Philly Experiment III: No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service Preliminary Round 4 Packet by: Snacks! Ammo! Live Bait! Tossups 1. They were first studied in 1610 when Johannes Fabricius published observations on them. Between 1645 and 1715, English scientist Edward Walter Maunder observed a period when there were hardly any of them, and henceforth all extensive periods of decreased activity have been named "Maunder Minimums." FTP, name these objects that can cause your radio reception to be unusually poor, and are usually much cooler than the surrounding solar surface. _Sunspots_ 2. This battle is remarkable for the desperated charge of the Chasseurs d'Afrique under General Marguerritte, in which the whole brigade was cut to pieces and the general killed. In this area around an old French fortress near the Belgian border, French forces under Marshall McMahon were surrounded by Prussian forces under Field Marshall Moltke, whose superior artillery won the day. FTP, name this battle fought in September of 1870, which proved to be the decisive engagement of the Franco-Prussian War. _Sedan_ 3. This song was the first solo single by one of the Beatles to be included on a Beatles album as well as the first Beatles song to be backed by strings. Paul McCartney recorded it alone at Abbey Road Studios in 1965, but to his dismay, John Lennon's name was included in the songwriting credits. FTP, name this timely Beatles ballad whose original working title was "Scrambled Eggs." _Yesterday_ 4. It is represented by a lower case Greek letter epsilon, and it is defined as the ratio of the electric displacement in a dielectric medium to the applied electric field strength. It indicates the degree to which a medium can resist the flow of electric charge. FTP, name this physical quantity which is measured in farads per meter. _Permittivity_ 5. Famous for its simple but realistic style, it consists of 23 thematically related sketches and stories brought together by the narration of a young reporter. Essentially an episodic Bildungsroman, the book focuses on George Willard's developing sense of wholeness. FTP, name this work written in 1919 by Sherwood Anderson _Winnesburg, Ohio_ 6. The last memeber of this group is reported to have been killed in 1993 by a secret assassination squad. FTP, give the two word English name of the Palestinian terrorist organization that carried out a massacre of Israeli athletes during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. _Black September_ 7. Excavations at the site of San Lorenzo, located just south of Tenochtitlan in Mexico, have produced 17 colossal size heads that represent, along with the surprisingly diverse collection of statuary, masks, and talismans, the artistic achievements of this civilization. FTP, name this pre-Columbian civilization that flourished from 1200 to 400 BC, many of whose finest works of art are on display this summer at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. _Olmec_ 8. Some 500 residents of Skagway, Alaska, awoke one morning in July of 1996 to find their most prized botanical treasure ruthlessly hacked to the ground by an unknown assailant. Planted in 1917, it had grown to be over ten feet high, 20 feet wide, and had enourmous leaves rumoured to be as large as "a good two-person umbrella." FTP, give the common name of this plant whose leaves can be poisonous but whose leaf- stalks taste yummy in pies. _Rhubarb_ 9. According to one myth, he was the sea-giant son of Hler. However, the better known bearer of this name was sent as a hostage to the Vanir, who beheaded him, but Odin breathed life back into the head and consulted it on various occasions. FTP, name the wise and ancient Jotun who guarded the well of wisdom that lay under the roots of Yggdrassil and who let Odin drink of it at the cost of an eye. _Mimir_ 10. To make a drink with this name, combine Scotch, sweet vermouth, dry vermouth, and a marachino cherry. You may be more familiar with a recent film of the same name which features the touchingly sentimental scene of Jessica Lange urinating on a beach. FTP, identify this name, the title hero of a novel by Sir Walter Scott. _Rob Roy_ 11. He was born in Chicago, and in his teens he was a volunteer ambulance during WWI. After returning home he earned money as a big-band musician, and became an executive in a company that produced paper plated and paper cups. FTP, name this man who in 1954 stumbled upon a small hamburger stand in San Bernadino, CA which he bought