ROUND 3: TOSSUPS
			Bulldog High School Academic Tournament VIII

1. These World War II German aircraft had unique air brakes and bomb racks that made them effective attack planes, and they worked well in the blitzkrieg invasions of Poland, the Low Countries, and France. Their sirens added to their demoralizing effect, but their reign of the skies ended after the Battle of Britain, where their slow speed left them vulnerable to fast fighter planes and early warning radar. FTP, name this dive-bomber.
ANSWER:	Stuka (also accept JU-87)

2. The son of Russian immigrants, he was a gifted and talented choreographer and director, whose work in theater and ballet helped to change the face of the American musical.  FTP, name this five-time Tony award winner, who died on July 29, 1998 after suffering a stroke, who gave us Gypsy, Fiddler on the Roof, Peter Pan, The King and I, and West Side Story.  
ANSWER:	Jerome Robbins

3. The founder of this Christian sect believed that the world was not completely incorrigible, and that hope of a heaven on Earth still existed.  The notion of predestination was seen as comforting, and derivations of its doctrine and practices became distinctive aspects of the Presbyterian and Reformed churches.  FTP, name this form of Protestantism, similar to Lutheranism, which takes its name from its sixteenth-century French founder John.
ANSWER:	Calvinism

4. Driven by frustration against China’s repressive society, they formed in middle schools and universities in China. Idealistic and naive, they wanted to clear away the last traces of elitist influence and answered Mao’s partisan call to “bombard the headquarters.” Unfortunately, their actions soon degenerated into a chaotic mix of cruel violence and intense factional fighting. By 1969, the Chinese Army had to be called out to subdue them. FTP, identify this youthful communist movement that fueled the Cultural Revolution.
ANSWER: 	the Red Guards

5. He was born with the last name Persons, but changed it following his mother’s remarriage.  His autobiographical works “A Christmas Memory” and “Thanksgiving Visitor” detail his life bouncing between elderly relatives in Louisiana and Alabama.  His first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms tells of a 13-year-old boy’s search for his father.  For ten points, name this southern writer who penned an account of a multiple murder in Kansas, In Cold Blood, in 1965.
ANSWER:	Truman Capote

6. In Euripides' Trojan Women, he is portrayed as a weak man who lacks the resolve to kill his wife. In Homer, he is seen as a wealthy and hospitable king. In Euripides' Andromache, he is portrayed as a mean and unpleasant man. FTP, name this Spartan king, Agamemnon’s younger brother and Helen’s true husband who defeated Paris in a duel.
ANSWER:	Menelaus

7. This 26-year old wide receiver was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the 1996 draft as the team's first-round pick. The Mississippi native starred at Mississippi State University and now ranks third all-time in catches and yards at the school. Name this Bills receiver who led the NFL in receiving yards this season, but may be more remembered for a fumble after a 65-yard catch in this season’s playoffs at Miami.
ANSWER:	Eric Moulds

8. Preoccupied with his manhood, this writer frequently boxed with one of his fathers-in-law, a former prizefighter. He later continued this interest, covering the Rumble in the Jungle for “Esquire” magazine, an assignment which he recounted for the film “When We Were Kings.” FTP, name this author, Harvard grad, and WWII veteran, most famous for 1948’s “The Naked and the Dead.”
ANSWER:	Norman Mailer

9. Shortly after negotiating a 6.45 billion-dollar financial transaction, this company announced an expansion at a Virginia heavy-duty truck plant, as well as the shutdown of a truck and bus plant in Scotland.  Having sold its car division to Ford Motor Company, one can't help but wonder whether its reputation for safety will survive.  FTP identify this Swedish auto manufacturer.
ANSWER:	AB Volvo

10. Probably the use of it to make corsets, knife handles, and umbrella ribs is discouraged because of the fervent attacks by the ASPCA. This is used by members of the Suborder Mysticeti to catch Krills and plankton, their main staples. In commercial fisheries, it is also known as whalebone, although the name is not actually true. For ten points, name this structure that replaces teeth for several species of whales. 
ANSWER:	 Baleen

