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Answers to quiz questions general knowledge quiz

 

Mash-Up Tossup Extravaganza (MUTE)
Packet by John Lawrence

 

1. Anthony Payne completed the unfinished sixth of these pieces, which depicts the Japanese god Jizio. The melody from the trio of the fourth of these pieces in G major was reused by their composer for the song “The King’s Way” and depicts the Welsh god Gwyn ap Nudd. One of these pieces depicting Xolotl journeying to Mictlan had the lyrics “Land of Hopelessness and Glory” added to it for Edward VII’s funeral. For 10 points, name these musical pieces by Edward Elgar, the first of which is often played when people graduate from the land of the living and are guided to the underworld.
ANSWER: Psychopomp and Circumstance Marches

2. This character first meets Ned Nickerson in a novel in which a Swedish diary provides the clue to finding the Epistle of Wisdom. George Fayne and Bess Marvin assist this character, even though they are part of a group known as “The Ignorant” that cannot read sacred texts. This character disguises her beliefs through taqiya in order to better solve mysteries like The Secrets of the Old Clock. For 10 points, name this character created by Carolyn Keene ad-Darazi, a girl detective belonging to a Shi’ite offshoot.   
ANSWE: Nancy Druze

3. Opening a flip-top box to push a flashing red button will stop a variation of this reaction from producing pyridines from imines. Scientists performing this reaction often receive phone calls from a silhouetted figure offering them money if they do not use a compound named after Danishefsky in its “aza” variant. In this reaction, an “endo” preference causes substituents to point towards the model holding the suitcase containing the dienophile. For 10 points, name this four-plus-two cycloaddition performed by Howie Mandel. 
ANSWER: Deal or No Diels-Alder [grudgingly accept "Diels-Alder or No Deal", but this is obviously a worse way of mashing it up]

4. The Seven Crystal Balls are among the objects depicted in a gondola in this painter’s The Deliverance of Arsinoe, which is often cited as a prime example of Alph-Art. One of his paintings depicts two identical-looking, bowler-wearing mustachioed detectives descending from the heavens to prevent a slave from being martyred. Another of his paintings depicts the words “blistering barnacles” shooting out from Juno’s breast, where Captain Haddock was suckling. For 10 points, name this Venetian-Belgian master who painted the dog Snowy at the feet of Christ in his diagonally oriented Last Supper.
ANSWER: Tintintoretto

5. This artist designed a royal crest of a white running horse on a green background for the New National Gallery. After the Battle of the Field of the Celebrant, the Oath of Eorl was signed at the German Pavilion this artist designed for the 1929 International Exposition. Grima Wormtongue advised a ruler who sat in one of this artist’s Barcelona chairs. Eowyn appointed him as final director of the Bauhaus. He collaborated with Philip, son of John on King Theoden’s chamber in the Seagram Building. For 10 points, name this German architect from Middle-Earth, who built structures in a kingdom allied with Gondor.
ANSWER: Ludwig Mies van der Rohan

6. On this show, the Salamanca cartel controls such processes as the creation of W and Z boson mass via the Higgs mechanism. One character on this show attempts to dissolve a corpse in a bathtub full of acid after positing Landau’s model of second-order phase transitions. On this show, Aaron Paul co-stars as Jesse Pinkman, who produces the Goldstone boson. For 10 points, name this show in which Bryan Cranston plays a chemistry teacher who becomes a meth dealer after the ground state of his life ceases to maintain its expected theoretical symmetry. 
ANSWER: Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking Bad

7. This essay discusses how Higgs’s decision to disguise himself in Erewhon Revisited mirrors the title figure’s decision to lose 63 pounds to play Trevor Reznik. This essay argues that the title figure’s portrayal of Patrick Bateman makes him “the principal enemy of moral progress in the world”. It criticizes the cosmological and teleological arguments for being as unconvincing as the growling voice the title figure used while acting opposite a villain played by Heath Ledger. For 10 points, name this essay in which Bertrand Russell explains why he was never cast as Batman.
ANSWER: “Why I Am Not a Christian Bale”

8. This work proposes a quadrilateral scheme of articulation, attribution, designation, and derivation that form the underlying structure of yam agriculture and the “week of peace”. This work analyzes the values that cause the murder of Ikemefuna as part of the episteme of Umuofian culture. This work opens with a reading of gaze in a Velasquez painting of Okonkwo. For 10 points, name this philosophical work by Chinua Foucault, which discusses ways of structuring knowledge of Nigerian literature.
ANSWER: The Order of Things Fall Apart

9. In one work by this author, Vannevar Morgan hopes that designing an elevator to the moon will help him amend the Morrill Tariff. Stalwarts were initially fans of this author, who wrote a work in which a group of human ancestors discovers an extraterrestrial monolith that encourages them to limit Chinese immigration. Roscoe Conkling mentored this author, who wrote a work in which the computer HAL kills those who oppose the Pendleton Act. For 10 points, name this successor of James Garfield and author of 1881: A Space Odyssey.
ANSWER: Chester A. Arthur C. Clarke [middle initials may be omitted, or replaced with the full names “Alan” and “Charles”, but this is clearly the most artful way of mashing these two names up]

10. One work in this genre includes a character who pleads “See me, feel me / Touch me, heal me” while trapped in a vacuum defined as an infinite sea of particles with negative energy. In one work in this genre, a gypsy called the Acid Queen attempts to cure a character by proposing the existence of antimatter. One work in this genre describes a relativistic wave function for spin-1/2 pinballs. The most famous work in this genre is about a deaf, dumb, and blind kid who is zero everywhere except at zero. For 10 points, name this genre pioneered with the album Delta Function by The Who.
ANSWER: Dirac Opera

11. In one film by this director, a character lists the things that make life worth living as: “Groucho Marx, Willie Mays, the second movement of the Jupiter Symphony, peaches, and penumbras”. In one film by him, Gil Pender travels back in time to meet literary figures like Garcia Lorca and Walt Whitman, who is eyeing the grocery boys. In his most famous film, Marshall Moloch tells a professor on line at a movie theater that he knows nothing of Moloch’s work, while Alvy Singer is with a character played by Diane Keaton in Rockland. For 10 points, name this Jewish Beat comedy director of Annie Howl.
ANSWER: Woody Allen Ginsberg

12. This play opens with its protagonist rowing a boat across a lake parallel to the ALT pathway. In this play, Baron von Attinghausen, champion of the peasants, dies after reaching the Hayflick limit. One character in this play refuses to bow to a hat on a pole, saying that his reverse transcriptase is bound only to an RNA template and not by Austrian control of Switzerland. For 10 points, name this play by Friedrich Schiller, whose title character is forced to lengthen the chromosomes on his son’s head. 
ANSWER: William Telomerase [or William Tellomere]

13. This document established free trade with the Philippines so that there could be “Passion, fruit, and sex all in the atmosphere”. One proponent of this document praised it, saying: “It poppin’ it rollin’ it rollin’” in his Winona Speech. It altered the terms of the Dingley tariff to increase sales in grey Cadillacs, so that the Taft Administration could proclaim that it “got money in the bank”. For 10 points, name this 1909 tariff that aimed to lower how much it would cost to “Buy You a Drank”.
ANSWER: T-Pain-Aldrich Tariff

14. In this short story, seven rooms, each decorated in a different color, contain such items as the Postman’s Hat and the Bunny Hood. The protagonist of this short story seals himself in a castle with his courtiers, ignoring the imminent collision of the moon with Clock Town. The “Song of Time” plays at a ball in this story, during which the protagonist pursues an unidentified party guest. For 10 points, name this Edgar Allan Poe short story in which Link confronts the Skull Kid, who turns out to be an allegorical representation of the title plague.
ANSWER: “The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask of the Red Death”

15. These two men collaborated on a work in which a character sings: “Polyhedra can’t, through striving / Re-assemble---re-assemble / When Dehn sees at what I’m driving / Let him tremble—let him tremble!” in “Things Are Sometimes What They Seem”. In another collaboration between them, a character sings “About the basis theorem, I’m teeming with a lot o’ news / And gen’ralize the inner product space from the hypotenuse” in his song “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major Problem”. For 10 points, name this mathematician and composer team that included The Pirates of Secants and F(x) Pinafore among their 23 namesake problems.
ANSWER: Hilbert and Sullivan

16. Some of the precedent set in this case was eroded by Gonzales v. Carhart’s decision to accept an alternate system developed by George Kennedy at Yale. In his dissent in this case, Byron White objected to the use of numerals to indicate tonality. The use of apostrophes to indicate aspiration was outlined in Harry Blackmun’s majority opinion, which represented an “r” with a “j”. This decision was overturned in one country in the 1950’s, but was accepted in Taiwan until 2009. For 10 points, name this 1973 Supreme Court case that legalized Romanizing Mandarin Chinese.
ANSWER: Roe v. Wade-Giles

17. Titian mocked this event in a parody in which Robert Manion and Robert Weir were portrayed as apes. One writer claimed that this event exacerbated the Canadian Great Depression by attempting to portray duration rather than capturing a singular moment. At one point in this event, Polydorus, Athenodoros, and Agesander met with R.B. Bennett. For 10 points, name this 1935 protest by doubters of the Trojan Horse against the serpent infiltration of relief camps.
ANSWER: Laocoon-to-Ottawa Trek

18. A sea monster bites off this character’s right foot while she is canoeing and singing “Just Around the Riverbend”. This character runs “the hidden pine trails of the forest” in her obsidian sandals. And after hearing “the wolf cry to the blue corn moon” and asking “the grinning bobcat why he grinned”, she transforms into a jaguar and eats the second sun. For 10 points, name this Aztec Powhatan maiden who is able to see all of “The Colors of the Wind” in her smoking mirror.
ANSWER: Tezcatlipocahontas

19. This author was opposed by Tobiah and Sanballah while attempting to write a poem describing “A Rock, A River, A Tree”. She recounted the years she spent living in Accra, Ghana as the cupbearer to Artaxerxes I in All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes. She urged the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem in a poem she delivered at the 1993 inauguration of Bill Clinton. For 10 points, name this African American prophet and poet, who wrote I Know Why the Caged Jew Sings.
ANSWER: Nehemiah Angelou

20. This publication included the rust-covered artwork Cor-Ten to illustrate the maxim “Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears”. A block of red wax named for the Sanskrit for “self-generated” was among the excerpts from this work republished in The Way to Wealth. Isaac Bickerstaff’s kidney was the inspiration for a bean-shaped silver object contained within this work. And it is peppered with aphorisms like “A penny saved is a penny that can be melted down to make a sculpture”. For 10 points, name this Benjamin Franklin work about the British-Indian sculptor of Cloud Gate.
ANSWER: Anish Kapoor Richard's Alamanack

21. In this conflict, Johann Michelson won a battle against a general who was busy trying to catch a Heffalump. Alexander Suvorov interrogated the rebel leader in this conflict, who ate all the honey he was planning on giving to an ally who had lost his tail. During this conflict, the Battle of Kazan was fought in the Hundred Acre Wood, and the Old Believers were led by Kanga, Rooski, and Eeyorevich. For 10 points, name this rebellion against Catherine Robinson the Great, led by the namesake teddy bear.
ANSWER: Winnie-the-Poohgachev’s Rebellion [accept obvious equivalents for “rebellion”, like “uprising”]

22. In this novel, Berthe Crow is banished to earth for dropping the Heavenly Queen’s crystal goblet. At another point in this novel, Otis Amber urinates on five pillars that turn out to be fingers. At the end of this work, Judge Ford tells Pigsy that the title character purposely sacrificed his queen in a game of chess. The eighty-first calamity occurs in this work when a turtle named Turtle kicks Sandy McSouthers in the shins, causing him to lose some important scriptures. For 10 points, name this Chinese Classical novel in which Sun Wukong competes to become the title millionaire’s heir by solving his murder.
ANSWER: Journey to the Westing Game

23. Peano axioms attempt to define the rules in this type of system by which a certain figure or his wife may pick up his paychecks. In this type of system, “I throw the ball to Naturally” is not considered a well-formed sentence. Godel proved that this type of system is complete but not consistent because most questions generate recursive loops and all propositional negations of knowledge result in “third base”. For 10 points, name this type of system employed by Bertrand Abbot and Alfred North Costello in their Principia Commedia. 
ANSWER: “Who’s on First-Order Logic?”

24. The protagonist of this series loses books while travelling through a series of different locations, including the Bean-Field and the hut of John Farmer, while accompanied by his dog Woof. Recurring characters in this series include the wizard Whitebeard and the poet Ellery Channing. The Transcendentalist protagonist of this series wears glasses and a red-and-white striped shirt and bobble hat. For 10 points, name this popular children’s book series in which one must locate Henry David Thoreau in pictures of crowd scenes near Concord, Massachusetts. 
ANSWER: Where’s Walden?

25. A CC sarrusophone is a military band equivalent of this woodwind instrument, which was found in the plane crash that led to the exposure of Eugene H. Hasenfus. John Pointdexter was arrested for fluffing this instrument’s bass-line part in the Turkish march section of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. The Tower Commission investigated this instrument’s use in the opening of “In the Hall of the Mountain King”, which implicated Oliver North. For 10 points, name this double-reed woodwind instrument used by the Reagan administration to siphon funds to Anti-Sandinistas in Nicaragua.
ANSWER: Iran Contrabassoon

26. This novel’s character of Roy Neary is based on Bram Fischer. After hearing a black man dismiss white political efforts as irrelevant, this novel’s protagonist flees to Nice to stay with Katya Capshaw, the widow of another character. The protagonist feels compelled to combat Amon Goth and apartheid after her childhood friend Baasie is kidnapped to Neverland. After saving Private Ryan, the title character must contend with Lionel’s legacy with the South African Communist Party. For 10 points, name this Nadine Gordimer novel in which Rosa must decide whether to continue the Last Crusade of her blockbuster director father. 
ANSWER: Steven Spielburger’s Daughter

27. This ruler inflicted the martyrdoms of Madaura by revealing Trelawney’s prophecy to the Dark Lord. This ruler’s namesake arch in Leptis Magna contains a sculpture of a Patronus in the form of a doe. He educated his son Geta in Occlumency, but stopped when Geta managed to intrude on a memory of his mockery by James. He applied the Sectumsempra curse to the losers of the Battle of Lugdunum at which he killed Clodius Albinus Dumbledore. For 10 points, name this figure who ascended from the rank of Potions Master to Roman Emperor. 
ANSWER: Lucius Septimius Severus Snape

28. One character in this play laments having killed his baby brother by giving him measles in the song “What’s This”. In this play, a family discusses what sanatorium to send Oogie Boogie to, after he is diagnosed with tuberculosis by Dr. Hardy. After the kidnapping of Santa Claus, Mary sinks deeper and deeper into morphine addiction. For 10 points, name this play written by Eugene O’Burton set in Halloween Town, in which Jack Skellington tries to celebrate the Yuletide with the Tyrones.
ANSWER: Long Day’s Journey Into Nightmare Before Christmas

29. This work defends the efficacy of supernatural rituals, such as one in which each participant takes one egg from each basket and then passes the basket to his left, called a “rooster draft”. This work describes the construction of kamkokolas at graveyards to which “sorceries” and “instants” are relegated. The main focus of this study is the practice of cultivating lands to be tapped for manna with which to cast spells. For 10 points, name this anthropological study by Bronislaw Malinowski about the agricultural rituals of the Wizards of the Coast.
ANSWER: Coral Gardens and their Magic: The Gathering

30. At one point in this novel, the title character dresses up as Bobo the bear in order to get his mother to kiss him goodnight. Much of the first half of this novel is devoted to dreams of the title character's beloved jumping naked out of a cake to sing “Happy Birthday” and reminiscences of working in the nuclear power plant in Combray. The title character of this novel associates the “little phrase” in the Vinteuil Sonata with his love for Malibu Stacy, and mistakenly confesses to having killed his beloved for blocking out the sun with a machine in the two-part episode “Who Shot Odette?”. For 10 points, name this novel in which the title character recalls working for Mr. Burns after eating a tea-soaked madeleine.
ANSWER: Swann’s Waylon Smithers

