TOSS-UPS
Henry the First declared it to be the distance from the tip
of his nose to the tip of his outstretched thumb, while Edward
the First made it .91 meters. For 10 points -- what is this
measurement now standardized at three feet?
ANSWER: YARD
Chekhov's The Seagull had its premiere; Henry James
published The Turn of the Screw; the five boroughs
of New York united to form a single city; and the battleship
Maine blew up in Havana Harbor. All -- for 10 points -- in
what late 19th century year?
ANSWER: 1898
It already ranked #1 in American Kennel Club registrations
-- a tally expected to rise in 1998 now that there's one in
the White House. For 10 points -- name this large breed of
dog.
ANSWER: LABRADOR RETRIEVERS
PROMPT: If LAB or LABS or RETRIEVER is answered
At Bell Labs on December 16, 1947, two strips of gold foil
were pressed into a germanium (jur-MAY-nee-um) slab. An electric
signal applied to that device emerged 100 times stronger than
what went in. For 10 points -- what name was coined for this
device that revolutionized electronics?
ANSWER: TRANSISTORS
At the end of World War II, it was the only major German
city that still had an intact courthouse with a jail next
to it. That was the practical reason why -- for 10 points
-- what city was chosen to hold the trials of major Nazi war
criminals?
ANSWER: NUREMBERG OR NURNBERG
Her 1,200 paintings included "Joy Ride," "Bringing
in the Maple Syrup" and other pictorial memories of her
life that began before the Civil War and lasted till manned
space flights. For 10 points -- who was this self-taught artist
called "Grandma"?
ANSWER: [ANNA MARY ROBERTSON] "GRANDMA"
MOSES
The Chicopee (CHICK-uh-pee) Overman Wheel Company made the
first one in 1894. For the previous three years, a soccer
ball had been used instead. For 10 points -- name this key
piece of equipment in a sport invented in Springfield, Massachusetts.
ANSWER: A BASKETBALL
In 1995, it was being run from a trailer at Stanford University.
Today, it's worth $1.5 billion and has beaten out Lycos (LIE-kohs)
and Excite to become America's premier web crawler. For 10
points -- what is this Internet search engine whose name ends
in an exclamation point?
ANSWER: YAHOO!
Its theology holds that God is paramount but not omnipotent
(ahm-NIP-eh-tint) since He is too busy to take care of daily
human affairs. That's where spirits called loa (LOH-ah) come
in with mambo priestesses. In -- for 10 points -- what religious
cult of Haiti?
ANSWER: VOODOO ISM OR VODUN
(VOH-DUN)
It has lost over 300,000 people since 1971 and now has the
highest poverty rate of any major city in Canada. Much of
this is due to fears of English speakers that Quebec will
yet secede. For 10 points -- name this largest city in Quebec.
ANSWER: MONTREAL
If his experiment had not worked, he might well have faced
a murder charge for killing young Jamie Phipps by injecting
him with smallpox. For 10 points -- who was this 18th century
pioneer of vaccination?
ANSWER: DR. EDWARD JENNER
It contains the longest continuous coastline in Latin America
and the largest tropical rainforest in the world. Pretty much
what you'd expect in the world's 5th largest country. For
10 points -- what is this South American country?
ANSWER: BRAZIL
In hindsight it's hard to believe he couldn't find a publisher,
but this journalist and poet paid printers James and Thomas
Rome to set the type and create the galleys for his first
book, Leaves of Grass. For 10 points -- name him.
ANSWER: WALT WHITMAN
It took an unprecedented 2 1/2-week break from its schedule
in February 1998 to allow its players to participate, for
the first time ever, in the Winter Olympics. For 10 points
-- name this professional sports league.
ANSWER: NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE OR
NHL
Its main duct, connecting with the duodenum (doo-OD-uh-num),
is the Duct of Wirsung (WUR-sung). For 10 points -- what is
this fish-shaped gland behind the stomach that produces insulin?
ANSWER: PANCREAS
It began turning a profit in 1993, opened its first international
bureau, in Hong Kong, in 1995 and its second, in London, in
1997. For 10 points -- name this flagship paper of the Gannett
(guh-NET) Company.
ANSWER: USA TODAY
The original ones were towers pushed up to the walls of medieval
cities, the better to launch weapons. Church steeples take
their name from their resemblance to these siege towers. For
10 points -- what's the word, supposedly home to bats?
