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ACF Fall 2002
Packet By Kentucky A (Seth Kendall)
TOSSUPS
1. Much of the comedy in this play is provided by the dim-witted constable Elbow and the flamboyant bachelor
Lucio. After setting the plot in motion, one central figure disguises himself as Friar Lodowick to witness the
subsequent action. The plot concerns Angelo’s enforcement of Vienna’s long-ignored fornication laws, leading to
the arrest of Claudio for seducing his betrothed, Juliet. However, all ends well when Duke Vincentio catches Angelo
attempting to force Claudio’s sister Isabella to yield to him. FTP, what is this comedy by Shakespeare?
Answer: Measure for Measure
2. In contrast to other related compounds, these compounds have their acidic side chains esterified with methanol or
phytol. The "e" type is a rare type found in golden algae, while the "c" and "d" types are often found with the "a"
type, which with the "b" type is the major type found in land plants and green algae. Found in the grana of plant
cells, they are porphyrins which contain magnesium. FTP, what is this green pigment which allows plants to carry
out the process of photosynthesis?
Answer: chlorophyll
3. An extramarital affair partially prompted his critique of the conflict between eroticism and religion in the essay
“Religious Rejections of the World and Their Directions”. The emotional domination exerted on him by his father
led both to his 1898 mental breakdown and his advocacy of “Liberal Imperialism” to solve Germany’s agrarian
problems in his famous Freiburg Address. He gained fame for his analysis of German political and economic life in
Economy and Society, but is more famous today for his investigation of the roots of the “spirit of capitalism”. FTP,
who was this German thinker, author of The Protestant Ethic?
Answer: Max Weber
4. Another name for this goddess is “Boöpis”, making reference to her beautiful, round “cow-eyes”, and according
to legend she could restore her youth and virginity every year by bathing in the waters of Canathus near Nauplia.
Most famously worshipped in antiquity in Argos and Samos, the cuckoo and the peacock which held the eyes of her
faithful servant Argos were sacred to her, and while one legend held that she conceived one son by eating lettuce,
her children Hebe, Ares, and Hephaestus are usually held to have been fathered by her husband, the sky god. For 10
points name this goddess of marriage and childbirth, the wife of Zeus.
Answer: Hera
5. A famous anecdote about this man relates how he went to register for the census and described his military
service by stating he had served in sixteen victorious campaigns, all under his own command. Among these
campaigns were his defeat of Sertorius in Spain, his suppression of the Cilician pirates in six months at sea, and his
final conquest of Mithridates in the East, and it was for these successes, as much as his youthful resemblance to
Alexander of Macedon, that Sulla gave him his famous cognomen. For 10 points name this Roman, the best general
of the late Republic, who finally met his match against his former father-in-law and fellow triumvir Julius Caesar at
Pharsalus.
Answer: Pompey the Great (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus)
6. The protagonist of this novel loses interest with her internship at a magazine, finds herself unable to lose her
virginity to a UN interpreter, is nearly raped on a blind date, and discovers she has been rejected for a summer
writing class. Returning home from college, she discovers she is unable to shake off her malaise with psychotherapy
and attempts suicide, but after successful shock treatments under the direction of Doctor Nolan she finds her poor
spirits lifting, and manages to leave the sanatorium in time to lose her virginity to a math professor and return to
school in the fall. FTP, such are the struggles of Esther Greenwood in what novel by Sylvia Plath?
Answer: The Bell Jar
7. His 1686 his map of the world showing the distribution of prevailing winds over the oceans was the first
meteorological chart to be published, while his Breslau Table of Mortality was one of the first attempts to relate
mortality and age in a population. Publisher of Newton’s Principia Mathematica, he was the first to use isolines in
cartography, but is better known as the astronomer who succeeeded John Flamsteed as Astronomer Royal and whose
visit to Saint Helena in 1676 resulted in the first stellar charts made of Southern Hemisphere. FTP, name this man
who first theorized that comets traveled in an ellipse, which enabled him to plot the return of a comet from 1682 that
would revisit earth every seventy-six years.