31. In this film, one character says “You had an option, sir—to not say ‘Jehovah’” shortly before John Turner is stoned to death by women wearing false beards. In this film, the leader of the Progressive Conservative party asks “What have the Liberals ever done for us?”, and the title character’s mother says “He’s not the Prime Minister. He’s a very naughty boy!”. Characters in this film sing “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” shortly after the rejection of the Meech Lake Accord by Biggus Dickus. For 10 points, name this Monty Python film about a man who is mistaken for the Messiah in 1980’s Canada.
ANSWER: Life of Brian Mulroney

32. Dr. Yakub created the White Race in this location, shortly after listening to a performance by Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes, a band of biths. One text written here includes one character stating “These are not the Four Horseman you are looking for”. That text written here has generated scholarly debate as to whether Greedo will shoot before or after Judgment Day. For 10 points, name this island on Tatooine that contains the cantina and spaceport at which St. John wrote the last book of the bible. 
ANSWER: Patmos Eisley

Quaker Academic Competition I
November 22, 2008
Finals

Tossups
1. A character in this work is forced to walk around a lake, upon which he teases his master by claiming that he ran into a blood sucking succubus named Empusa. This play opens with two characters, one in his traditional yellow robe and buskin, who is later mistaken for Heracles and his servant riding in on a donkey arguing about which complaints to use to open the play comically. Supposedly recovering from the Battle of Arginusae, Dionysus and his slave Xanthias travel to Hades to rescue Euripides. While rowing Dionysus hears a constantly repeating chorus of "Brekekekex-Coax-Coax" in, for 10 points, this play which features that chorus of the title animals, a comedy by Aristophanes.
ANSWER: The Frogs

2. His solo piano works include a suite for the Godebski children, which uses the pentatonic scale in a movement inspired by “The Green Serpent” as well as, Jeux d’eau, which was dedicated to his teacher Gabriel Faure. This composer of Ma mere l’oye was influenced by Gershwin in his two piano concertos, one of which was written for Paul Wittgenstein, who lost his right hand in World War II, and his most famous work begins with flute over snare drum, alternates between two melodies, and repetitively crescendos to a coda featuring trombone glissandi. Composer of the ballets La Valse and Daphnis and Chloe, for 10 points name this creator of Bolero.
ANSWER: Maurice Ravel

3. A. Hoeling's 1962 account of this event rules out all other causes except sabotage and named Eric Spehl as the lead saboteur. The testimony of Commander Rosendahl, an official observer of this event, described a "mushroom-shaped" fire. In Herbert Morrison's vivid radio description of this event, he uttered the now iconic phrase, "Oh, the humanity," and this event received significant attention around the world despite resulting in half the casualties of the USS Akron. This event was triggered when the LZ 129 attempted to dock to the mooring mast of the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. For 10 points, name this event that occurred on May 6, 1937 which saw the destruction of a Zeppelin airship.
ANSWER: Hindenburg Disaster [accept anything that mentions the Hindenburg and something bad happening]

4. He attacked Laurent's work with substitution reactions involving chlorine in a paper he co-wrote with Justus von Liebig under the pseudonym S.C.H. Windler. He also co-discovered with von Liebig the benzyl radical providing support for one of his teacher's theories. This student of Berzelius, while attempting to prepare ammonium cyanate from silver cyanide and ammonium chloride in 1828, accidently discovered the synthesis with which he is most associated. Also credited with isolating silicon and beryllium, for 10 points, name this German chemist best known for his synthesis of urea.
ANSWER: Friedrich Wohler

5. An experimenter studying this phenomenon pretended to be injured in another room, while a more famous experiment involved completing a questionnaire while a room filled with smoke. Considered an example of social loafing, it was put forth by Latane and Darley in an article entitled “Apathy”. It was perhaps best seen in a case where a perpetrator returned to the scene of the crime at least twice as a full Kew Gardens neighborhood looked on. Also called the Kitty Genovese effect, for 10 points, name this effect in which members of a large group are less likely to help people need.
ANSWER: bystander effect

6. Two characters in this play argue over whether a soccer championship took place in Birmingham or Tottenham, and after reading about a car accident and a girl killing a cat in a newspaper they argue about whether “lighting the gas” or “lighting the kettle” is the proper phrase. When asked for macaroni pastitsio, one character instead gives up potato chips before supposedly receiving an order to kill his partner through the title device. For 10 points, name this play which ends with Ben pointing his gun at Gus, a work of Harold Pinter.
 ANSWER: The Dumbwaiter

7. Papirius Carbo referred to this man as "half fox, half lion," a phrase that would be rendered familiar by Machiavelli as emblematic of an ideal prince. His nomination as quaestor in 107 BC, coupled with the replacement of Metellus during the Jurgurthine War, opened the door for this man to capture the Numidian king. His reputation would grow further with his defeat of the Cimbri and Teutons at the Battle of Vercellae, and his victories at Chaeronea during the First Mithridatic War emboldened him to march on Rome a second time after being chased away by Marius. For 10 points, name this Roman general who was elected dictator of Rome in 82 BC.
ANSWER: Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix

8. His graduation speech at the Gymnasium was titled "On the Abortive State of Art and Scholarship in Turkey". This philosopher's first work examined the differences in the systems of philosophy conceived by Friedrich Schelling and Johann Fichte. He wrote about being, essence, and concept in his Science of Logic. This author of Philosophy of Right posited a state he called “absolute knowledge” in a more famous work For 10 points, name this influential German philosopher who developed his concept of "dialectic" in his Phenomenology of Spirit.
ANSWER: G.W. F. Hegel

9. The development of the first atomic clock made use of this effect and the ammonia molecule. Observed independently in crystals by Landsberg and Mandelstam, this effect shares its name with one concerning the vibrational and electronic levels of molecules. As a result of it, the scattered photon can have greater energy if the molecule is initially in an excited vibrational state, or it can have less energy than the incident photon. Coming in Stokes and anti-Stokes varieties, for 10 points, name this type of inelastic scattering named for an Indian scientist.
ANSWER: Raman scattering [or Raman effect]

10. Ptolemy of Alexandria mentions this river in his Geographia, using the Scythian name for it, the Rha. Minor tributaries of this river include the Vetluga and Sura rivers. Beginning in the Valdai Hills in the Tver oblast it flows east through the towns of Kver and Nizhny-Novgorod before turning south at Kazan. Some of its major tributaries include the Oka and the Kama rivers and it flows some 2,300 miles before emptying into the Caspian Sea. For 10 points, name this Russian river the longest in Europe.
ANSWER: Volga River

11. Downbeat Magazine jazz critic Ira Gitler used the phrase "sheets of sound" to describe this musician's work, which first appears in the liner notes for a 1958 album of his; and he modified the two-five-one progression to move by thirds in his namesake "changes". Songs like "Lazy Bird" and "I'm Old Fashioned" appear on his first solo album for Blue Note Records, 1957's Blue Train. He backed Theolonius Monk at the legendary Five Spot gig in 1957, and was integral part of the recording sessions with Miles Davis for Milestones and Kind of Blue. For 10 points, name this tenor saxophonist whose albums include Giant Steps, Live at Birdland, and A Love Supreme.
ANSWER: John Coltrane

12. In one of this man’s novels, Sonoko enters into a lesbian relationship with Mitsuko, and in another of his works, a wealthy engineer falls in love with the title fifteen year old waitress. In addition to Quicksand and Naomi, he wrote about the westernization and attempts at marriage of the four title characters in one novel, and in another work he wrote about Kaname’s waning interest in his wife Misako. For 10 points, name this 20th century Japanese novelist of The Makioka Sisters and Some Prefer Nettles.
ANSWER: Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

13. In 2000, an Indian used Eilenberg modules and Hall matchings to prove this statement, which degenerates into the Hadwiger Conjecture when n=5. Perhaps first proposed by Francis Guthrie, who lends it an alternate name, this problem was thought to be proven by the Kempe algorithm. Though it was solved by Appel and Haken in 1976 using computer-generated configurations, it turns out this theorem can be considered a special case of the Heawood conjecture, which assigns a topological space an upper limit on chromatic numbers. For 10 points, name this theorem, which states that a map may be filled with a certain number of colors so that adjacent regions are different colors.
ANSWER: Four Color Map Theorem [accept Guthrie’s conjecture until mentioned]

14. He created a business called Friendship Forever, only to be bested by his friends selling Buddy Bands. He managed the Hot Sundaes, a girl group made up of a few of his closest friends, and to win a bet, he told Mr. Testaverde that there was a problem with the plumbing. He used his enormous cell phone to get him out of a jam on more than one occasion, but his antics usually resulted in a trip to the office to see Mr. Belding. For 10 points, name this character played by Mark-Paul Gosselaar on Saved by the Bell.
ANSWER: Zack Morris [accept either name]

15. This work was influential for future poetry in its language by its introduction of the sloka meter. In one scene Kaikeyi reminds the king of his promise, and machinates to have her son placed on the throne. That son, Bharata, is aghast at his mother's behavior and places the title character's sandals on the throne once belonging to Dasaratha. Banished to the forest the main character, the prince of Ayodhya, along with his brother Laskmanna and the monkey-king Hanuman must fight the king of the Rakshahas. For 10 points, name this Sanskrit epic traditionally attributed to Valmiki which follows the life of the titular hero and his saving of his wife, the beautiful Sita from the demon Ravena.
ANSWER: Ramayana

16. The office created for the administration of this bill was headed by Edward Stettinius, and it was passed after Everett Dirksen introduced it while a sizable portion of House Democrats were at a luncheon. Its detractors used the results of the Nye committee to argue against it, and it revised an earlier arrangement which led to various American bases in the Caribbean and Canada. This legislation augmented Destroyers for Bases and directly opposed both the Neutrality and Cash and Carry Acts. For 10 points, name this 1941 bill that allowed the US to loan war supplies to the UK.
ANSWER: Lend-Lease Act

17. In one of his plays, the opera singer Emilia Marty procures a formula that allows her to live for three hundred years. Another of his works depicts the destruction of much of Earth’s landmass to create more shoreline and the creation of the Salamander Syndicate by the title amphibians. In addition to Makropulous Affiar and War with the Newts, this man authored a play in which Dr. Gall is convinced by Helena to give the title beings souls. For 10 points, name this author who coined the term “robot” with his R.U.R.
ANSWER: Karel Capek

18. Oxalyl chloride and DMSO are employed in the Swern variety, and osmium tetroxide is used to bring about this process in alkenes. Tollens’ Reagent initiates this process leading to a silver mirror in the presence of aldehydes because ketones typically do not undergo it. The Jones type uses chromic acid to transform alcohols into ketones and carboxylic acids, thus increasing the number of carbon-oxygen bonds, one way of achieving this process. Occurring when a molecule or atom loses electrons, for 10 points, is what type of reaction often coupled with a reduction?
ANSWER: oxidation [do not accept redox]

19. In the explanation for this work, which is now part of the permanent collection at the Art Institute of Chicago, the artist describes painting the central image and then in order to evoke its mystery he chose to place it in an immediately familiar setting, a sparsely decorated and austere living room. Only one of the two candelabras, which are both empty and are sitting on the mantle, is reflected in the mirror and the clock between them reads 12:44. In the living room fireplace, something reminiscent of a coal-burning stove has been transformed into, for 10 points, a charging locomotive traveling on no tracks in this surrealist painting by Rene Magritte.
ANSWER: Time Transfixed

20. A 1990 Argentine opera by Eduardo Alsonso-Crespo is about this person of the royal House of Trastamara. Two of this person's children include Eleanor of Habsburg and Isabella of Austria. After the death of her husband at unexpectedly early age of typhus, she was locked up Tordesillas by her father and remained there until her death in 1555. It has been offered that she had to be forcibly removed from the corpse of her husband and did not allow woman to approach the coffin. The second daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, for 10 points, name this queen the husband of Philip the Handsome and the mother of Charles V who was thought to have been bat-shit insane.
ANSWER: Joanna of Castile [accept Joanna the Mad, Juana La Loca, or Juana I of Castile]

TIEBREAKER. His liturgical a capella choral composition, All-Night Vigil, was one of his two favorites compositions along with work that employs symbolist-poet Konstantin Balmont's free translation of an Edgar Allen Poe poem and quotes the Dies Irae, The Bells . Cesar Cui's panning of his First Symphony contributed to his three year depression; he returned to form after a round of autosuggestive therapy with Nikolai Dahl and composed his Piano Concerto No.2. Along with the tone painting The Isle of the Dead, for 10 points, name this Russian composer who composed a work based on a certain violinist’s 24th Caprice, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
ANSWER: Sergei Rachmaninoff

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finals Bonuses

1. Answer the following about electronegativity for 10 points each.
[10] The most widely used scale for measuring electronegativity is this one, ranging from 0.7 to 4.0. It is named for a scientist who won Nobel Prizes in Peace and Chemistry.
ANSWER: Pauling scale
[10] This other eponymous scale argues that electronegativity should be described as an average of electron affinity and ionization energy and thus should not be measured in arbitrary units like those for the Pauling scale
ANSWER: Mulliken scale
[10] The Allred-Rochow measurement states that electronegativity is proportional to Z-star over the square of this quantity, typically measured in Angstroms and describing the physical surface of an atom.
ANSWER: covalent radius

2. This holy and noble order was founded by some Philadelphia tailors, for 10 points:
[10]Name this 19th century American Labor organization led initially by Uriah Stevens.
ANSWER: Knights of Labor
[10]In 1873 Uriah Stevens was replaced by this man, the second president of the Knights of Labor.
ANSWER: Terrence V. Powderley
[10]The beginning of the end for the Knights of Labor was this unsuccessful strike involving more than 150,000 workers against the Jay Gould owned Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific in 1886.
ANSWER: Great Southwest Railroad Strike

3. This poem describes a disconcerted knight-at-arms taken to an elfin grot by an unsympathetic women. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this poem which begins "O what can pail thee, knight-at-arms..."
ANSWER: “La Belle Dame sans Merci”
[10] "La Belle Dame sans Merci" was written by this 19th century English poet of such works as "The Eve of St. Agnes" and "Ode to Psyche."
ANSWER: John Keats
[10] In this sonnet by Keats, he expresses his approval of the eponymous translation of some blind Greek poet. It begins "Much have I traveled in the realms of gold."
ANSWER: “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”

4. This mathematical space is defined wherein every point in the neighborhood resembles a Euclidean space but may have non-Euclidean global topological properties. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this space lacking a preferred system of coordinates that is locally homeomorophic to Rn.
ANSWER: manifold
[10] A manifold is said to have this property if a consistent concept of clockwise rotation can be defined for it continuously and without change of handedness. The Klein Bottle is one object that lacks this property.
ANSWER: orientability [accept word-variants like orientable]
[10] Also the name of certain kind of aromaticity, this eponymous single-sided three dimensional surface is non-orientable and is named after a German mathematician
ANSWER: Mobius strip

5. Give the following related to tests used by the Supreme Court, for 10 points each:
[10] Developed during its eponymous 1973 court case, this “average person” community-standards based test establishes three rules for determining what forms of expression could be defined as obscene and thus not protected by the First Amendment.
ANSWER: Miller Test
[10] This three-pronged test developed in 1971, established the grounds for how legislation dealing with religion could be constructed, it suggests among other things no government action could result in “excessive government entanglement,” with religion
ANSWER: Lemon Test
[10] In the 2007 case of KSR v. Teleflex, the court re-utilized the so-called “obviousness test,” which suggests that if an ordinary person could have combined elements for an innovation, this type of exclusive right can’t stand.
ANSWER: patent

6. In one version it describes the eponymous figure throwing seeds on rocks and thorns, for 10 points:
[10]For 10 points, give this Biblical parable about the title figure looking for good soil.
ANSWER: Parable of the Sower
[10]The Parable of the Sower can be found in the books of Matthew, Mark and Luke which are collectively given this name due to the theory that they are derived from the same source.
ANSWER: Synoptic Gospels
[10]The Parable of the Sower can also be found in this non-canonical gospel found at Nag Hammadi and recorded by one named Didymus.
ANSWER: Gospel of Thomas

7. Her young-adult novel trilogy begins with 2002's City of the Beasts, for 10 points:
[10]Name this Chilean born author of Eva Luna, and Daughter of Fortune.
ANSWER: Isabelle Allende
[10]Isabelle Allende's most recognized novel is this work which describes the exploits of the three generations of a family at the title location told mostly from the perspective of Esteban and Alba
ANSWER: House of the Spirits
[10]This is the name of the family which forms the center of Allende's House of the Spirits.
ANSWER: Trueba

