Harvard A tossups

pg. 1, Penn Bowl IV


#1. Don't you wish you could make money doing this, too? FAQTP,
identify the New York City transit cop who holds the all-time
prize-winning record on the game show "Jeopardy!"

ANSWER: Frank SPANGENBERG

#2. Take a square.  Join one pair of opposite sides with a half twist
to make a Mobius strip, and then the other pair of opposite sides
without any twist.  FTP, what 2-dimensional surface, impossible to
represent in 3 dimensions without intersecting itself, do you get?

ANSWER: KLEIN BOTTLE

#3. In Charles Perrault's original version, the title character is
devoured, but in the Grimm brothers' version a hunter cuts open the
wolf with a pair of scissors and frees the girl and her
grandmother. FTP, identify this fairy tale.

ANSWER: LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD

#4. It's Great if you're from Long Island, rough if you're an oilfield
worker, long if you drink beer, and red if you're from the rural
South. You can do this after a date, perhaps in this part of the
woods. FTP, what part of the anatomy is this?

ANSWER: NECK

#5. Suppose you are playing standard rubber bridge, and neither side
has a part score. FTP, what bid will allow you to make game with as
few tricks as possible?

ANSWER: THREE NO-TRUMP

#6. And now Harvard's obligatory "trash" question: FAQTP, in what
Stephen King novel would one find the character "Trashcan Man"?

ANSWER: THE STAND

#7. According to the Druids, it had to be harvested at the new moon
with a golden sickle. FTP, unless you can identify this parasite, you
might as well kiss ten point goodbye.

ANSWER: MISTLETOE

#8. Lecy Goranson is a sophomore at Dartmouth, Sara Gilbert a freshman
at Yale. But their television mother probably could not afford the
tuition for either school. FTP, identify the ABC sitcom on which they
play Becky and Darlene.

ANSWER: ROSEANNE

#9. In 1945, he became America's delegate to the United Nations, and
in 1953 he earned a Cabinet post. FTP, name this airport namesake,
Eisenhower's Secretary of State.

ANSWER: John Foster DULLES

#10. Leicester (pronounced LESTER) square is the heart of London's
West End theatre district FTP, spell Leicester.

ANSWER: L-E-I-C-E-S-T-E-R

#11. His cover story in the January 1994 American Spectator drew fame
when Hillary Clinton responded angrily to allegations of her husband's
infidelity. But it was not the first time his work enraged
Democrats. FTP, identify this investigative reporter and author of
"The Real Anita Hill".

ANSWER: David BROCK

#12. This film had an unconventional plot: boy-meets-girl,
boy-marries-girl, girl-gets-cancer. FTP, identify the Erich Segall
book which inspired a movie of the same name.

ANSWER: LOVE STORY

#13.  The name's the same: FTP, what moniker is shared by the lobes of
zero effective gravity that surround a rotating binary star, and the
1987 Tour de France winner from Ireland?

ANSWER: ROCHE

#15. He shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in economics with Friedrich von
Hayek, while she shared the 1982 Nobel Peace Prize with Alfonso Garcia
Robles. FTP, name this Swedish couple, the only husband and wife to
win Nobel Prizes in different categories.

ANSWER: Gunnar and Alva MYRDAL ("MIHR-dal")

#16. Tundra, boreal forest, temperate coniferous forest, temperate
deciduous forest, chaparral, desert, treeless grassland, savanna and
woodland, and tropical rainforest. FTP, these are all examples of what
five-letter term?

ANSWER: BIOME

#17. He claimed that he started writing rock music because "nobody
would play the classical music I wrote." FTP, name this recently
deceased leader of The Mothers of Invention and father of Dweezil and
Moon Unit.

ANSWER: FRANK ZAPPA

#18. FQTP, what is the smallest integer greater than three which can
NOT be expressed as the sum of two prime numbers?

ANSWER: ELEVEN (11)

#19. He is a recurring character in Kurt Vonnegut novels, appearing in
"God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater", "Slaughterhouse-Five", "Breakfast of
Champions" and "Jailbird". FTP, identify this fictional science
fiction writer.

ANSWER: Kilgore TROUT

#20. In 1945, Nagasaki was destroyed by an atomic bomb. In 1974,
Richard Nixon resigned. In 1988, the Chicago Cubs and New York Mets
played the first official night game at Wrigley Field. FTP, on what
day and month did each of these happen?

ANSWER: AUGUST 9

#21. The name's the same: FTP, give the family name of the
3-generation Pakistani dynasty that has dominated international squash
for much of the last 40 years, which was also a title given to rulers
of the Mongol Empire.

ANSWER: KHAN

#22. One of these was necessary to resolve the plot of the movie
"Ladyhawke". In real life, the next total occurrence of it will be on
November 3, 1994 over Boliva, Brazil, and the South Atlantic
Ocean. FTP, identify this astrological phenomenon.

ANSWER: SOLAR ECLIPSE

#23.  "Facetiously" and "abstemiously" are reputed to be the only 2
words in English that share this property.  FAQTP, what distinguishes
these words?

ANS: they contain ALL 6 VOWELS in ASCENDING ORDER (accept equivalents)

#24. Hair, for most comic strip characters, is not something to brag
about. But FAQTP, identify the Peanuts character who is especially
proud of her "naturally curly hair".

ANSWER: FRIEDA

#25. Talc, gypsum, calcite, fluorite, apatite, orthoclase, quartz,
topaz, corundum and diamond are the substances with integer values of
hardness on what hardness scale so beloved by geologists?

ANSWER: MOHS SCALE

#26. He died at the battle of Roncesvalles when he picked up his horn
to summon help from Charlemagne and blew so hard his temples
burst. FTP, identify this French war hero commemorated in a
twelfth-century epic.

ANSWER: ROLAND

#27. The two songwriters were formerly members of The Hep Stars and
The Hootenanny Singers, while the lead singers were the songwriters'
wife and girlfriend respectively.  By the time they broke up in 1982,
they had become their country's second-leading exporter after
Volvo. FTP, name this band.

ANSWER: ABBA