Answer: Edmund Halley
8. The northern four-fifths of this river’s valley is covered by an artificial lake created in 1965 by the Akosombo
Dam, located where it cuts through the Akwapim-Togo Range. Its two main branches are the Mouhoun and the
Nakambe, or “Black” and “White”, and it picks up such tributaries as the Afram and the Oti en route to the Gulf of
Guinea. With a Portuguese name meaning “twisting”, FTP, what is this chief river system of Ghana which supplied
the colonial name for Burkina Faso?
Answer: Volta River
9. One memorable scene sees the male protagonist taught his first words by a blind violinist whose forest hut he has
stumbled upon. The stylized movements seen in the film “Metropolis” were imitated in the movements of the title
character, memorably played by Elsa Lanchester. Lanchester is also seen portraying Mary Shelley in the prologue,
which is followed by the film proper, in which Dr. Praetorius determines to create a mate for the creature created in
an earlier film. Directed by James Whale, FTP, what is this film whose title figure is famous for her towering,
lightning-streaked hair?
Answer: The Bride of Frankenstein
10. A one-time employee at the U.S. consulate in Budapest and interpreter for Ellis Island, he was elected to the
House of Representatives in 1916 and, after serving as a fighter pilot in World War I, was returned to the House in
1918. Director of Civilian Defense during WWII, his most significant legislative effort consisted of his cosponsorship of an act which freed members of labor unions from “yellow-dog” contracts and from court injunctions
of private labor disputes. As part of the “Fusion” party ticket he was elected to his most famous post in 1933,
gaining a reputation for honesty and reform. Known as the “Little Flower”, FTP, name this long-time mayor of New
York city, whose aviation connections were reinforced by the construction of the airport named for him.
Answer: Fiorello Henry LaGuardia
11. The entrance of his brother into a Carthusian monastery is said to have inspired this man’s Secretum Meum,
while other interesting works include his Italia Mia, inspired by his friendship with the Republican revivalist Cola di
Rienzo, and Africa, an epic poem on the Second Punic War. Other famous works include De viris illustribus, a
series of biographies of the most famous men of all time, and Metrical Letters, but he is perhaps best known for
works in the Italian vernacular he helped to popularize, such as Trionfi and the poems inspired by a woman he first
saw in the Church of St. Clare at Avignon on April 6, 1327. FTP, name this man, who employed his namesake
sonnet form in ths Canonziere or Rime addressed to the mysterious Laura.
Answer: Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca)
12. His efforts in opera were almost completely unsuccessful, chiefly due to the asinine libretti seen in efforts like
Alfonso and Estrella, The Twin Brothers, and Fierribras. The inventor of the “Moments Musicaux”, his chamber
works include the Grand Duo Piano Sonata in C Major, a series of Impromptus, and Fantasy in F Major, but he is
better known for works in another genre that include “Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel”, “Hark, Hark, The Lark”,
and “The Doppelganger”. FTP, name the prolific composer of lieder probably best known for his 8th symphony,
which was left unfinished.
Answer: Franz Schubert
13. Invented by Tony Hoare in 1961, its advantages include its ability to operate in place and the velocity of its inner
loop. Its effectiveness can be greatly increased by using various strategies to choose an efficient pivot. After a pivot
is selected, all numbers less than the pivot are placed to the left, and all numbers larger than the pivot are placed to
the right, with the algorithm then implemented recursively on the smaller lists. FTP, what is this computer science
sorting algorithm named for its purported speed?
Answer: quicksort
14. Warned at midnight of the approach of the enemy, Captain John Parker assembled his company of 130 men and
awaited further developments while keeping warm at the Buckman Tavern. Consequently, when six companies of
regulars under Major John Pitcairn finally arrived at dawn, only one-half of Parker’s force was assembled. Parker
was in the process of ordering a withdrawal when firing started, and after a volley and a British bayonet charge,
eight Minutemen were left dead and ten were wounded, while only one British soldier was wounded. FTP, what was
this brief April 19, 1775 battle, after which the Redcoats were defeated at Concord?
