Random Questions

2001 ACF Fall - Packet by Chicago - #18 [report this tossup]
It can be transformed into lyxose using the Ruff degradation. Like the other aldohexoses, its chemical formula is C6H12O6, but unlike talose or glucose, it gives an optically-inactive meso compound upon reaction with nitric acid. A major component of many gums, mucilages, and pectins in plants, it is also a constituent in animal glycolipids and glycoproteins. For ten points, name this simple sugar which bonds to glucose to form lactose.
Answer: galactose

2010 ACF Nationals - Packet by UCSD - #10 [report this tossup]
Victor Serge claimed that this man murdered thousands of White Guard prisoners of war as head of the revolutionary committee of Crimea. After leaving his most famous position, he failed to rouse the central German miners to revolution in the so-called "March Action", and was eventually shot in a gulag in 1938. Although he was imprisoned by the government after a demonstration led by him killed four policemen, he was released after the publication of the Vix Note. Nominally, he was foreign minister under prime minister Sandor Garbai as part of the coalition that overthrew Count Karolyi, but he clearly held the true power considering his friendships with both Zinoviev and Lenin. Overthrown by the Romanians and replaced by Admiral Miklos Horthy, for 10 points, name this pawn of the Sovet Union who briefly ruled a Communist regime in Hungary in 1919.
Answer: Bela Kun

2010 ACF Fall - Packet by Bellarmine and UCLA - #15 [report this tossup]
One character in this play lives with Miss Pearl and has to be bailed out of jail for disturbing the peace. Another character in this work is the seven year-old girl Raynell, and another character in this play has a metal plate in his head and believes he is the Archangel Gabriel. The protagonist of this work has an affair with Alberta who dies in childbirth, and his friend Bono listens to his complaints while both work as garbage men. The protagonist of this play won't let his son Cory accept a football scholarship due to his own failed aspirations of playing baseball. For 10 points, name this drama about the family of Troy Maxon, a play by August Wilson.
Answer: Fences