and turned into the delivery system for the doomsday weapon of indigestion: The Arch Deluxe. Ray _Kroc_ 12. Arabian Dance," "Anitra's Dance," "The Death of Ase," "Ingrid's Lament," "Solveig's Song," and "In the Hall of the Mountain King" are all, FAQTP, movements in what famous suites by Edvard Grieg? _Peer Gynt_ Suites 13. Ironically, it wasn't in the south where the first major movement for secession from the Union took place. In 1814, delegates from every state in New England met in this city and narrowly voted down a motion to secede from the Union in protest over U.S. involvement in the War of 1812. FTP, name this city which is today home to the Wadsworht Atheneum and many major insurance companies. _Hartford_, Connecticut 14. This group of usually heriditary disorders are characterized by acute abdominal pain, neuropathy, and photosensitivity. Other symptoms include facial disfiguration and the growth of excessive body hair, and the extreme sensitivity to light has lead some people to speculate that contact with its sufferers inspired the first werewolf legends. FTP, name this rare disease which may cause your urine to turn blue and whose most famous sufferer may have been King George III. _Porphyria_ 15. Though the New York Times and the Washington Post never published any of his writing, his father Apollo's revolutionary activities in Poland may have inspired him to write such classic spy novels as _Under Western Eyes_, which, among others, is considered to have had a major influence on unabomber suspect Theodore Kazynski. FTP, name this turn-of-the-century author of _The Secret Agent_ and _Heart of Darkness_. Joseph _Conrad_ 16. Orgon invites him into the house, where he proceeds to steal daughter Damis's (da MEESE's) inheritance before being tricked by Elmire (el-MEER). This man tries to have Orgon arrested only to be arrested himself with the intervention of the king. FTP, name this Moliere title character and false holy man whose name has become synonymous with hypocrite. _Tartuffe_ 17. Flourishing in the early 1950's, they were brought together by similar views regarding the natural rhythm of the human breath and its relationship to poetics. They developed a form of verse they deemed "projective" and attempted to restore a musical quality to their work. FTP, name this group of poets who included Paul Blackburn, Robert Creeley, Ed Dorn, and Charles Olson, named after an experimental college located in the mountains of North Carolina. _Black Mountain_ Poets 18. He was called Squid Head by his detractors because of the elongated shape of his cranium, and he was son sensitive to this fact that all official portraits of him show him wearing a helmet. The son of Xanthippus and Agariste, he reduced Euboea to submission, and in 446 he secured Sparta's recognition of the Athenian Empire in the Thirty Years' Peace. FTP, name this Greek statesman and patron of the arts who died of plague during the siege of Athens. _Pericles_ 19. This 20th Century baseball great holds the record for consecutive 75 RBI seasons at the start of a career. Once traded for the trio of Ken Howell, Brian Holton and Juan Bell, he hit two homeruns in the decisive fifth game of the 1983 World Series. FTP, name this future Hall of Famer more recently dealt back to the Orioles for Kent Mercker. Eddie _Murray_ 20. Exiled for six years because of a quarrel with the Duke of Norfolk, he returned after one year when his inheritance was confiscated. Son of Blanche and John of Gaunt, he is regarded as the founder of the Lancastrian dynasty of kings. FTP, name this titular character of two Shakespeare plays who ruled England from 1399-1413 _Henry Bolingbroke_ aka _Henry IV_ Bonuses 1. Please don't refrain from "laughing" and identify the following on a 5-10-15 basis. 5 - This frenchman gave George Washington the key to the Bastille, and during the American Revolution, offered his services to the colonial army, becoming a lasting symbol of Franco-American friendship. A = Marquis de _Lafayette_ 10 - It supported the theory of supply-side economics, suggesting that high taxes depress revenues, and was reputedly written on a napkin. A = _Laffer Curve_ 15 - He served Wisconsin in both congress and as governor, and lost the presidential nomination of the Progressive Party to Teddy Roosevelt in 1912. A = Robert _ LaFollette_ 2. Identify these parts of a mosque for the stated number of points. 