hapsburg Empire (Austrian empire)
c. If you can identify the repressed political party that rallied against the communist state in the 1980’s and won every freely contested congressional seat in the lower house in the 1989 elections. 
ANSWER:  Solidarity

11. While most of you were leading innocent lives in your cribs in the early 1980's, out in the wide world, various travesties were being committed on a daily basis. FTPE, answer these questions about embarrassing moments of the 1980's, which your moderators are old enough to remember, much to their chagrin.
a. This blue-collar rocker of '80s fame came out of the same tri-state mold as Bruce Springsteen, and almost became a Brooklyn cop, like his father.  Unfortunately for the music industry, he chose to pursue his singing career, hitting it big for a very short while with songs like "Take Me Home Tonight."  Name this singer, who was definitely NOT what his last name implies.
ANSWER: Eddie Money
b. This fashion trend was thankfully short-lived, but I'm sure if you pry deep enough, you'll find several moderators who owned a pair.  These "shorts," and we use the term lightly, were often long enough to pose as pants, but their unforgivably loud surf-print themes prevented them from being mistaken for actual slacks.  Name the oft-imitated brand of '80's surf short.
ANSWER: Jams
c. J. Danforth Quayle, in the heights of his moronic quest for elected office, has said many a regrettable thing. However, maybe none was so ill-advised as comparing himself to John F. Kennedy. Name the Senator from Texas and vice-presidential rival who put Quayle in his place by telling him "You, sir, are no John F. Kennedy."
ANSWER: Lloyd Bentsen

12.  For ten points each, identify the sculptor.
a. This Athenian sculptor was supposedly saw the true image of the gods and passed them down to his fellow men. His masterpiece was the statue of Zeus at the Temple of Olympia. 
ANSWER:  Pheidias or  Phidias
b. Donatello’s rendition of this Hebrew king wearing a Tuscan shepherd’s hat is considered the first free standing sculpture in the Christian era.
ANSWER:  David
c. This mythological Roman hated women but fell in love with a beautiful statue of his own creation.  
ANSWER:  Pygmalion

13.  Having written cult classics, Douglas Adams has sold fifteen millions books in the United States, having bestsellers in German and Swedish as well. For five points each, and thirty if you can name them all, name the five books of The Hitchhiker’s Trilogy. 
Answers: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, The Universe and Everything; So Long and Thanks for all the Fish; and Mostly Harmless.

14.  Answer these questions concerning Buddhism, FTSNP.
a. [5] This legendary founder of Buddhism was a wealthy prince who attained enlightenment while contemplating the cause of suffering.
ANSWER: Siddartha Gautama, do not accept “Buddha”
b. [10] These texts comprise the second part of the Buddhist canon and are supposed to have been written by Buddha’s disciple, Ananda. Much controversy exists as to the authenticity of some of them.
ANSWER: Sutras
c. [15] One of the three major schools of Buddhism, this one means “the Great Vehicle” and emphasizes collective liberation, de-emphasizes monasticism, and acknowledges the existence of bodhisattvas, enlightened beings who remain on earth to guide others.
ANSWER: Mahayana

15.  The Andy Griffith Show was never outside the Nielsen top ten during its original run and has been aired every day since its original run in syndication. For ten points each, answer these questions concerning the show. 
a.  Along with Ronnie Howard as Opie and Frances Bavier who later became Aunt Bee, the character of Sheriff Andy Taylor, played by Andy Griffith, was first introduced on this TV show on February 15, 1960. Name it for ten points. 
Answer: The Danny Thomas Show 
b.  On October 3, 1960, The Andy Griffith Show started its regular run of 249 episodes over eight seasons. For five points each, name the fictional town and the state in which the show takes place, which is based on a real town named Mount Airy that actually has a place called “Aunt Bee’s.” 
Answer: Mayberry, North Carolina 
c.  Everyone remembers Don Knotts as Deputy Barney Fife, Howard McNear as Floyd the Barber, Aneta Corsaut as Helen Crump, Betty Lynn as Thelma Lou, and the Late Hal Smith as Otis the Town Drunk, but FTP, name either of the mechanic cousins played by Jim Nabors and George Lindsey. 
Answer: Goober and Gomer Pyle (only first names needed)