Answer: Battle of Lexington
15. Like Montaigne, this thinker wrote a collection of brief articles known as “The Essays”, although his are also
known as “The Counsels, Civil and Moral”. Described by Pope in “An Essay on Man” as “the brightest, wisest,
(and) meanest of mankind” both for his intellectual gifts and for the disgrace suffered when he accepted a bribe from
a litigant as a civil servant, he held that knowledge should be amassed and studied in a systematic fashion,
prompting his attempt to create the ambitions “Instauratio Magna”, parts of which described his method of induction
and his “idols of the mind”. FTP, who was this British philosopher, author of “Novum Organum”, “The
Advancement of Learning”, and “The New Atlantis”?
Answer: Francis Bacon
16. Though his parents had supported Parliament during the civil war, this poet demonstrated his loyalty to the
returning Charles II in such poems as "To His Sacred Majesty" and "Astrea Redux", and even created the part of
Florimel in his play The Indian Emperor for the king's mistress Nell Gwynne. In such later works as Annus
Mirabilis and Absolom and Acitophel, he continued to support Charles, who had rewarded him in 1668 by
appointing him the first poet laureate. The rival of Thomas Shadwell, FTP, name this English author of
MacFlecknoe and All For Love.
Answer: John Dryden
17. Sometimes produced by the Sicilian process, this element takes on a reddish-brown solid form known as its
“plastic” form when cooled from a molten state. Combining with nearly all other elements at valencies of 2, 4, and
6, its natural form consists of 8 atoms held in a so-called “puckered” ring. It is attached to two hydrogen atoms in its
most famous compound, known for its smell of rotten eggs. FTP, what is this yellow nonmetallic element with
atomic number 16 and symbol S?
Answer: sulfur
18. His Adoration of the Magi features portraits of the Medicis holding the foot of Christ, while the monk looking at
the viewer may be his own self-portrait. Born with the surname Filipepi, this man's more famous name may have
come from the name of the goldsmith to whom he was apprenticed before studying under Fra Lippo Lippi. Painter
of Man with Medal and Judith, his thriftiness and association with the religious movement of Savonarola led to
poverty in his later years, despite a successful career in which he was known for illustrations of The Divine Comedy
and the painting Primavera. FTP, name this artist best known for the Birth of Venus.
Answer: Sandro Botticelli (accept Filipepi until mentioned)
19. Under its terms Brandenburg obtained eastern Pomerania, while France obtained secure possession of the
Alsace, Metz, Toul, and Verdun, thus gaining a firm frontier west of the Rhine River. Sweden received western
Pomerania, Wismar, Bremen, and Verden, giving it control of the Baltic Sea. Due mainly to the efforts of Count von
Trautmansdorff, it confirmed the independence of United Provinces of the Netherlands and the Swiss Confederation,
with all other secular lands restored to who had held them in 1618, before the start of the conflict it resolved. FTP,
what was this 1648 agreement that ended the Thirty Years’ War?
Answer: The Peace of Westphalia
20. Born circa A.D. 46 in Chaeronea, this man studied philosphy in Athens and Alexandria before travelling to
Rome, where he befriended the emperor Trajan and gave a popular series of lectures despite knowing almost no
Latin. Among his lesser-known works are a series of dialogues covering various political, religious, and
philosophical issues entitled The Moralia, but he is more famous for his biographies. For 10 points name this Greek
author known for comparing the exploits of famous Greeks and Romans in his Parallel Lives.
Answer: Plutarch
21. Later in life this man turned to the study of malaria and found that the tertian and quartan types of the disease
were caused by different species of the protozoan parasite Plasmodium. He is better known for his study of nerves,
for which he developed the technique of staining nerve cells with silver nitrate and found the point at which sensory
nerve fibres end in rich branchings encapsulated within a tendon, the tendon spindle named for him. For 10 points
name this co-winner of the 1906 Nobel Prize for Medicine best remembered for his discovery of an irregular system
of fibrils, vesicles, and granules in the cell known as his "apparatus".
