ACF Southeast Regional 1994 Tennessee I Toss-Ups 1) The total power radiated from a moving charge is proportional to the square of the acceleration of the charge and the square of the charge on the particle. This is theessential content of a formula of electrodynamics which is easily derivable from the Lienard-Wiechert potential. FTP, name this radiation formula. Ans: LARMOR formula 2) A product of post-Darwinian biology, this school of writing held that a human being exists entirely in the order of nature and does not have a soul nor any mode ofparticipating in a spiritual world beyond nature. Quite popular from the 1870s on, writers of this school structured their works, such as Sister Carrie and Jude the Obscure, as scientific experiments upon the characters. FTP, name thisschool of writing, greatest proponent was Emile Zola. Ans: NATURALISM 3) In the yearbook for his 1959 graduation from McLean High School in a suburb of Washington, D.C., he said that his career goal was foreign service. His father worked for the CIA, and he followed his father there in 1962. While posted in Mexico City, he met and married the cultural attache at the Columbian embassy, Rosario Casas. He had been posted back in Washington when he and his wife were arrested last week for conspiracy to commitespionage. FTP, name this former CIA official. Ans: Aldrich AMES 4) He taught at Cornell from 1948-59 and then settled in Switzerland. A Russian emitter after the 1917 revolution, he briefly lived in England and Germany, but came to the US.in 1940 and began to write his most famous novels, including Pale Fire and Ada, and to collect butterflies. FTP, name this author of Lolita. Ans: Vladimir NABOKOV 5) Born in 1788, this philosopher tried to equate Kants thing-in-itself with a blind impelling force manifesting itself in individuals as the will to live. He failed in attempts to rival Hegel as a lecturer in Berlin, but his work did profoundly influence Nietzsche and Freud. FTP, name this man, who saw the world as in a state of constant conflict between individuals and whose seminal work is The World as Will and Representation. Ans: Arthur SCHOPENHAUER 6) Upon first viewing her work, critics described it as bouonnieres for Gargantua and said that they made the viewer feel as if we humans were butterflies. The largest was the 6x7 foot Miracle Flower (1936), but even her smaller works, like the well-known Red Poppy (1927) seemed monumental. FTP, name this artist, wife of Alfred Stieglitz and painter of Cows Skull with Calico Roses. Ans: Georgia OKEEFE 7) This holiday, observed mostly in Roman Catholic, Orthodox Eastern, and Anglican churches, celebrates the presentation of the Christ child in the temple and the purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary 40 days after she gave birth to Jesus. FTP, name this holiday which coincides with Groundhog Day. Ans: CANDLEMAS 8) This type of luminescence is caused by the emission of photons from electrons trapped in potential troughs from which the electrons are freed by the thermal motion within the system. It is distinguished from fluorescence in that it continues even after the radiation that causes it has ceased. FTP, name this physical phenomenon. Ans: PHOSPHORESCENCE 9) It is bordered by Chad, the Sudan, Zaire, the Congo, and Cameroon. From 1976-1979 it was called an empire, ruled by Emperor Bokassa I. FTP, name this African nation whosecapital is at Bangui. Ans: CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC 10) Born in Albany, New York in 1928, he has made that city the star of his best-known works. He has also written The Ink Truck, a novel, and the screenplay for The Cotton Club. FTP, name this author, the winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for his novel Ironweed. Ans: William KENNEDY 11) He was slain by Vali, the guardian of justice. It wasnt really his fault, though: Loki tricked this blind god into firing the arrow of mistletoe that killed hisbrother Balder. FTP, name this Norse god of darkness. Ans: HODUR or Hoder 12) His principle states that each point on the surface of an advancing wave front can be treated as a source of wavelets itself. He used this principle to explain thediffraction of light as a wave phenomenon, in direct opposition to Newtons corpuscular view. FTP, name this Dutch physicist and mathematician, the discoverer of Titan. Ans: Christian HUYGENS 13) Originally based on a giant-hero of medieval folk literature, his name is derived from the Spanish