ANSWER: BELFRY (BELL-free)
In 1997, Marcus Allen threw his fifth touchdown pass, pretty
good for a running back but three short of the record thrown
-- for 10 points -- by what retired Chicago Bears running
back whose record for rushing touchdowns was broken by Allen?
ANSWER: WALTER PAYTON
This traditional stew has been dated back to the 9th century,
but it wasn't till the 18th century that its now distinguishing
spice, paprika, was added. For 10 points -- name this most
traditional of Hungarian dishes.
ANSWER: GOULASH (GOO-lahsh)
Saudi Arabia is rich and spends 13% of its gross domestic
product on defense. The only nation to spend a higher percentage
on defense is desperately poor and faced mass starvation in
1997-1998. For 10 points -- name this hardline communist country.
ANSWER: NORTH KOREA OR
DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA
PROMPT: If KOREA is answered
Originally sacred to Dionysus (die-uh-NIE-sus), this mountain
was later regarded as the dwelling of Apollo, the Muses, and
Apollo's oracle at Delphi. For 10 points -- name this Greek
mount.
ANSWER: MOUNT PARNASSUS (par-NAS-sus)
Some saw delicious irony in late 1997 when it itself became
the subject of a bidding war between investors vying to buy
this 211-year-old art auction house. For 10 points -- name
this London establishment and arch-rival of Sotheby's (SUH-thuh-bee's).
ANSWER: CHRISTIES INTERNATIONAL P.L.C.
He launched a new literary magazine, News from the Republic
of Letters, in 1997, with the first issue containing excerpts
from his unpublished novel View From Intensive Care.
For 10 points -- who is this author of Herzog and Humboldt's
Gift?
ANSWER: SAUL BELLOW
Born Helen Porter Mitchell, she adopted a form of the name
of her native Australian city as her stage name, becoming
a prominent diva in the early 20th century; so prominent,
this opera star had both a peach desert and a toast named
after her. For 10 points -- who was she?
ANSWER: NELLIE MELBA
In 1982 he won the Charlemagne Award for promoting European
unity. That was the year when his nation joined NATO and the
year after he became the first king ever to make an official
visit to communist China. For 10 points -- who is this Spaniard?
ANSWER: KING JUAN CARLOS
PROMPT: If JUAN or CARLOS is answered
Moby Dick was the white whale in literature. He was
a sperm whale, not -- for 10 points -- what species whose
alternate name is simply "white whale"?
ANSWER: BELUGA (beh-LOO-guh) WHALE
In 1997, the U.S. government ordered the removal of the Edwards
Dam from the Kennebec (KEN-uh-bek) River, the first time a
dam had been ordered destroyed for environmental reasons.
For 10 points -- it is located in what northeastern state?
ANSWER: MAINE
BONUSES
20 POINT BONUS
President Chester Alan Arthur got tired of "Hail to the
Chief" and requested the director of the Marine Corps
Band to come up with a substitute. That director then composed
a rousing tune that, though it never replaced "Hail to
the Chief," did become the official Marine Corps march.
For 10 points apiece -- name that conductor-composer and that
march.
ANSWER: JOHN PHILIP SOUSA (SOO-suh)
SEMPER FIDELIS (SEM-per fih-DAY-lis or fih-DEL-is)
20 POINT BONUS
You're throwing a dinner party with foods that begin with
"z." For 10 points apiece -- what will you be serving
that's defined as:
1. Long, thin tubes of macaroni?
ANSWER: ZITI (ZEE-tee)
2. Summer squash, shaped like a curved cylinder?
ANSWER: ZUCCHINI (zoo-KEE-nee)
30 POINT BONUS
The U.S. Bankruptcy Code is divided into Chapters that provide
different kinds of relief to debtors. For 15 points apiece
-- which Chapter:
1. Is most frequently used by corporations that undergo court-approved
reorganizations?
ANSWER: CHAPTER ELEVEN (kar-buh-RUN-dum)
2. Governs liquidation of a debtor's assets?
ANSWER: CHAPTER SEVEN
30 POINT BONUS
Identify these hills after one clue for 30 points, after two
for 20, or after all three for 10 points:
1. It contains the highest point in the U.S. east of the Rockies,
Harney Peak.
2. Discovery of gold here in 1874 led to an 1876 war that
culminated in the Battle of Little Big Horn.
3. This range in western South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming
contains Mount Rushmore.
ANSWER: BLACK HILLS
25 POINT BONUS
Of the 1,587 players on NFL rosters at the start of the 1997-98
season, 32 were alumni of Colorado and Folorida State Universities.