8. Answer the following questions about ecology for 10 points each:
[10] Commonly seen attached to sharks, these fish obtain food by cleaning their hosts’ parasites or by eating leftovers from their meals.
ANSWER: Remoras (also accept suckerfish; prompt on sharksucker)
[10] This general name is given to the associations between two species, examples of which include the interaction between sharks and remoras or the mutualistic relationship between humans and the E. coli in our intestines.
ANSWER: Symbiosis (also accept symbiotic relationships)
[10] This specific type of symbiosis is demonstrated by sharks and remoras in which one organism is benefited while the other is neither helped nor harmed. Other instances of this type of relationship include clownfish living in anemones and cattle egrets eating insects stirred up by grazing cattle.
ANSWER: Commensalism

9. He suggests that in the theological state, that humanity is inner directed and towards absolute knowledge, for 10 points:
[10]Name this French thinker who in his work Introduction to Positive Philosophy gives one of the first sociological accounts of human behavior.
ANSWER: Auguste Comte
[10] Auguste Comte in his Catechisme Positiviste coined this term from the Latin for "other people" which defined the ethical obligations we have to others and the necessity of renouncing self-interest.
ANSWER: altruism
[10] Comte's law of three stages offers that society progressed through three mental stages beginning with the theological and then followed by this stage which made use of abstract explanation but lacked the rational and empirical rigor of the final stage.
ANSWER: metaphysical

10. Give the following related to the longest ruling dynasty in Chinese history, for 10 points each:
[10]Ruling in some form or another from 1122-256 BCE, this dynasty is historically split into the Western and Eastern portions and saw the birth of Confucius and his eponymous system.
ANSWER: Zhou Dynasty
[10] Confucius was born during this dual seasonally named period of the Zhou Dynasty and saw the reign of the Five Hegemons.
ANSWER: Spring and Autumn Period
[10] During the Spring and Autumn periods, this numerically titled proliferation of intellectual and philosophical development occurred ushering in the golden age of Chinese philosophy.
ANSWER: Hundred Schools of Thought

11. The unnamed female narrator of this story goes mad while mostly confined to a room in which she sees strangled heads and creeping women in the title décor. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this feminist short story written as a series of journal entries.
ANSWER: “The Yellow Wall-Paper”
[10] This suffragist and author of Moving the Mountain and Women and Economics wrote “The Yellow Wall-Paper”
ANSWER: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
[10] Gilman wrote the story in part to warn of the dangers of the “rest cure” of this real-life doctor named in the story.
ANSWER: Silas Weir Mitchell

12. Known as Queen Anne’s War in the American colonies, it was partially ended by the Treaty of Rastatt in 1714, for 10 points each:
[10]Name this war that eventually saw the Duke of Anjou, grandson of Louis XIV be crowned Philip V and accede to the throne of the eponymous kingdom.
ANSWER: War of the Spanish Succession
[10]This August 13, 1704 battle during the War of Spanish Succession was a decisive victory for the Allied forces of the Duke of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy against the French and Bavarians who were led by Duc de Tallard and Maximillan II Emmanuel.
ANSWER: Battle of Blenheim
[10]This 1713 treaty, signed in the namesake Dutch city, ended the War of Spanish Succession.
ANSWER: Treaty of Utrecht

13. Hugh Everett and others hold that this must have real existence according to the Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics, for 10 points each:
[10]Name this mathematical concept which is a representation of a physical state given in terms of space and time.
ANSWER: wave function
[10]Wave functions can be solved for using this eponymous equation of quantum mechanics, coming in time-dependent and time-independent versions.
ANSWER: Schrodinger Equation
[10]The collection of all normalizable wave functions to describe a physical system are contained in this space named after a German mathematician with an eponymous set of mathematical problems
ANSWER: Hilbert Space

14. In this partially extant Latin prose work, Encolpius travels with his former lover Ascyltos, for 10 points each:
[10]Name this work which begins at Trimalchio's party and was made into a movie by Federico Fellini
ANSWER: Satyricon
[10]The Satyricon was written by this Roman author.
ANSWER: Gaius Titus Petronius Arbiter
[10]Petronius is a character in this novel by Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz [sin-KAY-vitch] about the era of Nero, its Latin title alludes to a question posed by Simon Peter to Jesus in John 13:36.
ANSWER: Quo Vadis? [It roughly translates as “Where are you going?]

15. For 10 points each, answer the following about the first winner of the Pritzker Prize:
[10] This American architect won the award in 1979, for such buildings as the New York Theatre at Lincoln Center, the Crystal Cathedral, and the Boston Public Library
ANSWER: Philip Johnson
[10] Built in 1949, this single-floor home located in New Canaan, Connecticut utilizes the title building material to modernist perfection.
ANSWER: The Glass House
[10] Designed for a Canadian distillery in collaboration with Mies van der Rohe this 38-story glass skyscraper is located at 375 Park Avenue.
ANSWER: Seagram Building

16. It is in this work and not the Meditations, that the famous dictum "I think, therefore I am," occurs, for 10 points:
[10] Name this work which discusses how Reason may be rightly conducted, and how the search for truth proceeds in the natural sciences.
ANSWER: Discourse on the Method 

[10] Discourse on Method was written by this influential 17th century French philosopher and geometrician.
ANSWER: Rene Descartes 

[10] In Descartes' Meditations, he uses this argument to generate skepticism about all knowledge given the possibility of this eponymous figure.
ANSWER: Evil Deceiver Argument [accept clear-knowledge equivalents]

17. He oversaw the formation of the Conservative Party out of the remnants of the Tory Party via the issuing of the Tamworth Manifesto, for 10 points:
[10] Name this Prime Minister of England from 1841-1846, who repealed the Corn Laws and pushed the reform-minded Factory Act.
ANSWER: Sir Robert Peel
[10] As Home Secretary, Sir Robert Peel formulated the modern concept of the police force, and along Francois-Eugene Vidocq founded this headquarters of the London Metropolitan Police Service.
ANSWER: Scotland Yard
[10] Though Peel was the minority Opposition Leader prior to being Prime Minister he was offered leadership of the government by Queen Victoria who had a large number of Whig Party relatives in her private coterie. Peel requested that she replace these ladies-in-waiting, prompting this crisis which refers to the personal nature of the positions in dispute.
ANSWER: Bedchamber Crisis

18. In it, Illmarinen forges the Sampo and Lemminkainen is revived by his mother. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this national epic of Finland compiled in the 19th century.
ANSWER: Kalevala 

[10] The Kalevala was collected and added to by this 19th century Finnish philologist, who also did significant work in botany and wrote the Flora Fennica.
ANSWER: Elias Lonnrot 

[10] Variously described as a god or ancient shamanistic hero, this character from the Kalevala is the son of the goddess Illmatar, this eternal bard has a magical voice and spends much of the time looking to get wifed up.
ANSWER: Vainamoinen

19. Its first president was Sir Joshua Reynolds. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this art institution located at the main building of the Burlington House in London.
ANSWER: Royal Academy of the Arts
[10] This Pennsylvania born painter was the Royal Academy's second president, and painted many historical scenes such as Penn's Treaty with the Indians.
ANSWER: Benjamin West
[10] This famous Neoclassical work by Benjamin West, features the final moments of the titular military commander shot during the Battle of Quebec.
ANSWER: The Death of General Wolfe

20. Answer the following about one of the Prairie provinces of Western Canada, for 10 points each.
[10] With largest city at Calgary, this province is bordered by Montana to the south and Saskatchewan to the east.
ANSWER: Alberta
[10] This is the capital of Alberta, known as the City of Oil; there is an appropriately named hockey team there.
ANSWER: Edmonton
[10] Bordered to the south by Sand Dunes this lake in the northeast corner of Alberta has significant gold and uranium mining settlements nearby and is drained by the Slave and Mackenzie river systems.
ANSWER: Lake Athabasca

 

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TOSSUPS

1. He collaborated with Roy DeCarava on a pictorial essay which was published posthumously as The Sweet Flypaper of Life. He wrote a semi-autobiographical novel about the picaresque adventures of Sandy Rodgers entitled Not Without Laughter, while his dramas include Simply Heavenly and Tambourines to Glory. He also wrote a series of newspaper sketches about the urban folk hero Jesse B. Simple, but he is better known for his poetry, collected in works like The Pather and the Lash and Fine Clothes for the Jew. FTP, identify this Harlem Renaissance author of The Weary Blues and Montage of a Dream Deferred.
Answer: Langston Hughes

2. To many critics his most important writing was the essay The Dividing Line Between Federal and Local Authority.  His rejection of the demands of William Yancey led to a split in his party.   The author of the sections of the Compromise of 1850 relating to the governments of the Kansas and New Mexico territories, he created the famous “Freeport Doctrine” annunciating his theory of popular sovereignty during his run for senator in 1858.  For 10 points, name this “Little Giant,” who authored the Kansas-Nebraska Act and defeated Abraham Lincoln after a series of famous debates.
Answer: Stephen Douglas

3. One myth tells of this god's pursuit of the numph Lotis, who was changed into a lotus tree to escape him. The brother of Hymen, he could supposedly be kept away by the braying of a donkey. Imported from Lampascus, where Pausanias reported he was supreme among all gods, he became popular in the Roman Empire, where he served as a god of sailors, fishermen, and gardens, and red satyr-like statues of him where placed in the fields to ensure fruitfulness. FTP, who was this fertility god known for his enormous phallus? (85 perfectly written poems in honor)
Answer: Priapus

4. During this geologic period the first flying reptiles, the pterosaurs, appears, as did Archaeopteryx, the first primitive bird. Ammonites are used as index fossils for this period in which reptiles dominated the vertebrates, and which featured ferns, ginkgos, conifers, brachiopods, bivalves, and echinoids. Named in 1829 by A. Brongniart for a mountain range on the French-Swiss border, it extended from 190 to 139 million years ago. FTP, what is this period of the Mesozoic era between the Triassic and Cretaceous Periods?
Answer: Jurassic Period

5. This play begins with a nurse recounting and lamenting the events that have led to the events described. The title character gains sanctuary in Athens in exchange for a fertility drug for the king Aegeus, then escapes in a chariot sent by her grandfather, the Sun-God, following the death of Creon,  who is poisoned via the clothes of his daughter Glauce. FTP, identify this play about the vengeful machinations of the former wife of Jason, a tragedy of Euripides.
Answer: Medea

6. His songs include words by Housman, Hopkins, Yeats, and Stephens, and he set to music James Joyce’s Chamber Music.  His operas include A Hand of Bridge and Antony and Cleopatra and he composed the Capricorn Concerto for flute, oboe, trumpet, and strings.  Known for the vocal piece Dover Beach, his best known opera is Vanessa.  For 10 points, name this American composer best-known for Adagio for Strings.
Answer: Samuel Barber

7. Geoffrey of Villehardouin wrote the principle account of this event and Fulk of Neuilly helped drum up support for it.  Despite papal objections, it attacked and captured the Christian city of Zara and spent the winter there.  After the death of Thibaut of Champagne, the leadership of the Crusade passed to Boniface of Montferrat.  The future Alexius IV appealed to European kings on behalf of his father Isaac Angelus, leading Doge Dandolo to divert the crusade to Constantinople.  For 10 points, name this 1202-04 crusade in which Venice sacked Constantinople.
Answer: 4th Crusade

8. Chapter three, entitled, “Of the Consequence or Train of the Imaginations” asserts that the continuance of motion is responsible for human thinking. The third part claims that the universe is a plenum containing no angels or apparitions, thus undermining orthodox Christianity, and is entitled “Of A Christian Commonwealth.” Finally, the fourth part, “Of the Kingdom of Darkness”, builds up the authors materialist program. Famous for its description of man in a state of nature, FTP, identify this work describing the "Matter, Form and Power of a Commonwealth", written by Thomas Hobbes.  
Answer: Leviathan

9. In samples, the presence of gram negative cocci pairs displaying a typical kidney bean shape is usually a diagnostic of this disease.  Occasionally, it can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease or even death if the infection spreads to the lungs, heart, or brain.  A member of the genus Neisseria, it is usually treated with Cetriaxone, Cefixime, Ciprofloaxin, or Ofloxacin, but not Penicillin, as it has developed resistance to that drug.  Characterized by appearance of pus and a burning feeling during urination, this is, FTP, what venereal disease also known as “the clap?”
Answer: Gonorrhea (prompt on “the clap” before mentioned)

10. The seventh stanza alludes to the story of Ruth, saying that “when sick for home, she stood in tears amid the alien corn.” In the sixth stanza the poet says that he has often been “half in love” with the idea of Death, and called Death soft names in many rhymes. In the second stanza the poet finds himself wishing for the oblivion of “a draught of vintage” though later on he repudiates his earlier Bacchanalian tendencies in favor of the pursuit of poetry. In the end, the word “forlorn” tolls like a bell to restore him from his speculations concerning the titular animal. FTP, identify this poem about a bird, written by John Keats.
Answer: Ode to a Nightengale

11. His reign was troubled by a tribal insurrection under the Chaldean Merodach-Baladan which led him to appoint Bel-ibni as sub-king to deal with the problems.  He was constantly threated by the Elamites, who he defeated at Halule.  He attacked Jerusalem, but did not sack the city and Isaiah described him as God’s instrument, but didn’t not condemn his actions.  His wife Naqai fathered his heir Esarhaddon, and he was known for his splendid palace: Shanina-la-ishu or “Nonesuch.”  FTP, name this son of Sargon II who made Nineveh his capital and the destruction of whose armies is the subject of a Byron poem?
Answer: Sennacherib

12. It is a polyamide in which all the amide groups attach to the phenyl rings opposite to each other at carbons 1 and 4, forcing it to maintain a “trans” formation, producing long, stackable fibers.  Its high tensile strength, flame resistance, high chemical resistance, and high cut resistance made its inventors, Herbert Blades and Stephanie Kwolek of DuPont, unsure of what it could be used for, as it could not easily be melted down or put in solution. FTP, name this strong synthetic fiber used in sails, kayaks, firefighter gloves, run-flat tires, and bullet-proof vests.
Answer: Kevlar

13. Shortly before his death this artist began The Cross of the World, a series of paintings on a religious theme.  One of his most famous works was based on the Count de Volney's Ruines and was painted while he was living with Henry Greenough in Florence. In The Voyage of Life he depicts the progression of a young man from birth to old age, while the stages of a society is seen in "The Course of Empire".  For 10 points, name this painter of the Hudson River School best remembered for The Ox-Bow.
Answer: Thomas Cole

14. He became active in Republican politics under Harold Stassen, serving as floor manager at the 1948 and 1952 Republican conventions.  Chairman of the commission planning the bicentennial celebration of the U.S. constitution, he was appointed assistant Attorney General in 1953, and two years later Eisenhower appointed him to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.  Contrary to expectations, this conservative upheld the Miranda decision, and it was his court that presided over Roe v. Wade.  For 10 points, name this Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who in 1969 succeeded Earl Warren.
Answer: Warren Burger

15. The theory behind this basic concept has been augmented in the 20th century by the pioneering work in indifference analysis of Edgeworth, and its first formulation can be attributed to William Stanley Jevons. It grew out of speculations about the origins of price and the paradox of value, seen in the lesser of cost of bread than diamonds, which implied the need to consider scarcity in determinations of price. FTP, identify this basic economics concept which is defined as the additional benefit that the consumer acquires from the purchase of an additional unit of a commodity.
Answer: marginal utility

16. The title character is wooed via trips to the theater to see plays in which a girl is skirted away from a palatial home and a cruel guardian by a hero with “beautiful sentiments.” The phrase “gone to the devil” is repeated several times as the heroine is disowned by her drunkard mother, and despite the promise of a happy, petit-bourgeois life, everything is ruined by the schemes of Nellie, an audacious woman who steals Pete the bartender away from the title character. FTP, identify this sad tale of a doomed girl-come-prostitute in the Bowery district, written by Stephen Crane.
Answer: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