Answer: Camillo Golgi
22. The term may be Egyptian and derive from the word meaning “dust”, indicative of the low status of those who
were called by it, or from a word meaning “moving on”, suggesting that it applied to nomads. In either case it was
regularly used as a pejorative term and at first those who were identified by it never used it to describe themselves,
although it is used to describe Abraham in Genesis 14:13 and seems to become more accepted and widely used
throughout the rest of the Bible. For 10 points identify this noun, the name of a book of the “New Testament” still
sometimes used to describe Israelites and most commonly employed to describe the language they speak.
Answer: Hebrew
23. This scientist gained fame for his improvements on the street-lighting system in Paris, and by 1775 he was put in
charge of gunpowder production for the whole of France, where he made a fortune. He also made agricultural
improvements in France and discovered new fertilising techniques, but he is best known for naming oxygen and for
discovering the role it plays in combustion, which ended the phlogiston theory. For 10 points name this chemist,
whose many accomplishments did not save him from being guillotined in 1794.
Answer: Antione Lavoisier
ACF Fall 2002
Packet By Kentucky A (Seth Kendall)
BONUSES
1. Identify the American president from assassins or would-be assassins, 5-5-10-10.
1. Leon Czolgosz.
Answer: William McKinley
2. John Hinckley.
Answer: Ronald Reagan
3. Guiseppe Zangara.
Answer: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4. Lynnette Fromme.
Answer: Gerald Ford
2. Given a brief plot summary name the Edgar Allen Poe story, 10 points each.
1. An animal lover becomes an alcoholic and murders his beloved pet Pluto. He finds another animal which looks
just like him, who proceeds to drive him mad, and when he naturally kills his wife the animal helps lead the police
to the corpse.
Answer: The Black Cat
2. A Prince named Prospero attempts to keep himself and his court free from a mysterious illness ravaging the
countryside by holing up in his castle and throwing huge parties; surprisingly, this plan is unsuccessful.
Answer: Masque of the Red Death
3. Containing the poem “The Conqueror Worm”, this story tells of the narrator’s lament that his wife has died.
However, his hated second wife, Rowena Trevanion, soon dies, and is reborn as the title character.
Answer: Ligeia
3. Identify the following African bodies of water from clues, 10 points each.
1. Fed by 14 perennial rivers, this lake is drained by the Shire River, a tributary of the Zambezi. With an area of
11,430 square miles, it is the most significant geographic feature of Malawi and it forms that nation's boundary with
Tanzania and Mozambique.
answer: Lake Nyasa
2. This lake is the longest freshwater lake in the world at 410 miles and the second deepest at 4,710 feet. Varying in
width from 10 to 45 miles, it forms the boundary between Tanzania and Zaire.
answer: Lake Tanganyika
3. The second-largest freshwater lake in the world next to Lake Superior, it is the largest lake in Africa and lies
mostly within Tanzania and Uganda. It is drained by the Nile and serves as the Nile’s source.
answer: Lake Victoria
4. FTPE, answer the following about color vision.
1. (10 points) These light-sensitive receptor cells of the retina are specialized to transmit information about color to
the brain.
Answer: cones
2. (10 points) This shallow depression in the retina opposite the lens is home to a large concentration of cones, and
thus specializes in color vision.
Answer: fovea centralis
3. (10 points) The cones contain this light-sensitive pigment which exists in three forms, each of which is sensitive
to one of the primary colors.
Answer: iodopsin
5. Name the following about couples from Greek myth, FTSNOP.
1. (10 points) Ademtus, king of Pherae, fell ill and was told that he would die unless someone agreed to take his
place; when no one volunteered, this wife went, as described in the earliest extant play by Euripedes.
Answer: Alcestis
2. (5 points) Alcestis was rescued from Hades by this hero also known for such deeds as capturing the Cretan Bull
and killing the Nemean Lion.
Answer: Heracles or Hercules
3. (10 points/5 points) This Phrygian couple so impressed Zeus and Hermes with their hospitality that they given
their fondest wish, to die together, becoming trees whose branches intertwined. Name them, 10 points for one and
15 for both.
Answer: Baucis and Philemon
6. One can learn a great deal about early nineteenth-century British history from the third season of the British
comedy series Blackadder. Identify the following figures which play a role in that show, 10 points each.