For 5 points apiece -- what other five universities had even
more alums in the NFL?
ANSWER: UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI OR MIAMI
OF FLORIDA OR HURRICANES
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME OR FIGHTING IRISH
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY OR BUCKEYES
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY OR NITTANY
LIONS
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE OR VOLUNTEERS
20 POINT BONUS
A good case could be made that the very first word in Western
literature is "menin" (MAY-nin), an archaic (ar-KAY-ik)
Greek noun meaning "wrath." For 10 points apiece:
1. What epic by Homer opens with that word?
ANSWER: THE ILIAD
2. The wrath of what hero with a vulnerable heel is described
in the first line of The Iliad?
ANSWER: ACHILLES (uh-KILL-eez)
20 POINT BONUS
In 1867, he told President Andrew Johnson that the military
chain of command begins with the commander of the army and
not with the president. Johnson then and there told him to
resign, setting off Johnson's own impeachment. For 10 points
apiece:
1. Who was this Secretary of War?
ANSWER: EDWIN STANTON
2. Who was then commander of the army, and a future president,
the man whom Johnson then tried to appoint in Stanton's place?
ANSWER:ULYSSES S. GRANT
30 POINT BONUS
It was founded in 1968 in Minneapolis by two Chippewas named
George Mitchell and Dennis Banks. It first gained national
attention when, the next year, it occupied a famous prison
island in San Francisco Bay and claimed it "by right
of discovery." For 15 points apiece -- name this "red
power" organization and that island.
ANSWER: AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT OR
A.I.M.
ALCATRAZ ISLAND
30 POINT BONUS
In 1991, the General Conference on Weights and Measures adopted
the prefix yotta- for a septillion of something, and gave
it the official symbol of capital Y. For 10 points apiece
-- what other SI prefix has as its symbol:
1. Capital M?
ANSWER: MEGA-
2. Small m?
ANSWER: MILLI-
3. The Greek Letter Mu (MOO)?
ANSWER: MICRO-
20 POINT BONUS
It is the first medical innovation to be rejected by some
leaders of the community it was meant to help, and is the
particular target of the Deaf Culture Movement. For 10 points
apiece:
1. What name is given to this implant that feeds electrical
impulses directly into the brain, thereby replacing damaged
hair cells in the inner ear?
ANSWER: COCHLEAR (KOH-klee-ur or KOK-lee-ur)
IMPLANTS
2. Now, spell cochlear.
ANSWER: C-O-C-H-L-E-A-R
30 POINT BONUS
He was based on the French founder of the Surete (SOOR-eh-TAY),
a man who amused himself by helping police solve crimes. The
short story in which he first appeared is considered the world's
first mystery story. For 10 points per answer:
1. Name this creation of Edgar Allen Poe, and the story that
introduced him.
ANSWER: C. AUGUSTE DUPIN (doo-PAN)
THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE
2. Dupin appeared in only two other Poe short stories. Name
either of them.
ANSWER: THE PURLOINED LETTER
THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET (ro-ZHAY)
20 POINT BONUS
The U.S. Navy recently launched its only ship named for a
woman, a 500-foot-long guided missile destroyer already nicknamed
"Amazing Grace." It honors -- for 20 points -- what
admiral and computer pioneer?
ANSWER: ADMIRIL GRACE HOPPER
30 POINT BONUS
Today it would be politically unthinkable for these two nations
to be united but, for 44 months, they combined to form a single
entity named the United Arab Republic. For 10 points per answer:
1. Name those two Middle Eastern nations on different continents.
ANSWER: EGYPT, SYRIA
2. Name any one of the four calendar years in which Egypt
and Syria were united as one country.
ANSWER: 1958 OR 1959 OR 1960
OR 1961
30 POINT BONUS
Name this much-hated American after one clue for 30 points,
after two for 20, or after all three for 10 points:
1. He was nicknamed "America's Hannibal" for his
daring 1775 mid-winter raid on Quebec.
2. Early in the American Revolution, he joined forces with
Ethan Allen to capture Fort Ticonderoga and was later crippled
in his successful attack on Fort Saratoga.
3. In 1780, he was given command of West Point, a place he
plotted to turn over to the British.
ANSWER: BENEDICT ARNOLD
20 POINT BONUS
Fans and critics of a 1996 Supreme Court decision claim that
that decision in effect enacted the Equal Rights Amendment,
by broadly declaring sexual discrimination the same as racial
discrimination. For 10 points apiece:
1. This decision ended the men-only admissions policy at what
state-supported military college?