17. He regularly gave lectures on popular astronomy to working class audiences, leading to the publication of his A Philosophical Treatise of Popular Astronomy, and at his death he left a book on the philosophy of mathematics entitled The Subjective Synthesis. He argued that human kind progressed through a theological stage, a metaphysical stage, and finally a scientific stage, in his appropriately-named “law of three stages," while his romance with the tubercular Clotilde de Vaux influenced his view of the woman’s place in an ideal science-based society. FTP, identify this French founder of positivism, considered to be the first sociologist.
Answer: Auguste Comte

18. Nearly all of the energy leakage in a nuclear fusion reactor is due to this phenomenon, and it is also observed when beta decay products propagate through uranium in a fission reactor. When coherently applied to crystals with incident energetic electron beams, photon beams in the range of 200 giga-electron volts have been observed.  FTP, name this phenomenon in which x-rays are produced when charged particles are accelerated by the strong electric fields of atomic nuclei, whose name comes from the German for “braking radiation.”
Answer: bremsstrahlung  

19. It was founded as a result of mining activities overseen by Gonzalo Pizarro, who was interested in exploring the highland east region of the Andean Cordillera.  Located on the Rio Cachimayo, this city’s main attractions are el Museo de la Recoleta, el Palacio de la Glorieta, la Casa de la Libertad, and la Universidad Mayor de San Francisco Xavier.  Founded by Pedro de Anzúres, it was originally named La Plata, and has also been called Charcas and Ciudad Blanca until its name was permanently changed on August 11, 1825 to honor a Venezuelan freedom fighter.  For 10 points, name this legal capital of Bolivia.
Answer: Sucre (accept the 3 names before mentioned)

20. He wrote a series of parodies of his favorite authors published in Le Figaro entitled “The Lemon Affair,” while his theories on the universal function of literature can be seen in “Contre Saint-Beuve”. Author of the collection of sketches Pleasures and Days, his work on the novel Jean Santeuil contained the seeds of his most famous work, whose sections include "The Sweet Cheat Gone" and "Swann's Way". FTP, identify this French author of The Remembrance of Things Past.
Answer: Marcel Proust

21. One of the first cultivators of the Cuban variety was José Pepe Sánchez, who in 1885 produced one entitled Tristezas.  Distinctive features are the “paseo,” “bien parado,” and various battements, and it is characterized by a triplet on the second half of the first beat. Typically in a three-four time signature, FTP, name this Spanish and Latin-American dance most famously produced by Ravel.
Answer: Bolero

22. He told his most famous student not to study too much math, lest it interfere with her child birthing abilities.  In 1838, he presented one of the first clear explanations of mathematical induction, a term which he coined, but his real contributions lie in the field of symbolic logic, where he invented notations that help prove prepositional equivalences.  FTP, name this teacher of Ada Lovelace, one of whose two namesake laws states that the negation of the conjunction of two propositions is logically equivalent to the disjunction of their negations.
Answer: August De Morgan

23. Formulations explaining the behaviour of objects moving at relativistic speeds reduce to the classical Newtonian  relations for objects moving at low speeds.  Likewise, a description of the structure of quantum sized objects should explain the behaviour of macroscopic objects as well.  The term for this belief was coined when, while trying to describe the orbits of electrons about a nucleus, Niels Bohr postulated that any new physical law should match up with classical laws under the appropriate circumstances. FTP identify this term.
Answer: Correspondence principle

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BONUSES

1. Name the following about a poet, 5-10-15:
1. (5 points) This German is best-known for his epic "Faust".
Answer: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2. (10 points) In this classic bildungsroman, the title character dreams to be a playwright, but is ultimately coaxed into being a surgeon by the mysterious Tower Society.
Answer: Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (also accept Wilhelm Meisters Lehresjahre)
3. (15 points) This play recounts the inability of the 16th century Italian poet of Jerusalem Delivered to reconcile his insanity with the external world.
Answer: Torquato Tasso

2. Among the 103 people to have held this poste are Dr George Carey, Cuthbert, Lanfranc, Anselm, Thomas Cranmer, and William Laud.  For 10 points each:
1. Name this position, the primate of all England.
Answer: Archbishop of Canterbury
2. This man was the first Archbishop of Canterbury who shares his name with a famous bishop of Hippo.
Answer: Saint Augustine of Canterbury
3. This is the London house of the Archbishop.  It lends its name to the periodical gatherings of the bishops of the Anglican Communion.
Answer: Lambeth Palace or Conference

3. Name these scientific paradoxes, for 10 points each.
(10) If the Universe were infinite, uniform, and unchanging then the entire sky at night would be as bright as the sun, because eventually, a star would enter your line of sight.
Answer: Olber’s Paradox
(10) Named after an Italian physicist, this paradox questions that if the Galaxy is filled with intelligent and technological civilizations, why haven't they come to us yet?
Answer: Fermi’s Paradox
(10) The solution to this paradox was confirmed when a cesium atomic clock carried on the space shuttle was compared to one left on earth.  This paradox asks the question, whose aging is slowed by time dilation, someone traveling in at relativistic speeds, or someone staying on earth.
Answer: Twin Paradox

4. Name the following, for 10 points each:
1. This league of six tribes of Native Americans was founded by the Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk nations.
Answer: Iroquois Confederacy
2. This sixth Iroquois tribe joined the confederation in the mid-1700’s.
Answer: Tuscaroras
3. The Onondagas were last to join the original group due to the actions of this evil shaman.  Once he was cured he was made first among the confederacy’s fifty equal chiefs.
Answer: Thadodaho

5. Name these 20th century composers from works for 10 points each:
1. The Making of the Representative for Planet 8, Hydrogen Jukebox, and Einstein on the Beach.
Answer: Philip Glass
2. Litany for the Whale, The Wonderful Widow of 18 Springs, Cheap Imitation, 4’33” and several Imaginary Landscapes.
Answer: John Cage
3. Cuban Overture, Porgy and Bess, An American in Paris
Answer: George Gershwin

6. Answer some questions about a British poet and critic, for 10 points each:
1. His career began with the publication of The Strayed Reveller, and he is known for poems like The Scholar-Gypsy, and Thrysis, an elegy for his friend Arthur Hugh Clough.
Answer: Matthew Arnold
2. This is Matthew Arnold’s most famous poem, expressing pessimism about the future of the modern world, describing the titular location as “where ignorant armies clash by night.”
Answer: Dover Beach
3. This critical work sought to shake the members of the Victorian middle class, whom he dubbed Philistines, and contrasted Hebraism and Hellenism as two opposing forces of art.
Answer: Culture and Anarchy

7. Identify these pioneering American anthropologists, for the stated number of points:
1. This teacher of Mead and Benedict is among the founders of culture-centric anthropology. He did famous studies of Native American culture, including Primitive Art and The Mind of Primitve Man.
Answer: Franz Boas
2. This student of Franz Boas established the department of anthropology at Yale and did pioneering work on the relationship between language and perception in works like Language, and Language, Culture and Personality.
Answer: Edward Sapir
3. Another student of Boas, this anthropologist held the first chair in African studies in the United States. In works like The Economic Life of Primitive Peoples and The Myth of the Negro Past, he attacked the notion that Africa must follow Western models of progression.
Answer: Melville J. Herskovits

8. FTPE, name the following about diseases.
1. (10 points) Discovered by Stanley Prusiner, these aborrent cells on the brain lack nucleic acid, and cause such diseases as Creutzfeldt-Jakob, Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease, fatal familial insomnia, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
Answer: prions
2. (10 points) This fatal degenerative disorder of the nervous system is found only among the Fore peoples of Papua New Guinea. Meaning "trembling", it causes joint pain, tremors, dementia, and death within 2 years.
Answer: kuru
3. (10 points) This is a fatal prion-induced neurodegenerative disease of sheep which causes nervousness, loss of weight, and tremors on the head and neck. It is named for this sheep's tendency to rub against objects, wearing away its fleece.
Answer: scrapie (or Rida or Tremblante Du Mouton)

9. The victor in the first full-scale Roman civil war and dictator from 82 to 79, he carried out notable constitutional reforms in an attempt to strengthen the Roman Republic. For 10 points each:
1. Name this Roman politician who assumed the name Felix because he believed in his own good luck. 
Answer: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
2. Sulla began his career in the army of this seven time consul during the campaign to subdue Jugurtha.
Answer: Gaius Marius
3. Sulla later commanded the Roman army in the war against Mithridates VI, king of this Asian region.
Answer: Pontus

10. FTPE, name the following members of a cursed house of Greek myth.
1. (10 points) This king of Mycene vowed to sacrifice the finest animal in his flock to Artemis, but after discovering a golden lamb reneged on his promise and hid the lamb away.
Answer: Atreus
2. (10 points) This wife of Atreus was having an affair with his brother Thyestes, and secretly gave the lamb to Thyestes.
Answer: Aerope
3. (10 points) After using the golden lamb to seize the throne, Zeus engineeres Atreus' return to the throne, after which he served Thyestes his children as food. To gain revenge, Thyestes got it on with his daughter and produced this son who would go on to kill Atreus and later seduce Clytemnestra.
Answer: Aegisthus

11. Identify these members of New Criticism for the stated number of points:
1. (5 points) This Fugitive presented an unsympathetic account of John Brown in The Making of a Martyr, but is better known for novels such as Night Rider and All The King’s Men.
Answer: Robert Penn Warren
2. (10 points) The founder of the Kenyon Review, this poet’s main body of work is collected in Two Gentlemen in Bonds and Chills and Fever, while his literary essays are collected in The World’s Body and God Without Thunder.
Answer: John Crowe Ransom
3. (15 points) Along with Robert Penn Warren, this critic coedited The Southern Review. The author of Modern Rhetoric and Literary Criticism: A Short History, in works such as The Well Wrought Urn he introduced the tenets of New Criticism into the teaching of literature.
Answer: Cleanth Brooks

12. Answer these questions relating to the theory of congruences, for 10 points each:
(10 points) Many mathematical congruences arise from this type of relation characterized by reflexivity, symmetry, and transitivity.
Answer: equivalence relation
(10 points) This theorem states that for any number a, a raised to phi of n equals 1 modulo n.
Answer: Euler's Theorem
(10 points) A more specific form of Euler's theorem is this "small" theorem which states that if a is a number and p is prime, then a raised to p minus 1 is congruent to 1 modulo p.
Answer: Fermat’s Little Theorem

13. Name these 20th century artists from works, FTSNOP:
1. (10 points) Woman I - IV
Answer: Willem de Kooning
2. (15 points) Mountains and Sea and Ocean Desert
Answer: Helen Frankenthaler
3. (5 points) Autumn Rhythm, various drip paintings
Answer: Jackson Pollack

14. FTPE, name the following about a Native American uprising.
1. (10 points) This son of Massasoit led several New England tribes in a series of raids against frontier settlements in 1675 and 1676, but the movement collapsed after his death.
Answer: King Philip or Metacomet
2. (10 points) King Philip was chief of this tribe. They joined with the Narragansett and Nipmuck during King Philip's War.
Answer: Wampanoag
3. (10 points) This woman was taken captive with her 6 year-old daughter after a raid on Lancaster, Massachusetts. Her famous account of the ordeal, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, was the first ever Indian captivity narrative.
Answer: Mary Rowlandson

15. Identify these T’ang dynasty poets from descriptions, for 10 points each:
1. The most populist of the T’ang dynasty poets, he supposedly read all his poems to a washerwoman for approval. The favorite of Arthur Waley, his most famous pomes are his “The Lute Song” and “The Song of Everlasting Regret.
Answer: Po Chu-I
2. A master of regulated verse, or lu-shih, his political leanings were largely Confucian, and he wrote many narrative poems of the misery of the An-Lu-Shan rebellion, such as "The Ballad of the Army Carts"
Answer: Tu Fu (or Du Fu)
3. In contrast to Tu Fu, this poet was a Taoist and was exiled for his role in the An-Lu-Shan rebellion. He is well known for his hedonistic poems about drinking and women.
Answer: Li Po (or Li Bo)

16. 5-10-15, answer stuff.
1. (5 points) This is a highly ionized gas in which the number of free electrons is approximately equal to the number of positive ions.
Answer: plasma
2. (10 points) This force, named for a Dutch gentleman, governs the motion of a charged particle in plasma, and is given by the charge times the quantity (Electric Field + velocity cross magnetic field).
Answer: Lorentz Force
3. (15 points) Not named for a gentleman, this is the rate at which a charged particle harmonically oscillates in a plasma.  It is expressed as the charge of the particle times the magnetic field divided by the mass of the particle.
Answer: Cyclotron frequency

17. Identify some dead philosophers from clues, for 10 points each:
1. This thinker is probably best-known for his "Critique of Pure Reason"
Answer: Immanuel Kant
2. This nutty Austrian has had virtually his entire collection of notebooks published as “The Blue and Brown Books” but you may know him better for his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
Answer: Ludwig Wittgenstein
3. This logical positivist wrote a biography of Wittgenstein, as well as The Origins of Pragmatism, but his greatest contribution is his seminal Language, Truth, and Logic.
Answer: Alfred Jules Ayer

18. FTPE, answer the following about a military battle.
1. (10 points) This 1870 battle resulted when the Prussians intercepted the French in an attempt to relieve the Rhine Army at Metz. Surrounded, Napoleon III surrendered 83,000 troops, virtually ending the Franco-Prussian War.
Answer: Sedan
2. (10 points) This descendant of Irish Jacobites followed up his defeat at Worth by planning the relief effort to Metz which resulted in the loss at Sedan, where he was in command with Napoleon III.
Answer: Marie MacMahon, Duke of Magenta
3. (10 points) This Prussian field marshall engineered the victory at Sedan, and led the Prussian victories in wars with Denmark and Austria as well.
Answer: Helmuth Moltke

19. Bight me! FTPE, name these important bights from world geography.
1. (10 points) This bay of the Atlantic Ocean on the west coast of Africa extends eastward for about 400 miles from Cape St. John, Ghana to the Nun outlet of the Niger River.
Answer: Bight of Benin (or Bight of Bonny)
2. (10 points) This wide embayment of the Indian Ocean indenting Australia's southern coast is generally accepted to run from Cape Pasley, Western Australia, to Cape Carnot, South Australia.
Answer: Great Australian Bight
3. (10 point) This inlet of the Gulf of Carpentaria in the northeast coast of Northern Territory extends for 85 miles between the islands of Groote Eylandt and the Sir Edward Pellew Group.
Answer: Limmen Bight

20. Identify these Latin American authors from description, for 10 points each:
1. This Argentine is obsessed with old movies, which he writes about his Betrayed by Rita Hayworth. He is also the author of Tropical Night Falling, and of course, Kiss of the Spider Woman.
Answer: Manuel Puig
2. This Chilean poet was really torn up about the suffering of children, and wrote a children’s book entitled Crickets and Frogs. Her more well known works include Desolacion and Sonnets of Death.
Answer: Gabriela Mistral (also accept Lucila Godoy Alcayaga)
3.  Influenced by the Symbolists, this Nicaraguan poet wrote a diatribe against U.S. foreign policy entitled, “To Roosevelt”, and is also the author of Azul and Songs of Life and Hope.
Answer: Ruben Dario (also accept Felix Ruben Garcia Sarmiento)

21. Made up of five civilians, this agency was created in 1946 and was responsible for developing and testing nuclear weapons and for encouraging peaceful uses of the new technology.  For 10 points each:
1. What was this agency abolished in 1974 and once chaired by Lewis Strauss?
Answer: Atomic Energy Commission or AEC
2. In 1954 the AEC stripped this man of his security clearance for alleged communist associations.
Answer: J. Robert Oppenheimer
3. The first director of the AEC was this former director of the TVA.
Answer: David Lilienthal

                                   2003 Valencia Delta Burke InvitationalBRound 2
Questions by CB with science help by folks from DePauw

1.  Still in existence, they can be universal or local, perpetual or temporary.  Personal ones require no object, while those called Areal@ are connected to a material thing, like a medal or rosary.   The Council of Constance eliminated the language Aa culpa et a poena@ from them.  Partial ones can be granted by bishops, while only the pope can offer a plenary one.   Provided not to remove or forgive sin, but rather to lift temporal punishment from it, FTP name these Catholic dispensations, the sale of which were attacked by Martin Luther.
A. indulgence(s)