for gullet. In the eleventh month of her pregnancy, his mother Gargamelle goes into labor as a result of eating too much tripe, and he is born through his mothers left ear,crying Drink! Drink! Drink! We are told of his trip to Paris, his studies, and his founding of the abbey of Thlme, before we are told of his son Pantagruel. FTP, name this giant and Rabelais character. Ans: GARGANTUA 14) When he died, he and his family were the only residents of the Universal City Sheraton; everyone else had been evacuated due to the earthquake, but he was too weak to be moved. When he died of prostate cancer on January 22, his whole family was by his side. He had first shaved his head to play Pontius Pilate in The Greatest Story Ever Told, but audiences know him best as the lollipop-sucking Lt. Theo Kojak. FTP, name this actor. Ans: Telly SAVALAS 15) He was a gentleman from sole to crown,/ Clean favored, and imperially slim./ And he was always quietly arrayed, / And he was always human when hetalked... All this aside, Paul Simon said his mind was filled with wonder when he read this man had put a bullet through his head. FTP, name this title character of a 1897 poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson. Ans: Richard CORY 16) His films often treat bizarre historical events, like a crazy conquistador running mad in the jungles of South America. Heart of Glass, Fitzcarraldo, Kaspar Hauser, Stroszek, and Aguirre, the Wrath of God are among the films of this German director born in 1942. FTP, name him. Ans: Werner HERZOG 17) John Y. Mason, Pierre Soule, and James Buchanan drafted it at the behest of Secretary of State William Marcy, who repudiated it when it was denounced by the press. FTP, name this document, widely considered a plot to extend slavery, that suggested the US take Cuba by force if Spain refused to sell it, and named for the town in Belguim where it was drawn up. Ans: OSTEND Manifesto 18) The capital of their empire, Hattusas, was the chief power and cultural force in west Asia from 1400 to 1200 BC. The empire was really a lose confederation that broke upunder invasions by the Thracians, Phrygians, and Assyrians in about 1200 BC. FTP, name this ancient people of Asia Minor and Syria, among the first to successfully smelt iron, and whose language is among the oldest in the Indo-European family. Ans: HITTITES 19) If you have a non-linear mapping between two sets of coordinates, but all you care about is an approximate estimate of the ratio between differential volume elements in each system, this determinant can help you. FTP, what do we call a matrix that consists of a set of partial derivatives of a given mapping that serves as an approximation to the original mapping? Ans: JACOBIAN matrix 20) Living from 1729-97, this British political writer and statesman was a member of Samuel Johnsons literary circle. As a member of Parliament he warned against taxing the American colonies excessively and called for conciliation with them. He instigated the impeachment ofWarren Hastings, governor general of India, in the 1780s in an attempt to clean up corruption in the British East India Company. FTP, name this man, the first to argue the value of political parties in his Thoughts on the Cause ofthe Present Discontents in 1770. Ans: Edmund BURKE 21) His journal, Lami du peuple, which bitterly attacked all those in power in his native France in 1789, gave him enough notoriety for him to be outlawed in 1790. You would think that he could have simply stayed in England, where he initially fled, rather than returning to Paris to hide in the sewers. FTP, name this doctor, whose stupid sewer- running worsened his skin disease, precipitating the frequent baths that proved to be his downfall. Ans: Jean Paul MARAT [Editor's note: a repeat, do not use] 22) Born in Patterson, N.J. in 1840, he graduated from Yale in 1859, and in 1872 became professor of political science at Yale. During the late 19th century, he waged a holy war against reformism, government intervention, and socialism in such works as What Social Classes Owe to Each Other, The Forgotten Man, and The Absurd Effort to Make the World Over. FTP, name this American proponent of social Darwinism and noted sociologist. Ans: William Graham SUMNER 23) He spent several weeks at the Battle Creek, Michigan sanitarium of the Kellogg brothers when he was 24 recovering from a nervous breakdown. He served as Ohio state senator from 1899-1903 and was lieutenant governor form 1903-1905. FTP, name