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(Here is a copy of the bonus questions from a packet by Eric Hillemann submitted for the 1998 Illinois Salute to Mediocrity Masters Tournament)
1. In 1998 Helmut Kohl's long run as Chancellor of the German Federal Republic came to an end. For 10 points each--
A. Who was Kohl's predecessor as West German Chancellor, who succeeded Willy Brandt in 1974?
answer: Helmut Schmidt
B. Who was the first West German Chancellor, holding office from 1949 to 1963?
answer: Konrad Adenauer
C. Name either of the two Chancellors serving in the 1960s between Adenauer and Brandt.
answer: Ludwig Erhard or Kurt Georg Kiesinger
2. Identify these things having to do with blood, for 10 points each:
A. The red blood cell protein responsible for oxygen transport from the lungs to other body tissues.
answer: hemoglobin
B. The fluid remaining after blood has clotted, and the clot is removed; it differs from plasma in its lack of fibrinogen.
answer: serum
C. Granular leukocytes, or white blood cells, come in three varieties--basophil, eosinophil, and--this type of "phil," which constitute the vast majority.
answer: neutrophil
3. For 10 points each--name the American subject of these 1998 biographies:
A. Flawed Giant, by Robert Dallek
answer: Lyndon Baines Johnson or LBJ
B. Titan!, by Ron Chernow
answer: John D(avison) Rockefeller, Sr.
C. The autobiography 24 Years of House Work . . . And the Place is Still a Mess
answer: Pat(ricia) Schroeder
4. For 10 points each--name the battles, given artistic clues:
A. This victory of the Florentines over the Milanese was to have been the subject of a Leonardo da Vinci mural for the Palazzo Vecchio which was never completed; his cartoon for the mural was used as the basis for a Peter Paul Rubens drawing now in the Louvre.
answer: Battle of Anghiari
B. Paolo Uccelo's famous painting featuring in the center a turbaned swordsman on a white steed is about the only reason anyone still remembers this battle.
answer: Battle of San Romano
C. Albrecht Altdorfer loaded his detailed 1529 panorama of this ancient clash between Alexander and Darius III with anachronisms, such as lance-bearing mounted knights in medieval armor.
answer: Battle of Issus
5. For 10 points each--name the mathematicians.
A. This Hungarian-American is known for work on the design of high-speed electronic computers, as well as for being a founder of mathematical game theory.
answer: John Von Neumann
B. This Italian author of Instituzioni Analitiche shared in discovering the cubic curve known as her "witch."
answer: Maria Gaetana Agnesi
C. He is at the center of mathematicians' version of the Kevin Bacon "six degrees of separation" game. Numbers are calculated based on the chain linking one's own co-authors with his.
answer: Paul Erdös
6. Greta Garbo, playing the ballerina Grusinskaya, returns to her room despondent from a performance, and picks up a bottle of poison. At that moment Baron von Gaigern, who is in the room to steal, reveals himself, and when Grusinskaya asks "Who are you?" he replies, "Someone who loves you." For 10 points each--give Garbo's five word response, the 1932 film based on a Vicki Baum play in which this scene occurs, and the actor playing von Gaigern, known as "The Great Profile."
answer: I want to be alone, Grand Hotel, John Barrymore
7. 30-20-10. Name the U.S. President.
A. Nicknamed "the Dude President," he was considered one of the finest fishermen of his day, and was the first president to have a personal valet.
B. His father was a co-founder of the New York Antislavery Society, and as a young lawyer he himself won a landmark case leading to desegregation of public transport in New York City.
C. An associate of Republican Stalwart Roscoe Conkling, his nomination as vice president was a move to placate party conservatives; he became president the following year.
answer: Chester Alan Arthur
8. "'The time has come,' the Walrus said, / 'To talk of many things: / Of shoes--and ships--and sealing wax--" . . . and four more things, as ennumerated in the poem recited by Tweedledee in Through the Looking Glass. For 5 for one, 10 for two, 20 for three, or 30 for all four--complete the Walrus's list.