11. The number of orcs Gimli slew at the battle of Helms Deep.  The number of days of Patrick McGeowns's 1981 hunger strike.  The number of gallons of oil in a US barrel.  The length, in lines, of the Old English poem "Deor's Lament."  The number of nukes in Cuba with the potential of reaching the US on October 22, 1962. The meaning of "Life the Universe and Everything" in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. FTP, what is this number?
ANSWER:	forty-two
12. This family of edible food is not fruit, vegetable, nor root. an herbaceous annual that  grows to about 20-40 inches in height, with a very sophisticated underground stem system known as stolons. the scientific name of these plants is Solanum tuberosum. For ten points,  name this family of plants, tubers of which are sold under such lables as Eastern, Russet,  and Idaho.  
ANSWER:	 Potatoes (Accept Solanum Tuberosum on early buzz, and give the man some extra points  for such impressive knowledge – just kidding) 

13. He was born in Berkeley, Charles City County, Virginia in 1773, the third son of a signer of the Declaration of Independence.  He attended Hampden-Sydney College, and then became a secretary of the Northwest Territory in 1798.  In 1800, he became the first governor of the Indiana Territory and later served in Congress.  For ten points, name this Whig, elected president in 1840, who served just 31 days in office.
ANSWER: 	William Henry Harrison

14. While fall in the United States is marked by turkey, pilgrims, and Indians, you’re likely to find different decorations in Mexico during this season. This unique holiday is marked by private altars set up in homes, visits to cemeteries, decorative skulls, music-playing skeletons, and a morbidly monikered bread. FTP, name this holiday celebrated on November 1st and 2nd.
ANSWER:	Day of the Dead (also accept Día de los Muertos)

15. This property of light is responsible for the Poisson spot, a point of light which appears in the center of the shadow of a solid disc.  The Huygens (HIGH-gens) principle attempts to explain this property, whose name may be preceded by either Fresnel (freh-NELL) or Fraunhofer.  FTP, identify this wave property, in which light bends around the edges of an obstacle.
ANSWER:	  Diffraction (accept interference before Huygens principle)
 
16. 768 years before, the Tambora volcano on the island of Sumbawa erupted with greater, but the tsunami generated by the collapse of this other volcano killed 36,000 in Java and Sumatra. For ten points, name this volcano which erupted in 1883, causing colored sunsets around the world for two years. 
ANSWER:	 Krakatoa (accept Krakatau)

17. Kevin Smith, the director of the movies, Clerks, Mallrats and Chasing Amy, includes two certain characters in all of his three movies. Portrayed in the movies as small town drug dealers, this dynamic duo never fails to entertain. They were the inspiration for the comic, "Bluntman and Chronic," in Chasing Amy. FTP, name both of these characters, one of whom is played by the director.
ANSWER:	Jay and Silent Bob

18. He was born in Genoa in 1782, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time. His technical ability made some believe the force and speed of his performance were linked to supernatural powers, including the Devil. FTP, name this virtuoso who also composed violin concertos in D major and B minor, Moto Perpetuo, and is perhaps best known for his Twenty-Four Caprices for violin solo.
ANSWER:	Niccolo Paganini

19. This Victorian author wrote 1000 words per hour, mostly during breakfast. He began his writing career in 1844 and his first major success was The Warden in 1855, the first of his five Baretshire novels. His works grew increasingly focused on the mechanics of power in human life before he died in London in 1882. FTP, name this author of Doctor Thorne, The Duke’s Children and Orley Farm.
ANSWER:	Anthony Trollope

20. Born in La Haye, he attended a Jesuit school for eight years. Studying law at the University of Poitiers, he never practiced. After several years in various armies, he devoted his life to philosophy and settled in the Netherlands. He rejected traditional methods of scholasticism and used rational inductive methods, through which he formulated his proof of God’s existence. FTP, name this philosopher and mathematician who said “Cogito ergo sum,” or “I think, therefore I am.”
ANSWER:	René Descartes
21. When Nuclear fusion has gone to it’s limit, this is the last element it transforms into.  This element, which also has an age named after it, makes up approximately five percent of  the earth’s crust. For ten points, name this element, a lack of which will give you  hypochromic anemia. 
ANSWER:	 Iron or Fe 

