Tossups by Snacks! Ammo! Live Bait! for 1996 Philly Experiment III
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.
Answer: Sunspots
2. This battle is remarkable for the desperate charge of the Chasseurs d'Afrique under General Margueritte, 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 1870, which proved to be the
decisive engagement of the Franco-Prussian War.
Answer: 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."
Answer: 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.
Answer: 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
Answer: Winesburg; Ohio
6. The last member 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.
Answer: Black September
7. Excavations at San Lorenzo, located just south of Tenochtitlan in Mexico, have produced seventeen colossal
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.
Answer: Olmec
8. Some 500 residents of Skagway, Alaska, awoke one morning in July 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, twenty feet wide, and had enormous leaves rumored 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.
Answer: 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.
Answer: 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.
Answer: Rob Roy
11. 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, FTP, movements in what suites by Edvard Grieg?
Answer: Peer Gynt Suites
12. He was born in Chicago, and in his teens he was a volunteer ambulance driver during World War I. After returning
home he earned money as a big-band musician, and became an executive in a company that produced paper plates
and cups. FTP, name this man who in 1954 stumbled upon a small hamburger stand in San Bernardino which he
bought and turned into the delivery system for the doomsday weapon of indigestion: The Arch Deluxe.
Answer: Ray Kroc
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
Wadsworth Atheneum and many major insurance companies.
Answer: Hartford, Connecticut
14. This group of usually hereditary disorders is 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 led 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.
Answer: 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 Kaczynski. FTP,
name this turn-of-the-century author of The Secret Agent and Heart of Darkness.
Answer: 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.
Answer: 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.
Answer: Black Mountain Poets
18. He was called Squid Head by his detractors because of the elongated shape of his cranium, and he was so
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.
Answer: 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 home runs 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.
Answer: 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 title character of two Shakespeare plays who ruled England from 1399-1413
Answer: Henry IV or Henry Bolingbroke
Bonuses By Snacks! Ammo! Live Bait! for 1996 Philly Experiment III
1. Please don't refrain from "laughing" and identify the following on a 5-10-15 basis.
1. 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.
Answer: Marquis de Lafayette
2. 10: It supported the theory of supply-side economics, suggesting that high tax rates depress revenues, and was
reputedly written on a napkin.
Answer: Laffer Curve
3. 15: He served Wisconsin in Congress and as governor, and lost the presidential nomination of the Progressive
Party to Teddy Roosevelt in 1912.
Answer: Robert LaFollette
2. Identify these parts of a mosque for the stated number of points.
1. 5: this is the tower from which the muezzin calls the faithful to prayer.
Answer: minaret
2. 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.
Answer: mirhab
3. 15: This is the pulpit from which the Imam, the leader of the daily prayers, leads the congregation. It is roughly
equivalent to the Christian pulpit.
Answer: minbar
3. "One of these days, Alice ... POW! Right in the kisser!" Given the actor or actress who played the role, identify the
character from the classic TV show "The Honeymooners" for 10 points each. First AND last names required.
1. Jackie Gleason
Answer: Ralph Kramden
2. Art Carney
Answer: Ed Norton
3. Joyce Randolph
Answer: 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.
Answer: 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."
Answer: Wet Collodion process
5. Answer the following questions about Alanis Morissette for the stated number of points.
1.5: Name her hit song about an ex-boyfriend that was nominated for Song of the Year, and drew heated controversy
over its explicit lyrics.
Answer: You Oughta Know
2. 10: Morisette's album title "Jagged Little Pill" is a lyric from which track?
Answer: You Learn
3. 15: Alanis is currently in the middle of the "Can't Not" tour with what other alternative band?
Answer: Radiohead
6. Identify the following about the light bulb for the stated number of points.
1. 5: Thomas Edison patented a light bulb that used a scorched cotton thread as its filament, but today's bulbs use
filaments made up of what heat-resistent element?
Answer: Tungsten
2. 10: Contrary to popular belief, modern lightbulb filaments do not burn in vacuums. Name the gas that fills the glass
chamber of most lightbulbs.
Answer: Nitrogen
3. For 15 points for the exact date, 10 if you are within one year, and 5 points if you are within five years, give the
year in which Thomas Edison patented the light bulb.
Answer: 1879
7. 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 23rd largest island in the world.
10: Even though he was weak from tuberculosis, Anton Chekhov traveled to a prison on this Russian island in the
Sea of Okhotsk and wrote about it in 1893.