answer: Of cabbages and kings (each counts as one); And why the sea is boiling hot; And whether pigs have wings
9. For 10 points each--name the 20th-century psychologist or psychiatrist who wrote:
A. Psychological Types (1921) and Psychology and Alchemy (1944)
answer: Carl Gustav Jung
B. Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1964)
answer: Frantz Fanon
C. The Art of Loving (1956) and To Have or to Be (1976)
answer: Erich Fromm
10. Name the astronomical constellation from its designated beta-star, for 10 points, or from its alpha, for 5.
A. 10: Albireo
5: Deneb
answer: Cygnus or The Swan
B. 10: Denebola
5: Regulus
answer: Leo or The Lion
C. 10: Kochab
5: Polaris
answer: Ursa Minor or Little Bear or Little Dipper
11. Name the college football teams which had these players win Heisman trophies in consecutive seasons:
A. For 5 points--1974, Archie Griffin; 1975, Archie Griffin
answer: The Ohio State University
B. For 10 points--1945, Doc Blanchard; 1946, Glenn Davis
answer: Army
C. For 15 points--1936, Larry Kelley; 1937, Clint Frank
answer: Yale
12. The 1998 Country Music Association Awards were broadcast live in late September. For 10 points each--
A. Name the show's host for the past seven years. Earlier in 1998 he won the Best Male Country Vocal Performance Grammy for "Pretty Little Adriana."
answer: Vince Gill
B. She won the female vocalist of the year award for the second year in a row. Earlier in 1998 she won the Best Female Country Vocal Performance Grammy for the song "How Do I Live," from the film ConAir.
answer: Tricia Yearwood
C. He was named Entertainer of the Year. Earlier in 1998 he and Yearwood shared the Best Country Collaboration Grammy for "In Another's Eyes."
answer: Garth Brooks
13. Your bonus and welcome to it. For 10 points each--complete the titles of these James Thurber collections:
A. The Owl in the [blank]
answer: Attic
B. The Seal in the [blank]
answer: Bedroom
C. Men, Women and [blank]
answer: Dogs
14. Identify the physicist from a brief description.
A. For 5 points--English physicist. His theory of negative-energy holes predicted the existence of the positron. Nobel prize, 1933.
answer: Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
B. For 10 points--19th-century French physicist. Accurately determined the velocity of light. Determined experimentally the rotation of the earth.
answer: Jean Bernard Léon Foucault
C. For 15 points--German-born American physicist. Developed the molecular beam method and used it to prove directly the existence of the magnetic moment of stars and nuclei and to measure their magnitude. Nobel Prize, 1943.
answer: Otto Stern
15. One date you never want to forget is April 15--IRS tax day. But other government dates are important as well. For 10 points each--
A. Pursuant to the 20th Amendment, on what date do the terms of office of members of Congress begin and end?
answer: at noon on the third day of January (or January 3)
B. On what date does the U.S. Supreme Court traditionally begin its new term?
answer: the first Monday in October
C. Every four years the electoral college votes are cast on one date and counted in the presence of both Houses of Congress on another. Name either date.
answer: cast: first Monday after the second Wednesday in December, or counted: January 6
16. For 10 points each--name the literary works inspiring these musical compositions:
A. An 1839 symphony by Berlioz; an 1864 opera by Gounod; a 1935 ballet by Prokofiev; and an 1869-70 "Fantasy Overture" by Tchaikovsky.
answer: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
B. An 1840 overture by Wagner; an 1857 symphony by Liszt; an 1859 opera by Gounod.
answer: Goethe's Faust
C. A 1998 opera by André Previn, his first.
answer: Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire
17. For 10 points per trio--put these Egyptian events into chronological order, earliest to latest:
A. The reigns of the pharaohs Amenhotep I, Khufu, and Tutankhamen
answer: Khufu, Amenhotep I, Tutankhamen
B. Rule by the Achaemenids, the Hyksos, and the Ptolomies
answer: Hyksos, Achaemenids, Ptolomies
C. Rule by the Fatamids, the Mamluks, and the Umayyids
answer: Umayyids, Fatamids, Mamluks
18. It is the name given the series of elements including all of the numbers in the 90s and up to 103. For 10 points per answer--
A. Name this series bearing a strong chemical resemblance to the lanthanide elements.
answer: actinide elements
B. Which two actinide elements, located on either side of protactinium, are the only two present in nature in appreciable quantitites?
answer: thorium, uranium
19. 30-20-10. Name the poem from lines.