this man, US senator from 1915-1921 and, unfortunately for him, the boss of Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall. Ans: Warren Gamaliel HARDING 24) His 1591 Complaints contained a poem called "Mother Hubberds Tale", a satiric attack on Lord Burghley. This probably was responsible for the volume's suppression. He had returned to London to publish his most famous work that same year after serving as a public official in Ireland since 1580. FTP, who is this man, granted a lifetime pension by Elizabeth I for his flattering masterpiece. Ans: Edmund SPENSER 25) The term was first used by General Mola to describe the extra aid he claimed to have in his siege of Madrid. Hemingway popularized the term with a play of the same name. FTP, what do we call a systematic organization of spies and enemy sympathizers in a country? Ans: FIFTH COLUMN 26) The name also refers to a species of wild goose similar to the brent goose. In fact, in medieval times, it was believed that the goose and the animal this name is most usually ascribed to were different forms of the same creature, much like a frog and a tadpole. The belief probably started when someone noticed the similarity of the goose's plumage and the feathery cirri that protrude from the shell of the other animal. FTP, name this mollusk commonly found on ship hulls. Ans: BARNACLES 27) The term combines the Greek for "nature" and "to rule." The adherents of this school believed that, ultimately, only agriculture was truly productive. The movement systematized principles first expounded by Cantillon in 1755. FTP, name this school of economics that emphasized the role of natural order in society, began by Francois Quesnay. Ans: PHYSIOCRATS 28) A city in Laconia sided with the Persians at Thermopylae. The Greeks proceeded to destroy the city, kill all the men, and make all the women slaves. When Praxiteles decided on the form of the columns for the Erectheum, he sculpted them as women to perpetuate the disgrace. FTP, what are these female figures used in Greek architecture to support entablatures called? Ans: CARYATIDS 29) In a poll taken in Iceland a few months back, he was the 3rd most popular celebrity listed, right in front of Madonna. Icelanders are really big nerds! FTP, name this son of an English coal miner and international Grand master who got the stuffing beat out of him last October by Kasparov in the PCA World Championship. Ans: Nigel SHORT 30) It is the Lorentz invariant length of the position four-vector. You can also think of it as the time interval that would be measured by a clock in the same inertial frame. FTP, what is this important quantity in special relativity, usually denoted by t (tau)? Ans: PROPER TIME ACF Southeast Regional 1994 Tennessee I Boni 1) (30 points) Name the writer, 30-20-10 from works. 30-Dream of Fair to Middlin Women (a novel) and Not I (a play) 20-The novels Murphy, Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable 10-Endgame and Happy Days Ans: Samuel BECKETT 2) (30 points) Women writers have become much more studied in recent years. Name these on a 10-5 basis given works. a. 10-Hospital Sketches and Work 5-Little Women Ans: Louisa May ALCOTT b. 10- A Respectable Woman, The Storm, Desirees Baby 5-The Awakening Ans: Kate CHOPIN c. 10-In Search of Our Mothers Gardens 5- The Color Purple Ans: Alice WALKER 3) (30 points) Name the British statesman, 30-20-10. 30- Born in Ireland in 1769, as acting chief secretary for Ireland, he was responsible for suppressing the French-aided rebellion in 1798. 20-He was British Secretary of War, 1805-06 and 1807-09. Oppressed by overwork and heavy responsibilities, he committed suicide in 1822. 10- Advocating a moderate peace settlement for France, he was a dominant figure at the Congress of Vienna. Ans: Robert Stewart CASTLEREAGH 4)(30 points) Given a significant work of the Harlem Renaissance, name the author for 10 points each. a. The Ways of White Folks Ans: Langston HUGHES b. Cane Ans: Jean TOOMER c. the poems If We Must Die and Harlem Shadows Ans: Claude MCKAY 5) (30 points) Given a subatomic particle, tell whether it is a lepton or a hadron, 5 pts. each. a) muon Ans: lepton b) electron neutrino Ans: lepton c) pion Ans: hadron d) tauon Ans: lepton e) proton Ans: hadron f) J/psi Ans: hadron 6)(30 points)Given an anthropological work, name the author, 5 each. a. Argonauts of the Western Pacific Ans: Bronislaw MALINOWSKI b. Of Mules and Men Ans: Zora Neale HURSTON c. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword Ans: Ruth BENEDICT d. Race, Language, and Culture Ans: Franz BOAS e. Mythologiques Ans: Claude LEVI-STRAUSS f. Male and Female Ans: Margaret MEAD 7) (30 points) Answer these questions relating to Americas entrance onto the imperial stage in the late19th century, 10 each. a. Disputes between the British and this South American country led Secretary of State Richard Olney in July 1895 to reassert the Monroe Doctrine. Ans: VENEZUALA b. Name the Philippine rebel leader who interfered with U.S. attempts to control the Philippines until his arrest in 1901. Ans: Emilio AGUINALDO c. What Amendment to the Cuban Constitution said that Cuba could not make treaties without U.S. approval? Ans: The PLATT Amendment 8) (30 points)Given a college or university, give the nickname sported by its athletic teams, 5 pts each and a bonus 5 for all 5. a) Furman University Ans: PALADINS b) University of Illinois at Chicago Ans: FLAMES c) Brandeis University Ans: JUDGES d) Bucknell Ans: BISON e) Florida A&M Ans: RATTLERS 9) (30 points) Name the U.S. Historian from works, 30-20-10. 30-Social Darwinism in American Thought 20-Anti-Intellectualism in American Life 10-The Age of Reform Ans: Richard HOFSTADTER 10) (30 points) Given these landmark works of gay literature, name the authors for 5 points each. a. Rubyfruit Jungle Ans: Rita Mae BROWN b. Tales of the City Ans: Armistead MAUPIN c. The Well of Loneliness Ans: Radclyffe HALL d. The Normal Heart Ans: Larry KRAMER e. Conduct Unbecomming Ans: Randy SHILTS f. Oranges are Not the Only Fruit Ans: Jeanette WINTERSON 11) (30 points) Answer these questions about responses to British industrialization, 10 points each. a. This 1833 piece of legislation stated that no child under 13 could work more than 9 hours a day. Ans: The FACTORY Act b. This movement pressed for such political reforms as universal manhood suffrage, secret ballot, and the abolition of property qualifications for members of Parliament. Ans: The CHARTIST movement or chartism c. In 1819, a peaceful crowd of about 50,000 protesters gathered near Manchester to demand changes in the suffrage law. British militia charged the crowd, killing 11, andwounding hundreds. By what nickname was this incident known? Ans: PETERLOO Massacre 12) (30 points) Name these regions of South America, 10 pts each. a) It is the vast area of tall grasses that lies to the rear of Buenos Aires. Ans: PAMPAS b) The driest place on earth, it the major desert of Chile. Ans: ATACAMA Desert c) This lowland plain contains little more than jaguars and Mennonites, but was the crux of a war between Paraguay and Bolivia. Ans: GRAN CHACO 13) (30 points) Tell who slew each of the following monsters of Greek myth, 5 pts each. a) The Chimera Ans: Bellerophon b) The Nemean Lion Ans: Hercules c) The Kraken Ans: Perseus d) The Sphinx(drove to suicide) Ans: Oedipus e) Medusa Ans: Perseus f) Geryon Ans: Hercules 14) (30 points) Name the authors of the following seemingly unrelated works, 5 pts each. a) No Longer At Ease Ans: Chinua ACHEBE b) Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams Ans: Sylvia PLATH c) Kiss of the Spider Woman Ans: Manuel PUIG d) Mrs. Dalloway Ans: Virginia WOOLF e) The Immoralist Ans: Andre GIDE f) Siddhartha Ans: Hermann HESSE 15) (30 points) Name the Nobel laureate in physics from the year they won for 10 pts, or from the reason for the award for 5 pts. 10- 1960 5-invention of the bubble chamber Ans: Donald GLASER 10- 1918 5- formulation of the quantum theory Ans: Max PLANCK 10- 1971 5- invention of the hologram Ans: Dennis GABOR 16) (30 points) Given a saints sphere of influence, name him or her, 10 pts each. a) patron saint of broadcasters Ans: Gabriel b) patron saint of prisoners Ans: Dismas c) patron saint of skiers Ans: Bernard 17) (30 points) Identify the following architectural terms, 10 pts each. a) The upper part of an entablature that extends beyond the frieze Ans: cornice b) An enclosed passage from the nave to the entrance of a church Ans: narthex c) A bell tower not actually attached to a church Ans: campanile 18) (30 points) Identify the order to which the following animals belong, 5 pts each. a) pika Ans: Lagomorpha b) zebra Ans: Perissodactyla c) dugong Ans: Sirenia d) flying lemur Ans: Dermoptera e) civet Ans: Carnivora f) beluga Ans: Cetacea 19) (30 points) Name the president given their vice- president, 5 pts each. a) George Dallas Ans: James K. POLK b) James Sherman Ans: William Howard TAFT c) Charles Curtis Ans: Herbert HOOVER d) William R. King Ans: Franklin PIERCE e) Alben Barkley Ans: Harry TRUMAN f) Thomas Jefferson Ans: JOHN ADAMS 20) Give the common name, 30-20-10 30- Charles Cotesworth was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention and envoy to France. He refused to pay bribes to French officials in the XYZ affair. 