16. Identify the following Asian countries for ten points each:
a.  An insurgent group called God’s Army from Myannmar, led by twin 12 year-olds, held a hospital hostage in this country just a few weeks ago.
ANSWER: Thailand
b.  A few weeks ago in this country, Prime Minister Hung Sen and Prince Norodom Ranariddh’s FUNCINPEC party launched attacks accusing main opposition leader Sam Rainsy of trying to incite war and disunity.
ANSWER: Cambodia (DNA: Kampuchea. “Kampuchea” does not exist anymore.) 
c. Last month, a powerful earthquake in this landlocked country with its capital at Vientiane experienced a powerful earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale. Tremors could be felt in Thailand’s northern provinces.
ANSWER: Laos

17. Answer the following questions about volcanic rock for 10 points each:
a. This family of rocks are all rocks that result from volcanic activity.
ANSWER: igneous rocks
b. When this molten rock material within the earth cools above the surface, igneous rocks results.
ANSWER: magma (bonus points for pronouncing it like Dr. Evil does in Austin Powers)
c. This active circum-Pacific belt of volcanoes from the Philippines through Japan and comes back up through the west coasts of North and South America.
ANSWER: The “Ring of Fire”

18. Identify the following directors (all 2000 golden globe nominees), 15 on the first clue, 10 if you need an additional clue:
a. [15] He directed Women on the Edge of  a Nervous Breakdown, casting a then unknown Antonio Banderas.
[10] This year he was nominated for his film All About my Mother
ANSWER: Pedro Almodovar
b. [15] He directed Daniel-Day Lewis and Madeline Stowe in Last of the Mohicans, as well as Al Pacino in the gripping movie Heat
[10] Working with Al Pacino again, this year he crafted The Insider.
ANSWER: Michael Mann

19. Answer these questions about the Watergate scandal for the stated number of points:
a. Now a very conservative talk radio show host, this man was a general counsel for the Committee to Re-elect the President and participated in the 1972 break-in into the Watergate Hotel.
ANSWER: G. Gordon Liddy
b. On Oct. 20, 1973, Nixon ordered that this Special Prosecutor be fired for issuing a subpoena for the Oval Office Tapes.
ANSWER: Archibald Cox
c. The events of Oct. 20, 1973 are summarized by this historical nickname that sounds like the title of a horror movie.
ANSWER:  The Satuday Night Massacre

20. Identify the author from works, 30-20-10.
[30] Peace Breaks Out
[20] Phineas
[10] A Separate Peace
ANSWER: John Knowles

21. Name this person from the clues given on a 30-20-10 basis
[30] He was a writer for such television shows as "Not Necessarily the News" and the "The Rich Hall Show," and earned an Emmy for "Saturday Night Live."
[20] As a writer for the television show "The Simpsons," he wrote many classic episodes like the one about a monorail coming to Springfield.
[10] In 1993, he was given a talk show by NBC.
Answer: Conan O'Brien

22. Answer these questions about words for ten points each:
a. All languages use a limited number of speech sounds called what?
ANSWER:  Phonemes
b. Name the smallest unit of speech that has meaning.
ANSWER:  Morpheme
c. The word-combining rules of a language form what?
ANSWER:  Syntax

23. For the stated number of points, name the saint.
[5]  He is said to have used the shamrock as a symbol of the Trinity.  His feast day is March 17th.
ANSWER:  St. Patrick
[10]  A namesake college of this King of Norway is located in Northfield, Minnesota.
ANSWER:  St. Olaf (accept “Olaf II”)
[15]  At age fourteen, this French peasant girl claimed to have had several visions of the Virgin Mary, who, she said, had imparted to her the healing powers of the waters of a nearby spring.
ANSWER:  St. Bernadette Soubirous (prompt on “Our Lady of Lourdes”)