Answer: Sakhalin
8. Identify the following meteorological terms for the stated number of points.
1. 5: This term takes into account temperature, rainfall, and other atmospheric factors, and is the general term for
weather conditions prevalent in a region over an extended period of time.
Answer: climate
2. 10: This is the point at which air becomes saturated and it can hold no more water vapor.
Answer: dew point
3. 15: This is a term given to the colorful circular halo seen when looking down at an object's shadow caused by the
diffraction of sunlight. It can occur when the shadow of a flying airplane is seen on a cloud.
Answer:~
9. Put the following mammalian fictional characters into their correct scientific orders for 10 points each. In other
words, if I said "Mickey and Minnie," you'd say "Rodentia."
1. Snagglepuss
Answer: Carnivora (he's a cat)
2. Hazel, Bigwig, General Woundwort, and many other characters from the Richard Adams classic "Watership Down."
Answer: Lagomorpha (rabbits)
3. Porky Pig
Answer: Artiodactyla (an even-toed ungulate)
1O. Identify the following about Egypt and its leaders for the stated number of points.
1. 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.
Answer: Gamel Abdal Nasser
2. 10: He preceded Nasser as president.
Answer: Muhammed Naguib
3. 15: This was the year that King Farouk succeeded King Faud, and that Egypt officially became independent of the
British Empire.
Answer: 1936
11. Identify the following paintings by Henri Rousseau from their descriptions for 15 points each.
1. Set against the backdrop of an eerily depicted expansive nighttime sky, tall barren trees descend to a couple
dressed in costumes borrowed from characters in the com media dell-arte. The painting is in the Philadelphia Museum
of Art, and was finished in 1886.
Answer: 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 musical instrument surrounded by lots of
flowers, fruit, and animals.
Answer: The Dream
12. Identify the following Parker Brothers games designed for children for 10 points each.
1. This highly stressful electric game gives you a pair of tweezers, and challenges you to calm your shaky nerves and
extract various objects from the body of some guy who buzzes at you and lights up his nose if you touch the sides of
the body cavity from which you are extracting the object.
Answer: Operation
2. In this game, you have a mere sixty 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 .
Answer: Perfection
3. 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, six legs, two ears, two eyes, and that really cool
tongue. Most kids lost or disregarded the die altogether and preferred to just make and play with the plastic creature.
Answer: 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 unable to stop them. In their defence, the border with Mexico is over 1000 miles long
and touches on six Mexican states. For 5 points each, name them.
Answer: 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.
1.5: Chanticleer and Pertelote
Answer: Nun's Priest's Tale
2. 10: Nicholas, Allison, and Absolon
Answer: The Miller
3.15: Perkin
Answer: 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.
1. 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.
Answer: bushido
2. 5: This is the way of male ritual suicide by disembowelment, whose most famous practitioner was the author Yukio
Mishima.
Answer: harakiri or seppuku
3. 15: The female version of harakiri, it provides for a much quicker and thereby less painful death by cutting open the
jugular vein.
Answer: iigai
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.
1. 10: "I'm never gonna dance again. Guilty feet have got no rhythm. Though its easy to pretend, you know I'm not a
fooL"
5: the band is Wham!
Answer: Careless Whisper
2. 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
Answer: I'm On Fire
3. 10: "Uttle 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
Answer: Hot For Teacher
17. Identify the following straits for the stated number of points.
1. 5: These straits represent the point in the English Channel where France and England are closest together.
Answer: Straits of Dover
2. 10: This strait separates Asia and North America.
Answer: Bering Strait
3. 15: It lies between the tip of the Cape York peninsula in Australia and the island of New Guinea
Answer: Torres Strait
18.
30:
20:
10:
5:
30-20-10-5. Name the author from the works.
"A Traveller at 40" and "A Hoosier Holiday"
"Jennie Gerhardt"
"The Stoic" and "The Titan"
"Sister Carrie"
Answer: Theodore Dreiser
19.
30:
20:
10:
Identify the poem from the quotations, 30-20-10.
"Between the motion and the act, falls the shadow"
"Shape without form, shade without color, paralyzed force, gesture without motion"
"This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper"
Answer: The Hollow Men
20.
30:
20:
10:
Identify the composer from his works, 30-20-10.
The song cycles, "Songs of a Wayfarer" and "Children's Death Songs"
Symphony #1, nicknamed "The Titan"
Symphony #2, nicknamed "The Resurrection"
Answer: Gustav Mahler