20- Thomas was governor of South Carolina and helped establish commercial relations with Spain in 1795. 10- Charles also served as governor of South Carolina and as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. He was also a US senator from 1789-1801. Ans: Pinckney 21) (30 points) Name these South African authors, 10 pts each. a) She wrote The Voice of the Serpent, Burger's Daughter, and July's People. She won the 1991 Nobel Prize. Ans: Nadine GORDIMER b) Perhaps his best known play is Master Harold...and the Boys. Boesman and Lena is considered by critics to be his masterpiece. Ans: Athol FUGARD c) This novelists works include Ah, But Your Land is Beautiful and Cry, the Beloved Country. Ans: Alan PATON 22) (30 points) Answer these questions about vitamins for the stated number of points. a) First, for 10 pts, who first coined the term "vitamin?" Ans: Casimir FUNK b) Now, for 5 pts each, name the four vitamins that Funk first posited the existence of. Ans: B1, B2, C, and D 23) (30 points) Name the rivers these state capitals lie on, 10 pts each. a) Denver Ans: SOUTH PLATTE b) Indianapolis Ans: WHITE c) Columbia Ans: CONGAREE 24) (30 points) Do you know which Punic War is which? Well, let's find out. Answer the following, 10 pts each. a) Which one of the Punic Wars featured Hannibal's invasion of Italy and his eventual defeat at Zama? Ans: SECOND b) Name the leading general of the First Punic War, father of Hannibal. Ans: HAMILCAR BARCA c) What city had a quarrel with Messana that was the direct cause of the First Punic War? Ans: SYRACUSE 25) (30 points) The death of the SSC is probably the death knell of particle physics in America, but some projects are still going ahead. Identify the following, 10 ptseach. a) This facility in Newport News, VA accelerates electrons at fixed targets in order to probe the quark structure of nucleons. Ans: CEBAF or Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility b) This accelerator is due for a new main injector. It is currently the highest energy accelerator in the world that is of any real use. It is located in Batavia,Illinois. Ans: Fermilab's TEVATRON c) This accelerator will be built at Brookhaven in the tunnel originally drilled for the accelerator Gargamelle in the 70's. It will collide heavy ions in a search forquark- gluon plasma. Ans: RHIC or Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider 26) (30 points) Let's see how much attention you've been paying to the recent news about Bosnia. Answer the following for the stated number of points. a) First, for 5 pts, what was the designation of the US warplanes that were involved in a dogfight earlier this week? Ans: F-16 FIGHTING FALCONS b) For 10 pts, what kind of Yugoslavian-manufactured planes did they shoot down? Ans: GALEB c) And, finally, for 15 pts, who is the commander of NATO forces in Southern Europe? Ans: Adm. Jeremy BOORDA 27) (30 points) Given a work, name the philosopher who wrote it, 5 pts each. a) Tractatus Logicophilosophicus Ans: Ludwig WITTGENSTEIN b) Science of Logic, 1816 Ans: Georg HEGEL c) Critique of Pure Reason Ans: Immanuel KANT d) Science and the Modern World Ans: Alfred North WHITEHEAD e) Ideas for a Pure Phenomenology Ans: Edmund HUSSERL f) The Consolation of Philosophy Ans: BOETHIUS 28) (30 points) Answer these questions about vulcanism, 10 pts each. a) What is the largest volcano in the solar system, the tallest mountain on Mars? Ans: OLYMPUS MONS b) This is the most volcanic satellite on the solar system. Voyager 1 saw at least eight active volcanoes here as it flew by Jupiter in 1979. Ans: IO c) This is a volcanic glass formed by cooled lava, permeated with air bubbles. Ans: PUMICE 29) Name the composer from works, 30-20-10 30- Two string quartets, From My Life (1876 and 1882) 20- The symphonic poem My Fatherland(1879) 10- The opera The Bartered Bride (1866) Ans: Bedrich SMETANA 30) (30 points) Given a special move for a character in Street Fighter II, name the character, 5 pts each. a) Turbo Spinning Clothesline Ans: Zangief b) Hundred Hand Slap Ans: Edmond Honda c) Tiger Uppercut Ans: Sagat d) Sonic Boom Ans: Guile e) Yoga Fire Ans: Dhalsim f) Psychomotor Ans: Major Bison