Category: SocialScience

Tossup Questions

• Question 1 (SocialScience):

  The Kahama chimpanzee community was disbanded after chimpanzees in Gombe National Parkengaged in this activity, which was documented by Jane Goodall. The Chinese strategist Sun Tzu wrotea book about the (*) "Art" of this activity. The Geneva Convention established laws governing, for 10 points,what activity in which large groups or nations engage in armed conflict?

  • Answer: war [or warfare; accept synonyms such as fighting, combat, violence, etc. until “Art” is read andprompt afterwards; accept The Art of War; accept the Gombe Chimpanzee War]
• Question 2 (SocialScience):

  Some speakers of this language add the consonant 'r' to the end of syllables in a process callederhua. This language contains measure words such as "ge" and "zhi", which are used to quantifynouns. During the 20th century, some (*) characters used to write this language were simplified, thoughthe traditional forms are still used in Taiwan. For 10 points, name this language spoken in Beijing.

  • Answer: Mandarin Chinese [accept either underlined portion or Standard Chinese; accept Guānhuà orPǔtōnghuà orGuóyǔ or Huéyǔ ; do NOT accept or prompt on “Cantonese”]
• Question 3 (SocialScience):

  Before becoming an author, Zora Neale Hurston primarily practiced this discipline. A practitionerof this discipline traveled to Melanesia to write his work Argonauts of the Western Pacific. Bronisław(*) Malinowski (bro-NEE-swaaf mah-lee-NOHF-skee) was a practitioner of this academic discipline, which isoften studied alongside archaeology. For 10 points, what academic field studies human culture and society?

  • Answer: anthropology [accept word forms; prompt on social science]

Bonus Questions