5 - this is the tower from which the muezzin calls the faithful to prayer. A = minaret 10 - This niche in the wall on the inside of the mosque denotes the direction of Mecca, and therefore the direction to which all muslims in the mosque are to pray. A = mirhab 15 - This is the pulpit from which the Imam, the leader of the daily prayers, leads the congregation. It is roughly equivilent to the christian pulpit. A = minbar 3. "One of these days, Alice,. ..POW! Right in the kisser!" After hearing the actor or actress who played the role, identify the character from the classic TV Show, "The Honeymooners" FTP each. Warning: you must give the first AND last name of the character to get the points. 1. Jackie Gleason. A = _Ralph Kramden_ 2. Art Carney A = _Ed Norton_ 3. Joyce Randolph A = _Trixie Norton_ 4. Identify the following early methods of photography from the clues for 15 points each. 1. Developed by a Frenchman This process consists of forming an image directly onto an exposed silver-coated plate. The finished image is transparent, and is best viewed by observing it at a 45 degree angle. _Daguerreotype_ 2. An improvement on the Daguerreotype, it was invented by English Architect Scott Archer in 1851, and began a movement towards a flexible, rollable "film". A = _Wet Collodion_ process 5. Answer the following questions about Alanis Morissette for the stated number of points. 5 - Name her hit song that was nominated for Song of the Year written about an ex-boyfriend which drew heated controversy over its explicit lyrics. A = _You Oughta Know_ 10 - Morisette's album title "Jagged Little Pill" is a lyric from which track? A = _You Learn_ 15 - Alanis is currently in the middle of the "Can't Not" tour with what other alternative band? A = _Radiohead_ 6. Identify the following about the light bulb for the stated number of points. 5 - Thomas edison patented a lightbulb that used a scorched cotton thread as its filament, but today's bulbs use filaments made up of what heat-resistent element? A = _Tungsten_ 10 - Contrary to popular belief, modern light bulb filaments do not burn in vacuums. FTP, name the gas that fills the glass chamber of most lightbulbs. A = _Nitrogen_ Now, for 15 points for the exact date, 10 if you are within 1 year, and 5 points if you are within 5 years, give the year in which Thomas Edison patented the light bulb. A = (15) 1879 A = (10) 1878 or 1880 A = (5) 1874 - 1884 7. Identify the following meteorological terms for the stated number of points. 5 - This term takes into account temperature, rainfall, and other atmospheric factors, and is the general term for weather conditions prevelent in a region over an extended period of time. A = _climate_ 10 - This is the point at which air becomes saturated and it can hold no more water vapor. A = _dew point_ 15 - This is a term given to the colorful circular halo seen when looking down at an objects shadow caused by the diffraction of sunlight. It can occur when the shadow of a flying airplane is seen on a cloud. A = _glory _ 8. 30-20-10 Identify the island from the clues. 30 - Cities on this island include Okha, Kholmsk, and Yuzhno. 20 - Its highest point is the 5200 foot Gora Lopatina, and it is the 23 largest island in the world. 10 - Even though he was weak from his Tuberculosis, Anton Chekov travelled to a prison on this Russian island in the Sea of Othotsk and wrote about it in 1893. A = _Sakhalin_ 9. Please put the following mammalian fictional characters into their correct scientific orders for ten points each. In other words, if I said "Mickey and Minnie," you'd say "Rodentia." 1. Snagglepuss A = _Carnivora_ (he's a cat) 2. Hazel, Bigwig, General Woundwort, and many other characters from the Ricahrd Adams classic, "Watership Down" A = _Lagomorpha_ (they're all rabbits) 3. Porky Pig A = _Artiodactyla_ (he's an even-toed mammal) 10. Identify the following about Egypt and its leaders for the stated number of points. 5 - He was president from 1954 to 1970, and has lent his name to a large man-made lake behind the Aswan High Dam on the Nile River. A =Gamel abdal-_Nasser_ 10 - He preceeded Nasser as President. A = Muhmmed _Naguib_ 15 - This was the year that King Farouk succeeded King Faud, and that Egypt officially became independent of the British Empire. A = _1936_ 11. Identify the following paintings by Henri Rousseu from their descriptions for 15 points each. 1. Set against the backdrop of an eerily depicted expansive nightime sky, tall barren trees descend to a couple dressed in costumes borrowed from characters in the comedia dell-arte. The painting is in the Philadephia Museum of Art, and was finished in 1886. A = A _Carnival Evening_ 2. Painted in 1910, it hangs in the Museum of Modern Art, and is a large 6 by 9 foot canvass of a lush jungle. On the right is a reclining female nude, and in the center, a native woman plays a muical instrument surrounded by lots of flowers, fruit, and animals. A = _The Dream_ 12. Identify the following parker-brothers games designed for children for the stated number of points. 