22. Psychopathologist Eugen Bleuler defined this disorder as "an abnormal disintegration of mental functions." Found in about 1% of the world’s population, this disease plagues its victims with disruptions in cognition, motivation, emotion and social relationships. Few patients actually exhibit all the symptoms, but they usually create their own world of delusions, an especially common one being paranoia. FTP, identify this psychosis that many often confuse with multiple-personality disorder.
ANSWER:	schizophrenia

23. This state is home to Leacock, Bareville, Bird-in-hand, Intercourse, and Virginity. These towns, ironically, lie in the Lancaster area, which is home to the largest group of Amish in the world.  For ten points, name this state, also home to Wilkes-Barre, Oil City, and York, and whose capital lies on the Susquehanna River at Harrisburg.
ANSWER:	Pennsylvania

		ROUND 3: BONI
			Bulldog High School Academic Tournament VIII
					
1. For each group of world cities, give the one with the highest population in 1996.
a.	Ankara, Barcelona, Chicago			ANSWER:	Chicago
b.	Melbourne, Lisbon, Khartoum		ANSWER:	Melbourne
c.   Milan, St. Petersburg (Russia), Paris		ANSWER: 	Paris

2. I’m going to give you a type of animal. In response, you will give me the name of a corresponding Beanie Baby for 5 points. You’ll get a bonus five for all correct.
a.	white tiger			ANSWER:	Blizzard
b.	giraffe			ANSWER:	Twigs
c.	koala			ANSWER:	Mel
d.	holiday penguin		ANSWER:	Zero
e.    tye-dye bear cub		ANSWER:	Sammy

3. For ten points each, name the group of people most commonly associated with the following deities. For example, if I said "Zeus," you would say "Greeks."
a.	Ceres, goddess of agriculture.
ANSWER:	Romans
b.	Itzamna, supreme creator and lord of fire.
ANSWER:	Mayans
c.	Khons (aka Khonsu, Khensu, Chons), a youthful moon god.
ANSWER:	Egyptians

4. I love dense things.  Maybe it’s because I’m dense and I just relate better to them. Since this is a physics question, we will have fun with specific gravity!
a. First, FTP, tell me what element has the highest specific gravity in the periodic table.
ANSWER:	 Osmium
b. Everyone knows that the specific gravity of water is 1. If you didn’t know this, get up slowly, hang your head in shame, and leave the room. Slowly, so you don’t disturb other people.  For those people left in the room, tell me, FTP, at what temperature, to the nearest degree, is water at 1.00 g/ml?
ANSWER:	 4 Degrees Celsius or 277 Degrees Kelvin or 39 Degrees Farenheit
c. For the final 10 points, what is the specific gravity of mercury, our favorite liquid at 20 degrees Celsius? You’ll get credit if the answer is within 0.2 g/ml.
ANSWER:	 13.546 grams per cubic centimeter (Give credit for 13.346-13.746)

5. Identify the following about an early 20th century art movement, FPTE.
a.	This artistic movement was centered in Italy and emphasized the dynamism, speed, energy, and  power of the machine and the vitality, change, and restlessness of modern life in general.
ANSWER:	futurism
b.	This Italian-French prose writer, novelist, poet, and dramatist was the ideological founder of Futurism, and coined the term “Futurism” in his Futurist Manifesto.
ANSWER:	Filippo Tommaso (Emilio) Marinetti
c.	Italian painter, sculptor, and theorist of the Futurist movement in art,  he produced "Riot in the Gallery", "The City Rises", "Development of a Bottle in Space," and "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space."
ANSWER:	Umberto Boccioni

6. Although “my achy breaky heart” may have more poetic poignancy than “my acute myocardial infarction,” doctors don’t have time for that emotional garbage. Names need to be unintelligible to be of any use.  
a. For example, can you name, FTP, stationary clots that form in the blood vessels, especially those leading to and from the heart? 
ANSWER:	 Thrombi  (also acc. “Thrombus”)
b. Or, FTP, what are clots, air bubbles or foreign objects traveling through the body in the blood stream? 
ANSWER:	 Emboli  (Also acc. “Embolus”)
c. For ten more points, name the condition that occurs when blood flow to an organ is cut off. 
ANSWER:	 Ischemia