1. The third season is set in the twilight years of the reign of this man, when his son had taken over as regent while
he suffered from his celebrated “madness” probably caused by porphyrea.
Answer: George III
2. Blackadder spends much time mocking this age of this Prime Minister who used bribery to achieve the union of
Great Britain and Ireland. His failure to win Catholic Emancipation led to his 1801 resignation.
Answer: William Pitt the Younger
3. Constant fun is poked at this femme fatale and mistress of Horatio Nelson, whom Blackadder asserts suffered his
characteristic wounds when issuing the challenge to the French that she “is a virgin, and if I’m wrong you can shoot
out my eye and cut off my arm”.
Answer: Lady Emma Hamilton
7. Identify the following Canterbury tales from descriptions, 10 points each.
1. After a lament on his own unhappy marriage, the title character tells the story of the aged knight January, his
marriage to the young girl May, and her dalliance with the squire Damyan when January is struck blind.
Answer: The Merchant’s Tale
2. An old carpenter John is convinced that the second flood is coming so that the young scholar Nicholas can make
time with John’s young wife Alison. Hilarity involving hurtling bathtubs and red-hot pokers ensues, just like at
Roger Bhan’s bachelor pad.
Answer: The Miller’s Tale
2. Told in response to the Friar’s Tale, this deals with an ill man named Thomas who is hounded on his sickbed by a
friar trying to squeeze cash out of him to support a convent; Thomas, moved to rage, offers a contribution in to the
friar in the form of excrement.
Answer: The Summoner’s Tale
8. FTPE, answer the following about the Sun.
1. (10 points) This is the outermost region of the Sun’s atmosphere.
Answer: corona
2. (10 points) First described by Birger Vassenius and coming in active and quiescent varieties, these are dense
clouds of incandescent ionized gas projecting from the Sun’s chromosphere into the corona.
Answer: solar prominences
3. (10 points) Often accompanying sunspots, these are bright granular structures on the Sun’s surface that are
slightly hotter or cooler than the surrounding photosphere.
Answer: facula(e) (or plages)
9. Answer the following questions about an important part of the Constitution, 10 points each.
1. The Constitution forbids these laws declaring persons guilty of offenses and imposing punishments without trials.
Answer: Bill (or Writ) of Attainder
2. Bills of Attainder are specifically forbidden in this section of Article I, which also describes the protection of
habeas corpus.
Answer: Section 9
3. Section 9 also forbids these laws declaring persons guilty of crimes which were legal at the time they occurred.
Answer: ex post facto laws
10. As your question writer is very fond of Big Brother and the Holding Company’s acid-blues rendition of an aria
from Act I, scene I of the opera Porgy and Bess, answer these questions about this aria, FTSNOP.
1. 10 points: Name this aria sung by Clara as a lullaby, describing a season when “living is easy; fish are jumpin,
and the cotton is high”.
Answer: “Summertime”
2. 5 points: Name the composer who supplied the music for Porgy and Bess.
Answer: George Gershwin
3. 15 points: Porgy and Bess was adapted by George and Ira Gershwin from Porgy, a novel by this man whose other
works include the plays Brass Ankle and Mamba's Daughters.
Answer: Edwin Dubose Heyward
11. Given a short list of works, identify the French author who penned them on a 30-20-10 basis.
1. The Last Day of a Condemned Man; Ruy Blas; Ninety-Three
2. The Toilers of the Sea; Hernani; The Man Who Laughs; Hans of Iceland
3. Les Miserables; The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Answer: Victor Hugo
12. The film Gladiator was the shiznit. Answer the following about a few of the historical details they actually got
right, FTPE.
1. (10 points) The beginning of the film depicts the death of this emperor, who actually was succeeded by his son
Commodus, though there is no indication that he was killed by him. Name this emperor, the last of the “Good
Emperors” most famous for his philosophical work Meditations.
Answer: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
2. (10 points) Maximus has a brief encounter with a young boy, the son of Marcus Aurelius’s daughter and this man.