5 - This highly stressful electric game gave you a pair of tweezers, and challenged you to calm your shaky nerves and extract various objects from the body of some guy who buzzed at you and lit up his nose if you touched the sides of the body cavity from which you were extracting the object. A = _Operation_ 10 - In this game, you have a mere 60 seconds to put a bunch of little yellow pegs of various shapes into their proper holes before the board containing the holes shoots up and ejects all the pieces all over the floor. Most kids found the game much more fun to lose than to win. A = _Perfection_ 15 - This game was designed for very young children who would roll a die to determine how they would build a cool plastic bug-like creature. They included the body and tail, head, 6 legs, two ears, two eyes, and that really cool toungue. Most kids lost or disreagrded the die altogether and preferred to just make and play with the plastic creature. A = _Cootie_ 13. There are indeed a lot of illegal immigrants from Mexico that flood across the border every year, and many blame the U.S. border patrol for being virtually unable to stop them. In their defence, the border with Mexico is over 1000 miles long and touches on 6 Mexican States. For 5 points each, name them. A = _Baja California Norte_, _Sonora_, _Chihuahua_, _Coahuila_, _Nuevo Leon_, and _Tamaulipas _ 14. Identify which Canterbury tale contains the following characters for the stated number of points. 5 - Chanticleer and Pertelote A = _Nun's Priest's_ Tale 10 - Nicholas, Allison, and Absolon A = The _Miller_ 15 - Perkin A = The _Cook's_ Tale (yeah, Perkin's the cook) 15. Identify the following Japanese military codes and rites which have their origin in Shintoism for the stated number of points. 10 - This code consists of loyalty, gratitude, courage, justice, truthfulness, politeness, reserve, and honor, and has been adopted by many Japanese people, not just the samurai. A = _bushido_ 5 - This is the way of male ritual suicide by disembowment, whose most famous practitioner may have been the author, Yukio Mishima. A = _harakiri_ 15 - The female version of harakiri, it provides for a much quicker death and thereby less painful death by cutting open the jugular veins A = _jigai _ 16. Identify the following hits of the 1980's from their lyrics for 10 points each. You will receive 5 points if you need the artist or band who is responsible. (10) "I'm never gonna dance again. Guilty feet have got no rythym. Though its easy to pretend, you know I'm not a fool. . ." (5) the band is Wham A = _Careless Whisper_ (10) "Some nights I wake up with the sheets soaking wet and a freight train runnin' through the middle of my head. . ." (5) the artist is Bruce Springsteen A = _I'm On Fire_ (10) "Little girl from Cherry Lawn, how can you be so bold? How did you know there's no damn rule? I think of all the education that I missed. ..but then my homework was never quite like this." (5) Van Halen A = _Hot For Teacher _ 17. Identify the following straits for the stated number of points. 5 - These straits represent the point in the English Channel where France and England are closest together. A = Straits of _Dover_ 10 - This strait separates Asia and North America A = _Behring_ Strait 15 - It lies between the tip of the Cape York peninsula in Australia and the Island Of New Guinea A = _Torres_ Strait 18. 30-20-10-5 Name the author from the works. 30 - "A Traveller at 40", and "A Hoosier Holiday" 20 - "Jennie Gerhardt" 10 - "The Stoic" and "The Titan" 5 - "Sister Carrie" A = Theodore _Dreiser _ 19. Identify the poem from the quotations, 30-20-10 30 - "Between the motion and the act, falls the shadow" 20 - "Shape without form, shade without color, paralyzed force, gesture without motion" 10 - "This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper" A = The _Hollow Men_ 20. Identify the composer from the works, 30-20-10 30 - The Song cycles, "Songs of a Wayfarer" and "Children's Death Songs" 20 - symphony #1, nicknamed "The Titan" 10 - symphony #2, nicknamed "The Ressurection" A = Gustav _Mahler_