7. 30-20-10 Name the scientist.
30pts: His correspondence with Hooke about attraction and repulsion led Hooke to accuse him of plagiarism later in life.
20pts: In 1703, after giving up the Lucasian professorship at Cambridge, he was elected President of the Royal Society. He was knighted in 1705.
10pts: His contributions to physics are recognized by the derived SI unit named after him. Despite all the groundbreaking work he did, he felt that his greatest accomplishment was dying a virgin.
ANSWER:	Sir Issac Newton 

8. Name the current senator, 30-20-10
30pts:	He served as chief minority council in 1973 and 1974 on the Senate Watergate Committee.
20pts:	An occasional actor, he had a minor roles in The Hunt for Red October. 
10pts:	In 1994, he ran and won the special election for Al Gore’s Senate seat.
ANSWER:	Fred Thompson

9. For ten points each, name these characters in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird:
a.	This man is accused of raping Mayella Ewell.
ANSWER:	Tom Robinson
b.	Played by Robert Duvall in the Oscar winning movie, he places a ball of string and a watch into a hole in a tree and eventually ends up saving Jem from Barney Ewell.
ANSWER:	Boo Radley
c.	He moves to Maycomb to live with his Aunt Rachel
ANSWER:	Charles Baker Harris (accept Dill)

10. Identify these past or present NBA players from their nicknames for the stated number of points.
5pts:	The Human Highlight Film		ANSWER:	Dominique Wilkins
10pts:	The Glove				ANSWER:	Gary Payton
15pts:   Jungle Jim				ANSWER:	Jim Loscutoff (LOSS-cue-toff)

11. For ten points each, answer these questions about the famously witty journalist and poet Dorothy Parker.
a.	She worked as a book and drama critic for this New York-based magazine, but was later removed from the staff for her caustic reviews such as, "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly.  It should be thrown aside with great force."
ANSWER:	Vanity Fair
b.	She and two other writers from Vanity Fair, Robert Benchley and Robert Sherwood, formed the core of this informal luncheon club and literary group of the early 1900's.
ANSWER:	the Algonquin Round Table
c.	After working for a time at The New Yorker, Parker published three volumes of verse, in 1926, 1928, and 1931.  Name any one of them.
ANSWER:	Enough Rope or Sunset Gun or Death and Taxes

12. Everybody loves matrices.  That means you. Answer the following questions, given the 2 by 2 matrix, listing upper left, upper right, lower left, lower right, 1, 2, 1, 2.
a. FTP, what is the determinant of this matrix? You have 15 seconds
ANSWER:	 0
b. FTP, what is the product of this matrix multiplied by the vector (1,2)?  Assume that the matrix is on the left-hand side of the multiplication and the vector is on the right-hand side.
ANSWER:	 5,5 (acc. equivalents, eg “5 and 5” etc.)
c. FTP, in Transformers the Movie what is the name of the object that a dying Optimus Prime intends to give to Ultra Magnus, but is dropped by Prime and caught by Hot Rod?
ANSWER:	 the Matrix Of Leadership

13. 30-20-10, name the Russian.
30pts:	Born in 1879, he grew up into a fine young Socialist, helping to organize the South Russian Workers' Union and spending almost five years imprisoned and exiled in Siberia for his activities.
20pts:	Despite having worked with Vladimir Ulyanov on the revolutionary newspaper, Iskra, he joined the Mensheviks, who desired a democratic method for Socialism, instead of the Bolsheviks.
10pts:	He led the anti-Stalin movement in Russia until his fateful encounter with an ax murderer in Mexico.
ANSWER:	Leon Trotsky 

14. Given the title of a recent album, give the artist who came out with it FTPE.
a.	Bobby Digital in Stereo
ANSWER:	RZA (pronounced: ri-zah) (accept: Robert Diggs, the Abbott) 
b.	Come On Over
ANSWER:	Shania Twain
c.	UP
ANSWER:	REM