2.  Two early losses for the French at Willembourg and Chalons under Marshall MacMahon foreshadowed things to come.  The pretext for this war was the offering of the throne of Spain to a Hohenzollern prince, Leopold, which France vehemently protested.  When the French ambassador asked Wilhelm I to agree that Leopold would never be offered the throne again, Wilhelm refused; Otto von Bismarck made this conversation public in his Ems Dispatch, inflaming the French to war.  Ended by the treaty of Frankfurt, FTP name this 1870-71 war.
A.  Franco-Prussian War

3.  Its proportion to electric charge can be determined from the cutoff wavelength in x-ray spectra, and it is the proportionality constant between energy and frequency of a photon.  Robert Millikan made accurate measurements of it in 1916, and in 1918, its namesake won the Nobel Prize for Physics.  FTP, what is this constant, equal to 6.62 times 10 to the negative 34th Joule-seconds, and symbolized small h?
A: Planck=s Constant

4.  Critic John Hollander argues that in this poem the line break between lines five and six, separating the word Arainwater@ into two separate nouns, implies that those words are phenomenological constituents also.  The title object is described as Aglazed@ with that rainwater, and apparently its vivid color stands out next to the white chickens.  FTP, Aso much depends upon@ what title object of an eight-line William Carlos Williams poem named for a farm implement?
A.  AThe Red Wheelbarrow@

5.  The legend that says that Hernando DeSoto explored the area that now is home to this sports venue explains why a pond on its par-three course is named DeSoto Springs.  During its construction in 1931, a tribal shell midden was uncovered under what would become its 12th hole.  Its current features include Rae=s Creek, which runs between Amen Corner: the 11th, 12th, and 13th holes.  It also is home to the Eisenhower Cabin and Sarazen Bridge.  Built by the great Bobby Jones, FTP name this Georgia golf course, host of the Masters Tournament.
A.  Augusta National

 

6.  Its formulator used this concept to explain why similar myth structures, like the idea of a great flood, recur in various far-flung cultures.  It also explains similarities in moral judgments in various cultures, like prohibitions on killing.  Certain key figures and motifs also spring from it, like the wise old woman and the young hero, figures the author termed archetypes.  FTP name this hereditary wellspring of ideas and experiences that is shared by all humanity, a concept enunciated by Carl Jung.
A.  collective unconscious (prompt on early buzz of AJung@)

17.  Name these prominent American Jewish novelists of the 20th century from works FTPE.
A.  Mr. Sammler=s Planet; Herzog                                              A.  Saul Bellow
B.  The Natural; The Fixer                                                                     A.  Bernard Malamud
C.  Ancient Evenings; The Naked and the Dead        A.  Norman Mailer

18.  Given a time, name the distance in meters of the track world record it is FTPE.
A. 19.32 seconds                                                  A.  200 meters
B. 12 minutes, 39.36 seconds                     A.  5,000 meters
C. 3 minutes, 26 seconds                           A.  1,500 meters

 

19.  Identify the following fault types for fifteen points each.
A. The movement of this fault follows the gravitational pull on the two blocks involved, usually resulting in one block moving upward and one moving downward.  The exposed block forms what is known as a fault scarp.
A. normal fault
B. Generally, movement on this type of fault is horizontal, and anything crossing this fault is going to be torn apart over the course of its movement.  One of the best known versions of this fault is the San Andreas Fault.
A. strike-slip fault (also accept transcurrent fault)

 

20.  Name these Secretaries of State FTPE.
A.  This first Secretary of State under Reagan lasted just over a year and famously claimed he was in charge after Reagan was shot.
A.  Alexander Haig
B.  This man served as the first Secretary of State.
A.  Thomas Jefferson
C.  This man=s namesake doctrine, formulated while serving under Hoover, stated that the US wouldn=t recognize border changes created by aggression; this was enunciated in response to Japan=s seizure of Manchuria.
A.  Henry L. Stimson

Hunter College High School Tournament
January 19th, 2008
Round Nine

Tossups

1. He meets Peter Wheatstraw in the street on his way to an interview with Mr. Edmunds, and after receiving a job offer from Edmunds’s gay son, he has an altercation with Lucius Brockway. Later, he attends a party at the Chthonian apartment building, where he is made fun of by a drunk brother and told he is not black enough by Emma. After a stay at Men’s House, he moves to Mary’s boardinghouse before taking a job as a public speaker. He sees the death of Tod (*) Clifton on 125th Street and reports this to Brother Jack and the rest of the Brotherhood and impersonates Rinehart, before finally reaching the conclusion to live unfettered around him and, as he mentions in the prologue, that others are incapable of seeing him. FTP, name this title character of the most famous work of Ralph Ellison.
ANSWER: Invisible Man (do not accept “The Invisible Man”)
<Tabachnick>

2. In the traditional French ritual, a sugar cube is placed on top of a slotted spoon resting on top of a glass of this drink. Cold water is slowly dripped over the sugar cube and into the glass, causing the spirit to louche, becoming opaque and milk-like in appearance. In 1915, France banned its sale, but a 1988 amendment allowed the sale of versions containing less thujone, a GABA receptor antagonist. It is produced from herbs such as anise, fennel, and (*) wormwood, which give it a distinctive color. Many artists have painted people drinking it, including Picasso, Manet, Degas, and Van Gogh, who is thought to have cut off part of his own ear while under its psychoactive influence. In French it is often called la Fée Verte, or “The Green Fairy”. FTP, name this highly alcoholic liquor often consumed by artists seeking inspiration.
ANSWER: absinthe (prompt on “Green Fairy” or “Verte” before it is mentioned)
<Chen>

3. Its original version was lost, but a version generally accepted as accurate comes from Mourt’s Relation. The list of signees has survived thanks to Nathaniel Morton, and is equivalent to one provided by Thomas Prince from the annals of the drafter of this document. That list includes members like John Billington, George Soule, and Edward Winslow, all of whom are “loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord (*) King James”. Other signers include Miles Standish and William Bradford, an early governor of the ensuing created colony. Considered the basis for the United States Constitution, FTP, name this document signed near Cape Cod in 1620 by travelers on a namesake Pilgrim ship. 
ANSWER: the Mayflower Compact 
<Tabachnick> 

4. This composer’s works are organized by the “S” or “S/G” numbers. His “Totentanz” contains over 30 glissandi, and opens with a piano part that is modernistic and percussive. He wrote at the bottom of the score for “La Notte” that it should be played at his own funeral. His pieces are known for extreme technical difficulty, like his “Douze Grandes Etudes” and his Etude No.5.  His “Mephisto (*) Waltzes” are an example of program music, an idea that he strongly supported. A plaster cast of his right hand is in his namesake museum, and reveals that he had very little webbing between his fingers, thus allowing him to reach up to 12 whole steps on the piano. FTP, name this composer and virtuoso pianist who composed the “Hungarian Rhapsody” series. 
ANSWER: Franz Liszt 
 <Tse>

5. Nearly half of these are capable of methanogenesis, and all have their membrane lipids ether-linked.  Insensitive to chloramphenicol, streptomycin and kanamycin, their encasings do not contain muramic acid and they use methionine as their initiator tRNA, which together with the fact that their ribosomes are sensitive to diphtheria toxin, indicates close relationship with plants, animals, and fungi.  They were first discovered by Carl Woese and George Fox in 1977, and by 2000 there were 209 catalogued species which are commonly placed in 3 broad categories of halophiles, (*) thermophiles, and acidophiles.  This is because many are found in extreme environments.  Though they sound old, they are in fact, FTP what domain of prokaryotic organisms closer related to Eukaryotes than bacteria are?
ANSWER: Archaea (accept Archaebacteria)
<Cheng>

6. His name literally means “split”, which reflects his internal struggles. His small apartment has a low ceiling and faded yellow wallpaper which is torn where there is a hollow in his wall. He spends much time sleeping on his couch, and is frequently interrupted by Natasya, the landlady’s servant. He does not want Luzhin to marry his sister, who ends up marrying his friend Razumihin instead. When his alcoholic friend Marmelatov is run over and killed (*) in the street, he gives his last copecks to Sonia. FTP, name this ubermensche who kills a pawnbroker and is sent to Siberia in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment.
ANSWER: Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov
<Tse>

7. The first action in this conflict centered around four objectives, three of which were Sharm el-Sheikh, al-Arish, and Abu Uwayula.  A planned attack on the Mitla Pass by Raphael Eytan 202nd Paratroop Brigade missed, and joined with a detachment under Ariel Sharon, who attacked Jebel Heitan without orders from Moshe Dayan.  Later, an (*) Anglo-French task force launched Operation Musketeer, in accordance with the secret agreements of the Protocols of Sèvres, which marked the last British attempt to impose military will overseas without US support until the Falklands War.  FTP – name this military conflict precipitated by Nasser’s nationalization of a certain Egyptian waterway. 
ANSWER: Suez Crisis 
<Cheng> 

8. The title characters engage in a scheme of abduction and matrimony, proclaiming "here's a first-rate opportunity" upon meeting a gaggle of girls.  The girls are also the objects of interest to the protagonist, who begs them to help him regain a respectable life, asking if "any maiden here, whose ugly face and bad complexion, has caused all hope to disappear, of ever winning Man's affection."  Later, however, the protagonist learns that he was mistaken about his future: he was apprentice until his 21st birthday, not his 21 year, and since he was born on February (*) 29th of a leap year, his apprenticeship will expire only when he is over 80 years old.  The returning Frederick promptly informs the outlaws of the deception of Mabel's father, leading to a showdown with the police, after which it is revealed they are all "noblemen who have all gone wrong."  FTP -- name this satirical Gilbert and Sullivan opera, whose most famous musical number is "I am the very model of a modern major-general."
ANSWER: The Pirates of Penzance or Slave to Duty
<Cheng>

9. Over 90% of its volume lacks oxygen, because the upper and lower layers do not intermix, making it the largest meromictic basin in the world.  It is divided into two sub-basins, the northern one with a large shelf of over 190 kilometers wide.  The southern shelf is narrow and borders upon the cities of Samsun and Sinop, to the west emptying through the Sea of (*) Marmara.  It is separated from the Sea of Azov by the Cimmerian Bosporus, and northern cities include Odessa and Rostov.  FTP, name this inland sea separating Asia from Europe.
ANSWER: Black Sea
<Cheng>

10. In this novel, the protagonist's daughter falls in love with Marius, who is rescued by the protagonist in an escape through the sewers.  That man gives himself up to save an innocent man and is imprisoned in Toulon, from which he escapes and adopts the illegitimate child of Fantine. After committing a minor crime, he is followed by Inspector (*) Javert. Imprisoned for nineteen years for stealing a loaf of bread, Jean Valjean is the main character, along with his daughter Cosette in FTP What 1862 novel by Victor Hugo that was turned in to a successful musical?
ANSWER: Les Miserables 
<Gates>

11. In one work he depicts a crowned virgin Mary standing over the family of Burgomaster Meyer, who are all standing on a wrinkled carpet. In another, a note is posted above a merchant named Gisze, who stares at the viewer while at a table with a vase of pink flowers. He made the pictures for the Erasmus book In Praise of Folly, and Sir Thomas More was another man he painted (*) while in his most famous job. Another work features a lute, an astrolabe, and a distorted skull while 2 men stand in robes. The painter of The French Ambassadors, this is FTP what German born court painter to Britain’s King Henry VIII?
ANSWER: Hans Holbein the Younger (accept clear knowledge equivalents; prompt on “Holbein”) <Dees>

12. It begins with the deaths of brothers Chilion and Mahlon and their father. Chilion's wife Orpah decides to remain in her homeland, but the title character, her kinsman, the wife of Mahlon, instead chooses to stay with a woman who instructs her to call her Marah, the wife OF  Elimelech. It ends with the lineage of the title character's second husband, beginning with Perez and ending with her son Obed, her grandson Jesse, and her more famous great-grandson. This book tracks the journey to Bethlehem of Naomi, (*) the title character's mother in law, from Moab, and in Bethlehem, she remarries after meeting a relative of Elimelech, Boaz. FTP name this book in the K'tuvim section of the Old Testament about the great-grandmother of David.
ANSWER: Book of Ruth or Megilat Rut
<Tabachnick>
13. A work named this contains the proposition “Substance is by nature prior to its affections” in its 1st part, Of God, while the fourth part is called Of Human Bondage. Another work with this word in its title focuses on the concept of eudamia which is a form of satisfied happiness, and contains the doctrine of the mean. Its “meta” form is considered the most imprecisely defined part of moral philosophy, while its normative form attempts to define proper (*) conduct, such as in the Golden Rule. Nichomachean is attached to this word in the title of an Aristotle work, while it names a work advocating Pantheism. FTP name this branch of philosophy, the title of a Baruch Spinoza work, which attempts to categorize right and wrong behavior.
ANSWER: ethics (accept Nichomachean ethics, Spinozas  ethics, etc.) 
<Dees> 

14. Gregory of Tours portrayed him as a "new Constantine" in his Histories, for alhough his father Childeric I died a pagan, he himself was laid to rest at the Church of the Holy Apostles that he built in Paris, and was later joined by his wife St. Clotilda.  His military success after his AD 496 baptization was seen as Christian victories and his 507 (*) Visigoth war as a campaign against Arian heresy.  The kingdom he built up encompassed Belgium, Gaul, and Northeastern France remained in the hands of his family until 750.  FTP, name this king of the Salian Franks and founder of the Merovingian Dynasty.
ANSWER: Clovis I
 <Cheng>

15. The name for this type of organic compound was first used in 1730 by F.G. Frobenius, and non-IUPAC names for some include anisole and phenetole. Used as solvents for Grignard reagents, and as inert media for reactions like the Grignard and Wurtz-Fittig reactions, along with esters, these can be tested for by splitting them with hydroiodic acid, known as the Zeisel method. These are soluble in organic liquids, but most are not soluble in water, an exception to which is dioxane, a (*) cyclic one of these. They are generally synthesized by reacting alkyl halides with sodium alcoholates, a process known as Williamson synthesis. Featuring two R groups connected to an oxygen, FTP, name this group of organic compounds whose diethyl type is often used as an anasthetic. 
ANSWER: ethers 
<Tabachnick> 

16. Most common in nidifugal birds, one form of this was discovered in the 19th century by Douglas Spalding and later rediscovered by Oskar Heinroth. The Westermarck effect describes another form of it, the reverse sexual form, stating that two people who live in close domestic proximity in their formative years are desensitized to sexual attraction towards each other. The sexual form of it was called the “lovemap” by John Money. A pilot hatched baby cranes (*) in his hang-glider to teach them to migrate, taking advantage of this effect. Konrad Lorenz was famous for his work in this field, and is often depicted with a gaggle of geese following him around. FTP, give this psychology term that describes phase-sensitive learning, such as that of ducks that follow their mother. 
ANSWR: imprinting (accept word forms, accept “filial imprinting” before “Westermarck effect” is read) 
<Chen> 

17. Characters in it include Albert and his wife Lil, who says "Goonight" to Bill, Lou, and May. The third section ends with the narrator reaching Carthage "burning burning burning burning", and according to the writer, Tiresias is "the most important personage" in this work. The fourth part, the shortest, is about Phlebas the Phoenician. The epigraph is a quote from Petronius, (*) mostly in Latin but with dialogue in Greek. Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante, and Marie's memories of winters at her cousin the archduke's are in the first section, The Burial of the Dead, and the last section, What the Thunder Said, ends with the Sanskrit words "Shantih shantih shantih". FTP, name this poem that begins, "April is the cruellest month," by T.S. Eliot.
ANSWER: The Waste Land
<Tabachnick>

18. Used in carburetors to draw in fuel and mix it with the air, the Venturi effect is a case of this. In the Venturi effect, fluid flowing through a pipe with a constriction in it must satisfy the equation of continuity and the conservation of energy, thus producing a choked flow, used to control the delivery of water through spigots and valves. The fallacy of the equal-transit-time theory makes the popular explanation that lift on an airfoil is generated by this (*) effect false. However, it can be used to calculate the air pressure and velocity over an aircraft wing, which may be the cause of the misconception. FTP, name this principle in fluid dynamics stating that a decrease in fluid velocity results in an increase in fluid pressure.
ANSWER: Bernoulli's principle or equations (accept “Venturi effect” before mentioned)
<Chen>