A. It begins, "When Love with unconfinèd wings / Hovers within my gates" . . .
B. It ends, "Angels alone that soar above / Enjoy such liberty."
C. It includes, "Stone walls do not a prison make, / Nor iron bars a cage."
answer: To Althea, from Prison [by Richard Lovelace]
20. Name these connected persons from Greek mythology, for 10 points each:
A. He accompanied his close friend Pirithous, king of the Lapiths, to Hades, from where the two intended to carry off Persephone, but were instead stuck fast in the Chairs of Forgetfulness.
answer: Theseus
B. This son of Theseus resisted the improper advances of his stepmother, Phaedra, who then brought about his death by falsely accusing him of trying to seduce her.
answer: Hippolytus
C. Phaedra was the younger sister of this woman, who had fled Crete with Theseus only to be abandoned on the island of Naxos.
answer: Ariadne
21. Name these state capitals, for 10 points each:
A. Capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg, it is an industrial center on the Neckar river whose products include wine, automobiles, and pianos.
answer: Stuttgart
B. Capital of the state of Jalisco, this center for glassware and pottery is Mexico's second-largest city.
answer: Guadalajara
C. Capital of the state of Madhya Pradesh, since December 1984 it has been most famous as the site of a chemical disaster.
answer: Bhopal
22. For 10 points each--name these French revolutionaries who did not survive the revolution:
A. A principal spokesman for the Third Estate in the States-General of 1789, his moderation caused him to be criticized by the Jacobins, but he died a natural death. His body was removed from the Pantheon after his secret dealings with the royal court were revealed.
answer: Honoré Gabriel Riquetti Mirabeau (or comte de Riqueti)
B. A leader of the Paris commune, and founder with Pierre Chaumette of the cult of the worship of reason, this journalist and other extremist followers were guillotined in 1794.
answer: Jacques René Hébert
C. This Parisian lawyer became minister of justice under the republic, and dominated the first Committee of Public Safety. He and many of his "Indulgents," or moderates, were also guillotined in 1794.
answer: Georges Jacques Danton
23. For 15 points each--given the date, location, and a recent quote about anger, name the speaker.
A. July 29, 1998, at the National Bar Association Convention in Memphis: "I have come here today not in anger or to anger, though my mere presence has been sufficient, obviously, to anger some. Nor have I come to defend my views, but rather to assert my right to think for myself, to refuse to have my ideas assigned to me as though I was an intellectual slave."
answer: Clarence Thomas
B. September 3, 1998, on the floor of the U.S. Senate: "I was personally angry because President Clinton had by his disgraceful behavior jeopardized his Administration's historic record of accomplishment, much of which grew out of the principles and programs that he and I [. . .] had worked on together in the New Democratic movement. [. . .] The implications for our country are so serious that I feel a responsibility to my constituents in Connecticut, as well as to my conscience, to voice my concerns . . . "
answer: Joseph Lieberman
24. Identify these persons or movements within 20th-century theology, for 10 points each:
A. This Swiss theologian and author of Church Dogmatics was at the core of movements known as crisis theology and Protestant neo-orthodoxy.
answer: Karl Barth
B. Focused on freeing the poor from all forms of oppression, this radical Roman Catholic theology published a manifesto of sorts following a 1968 conference of Latin American bishops; its seminal text was published by Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez.
answer: Liberation theology
C. In the 1960s the media trumpeted Thomas J. J. Altizer, William Hamilton, Paul Van Buren, and others as representative of this attention-grabbing movement aimed at preserving Christian ethics without reliance upon an actively engaged diety.
answer: Death of God theology (or God is Dead movement) or Christian Atheism
25. There have been lots named John, James, or William, but some U.S. Supreme Court justices have had more distinctive first names. For 5 points each, and a 10 point bonus for all four--give the surname of the only justices named:
A. Bushrod
answer: Washington
B. Lucius
answer: Lamar
C. Pierce
answer: Butler
D. Sherman
answer: Minton
26. Let's test your knowledge of the great figures of Icelandic literature. For 10 points each--
A. Name the chieftain and historian whose authorship of the Prose Edda and the Heimskringla saga made him the leading figure in medieval Norse literature.
answer: Snorri Sturluson, or Sturleson (prompt if only "Sturluson" is answered)
B. The only Icelander to win the Nobel Prize in Literature was this author of the 1930s epic novels Salka Valka, Independent People, and World Light.
answer: Halldór Laxness (or Halldór Gudjónsson)
C. Name the modern novelist whose first work, translated into English as Guest the One-Eyed, was the first Icelandic work to be turned into a feature film, and whose masterpiece was the five volume autobiographical novel The Church on the Mountain, translated into English in two volumes as Ships in the Sky, and The Night and the Dream.
answer: Gunnar Gunnarson