15. For five points apiece, and a bonus five for all correct, list the five nations of the Iroquois confederacy.
ANSWER:	Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk

16. Given an African country, name its colonial ruler for 5 points each.
a.	Eritrea		ANSWER:	Italy
b.	Nigeria		ANSWER:	Great Britain (or equivalent)
c.	Mozambique	ANSWER:	Portugal
d.	Botswana		ANSWER:	Great Britain (or equivalent)
e.	Now, for 5 points apiece, name the two African nations that were independent in 1920.
ANSWER:	Ethiopia, Liberia

17. We all know that standardized tests play an obscenely important role in determining our future course in life.  Answer the following questions FTP each… 
a.	What is the maximum possible Selection Index on the PSAT?
ANSWER:	240
b.	For 10 points, what is the organization that creates and distributes the SAT and PSAT?
ANSWER:	Educational Testing Service (prompt on ETS)
c.	What is the maximum possible score on the Biology SAT II subject test?
ANSWER:	800

18. For 15 points each, identify the 20th century painter from the description of his style and the title of his famous work.
a.	Nighthawks shows an all-night cafe and its few uncommunicative customers illuminated in the pitiless glare of electric lights, conveying this artist's characteristic overall atmosphere of eerie loneliness and solitude.
ANSWER:	Edward Hopper
b.	Although his works ran a gamut from realism to abstraction and to surrealism, this Italian immigrant's most celebrated work is the "Brooklyn Bridge," a semi-abstract canvas that fused mystical fervor with modern engineering prowess in exultance of the romance, exuberance, and vitality of the 20th century American urban life.
ANSWER:	Joseph Stella

19. For ten points each, answer these questions about a World War II novel.
a.	This novel was written in 1945, and details the changes in the aristocracy that came with the Second World War by following the travails of the Flyte family.  It focuses especially on the young noble Sebastian Flyte and his friend, the narrator, Charles Ryder. Name it. 
ANSWER:	Brideshead Revisited
b.	Who wrote Brideshead Revisited?
ANSWER:	Evelyn Waugh
c.	In the novel, poor Sebastian Flyte has many character traits that seem to torment him, like his alcoholism, theatricality, and homosexuality.  But these at times pale in comparison to his problems with his religion.  FTP, name it.
ANSWER:	Roman Catholicism

20. Name the philosophers from list of their works for ten points each.
a.	The Concept of Irony, Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Fear and Trembling, Either/Or
ANSWER:	Soren Kierkegaard
b.	Science and Metaphysics, Science, Perception, and Reality, Empiricism and Philosophy of the Mind
ANSWER:	Wilfred Sellars
c.	The Age of Reason, The Reprieve, Iron in the Soul, Being and Nothingness
ANSWER:	Jean-Paul Sartre

21. 	How well do you know your constitutional amendments? Let’s see. For the stated number of points, answer the following.
a.	Which amendment protects against unwarranted search and seizure?
ANSWER:	the fourth amendment
b.	Which amendment gives Congress the power to levy income taxes without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration?
ANSWER:	the sixteenth amendment
c.	Which amendment says that no law regarding Senatorial or Representational salaries shall take effect until after an election of Representatives shall have intervened?
ANSWER:	the twenty-seventh amendment

22. Name the following would be assassins, ten points per person:
a.	These two women attempted to kill Gerald Ford. 
ANSWER:	Sarah Jane Moore and Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme
b.	 This man made the first assassination attempt in American history, trying to kill Andrew Jackson.
ANSWER:	Richard Lawrence

23. 30-20-10, name the author from clues.
30pts:	She was born in Savannah, GA in 1925, and studied creative writing at the University of Iowa.  Her first short story was published in the magazine Accent in 1946.
20pts:	Her stories were often set in the rural South, and examined themes like human alienation and the characters' relationships with God.  The stories are often marked by unresolved conflicts, abrupt endings, and unexpected violence.
10pts:	She is best known for her short story collections A Good Man is Hard to Find and Everything that Rises Must Converge.
ANSWER:	Flannery O'Connor