Beaver Bonspiel 2: 4:30 p.m., October 28, 1995 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tossups for Pre-Playoff Cooloff Questions "A" written by Harvard University, Swarthmore College, Dartmouth College and Cornell University. Questions "B" written by Williams College, Boston University, Yale University, University of Pennsylvania, and Princeton University. TOSSUP 1 One of these animals will be worth 40 beavers, 8 moose, or two loons, as soon as a new two-dollar coin goes into circulation. For ten points, name this carnivorous mammal, species Ursus maritimus, the king of the Canadian Arctic. Answer: _POLAR BEAR_ TOSSUP 2 Born in Hamilton, Ontario, he received a B.A. from the University of Toronto and, in 1884, a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins. He later worked in Europe with Frobenius, Hensel, Schwarz and Max Planck. He eventually became research professor at the University of Toronto, and in his will he established a prize to be given every four years to a person under the age of 40 who has made significant achievements in mathematics. For 10 points identify this man whose namesake medal is considered the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in mathematics. Answer: John Charles _FIELDS_ TOSSUP 3 It was formed in Vancouver in 1971, when the twelve members of what was formerly called the Don't Make a Wave Committee sailed a small boat to Amchitka Island, Alaska, to protest U.S. nuclear testing. The organization changed its name to better proclaim the type of world it wanted to help create. For ten points, name this environmentalist group that recently gave France one of its first naval victories in 300 years. Answer: _GREENPEACE_ TOSSUP 4 It has more math students than any other university in the western world. Its Faculty of Mathematics includes departments of Pure Math, Applied Math, Combinatorics and Optimization, and Computer Science. Although Combinatorics and Optimization may have the best academic reputation, its Computer Science department is more widely known for a symbolic algebra package and a classic Fortran compiler. For 10 points name this Ontario university that brought us Maple and WATFOR. Answer: University of _WATERLOO_ TOSSUP 5 She lives in Lynn Lake, Manitoba, with her husband Rod, a dentist. She has a son and a daughter, now in their mid-twenties, and the family used to have a big sheepdog, but it died a few years back. For ten points, name this cartoonist whose alter ego is Elly Patterson in "For Better or For Worse". Answer: Lynn _JOHNSTON_ TOSSUP 6A By censoring out the word "down", MTV unwittingly changed her oral sex reference to a watersports reference. Her original lyrics were "Is she perverted like me? Would she go down on you in a theatre?" With one hand in her pocket, and the other one hailing a taxicab, playing a piano, or making a peace sign, for 10 points name this Canadian songstress. Answer: Alanis _MORISSETTE_ TOSSUP 6B A grandson of a leader of the 1837 rebellion in Upper Canada, in 1908 he entered politics with the Liberal Party. His diairies reveal that he often communicated by seance with deceased relatives. For ten points name this prime minister who led Canada through the Great Depression and World War II. Answer: William Lyon _MACKENZIE KING_ TOSSUP 7A Founded in 1821 on the 10 thousand pound endowment of a fur trader and legislator of Scottish descent "for the purpose of education and advancement of learning", it includes Macdonald College as an incorporated college of agricultural and environmental sciences as well as affiliated theological colleges of the Anglican, Presbyterian, and United Churches of Canada. For 10 points name this university enrolling over 28,000 students in Montreal. Answer: _MCGILL_ University TOSSUP 7B Warning: three answers required. For ten points, name the three low-lying Canadian provinces known as the Prairie provinces. Answer: _ALBERTA_, _SASKATCHEWAN_, _MANITOBA_ TOSSUP 8A The British won the battle for Quebec City by attacking the city from behind, as opposed to scaling the cliffs by the St. Lawrence River. For ten points, what is the name given to this battlefield? Answer: the _PLAINS_ of _ABRAHAM_ TOSSUP 8B The U.S. has long enjoyed the longest open border in the world with our Canadian buddies. But in 1839, Congress authorized the president to wage war on our Canadian friends if he chose. Though the Maine militia invaded New Brunswick of their own volition, the only real conflict was a barroom brawl. For ten well-earned points, name this conflict, initiated by the arrest of an American settler near the Canadian boundary. Answer: _AROOSTOOK_ war TOSSUP 9 No Canadian citizen has ever won a Nobel Prize in Literature. However, the prize has been won by one former Canadian citizen who moved to the U.S. at the age of 9. For 10 points, name this author of _The Dangling Man_, _The