Historically there is no evidence to suggest he ever married into the family of Aurelius, but he did rule as coemperor with him from 161 to 169 CE, the first time the empire was equally shared.
Answer: Lucius Verus
3. (10 points) While he did not die in the arena as in the film, Commodus was actually killed by a gladiator and
champion wrestler in 192. Name this gladiator, whose name is suggestive of vanity.
Answer: Narcissus
13. Answer these questions about an important geometric concept for the stated number of points.
1. (10 points) This notion basically states that if a straight line falling on two straight lines makes the interior angles
on the same side less than two right angles, then the two lines will eventually meet.
Answer: parallel postulate
2. (5 points) The parallel postulate is found in book one of this Alexandrian mathematician’s Elements.
Answer: Euclid
3. (15 points) This English mathematician offered an important variation on Euclid’s parallel postulate, stating that
through a point not on a given line there can be drawn one and only one line parallel to the given line, a postulate
named for him.
Answer: John Playfair
14. Answer the following about an artist. You will receive 5 points for one right answer, 15 for two, or 30 for all
three.
1. In this painting a luminescent horse looks through a curtain while a devil leers at a sleeping woman.
Answer: The Nightmare
2. Who was the Swiss-born English painter of “The Nightmare”, also responsible for “Death of Cardinal Beaufort”
and “The Oath of the Rutli”.
Answer: John (Johann) Henry Fuseli
3. Fuseli was greatly influenced by this Renaissance artist and sculptor of the 1504 bronze “David”.
Answer: Michelangelo (Buonarotti)
15. Identify the authors of the following works, FTPE.
1. (10 points) Castle of Otronto.
Answer: Horace Walpole
2. (10 points) Steppenwolf
Answer: Hermann Hesse
3. (10 points) The Cloven Viscount
Answer: Italo Calvino
16. FTPE, name the following common polyatomic ions given their formulas.
1. (10 points) SO4 minus 2
Answer: sulfate
2. (10 points) ClO4 minus
Answer: perchlorate
3. (10 points) NO3 minus
Answer: nitrate
17. Given a Civil War battle and the losing general, name the winning General, FTPE.
1. Kinesaw Mountain, William T. Sherman
Answer: Joseph E. Johnston
2. First Mannassas, Irwin McDowell
Answer: Pierre G.T. Beauregard
3. Fredericksburg, Ambrose Burnside
Answer: Robert E. Lee
18. FTPE, name the following about followers of Plato’s philosophy.
1. (10 points) Speusippus and Xenocrates were the immediate successors of Plato as heads of this school of
philosophy founded by Plato.
Answer: The Academy of Athens
2. (10 points) This 15th century thinker was the major force behind the Renaissance revival of Platonism, as seen in
his major work, “Platonic Theology of the Immortality of Souls”.
Answer: Marsilio Ficino
3. (10 points) This group of 17th century Platonists named for the university where they all taught included Ralph
Cudworth and Henry More, and sought to establish a philosophical foundation for Christian theology.
Answer: Cambridge Platonists
19. The Gospel of Luke Chapter 9 verse 54 describes how these two sons of Zebedee once asked Jesus to have
divine fire rained down on a village of Samaria which had not received the disciples hospitably. For 10 points each:
1. Name these two men, one murdered by Herod Agrippa I who later enjoyed popularity in Spain, where he has a
famous church in Compostela, and the other the author of a non-synoptic Gospel and the alleged composer of the
Book of Revelation.
Answer: James The Greater and John
2. A reference to the fiery tempers of James and John might be found in Mark Chapter 3 verse 17 where they are
given this nickname.
Answer: “sons of thunder” or boanerges
20. Identify the author from works, 30-20-10.
1. 30 pts: The novel A Portrait of Bascom Hawk; the collections From Death to Morning and The Hills Beyond, the
latter published posthumously.
2. 20 pts: The plays The Return of Buck Gavin, Mannerhouse, The Third Night; the novel The Web and the Rock
3. 10 pts: The novels You Can’t Go Home Again, Of Time and the River and Look Homeward, Angel
Answer: Thomas Wolfe