19. In the Iliad, he is the husband of Aglaea, and Dionysus was allowed to join the pantheon after getting him drunk.  His failed attempt to sleep with Athena led to the birth of Erechtheus, .  Early in life, he was taken care of by Eurynome and Thetis, and he ordered Kedalion to guide Orion to the sun so the hunter's sight could be restored.  Theseus killed his son Periphetes, and after publicly revealing his wife's infidelities (*) using a magic net, the other gods laughed.  Cyclopes served as his assistants, and to prevent infighting, Aphrodite was married to him.  Thrown off of Mount Olympus by both of his parents, he created Pandora from clay, and he aided in the birth of Athena by splitting Zeus' head open.  FTP, identify this cripple Greek god who made lots of stuff in forges.
ANSWER: Hephaestus 
 
20. A category 5 on the PSI scale, it was first observed at Fort Riley, Kansas and in Queens, New York. Soon afterwards, it appeared in Boston, Massachusetts, Sierra Leone, and Brest. 99% of its resulting deaths occurred in people under 65, and it killed up to 20% of those infected. As the disease spread, many countries were reluctant to publicize it due to censorship, except for one country whose newspapers freely discussed it because it had not imposed censorship, as it was not involved in the (*) war. A major factor accelerating its spread was the increased amount of travel. Sailors and soldiers spread the disease to different countries, and the close quarters and stress of combat during World War I increased their susceptibility. FTP, name this outbreak of the H1N1 virus which started in 1918.
ANSWER: spanish influenza epidemic or pandemic (prompt on “1918 flu epidemic” until end of tossup)
<Chen>

 

Bonuses

1. Answer the following about the political career of a certain revolutionary leader.
[10] Born with the last name Ulyanov, this expatriate was living in Switzerland when the Germans sent him to Russia in a sealed railroad car on March 1, 1917 to instigate a revolution and negotiate peace.
ANSWER: Vladimir Lenin
[10] The Germans got what they wanted when the Bolsheviks seized power in the October Revolution and signed this draconian peace treaty with Wilhelmine Germany.
ANSWER: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
[10] Lenin was responsible for the Bolshevik-Menshevik split when he published this pamphlet in 1905 outlining his revolutionary doctrine.
ANSWER: What Is To Be Done? or Chto D'elat'?
<Cheng>
2. Name these indicators from science FTPE: 
[10] This compound with formula C20H1404 is orange in acids of pH less than 0, pink in bases of pH 8.2 to 12.0, and colorless in all other pHs. 
ANSWER: Phenolphthalein 
[10] This protein was originally isolated from a jellyfish, and fluoresces green when exposed to blue light. In cellular and molecular biology, the gene for this protein is often used as a reporter of expression. 
ANSWER: Green Fluorescent Protein 
[10] These pigments are found in red cabbage leaves, hydrangeas, and other plants. They turn red in acids and blue in bases, and their name comes from Greek for flower and blue. 
ANSWER: anthocyanins 
<Tse>

3. Answer the following about a certain Caribbean island in the age of piracy, FTPE:
[10] Located 90 miles south of Cuba, this island was seized in 1655 by Admiral William Penn for the English, and became a major base of operations for English pirates. Its capital is now Kingston.
ANSWER: Jamaica
[10] This city was the main port of Jamaica for a while, and gained the reputation as "Sodom of the New World" by being the "richest and wickedest place in the world". A favorite haunt of Caribbean pirates, it had at one point one tavern to every ten residents, but was destroyed by an earthquake in 1692, supposedly due to its sins.
ANSWER: Port Royal
[10] The exploits of this Welsh-born privateer commissioned by the English to attack Spanish shipping included the sacking of Panama City and Gibraltar on Lake Maracaibo. In 1674, he was knighted and made Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica.
ANSWER: Sir Henry Morgan
<Cheng>

4. A presidential election in December 2007 in this country led to intertribal rioting. FTPE:
[10] Name this African country with capital at Nairobi.
ANSWER: Republic of Kenya
[10] This incumbent won a narrow and suspicious victory over opposition leader Raila Odinga in the election.
ANSWER: Mwai Kabika
[10] Unlike Odinga, who belongs to the Luo tribe, Kabika is a member of this ethnic tribe. This tribe formed the core of participants in the Mau Mau Rebellion.
ANSWER: the Kikuyu tribe
<Tabachnick>

5. This work follows, among others, a female knight named Britomart and two opposites, Duessa and Una. FTPE: 
[10] Name this epic poem, the most famous work of Edmund Spenser. 
ANSWER: The Faerie Queene 
[10] This character is the titular Faerie Queene. 
ANSWER: Gloriana 
[10] This knight, who turns out to be St. George, desires to be joined with Una, who signifies Truth. In this he is nearly thwarted by the evil Duessa but, as this is a religious allegory, all ends well. 
ANSWER: the Redcrosse Knight 
<Tabachnick> 

6. A bunch of monks got killed while protesting in the so-called “Saffron Revolution” in this country in 2007. FTPE:
[10] Name this Asian nation whose capital was changed seemingly at random to Naypyidaw from Rangoon.
ANSWER: the Union of Myanmar or Burma or Pyi-daung-zu Myan-ma Naing-ngan-daw 
[10] This Nobel laureate and pro-democracy advocate in Myanmar was put under house arrest after being elected prime minister. 
ANSWER: Aung San Suu Kyi 
[10] This Senior General is the current head of state of Myanmar, as well as commander-in-chief of the Myanmar Armed Forces. 
ANSWER: Than Shwe 
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7. FTPE, answer these questions about concepts in aviation:
[10] This term describes the angle between the direction of airflow and the chord line of the airfoil. It is directly related to the amount of lift generated.
ANSWER: angle of attack (prompt on “alpha”)
[10] This happens when the critical angle of attack is exceeded, resulting in a sudden reduction of lift, causing the aircraft to fall. It occurs when the stream of air flowing over the airfoil becomes separated. It can be reversed by pointing the nose of the aircraft downward.
ANSWER: stall 
[10] These devices, used mostly in fighter jets, present data without obstructing the view. They usually show airspeed, altitude, the horizon, a compass, and turn indicators. They are also common in flight simulator games.
ANSWER: head-up display or HUD 
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8. Answer these questions about early movements that got all up in the Papacy's grill FTPE.
[10] In 1414, Henry V defeated an uprising led by Sir John Oldcastle of this group, forcing it underground for good. Before a 1401 law permitting the burning of heretics, followers went from town to town preaching the doctrine of their leader, John Wycliffe, and disseminating his first English translation of the Bible.
ANSWER: Lollards (accept Lollardy) aka lol-ards
[10] After the namesake reformer died in 1415, people throughout Bohemia formed this group, which grew under the protection of King Václav IV, but was repressed beginning in 1419 under Sigismund, his successor. One of its leaders, Jan Zelivský, oversaw the throwing city councillors out a window in the First Defenestration of Prague.
ANSWER: Hussites
[10] John Wycliffe and Jan Hus were both condemned for heresy at this ecumenical council, held from 1414 to 1418, organized primarily to unite Western Christendom with the election of a single pope, as opposed to the three competing ones that had existed beforehand.
ANSWER: Council of Constance
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9. FTPE Identify these things that are found in runoff in water:
[10] The St. Laurence Beluga colony is threatened by this 1st chlorinated pesticide, with uses discovered by Paul Muller. It was mostly banned after Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring and it was learned that this biological magnifier can cause defects like soft egg shells.
ANSWER:  DDT or Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane
[10] This compound is being researched by Tyrone Hayes because it stimulates aromatase, an enzyme that converts Testosterone to Estrogen, leading to hermaphroditism in frogs and Bryce Avery. It inhibits electron transport by binding to Photosystem 2’s plastoquinone binding-protein, killing weeds.
ANSWER: Atrazine or 2-chloro-4-(ethylamine)-6-(isopropylamine)-s-triazine
[10] This compound with formula C-22 H-30 N-6 O-4 S has been found in high levels in Kansas’s rivers and streams. This may be from its use to prevent plant wilting, or waste from humans using it to cure erctile dysfunction.
ANSWER: sildenafil citrate or Viagra or a number of knock off product names [do not accept “tadalafil,” “vardenafil,” “Cialis,” or “Levitra”]
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10. FTPE, answer these questions about the properties of Pascal’s triangle.
[10] The third diagonal gives this series of numbers, of which the nth one is the sum of the natural numbers from 1 to n.
ANSWER: triangular numbers
[10] If only the odd numbers in Pascal’s triangle are shaded, the resulting pattern closely resembles this fractal, which consists of three smaller copies of itself placed in a triangular formation.
ANSWER: Sierpinski triangle or Sierpinski gasket
[10] If the numbers in each shallow diagonal of Pascal's triangle are summed, the resulting sequence of numbers is this one first described in the 1202 work by Leonardo of Pisa, Liber Abaci.
ANSWER: Fibonacci numbers or Fibonacci series
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11. Answer these questions about a novel FTPE:
[10] The narrator, after moving to West Egg, tells the story of his next-door neighbor and mingles with characters like Meyer Wolfsheim, who rigged the 1919 World Series.
ANSWER: The Great Gatsby
[10] This is the author of the Great Gatsby as well as The Beautiful and the Damned and This Side of Paradise, all tales of the Jazz Age.
ANSWER: Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
[10] The "eyes" of this doctor appear on a billboard in the valley of ashes, near where Wilson and Myrtle live.
ANSWER: T. J. Eckleburg

12. FTPE, name these arguments for and against the belief in God:
[10] First proposed by Anselm of Canterbury in the Proslogion, it argues that since God is by definition a being greater than which nothing can be conceived, and since existence in reality is greater than existence in the imagination, God must exist in reality or else He would not fulfill the above definition. It is often criticized for committing a bare assertion fallacy.
ANSWER: ontological argument
[10] Proposed by a French philosopher, it suggests that it is “a better bet” to believe in God than to not believe in God, since the expected value of believing in God is infinitely better than that of not believing.
ANSWER: Pascal's wager or Pascal's gambit
[10] This principle holds that “all other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best.” It is argued to imply that disbelief in God is preferable because belief in God does not help to explain the universe and is therefore unnecessary.
ANSWER: Occam's razor or lex parsimonae or law of parsimony
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13. FTPE identify these things about the English colonies in America:
[10] Pontiac's rebellion led to this British law forbidding colonists from moving past the Appalachian mountains because they were afraid of wars with Indians draining resources.
ANSWER: Proclamation of 1763
[10] This 1773 event involved Paul Revere and a bunch of other guys dressing up like Indians and boarding three East India Company ships, throwing lots of the namesake good overboard.
ANSWER: Boston Tea Party
[10] This act was one of the intolerable acts. It allowed freedom of religion in Canada and granted the namesake colony land west of the Appalachian.
ANSWER: Quebec Act
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14. Name these types of dances FTPE:
[10] This is a ballroom and folk dance in 3/4 time, whose fast version is referred to as a "Viennese" one.
ANSWER: waltz
[10] This Polish dance in triple meter has an accent on the third or second beat, unlike a waltz. Frederic Chopin wrote 57 of them for solo piano.
ANSWER: mazurka
[10] This slow dance is also of Polish origin. Notable ones include "Heroic" in A flat major and "Military" in A major, both by Chopin.
ANSWER: polonaise
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15. Name these Japanese authors FTPE:
[10] He wrote about Mitsu, who remembers a friends suicide that involved a cucumber in the novel The Silent Cry, as well as a work partially based on his retarded son's birth, A Personal Matter.
ANSWER: Oe Kenzaburo
[10] He wrote The Sound of the Mountain as well as a novel about Kikuji Mitani who becomes involved with Mrs. Ota, his father's former mistress in the book Thousand Cranes. He also wrote Snow Country.
ANSWER: Kawabata Yasunari
[10] His first novel was Naomi, and one of his most famous works was The Makioka Sisters about a family struggling to marry the 3rd daughter Yukiko while dealing with their disgraceful 4th daughter Taeko. It has a cool description of a Kobe earthquake.
ANSWER: Tanizaki Junichiro
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16. FTPE Identify these philosophers of the enlightenment.
[10] This British political theorist wrote about "the matter, form, and power of a commonwealth, ecclesiastical and civil" in his essay Leviathan, where he believed that humans needed a king.
ANSWER: Thomas Hobbes
[10] He discussed the idea of a "General Will" in his The Social Contract which outlined the rights man could expect from a ruler. He also wrote Emile, or Education.
ANSWER: Jean Jacques Rousseau
[10] This Scandanavian mystic founded a religion where Jesus was the sole godhead, and he was one of the earliest protestants to believe that the Bible was not meant to be taken literally. He was also a noted scientist and he published Heaven and Hell.
ANSWER: Emanuel Swedenborg

 

17. FTPE, name these ancient Greek sculptors: 
[10] This man created a sculpture of Athena that sat in the Parthenon, as well as the Statue of Zeus at Olympia. 
ANSWER: Phidias 
[10] The most famous work of this sculptor from Eleutherae is The Discus-Thrower. 
ANSWER: Myron of Eleutherae 
[10] Works of this Attic sculptor include Apollo the Lizard-Slayer and Hermes with the Infant Dionysus. 
ANSWER: Praxiteles 
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18. Answer these questions about a playwright FTPE: 
[10] In this play, Pozzo gives a chicken bone to Gogo, who is very grateful. The two main characters consider hanging themselves, but do not do so after concluding that it would give them an erection. 
ANSWER: Waiting for Godot 
[10] This man wrote Waiting for Godot. 
ANSWER: Samuel Beckett 
[10] In this Beckett play, the world seems to be ending, and the only people left are Nagg and Nell in the ashbins, their blind son Hamm who cannot stand, his servant Clov who cannot sit, and perhaps a little boy. It is named for the stage in a chess game when there are only a few pieces left on the board. 
ANSWER: Endgame
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19. Name these works of Bedřich Smetana, FTPE:
[10] In this opera, the title character, Mařenka, is forced to marry Vašek until her lover, Jeník, saves the day through trickery.
ANSWER: The Bartered Bride or Prodaná Nevesta
[10] Smetana was going deaf from syphilis as he was writing this cycle of six symphonic poems about his native Bohemia.
ANSWER: My Country or Má Vlast
[10] The most famous piece in Má Vlast is this second one, about and named for a river that ran through his homeland.
ANSWER: The Moldau or Vltava
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20. Examples include The Sorrows of Young Werther and The Screwtape Letters. FTPE:
[10] Name this type of novel consisting of a series of documents, usually letters.
ANSWER: epistolary novel
[10] This epistolary novel about Celie, Sofia, and others is the most famous work of Alice Walker.
ANSWER: The Color Purple
[10] This ridiculously long epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, subtitled "Virtue Rewarded", is about the title maid serving Lady B. It was later parodied by Henry Fielding.
ANSWER: Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
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Valencia Fall Invitational 2003
Round 4—Questions mostly by Mitch Alday

Tossups
1.  In the 1820s he underwent mercury treatment for syphilis, which left him looking romantically haggard.  By the time of his international tour in the early 1830s, his expressiveness had equaled his technique, and some believed he had made a pact with the devil for his amazing talent.  FTP, who was this Italian violinist and composer whose numerous compositions include 24 caprices for solo violin and 6 violin concertos?
Answer:  Niccolo Paganini

2.  The "Great White Barrier Wall" at its front was first sighted in 1841 by its namesake, a British explorer, and rises in places to 200 feet. Its area is estimated to be about the size of France, which makes it by far the world's largest body of floating ice.  The site of several permanent research stations, FTP, what is this "gateway" utilized by Amundsen, Scott, and Byrd on their voyages to the South Pole?
Answer:  Ross Ice Shelf

3.  Some of his novels include Sukkariyah, Midaq Alley, Miramar, and Children of Gebelawi, all of which offer critical views of Egyptian politics and mores.  FTP, who was this Egyptian author of  Palace Walk and Palace of Desire, which are parts of his “Cairo Trilogy,” and who was the first Arabic writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize?
Answer:  Naguib Mahfouz

4.  It is used to calculate the probability of human matings that may result in defective offspring, and to determine whether the number of harmful mutations in a population is increasing.  In a large, random-mating population, the proportion of dominant and recessive genes tends to remain constant from generation to generation unless outside forces such as selection, mutation, gene flow, and natural selection act to change it.  FTP, what is this principle named for two scientists that describes genetic balance within a population?
Answer:  Hardy-Weinberg Principle