Adventures of Augie March_, and _Humboldt's Gift_, who was awarded a Nobel prize in 1976. Answer: Saul _BELLOW_ TOSSUP 10 In the 1993 federal election, he entered politics as leader of Canada's Natural Law Party. In TV commercials, he promised that if elected, his party would be able to make the national debt disappear as easily as he was able to make an elephant disappear with a wave of his wand. For ten points, name this magician turned fringe politician. Answer: Doug _HENNING_ TOSSUP 11 The name's the same. The real one was a Scottish writer who headed the Canada Company that established settlement in southwestern Ontario in the 1820s. The other was a fictional philosopher-physicist who established a colony of his own in Colorado. For ten points, give the common name, or if you prefer _Jeopardy!_ format, give the first line of Ayn Rand's _Atlas Shrugged_. Answer: Who is _JOHN GALT_? TOSSUP 12 When it became a British colony, its first and most influential governor was a black man from Guyana. It became a Canadian province with a scant 36,000 people, of whom at least three-quarters were native Indians. Today, it is Canada's fastest-growing province with at least a fifth of its population being immigrants from other countries, including its current lieutenant- governor, David Lam. For ten points, identify this Pacific coast province. Answer: _BRITISH COLUMBIA_ TOSSUP 13 "From Canada by land, 1793". Those were the words he inscribed on a rock in Dean Channel on the Pacific Coast, having just completed the first overland crossing of North America north of Mexico. He had actually taken a rather circuitous route, having seen the Arctic Ocean on his way, following a major river that came to bear his name. For ten points, name this Scottish-born explorer and namesake of Canada's longest river. Answer: Sir Alexander _MACKENZIE_ TOSSUP 14 The Canadian industrialist Cyrus Eaton had a summer home here, and in 1955 he responded to a manifesto by Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein and opened its doors to a conference of thinkers on science and world peace. For 10 points, identify the sleepy oceanfront town that every three years still hosts an international conference run by a Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization. Answer: _PUGWASH_, Nova Scotia TOSSUP 15 It now exceeds wheat as Canada's principal crop. Developed from rapeseed, it was given its more socially acceptable name by agricultural scientists who decided to honor their country with it. For 10 points name this oilseed crop. Answer: _CANOLA_ TOSSUP 16 As fur traders in the 17th and 18th centuries, these Algonkian-speaking people came to occupy a large portion of subarctic Canada, as far afield as present-day Alberta and the Northwest Territories. For 10 points, name this tribe whose Quebec branch, led by Matthew Coon-Come, voted three days ago to remain in Canada if Quebec secedes. Answer: _CREE_ TOSSUP 17 It only made matters worse that his brother was a member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, and was even Deputy Prime Minister at the time, when the Monarchist League of Canada in 1988 protested against a movie that, in one scene, portrays this actor in a compromising position with the Queen. For 10 points, name the star of _The Naked Gun_. Answer: _LESLIE NIELSEN_ TOSSUP 18 The official language of Quebec is French, and the official language of eight of the other provinces is English. For a quick ten points, what is the only Canadian province where French and English have equal status as official languages? Answer: _NEW BRUNSWICK_ TOSSUP 19 It was written by John McCrae, a Canadian medical officer, in 1915 at the height of the Second Battles of Ypres ["eeps"], near the row of white crosses where he had buried a close friend the previous night. For 10 points, name this poem that is often read on November 11 and has inspired Canadians to wear poppies once a year to honour their war dead. Answer: In _FLANDERS FIELDS_ TOSSUP 20 It originally occupied a 10-square-mile area but has since been expanded to 2564 square miles. It includes postcard-perfect Lake Louise. A resort developed around the hot springs after the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1883, and two years later it became Canada's first National Park. For 10 points, name this Rocky Mountain park, an hour's drive from Calgary, where some of the events of the 1988 winter Olympics took place. Answer: _BANFF_ National Park TOSSUP 21 Nearly half of Canada's wheat exports go through this port, which took its present name in 1970 after the amalgamation of Port Arthur and Fort William. The locals clearly felt no need to attract tourists to the area, as the new name was approved in a plebiscite. For ten points, name this port on Lake Superior that isn't necessarily known for stormy weather. Answer: _THUNDER BAY_, Ontario