ANSWER: VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE
OR V.M.I.
2. That decision was written by what Justice, whom President
Clinton called "the Thurgood Marshall of the women's
rights movement"?
ANSWER: RUTH BADER GINSBURG
30 POINT BONUS
Amtrak trains travel just over 38 million miles a year, while
Conrail trains travel 45 million miles. Five totally private
railroad companies cover a lot more miles per year. For 10
points apiece -- name any three of the five railroads with
the highest annual mileages.
ANSWER: ATCHISON, TOPEKA AND SANTA FE
RAILROAD COMPANY
BURLINGTON NORTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY
CSX TRANSPORTATION
NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORPORATION
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY
PROMPT: If any PARTIAL ANSWER is given
30 POINT BONUS
Its players increased by almost 40% in 1998 as its individual
team rosters rose from 10 to 11 players and added two entirely
new expansion teams in 1998. For 10 points apiece:
1. What is this 2-year old rival of the ABL?
ANSWER: WNBA OR WOMEN'S NATIONAL
BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
2. What two expansion teams played the 1998 season?
ANSWER: WASHINGTON OR MYSTICS
DETROIT OR SHOCK
25 POINT BONUS
The greatest extinctions in history happened at the ends of
the Cretaceous (kree-TAY-shus), Devonian (deh-VOH-nee-un),
Ordovician (or-doh-VISH-un), Permian, and Triassic (trie-ASS-ik)
Periods. For 5 points apiece -- arrange these "Big Five"
extinctions in chronological order.
ANSWER: ORDOVICIAN PERIOD, DEVONIAN
PERIOD, PERMIAN PERIOD, TRIASSIC PERIOD, CRETACEOUS
PERIOD
30 POINT BONUS
The Christian Coalition, in 1997, selected former congressman
Randy Tate as its new executive director and former Interior
Secretary Donald Hodel (hoh-DEL) as its new president. Tate
and Hodel thereby succeed -- for 15 points apiece -- what
two founders who had led the coalition from its beginning?
ANSWER: RALPH REED
REVEREND [MARION] "PAT" ROBERTSON
20 POINT BONUS
During the annual spring floods, it can become so loud as
to break windows six miles away. For 10 points apiece -- name
this 355-foot-high and 5,500-foot-wide waterfall in Africa
and its river.
ANSWER: VICTORIA FALLS
ZAMBEZI (zam-BEE-zee) RIVER
20 POINT BONUS
She was just 23 when, in 1925, she left for Samoa (suh-MOH-uh)
armed with a camera, a typewriter, and a new Ph.D. for her
first field study. Three years later, she published her findings
in what is still the most widely read book in the field of
anthropology. For 10 points apiece -- name her, and the primary
title of that book.
ANSWER: MARGARET MEAD
COMING OF AGE IN SAMOA
20 POINT BONUS
They are three times the size of ribosomes (RIE-boh-sohms)
and are found in nearly every plant and animal cell, but no
one noticed them until about 10 years ago, and scientists
still aren't sure what they do. For 20 points -- what name,
shared with an object found in a bank and at a gymnastics
competition, names these organelles (or-guh-NELZ)?
ANSWER: VAULTS
20 POINT BONUS
This family became rulers of Brandenburg in 1415, then a minor
province of the Holy Roman Empire that gained land and power
in the 1640s. In 1701, the Holy Roman Emperor granted Frederick
I of this family the title of King, whereupon King Frederick
changed the name of his kingdom. For 20 points -- name this
royal family of Kaiser Wilhelm the 2nd.
ANSWER: VON HOHENZOLLERNS (HOH-hen-TSOL-lerns)
30 POINT BONUS
Glenn Seaborg is the only living person after whom a chemical
element, Seaborgium, is named. The laboratory where he still
works, the university where that lab is located, the state
where that university is located, and the country where that
state is located have also all lent their names to elements.
For 10 points each -- name any three of those four elements.
ANSWER: LAWRENCIUM, BERKELIUM,
CALIFORNIUM, AMERICIUM
25 POINT BONUS
The U.S. provides 18% of the funds that make up the International
Monetary Fund. That's more than the next three biggest donors
combined. For 5 points apiece -- name the only five nations
besides the U.S. that provide at least 3.5% of the IMF's budget.
ANSWER: FRANCE, GERMANY, JAPAN,
SAUDIA ARABIA, UNITED KINGDOM OR GREAT
BRITAIN OR ENGLAND
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