5.  Other than the white background, its predominant color is yellow, and - not surprisingly - its overall layout appears to be that of an aerial photograph of a few city blocks.  Omitting black, the painting broke with its artist’s usual use of uniform bars of color by using multiple red, yellow and blue segments.  Painted to celebrate the artist’s love of New York and a certain type of music, FTP, what is this 1943 painting with a rhyming title by Piet Mondrian?
Answer:  Broadway Boogie Woogie

6.  The first battle of this name was also called the Battle of Freeman's Farm and featured British General John Burgoyne and Continental Army General Horatio Gates.  The second, which was known as the Battle of Bemis Heights, occurred 18 days later when a counterattack led by Benedict Arnold forced the depleted British army to surrender to Gates.  FTP, what are these Revolutionary War battles named after a New York town where American victories induced the French to offer military aid to the colonies?
Answer:  Battles of Saratoga

7.  She agrees to give up her child if his father will return for him. Then, sending her servant Suzuki away, she takes out the dagger with which her father committed suicide and bows before a statue of Buddha, choosing to die with honor rather than live in disgrace. However, as she raises the blade, Suzuki suddenly pushes the child into the room. Sobbing farewell, she sends her son into the garden to play, then stabs herself. As she dies, Lieutenant Pinkerton is heard calling her name. FTP, who is this tragic main character of a Puccini opera?
Answer:  Cio-Cio San (accept Madame Butterfly)

 

8.  Even among the stars he wasn't done causing mischief, as he caused the horses pulling Phaethon's chariot to bolt.  The Gods had flung him into the heavens as punishment for stinging and killing Orion.  FTP, what is this character from classical myth whose constellation lies between Libra and Sagittarius and is the eighth sign of the Zodiac?
Answer:  Scorpio

9.  Carl Jung used it more broadly as a term to encompass all life processes in all species.  The concept was originated by Sigmund Freud, who believed that psychiatric illnesses were the result of misdirecting or suppressing it.  Freud also believed that it was linked with all constructive human activity and not just sexual desire.  FTP, what is this physiological and emotional energy associated most commonly with the 'sex drive'?
Answer:  Libido

10.  He settled in Transoxania after taking part in campaigns there with Genghis Khan's son Chagatai.  In the 1380s he began his conquest of Persia, taking lands from Khorasan to Mesopotamia and suppressing revolts by massacring entire cities. After leaving a trail of carnage in India, he marched on Damascus and Baghdad, destroying all the monuments of the latter and deporting the artisans of the former to his capital at Samarkand.  FTP, who was this Turkic conqueror of Islamic faith whose name reflects the lasting battle wounds he received?
Answer:  Tamerlane (acc. Timur the Lame)

11.  It lies directly beneath the optic chiasm, and has two lobes called the neuro- and adenohypophysis (ah-den-oh-high-pah-phi-sis). The anterior section secretes various protein hormones including thyroid-stimulating hormone, growth hormone, and adenocorticotropic hormone. The posterior section secretes oxytocin and antidiuretic hormone. FTP, name this Amaster gland@ of the human body.
Answer: pituitary gland 

 

12.  Following the Zen philosophy he studied, he attempted to compress the meaning of the world into the simple, concise pattern of his poetry, disclosing hidden hopes in small things and showing the interdependence of all objects. His The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a poetic prose travelogue, is one of the loveliest works of Japanese literature. FTP, identify this Japanese haiku poet, perhaps the greatest practitioner of the form.
Answer:  Basho Matsuo

13.  In Hinduism, moksha is the release from this.  In Buddhism, the way out of it is by achievement of nirvana.  The particulars of an individual's wanderings in this are determined by karma.  With a range stretching from the lowliest of insects to Brahma, the highest of the gods, this is, FTP, what endless round of birth, death, and rebirth to which all conditioned beings are subject?
Answer:  samsara

14.  Its founder moved the capital of the faithful to Damascus and used the Syrian army to extend the Arab empire. Its greatest period was under Abd al-Malik, when the empire extended from Spain to Central Asia and India.  A century after being established by Muawiyyah,  its decline began with a defeat by the Byzantines in 717 and continued when intertribal feuding and the failure of financial reforms eventually led to its unseating by the Abbasid dynasty. FTP, what was this first great Muslim dynasty?
Answer:  Umayyad Dynasty

15.  The first novelistic development of the theme, Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, remains a classic example of this form that grew out of folklore tales in which a dunce goes out into the world seeking adventure.  They tend to end on a positive note, with the hero's foolish mistakes and painful disappointments behind him and a life of usefulness ahead.  FTP, name these novels in German literature that deal with the formative years of the main character, roughly translating as “novel of growing up.”
Answer:  Bildungsroman

 

16.  It may be given as follows: To each number in the sequence 0, 3, 6, 12, 24, and so on, add 4 and divide the result by 10. The answers closely approximate the actual distances from the sun, in astronomical units, of the planets - except Neptune - and suggested that a planet should be found between Mars and Jupiter where the asteroid belt was later discovered.  First announced in 1766 by the German Johann Daniel Titius and later popularized by one of his countrymen, this is, FTP, what law giving the approximate distances of planets from the sun?
Answer:  Bode's Law (accept Titius-Bode Law as it is sometimes called that)

17.  At the age of six this man was made part of the Equestrian Order at the order of Hadrian, and two years later he was made a member of the Salian Priesthood.  Hadrian’s will stipulated that Faustina, daughter of his heir Antoninus Pius, would become this man’s bride.  When he ascended to the throne himself, he named his adopted brother Lucius Verus as co-emperor.  Followed by his son Commodus as emperor, FTP who was this Roman emperor, author of Meditations?
Answer:  Marcus Aurelius

18.  In it, one begins with the concept of God as that than which nothing greater can be conceived.  To think of such a being as existing only in thought and not also in reality involves a contradiction, since a being that lacks real existence is not a being than which none greater can be conceived.  A yet greater being would be one with the further attribute of existence.  Thus the unsurpassably perfect being must exist; otherwise it would not be unsurpassably perfect.  FTP, this is what argument for the existence of God first clearly formulated in the Proslogion by St. Anselm?
Answer:  Ontological Argument

 

19. His first discoveries concerned the asymmetry that distinguishes the organic from the mineral, opening up the field of stereochemistry. In 1885, he began studying infections crippling the silkworm industry, which eventually led him to discover the technique of sterilization, revolutionizing surgery. FTP, who is this French scientist, whose namesake process is used to make things like beer and milk safe to drink?
A. Louis Pasteur 

 

20.  This work is harshly critical of the shortcomings of unrestrained free enterprise and monopoly.  In it the author uses the analogy of a pin factory to argue in favor of an economic system based on individual self-interest that would be led, as if by an "invisible hand," to achieve the greatest good for all, and posits the division of labor as the chief factor in economic growth. A reaction to the system of mercantilism then current, it stands as the beginning and perhaps most influential work of classical economics. FTP, what is this work often regarded as the "Bible of Capitalism" written in 1776 by Adam Smith?
Answer:  An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

21.  It's authorship is ascribed to the 'Bull of a Sage' who composed the poem after watching a hunter shoot down a mating bird with an arrow.  Its title character joins forces with Vibhishana and the monkey-god Hanuman to rescue his bride Sita who has been kidnapped by Ravana, the demon-king of Sri Lanka.  FTP, what is this epic of Sanskrit literature attributed to Valmiki?
Answer:  Ramayana

22.  It is still used today, though when the road on which it lies was built in 220 BC, it was most likely constructed of wood.  It crossed the Tiber River a few miles north of Rome, and according to a legend, in 312 AD a cross and the words in hoc signo vinces meaning 'by this sign thou shalt conquer' appeared to Constantine there.  FTP, name this bridge where Constantine defeated Maxentius to become emperor of the West.
Answer:  The Milvian Bridge

 

Valencia Fall Invitational—Round 4 Boni

1.  Name these philosophical works, FTPE.
A.  In this 1781 work, Immanuel Kant claimed that sense experience is ordered by the mind according to the "categories of the understanding."
Answer:  Critique of Pure Reason (do not accept Critique of Practical Reason)
B.  In this 1690 work, John Locke argued that the human mind at birth is a tabula rasa on which experience leaves its mark.
Answer:  Essay Concerning Human Understanding
C.  In this 1922 work, Ludwig Wittgenstein claimed that most philosophical problems are the result of the misuse of language.
Answer:  Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (accept "Treatise of/on Logical Philosophy")

 

2.  Identify the poets of the following 'hard' poems FTPE.  If you need an easier poem, you'll only get five.
For 10:  Upon Julia's Clothes; Upon Prue, His Maid; Upon a Child That Died; and Upon Ben Jonson
For 5:  To the Virgins to Make Much of Time
Answer:  Robert Herrick
For 10:  Two Look at Two; Birches; and The Runaway
For 5:  Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Answer:  Robert Frost
For 10:  Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came; Fra Lippo Lippi
For 5:  My Last Duchess
Answer:  Robert Browning

 

3.  Identify these originators of various atomic theories, 5-10-15.
A.  For 5:  Born in Thrace, he derived his theory from Leucippus, and was in turn copied by Epicurus.  He posited an infinite multitude of indestructible atoms, from whose random combinations arise an infinite number of Cosmoses in which there is law but not design.
Answer:  Democritus
B.  For 10:  This Englishman's researches on mixed gases, the force of steam, and the expansion of gases by heat led him to a theory of atoms, and also his law of partial pressures.
Answer:  John Dalton
C.  For 15:  Along with Frederick Soddy, he proposed that radioactivity results from the disintegration of atoms, and for this he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908.
Answer:  Ernest Rutherford

 

4.  Name these painting movements, FTPE.
A.  Led by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Eric Heckel, this 1905 Dresden movement rebelled against Impressionism while linking elements of the South Seas and primitive German religious art.  Its name is German for “The Bridge.”
Answer:  Die Brucke
B.  Formed in Munich around Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, this group incorperated Die Brucke.  It dissolved with the onset of World War I.
Answer:  Die Blau Reiter or the Blue Rider
C.  Centered in the French forest of Fontainebleau, this school included Theodore Rousseau and Charles Daubigny, as well as other landscape painters.
Answer:  The Barbizon School

5.  Identify the following players in an 1868 brouhaha FTPE.
A. This president was impeached by Radical Republicans (what a shock!) who wanted him gone for violating the Tenure of Office Act.
Answer:  Andrew Johnson
B. This Radical Republican was the Secretary of War Johnson wanted to get rid of.
Answer: Edwin Stanton
C. Johnson tried to replace Stanton in 1867 by appointing this man, who refused the appointment after the Supreme Court refused to rule on the case and the Senate forbade Stanton's dismissal.  A gratuitous hint:  he later became president himself.
Answer: Ulysses Grant

6.  Identify the following concerning the Theatre of the Absurd FTSNOP.
For 10:  This playwright wrote about an average citizen in a nameless French city who, because he is not interested in the fact that certain creatures are on the loose, quarrels with his friend Jean, his secretary Daisy, and many locals outside a grocer's shop.
Answer:  Eugene Ionesco
For 5:  Name that Ionesco play.
Answer:  Rhinoceros
For 15:  Now name that "average citizen" and the main character of the play Rhinoceros who is the only human left on the planet after Daisy changes.
Answer:  Berenger

7.  Name these glands FTPE.
A.  Located in the brain, it regulates body temperature, blood pressure, heartbeat, metabolism of fats and carbohydrates, and blood-sugar level.
Answer:  hypothalamus
B.  Located in the upper chest under the breastbone, it is essential to the development of the body's immune system from the fetal stage.  Lymphocytes are processed here.
Answer:  thymus
C.  Among the hormones produced by its anterior lobe include human growth hormone, ACTH, and thyrotropic hormone.  Its posterior lobe produces oxytocin.
Answer:  pituitary 

8.  30-20-10 Name the composer from works.
A. (30 pts.) The Marriage of Camacho; Songs without Words
B. (20 pts.) The oratorio Elijah; The Hebrides Overture
C. (10 pts.) Incidental music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Italian Symphony
Answer:  Felix Mendelssohn

 

9.  Identify these English kings from descriptions of their arms FTPE.
A. His arms reflect his mother's lineage: they are the reverse of the shield of Aquitaine, with three lions passant guardant on a blood-red field.
Answer: Richard I
B. Unlike his Norman predecessors and successors, this sole ruler of his house's arms of Touraine showed a gold sagittary on red.
Answer: Stephen of Blois
C. He was the first English king to adopt a crest, and in 1337, in order to strengthen his claim to France, he was the first to quarter French arms with his own.
Answer: Edward III

10.  Name the John Steinbeck novels in which the following characters appear FTPE.
A.  Cal and Aron Trask                                              A.  East of Eden
B.  George Milton and Lenny Small                           A.  Of Mice and Men
C.  Danny, Pilon, Mr. Torelli                                      A.  Tortilla Flat

11. Given the animal, identify the phylum to which it belongs F5PE.
A.  Stinkbug
Answer:  Arthropoda
B.  Bandicoot
Answer:  Chordata
C.  Earthworm
Answer:  Annelida
D.  Sponge
Answer:  Porifera
E.  Sea Urchin
Answer:  Echinodermata
F.  Lobster
Answer:  Arthropoda

 

12. Identify the following about social contracts FTPE.
A.  In this Platonic dialogue, Socrates gives the first theory of social contract saying it would be wrong for him to escape execution because by living in Athens he implies acceptance of the rule of “persuade or obey.”
Answer: Crito
B.  In the Leviathan, Hobbes says that men form social contracts with the leviathan in order to avoid this state in which all people are fighting all people.
Answer: State of War  (accept “state of nature”)
C.  This French philosopher argues that a social contract is brought into being to regulate social interaction.  It should be ruled by the “general will.”        
Answer: Jean Jacques Rousseau

13.  Given a character from a work by Charles Dickens, name the work FTPE.
A:  The Artful Dodger
Answer:  Oliver Twist
B:  Uriah Heep
Answer:  David Copperfield
C:  Wackford Squeers
Answer:  Nicholas Nickleby

 

14.  Name these theories of acids and bases, 10 each:
A.  This Swedish chemist's theory defines an acid as a compound that can dissociate in water to yield hydrogen ions, and a base as a compound that can dissociate in water to yield hydroxyl ions.
Answer:  Svante Arrhenius
B.  This other theory defines an acid as a proton donor and a base as a proton acceptor.
Answer:  Bronsted-Lowry
C.  This third theory defines an acid as a compound that can accept a pair of electrons, and a base as a compound that can donate a pair of electrons.
Answer: Lewis

15.  Identify the following concerning a couple of philosophers who have something in common FTPE.
A:  The claim that this man was the founder of Western philosophy rests primarily on Aristotle, who wrote that he was the first to suggest a single material substratum for the universe, namely water.
Answer:  Thales
B:  This fellow defined the essence of matter as "air" and explained the densities of various types of matter in terms of varying degrees of condensation of moisture.
Answer:  Anaximenes
C:  Both Thales and Anaximenes hailed from this city near the mouth of the Menderes River which was also home to Anaximander.
Answer:  Miletus
16.  Name these people and events that affected Poland in the 18th and 19th centuries for fifteen points each.
A. The second and third of these splittings of Polish territory by neighbors took place in 1772 and 1795.
Answer:  partitions
B. The Confederation of Bar was formed in 1768 by Polish nobles who opposed interference by this Tzarina.
Answer: Catherine the Great

 

17.  Identify these people named Horace, none of whom is an NBA power forward who wears goggles, FTPE.
A. This Horace lived in the estate Strawberry Hill and wrote the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto.
Answer:  Walpole
B.  This Horace was the founder and publisher of the New York Tribune and famously wrote, “Go West, young man!”
Answer:  Greeley
C.  This Horace was the father of the American common school movement.
Answer:  Mann

18.  Name these physical constants, given their values, FTSNOP.
A. (20 pts.) 1/137.036
Answer:  Fine Structure Constant
B. (10 pts.) 1.602 times 10 to the negative 19 coulombs
Answer:  electron charge

 

19. Name these Indian dynasties, FTPE.
A. Lasting from 325 BC to 183 BC, this empire reached its height under Asoka.
Answer: Mauryan
B. This dynasty lasted from about 320 to 550 AD.  Cultural highlights included the erection of the iron pillar near New Delhi.
Answer: Gupta
C. This dynasty, which included Jahangir and Aurangzeb, lasted from 1526 until 1857, by which time its leaders were British puppets.
Answer: Mughal (or Mogul)

20.  Identify the following from Greek mythology 30-20-10
For 30:  Its skin was used to make the Aegis, the shield of Athena.
For 20:  Its horn became the cornucopia.
For 10:  This was the goat who suckled Zeus when he was a child.
Answer:  Amalthea

Valencia Fall Invitational 2003
Round 13–Questions by CB, Amy Harvey, Angelina Fadool, and Brennan Enos, with science by Seth Teitler of Cal.

1.  This title character of a poem “silently rowed to the Charlestown shore/Just as the moon rose over the bay” near where the Somerset, a British man-of-war, was docked.  Later, every Middlesex villager heard his “cry of defiance . . . not of fear,” as well as the “hurrying hoofbeats of [his] steed.”  This is after he climbs the stairs of the Old North Church waiting for a signal of “one if by land, and two if by sea.”  FTP name this historical Longfellow title character who, on the “eighteenth of April, in [1775], made a famous “midnight ride.”
A.  Paul Revere

2.  In the late 1940s a lemon-lime flavored drink under this name was marketed by the Hartman Beverage Company of Knoxville; it’s bottles featured the slogan, “It’ll tickle your innards!”  In 1958, a salesman named Bill Jones bought the rights to the name for seven dollars and changed the taste by adding orange flavorings so it wouldn’t compete with Pepsi’s Teem.  Pepsi bought the drink in 1964 anyway, and after focusing on the South for a few years, took it nationwide in the early 1970s.  Known to fuel many a quizbowler, FTP name this chemically green, high-caffeine soda now marketed with emphasis on extreme sports.
A.  Mountain Dew

3.  A particle undergoes central field motion when this quantity only depends on the distance from a fixed point. This quantity is almost always approximately parabolic in the neighborhood of a local minimum, making the simple harmonic oscillator a versatile model. For a self-gravitating sphere, it is equal to -3/5 times G times the mass squared over the radius. A conservative force can be expressed as the negative gradient of, FTP, what quantity which is given by 1/2 k x2 for a spring?
A. potential energy

4.  In the bottom center of the painting two stone cherubim can be seen and another statue of a boy appears at the right with a finger raised to its lips, symbolic of the painting’s theme of sly deceit.  Trees with lush vegetation surround the three human figures, one of whom on the right holds two ropes attached to the title object.  Another man reclines at the lower left with his left arm outsretched toward a female above him in a bright pink dress whose left shoe can be seen in flight, having flown off her foot during her ascent.  FTP name this masterpiece of the rococo period by Jean Honore Fragonard.
A.  The Swing

5.  He’s not Mozart, but at the age of seven he was already composing short pieces and performing regularly in his native land.  When he played for Robert Schumann in 1827, the great composer famously exclaimed, “Hats off, gentlemen–a genius!”  Early works include the Rondo a la Krakowiak and the Trio in G Minor, but it was in France where his other works gained acclaim, including waltzes like the “Grande Valse Brilliante” and Opus 64, number 1, nicknamed the “minute waltz.”  FTP name this composer of Mazurkas and Polonaises who was born in Poland.
A.  Frederic Chopin

 

6.  It’s not the Titanic, but Robert Ballard found its wreck about 5,000 meters below the Atlantic’s surface roughly 600 miles west of Brest.  Considered by international law a war grave, and thus not for exploration, Ballard only photographed it, though a later exploration by a crew led by filmmaker James Cameron found support for the idea that it had been scuttled by its crew in 1941, rather than sunk by torpedo damage from ships like the Sheffield and Prince of Wales.  FTP what was this German battleship named for a 19th-century prime minister?
A.  Bismarck

7.  This character first appears in the 1937 novel Beat to Quarters, in which he is sent to Nicaragua to assist an uprising against the Spanish.  He appears in ten more novels, including Flying Colours and A Ship of the Line, in which he is captured by the French after they damage his vessel, the Sutherland.  In The Last Encounter, he visits Napoleon, whose navy he commanded vessels against in so many adventures.  FTP name this naval hero created by C. S. Forester.
A.  Horatio Hornblower

8.  As its initial elevation is only 740 feet, it moves slowly in its generally southeastward course to its delta at Astrakhan.  Roughly 2,300 miles long, it still is the route for over half of the river freight in Russia.  FTP name this river that rises in the Valdai Hills, flows past Kazan and Nizhny Novgorad and empties into the Caspian.
A.  Volga River

9.  These members of superfamily Apoidea are sensitive to ultraviolet light and can navigate based on their perception of polarized light using the Sun as a compass, even when the Sun is not visible. One of the colonial varieties studied by Karl Von Frisch performs a circling or waggling dance to communicate the distance and location of food. Members of order Hymenoptera, FTP name these flying insects adapted for feeding on nectar. (which sometimes live in hives)
A: bees

 

10. It was really just a simple stockade, 53 feet in circumference, with earthworks on the outside, built in the center of what was called the “Great Meadow.”  When built there were only 160 soldiers there, but 400 British regulars were there on July 3, 1754, in the battle that began the French and Indian War in the New World.  FTP name this fort at which a young Colonel George Washington’s small army was routed by the French, the name of which refers to its need to be built.
A.  Fort Necessity

11.  He is often appealed to for siddhi, and is one of the five gods worshipped in the Hindu offshoot called Pancayatana Puja.  Also called Ganapati, or Lord of Categories, and Vigneshvara, the Remover of Obstacles, the story behind his unusual appearance is that Siva, in a rage, cut off his head, but in remorse had his men find another one for him.  Quik-E-Mart proprietor Apu has a shrine to him in the store.  FTP name this elephant-headed Hindu god.
A.  Ganesha (acc. Ganesh or Ganeesh)

 

12.  The story is set in northern Alabama, and as the protagonist stands on a bridge looking at the river, he hears a regular booming sound growing in intensity, which he soon realizes is the ticking of his own watch.  His name is Peyton Farquhar, a plantation owner whom a Union scout had tricked into attempting to burn a strategic bridge.  Before he can be hanged, though, he seems to escape, making it back to his plantation before he is jerked back to reality by the noose.  FTP name this eerie short story, set at the titular bridge, by Ambrose Bierce.
A. “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”

13.  This theorem allows the possibility of a finite residual value for ice and glasses which have ground state degeneracy greater than one. Also known as Nernst's heat theorem, in the case of crystal lattices and other systems with a unique ground state it is used to define the zero point on the entropy scale. Stating that the entropy of a system has a well-defined minimum at absolute zero, FTP name this law listed after the conservation of energy and non-decrease of entropy laws.
A: third law of thermodynamics (accept Nernst's heat theorem prior to mention in the                   question)

 

14.  It’s great classic Hagakure was written in the early 18th century and identifies it as ‘a way of dying.’  Now used to identify one of the most common role playing games in the United States, it was historically based upon a modified feudal caste system and heavily reliant upon the concept of personal honor.  Name this code, FTP, literally translated as “way of the warrior,” which governed the behavior of Japan’s samurai warriors.
A.  Bushido

 

15.  It was first summoned by Philip IV in 1302 to obtain approval for his anticlerical policy.  Its powers were never clearly defined and it failed to gain the financial control that would have served as a counterweight to royal authority.  However after 175 years of inactivity it was assembled in May 1789.  For ten points identify this French body consisting of clergy, nobles and commoners which disbanded in 1789 with the creation of the National Assembly.
A. Estates General

 

16. This term was coined in an 1878 essay entitled “How to Make Our Ideas Clear” and was misused by the first real proponent of the American philosophy it now names. It=s most famous early practitioner defined truth as those ideas that work for the individual and gave his philosophy a subjectivity that John Dewey would later try to remove. FTP, name the philosophy asserts that thoughts are useless if they do not become action and which was espoused by William James.
A. Pragmatism

 

17.  The protagonist is hired as tutor to the children of the mayor of the provincial town of Verrieres, but he messes up by having an affair with the mayor’s wife, Madame Renal.  After leaving her to avoid scandal and join a seminary, he later impregnates the daughter of a marquis, Mathilde, but before he can marry her, Madame Renal writes the marquis accusing the protagonist of being a womanizer.  Enraged, that protagonist, Julien Sorel, kills Madame Renal and is executed for it.  The favorite novel of Al Gore, FTP name this colorfully titled work by Stendhal.
A.  The Red and the Black

18.  For ten juicy math points, find the first derivative of x times the exponential base e of x minus the exponential base e of x (x ex – ex).
A. x ex (x times the exponential base e of x)

19.  Benjamin Harrison hurriedly signed the bill admitting this state to the union on July 3 since July 4 is the day on which new states could have their star added to the U.S. flag.  Its name comes that of a steamer full of miners that settled there in 1862, and means “gem of the mountains” in a tribal language.  Its admittance to the union came after the Couer d’Alene tribe was placated with large reservation lands.  Home to towns like Ketchum and Sun Valley, FTP what is this state with capital at Boise?
A.  Idaho

20.  They are believed to form in the methane-rich atmospheres of Neptune and Uranus and then rain down on the core. Pressures of up to 2 megabars can be produced in anvil cells which put carved ones on the tips of piston cylinders, and specially purified artificial ones have the highest thermal conductivity of any known solid at room temperature. A large activation barrier means they take a long time to decay to graphite. FTP, name this valuable allotrope of carbon with Mohs hardness 10.
Ans: diamonds

 

 

 

 

 

Valencia Fall Invitational–Round 13 Boni

1.  Answer the following about stuff that happened on this date, Nov. 8, in history FTPE.
A.  In Munich in 1923 on this date some nut named Hitler made his first attempt to seize power by causing a ruckus in a drinking establishment in this event.
A.  Beer Hall Putsch
B.  In 1994 on this date, for the first time in 40 years the Republican party gained control of both the house and senate, leading to this bombthrower to become Speaker of the House.
A.  Newt Gingrich
C.  Anthracite miners in Pennsylvania, members of this union, came back to work after a five month strike on this date in 1905.
A.  United Mine Workers

2.  Identify these founders of Christian offshoots on a 10-5 basis.
A.  (10 pts.) This Scot greatly offended Elizabeth I with his pamphlet “Blasts of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women.”
(5 pts.)  He’s better known for founding Presbyterianism.
A.  John Knox
B.  (10 pts.)  This man argued that man was utterly depraved but through abasement to God and dependence on His will, man could show himself to be one of the “elect.”
(5 pts.)   He argued this in his Institutes of the Christian Religion.
A.  John Calvin
C.  (10 pts.)  Injured during the siege of Pamplona in 1521, during his convalescence this man had an epiphany and dedicated him to the service of the Virgin Mary.
(5 pts.)  He then founded the Jesuits.
A.  Ignatius (of) Loyola

3.  FTSNP find the vertices of the parabolas with the given equations.
A. (5 pts.) y = 2(x – 3)2 + 5 (two times, in parentheses, x minus three, raised to the power three plus five);
A. (3, 5)
B. (10 pts.) y = x2 – 10 (x squared minus ten);
A. (0, -10)
C. (15 pts.) y = x2 - 2x – 1 (x squared plus two x minus one).
A. (1, -2)

4.  Identify these works by one of Chris’s favorite authors, James Joyce, FTPE.
A.  This novel tells of the childhood and early manhood of Stephen Dedalus, a day of whose later adventures is told in Ulysses.
A.  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
B.  Joyce’s only play, its central character is Richard Rowan, who returns to Dublin after years away on the continent.
A.  Exiles
C.  Joyce’s final work, this incredibly intricate stream-of-consciousness work focuses on the slippery characters Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker and Anna Livia Plurabelle.
A.  Finnegan’s Wake

5.  Answer the following on the 21 centimeter line, FTPE.
A. The 21 cm line is produced by a spin-flip transition in the atomic form of this element, the most abundant in the universe.
Ans: hydrogen
B. The 21 cm line lies in this region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Ans: radio
C. The 21 cm line spin-flip transition is made possible by this quantum mechanical effect due to the interaction of the proton and electron spins.
Ans: hyperfine structure

6.  Name these bodies of water in our evil neighbor, Canada, FTPE.
A.  Fed by its namesake river, this large lake straddles Alberta and Saskatchewan in the north and features the oddly named Uranium City on its northern shore.
A.  Lake Athabasca
B.  This largest lake in Canada is in the northwestern area of the Northwest Territories.
A.  Great Bear Lake
C.  Wedged between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, this bay sees the highest tidal range on Earth.
A.  Bay of Fundy

7.  Sooner or later in nearly every tournament, we need to talk about the Persian Wars.  Let’s knock out the First war now FTPE.
A.  The forces of Darius were routed at this 490 BCE engagement in the First Persian War.
A.  Marathon
B.  This appropriately named general led the Greek forces at Marathon.
A.  Militiades
C.  Legendarily, this man ran the 26 miles from Marathon to Athens to announce the Greek victory and then promptly died.
A.  Pheidippides

8.  Identify these works about WWII FTPE.
A.  The soldiers in this first novel by Norman Mailer are stationed on the Japanese-held island of Anopopei.
A.  The Naked and the Dead
B.  This long nonfiction article by John Hersey about the explosion of the first atomic bomb in Japan made up the entire editorial content of the August 31, 1946, issue of The New Yorker.
A.  Hiroshima
C.  This James Jones novel about an army rifle company at Guadalcanal was made into a 1998 movie featuring George Clooney, Sean Penn and Nick Nolte, among others.
A.  The Thin Red Line

 

9.  Time to name that Abstract Expressionist FTPE!
A.  This painter of large, fuzzy rectangular shapes has a number of his massive works decorating his namesake chapel in Houston.
A.  Mark Rothko
B.  Before dying in a drunken car crash, this star of the movement was moving back toward figuration.
A.  Jackson Pollock
C.  This painter of the Woman series came to America from Holland as a stowaway hiding in a trunk on a passenger liner.
A.  Willem de Kooning

10.  Name these famous ballets FTPE.
A.  Composed by Adolphe Charles Adam and considered perhaps the greatest ballet ever, this work’s title character dies after her betrayal by Albrecht.
A.  Giselle
B.  This Ballet Russe production composed by Stravinsky premiered in 1910 and is based on a Russian folktale about a magical creature that helps Prince Ivan rescue Princess Elena.
A.  The Firebird
C.  Another Ballet Russe work, this Stravinsky ballet concerns the title puppet and the love triangle that involves two other puppets.
A.  Petrushka

11.  Answer the following on molecules with 6 carbons, FTSNOP.
A. (10 pts.) This most-common monosaccharide is commonly attacked in the first step of cellular respiration, and its blood level is controlled in part by insulin.
A. glucose
B. (10 pts.) Benzene is stabilized by having delocalized electrons in these molecular orbitals.
A. pi orbitals
C. (5 pts. each)Cyclohexane can exist in these two conformations.
A. boat and chair

 

12. Answer the following about the European medieval social and political order 5-10-15.
A. (5 pts.)  This term describes the system of vassalage and agricultural economy that dominated in medieval Europe.
A.  feudalism
B. (10 pts.)  This term denotes a parcel of land given by a lord to his vassal.
A.  fief
C. (15 pts.)  This term denotes the system by which all possessions of a man upon his death were transferred to his oldest son.
A.  primogeniture

13.  Name the African-Americans who wrote the following novels FTPE.
A.  Native Son                                             A.  Richard Wright
B.  Go Tell It on the Mountain                     A.  James Baldwin
C.  If He Hollers Let Him Go                       A.  Chester Himes
14.  Sight and Sound magazine has polled critics on the ten best films ever every ten years since 1952.  Name these movies on the 2002 list FTPE.
A.  Along with Potemkin, this is the only film to be named in all six polls.  Directed by Jean Renoir, it depicts the shallowness of the goings-on at an aristocrat’s country home party.
A.  The Rules of the Game(Le Regle de Jeu)
B.  Making the list for the first time is Chris’s favorite musical, which features Gene Kelly’s outstanding pas de deux with Cyd Charisse in the “Gotta Dance” number.  The title song features Kelly getting extraordinarily wet.
A.  Singin’ in the Rain
C.  This Hitchcock film features Jimmy Stewart as Scottie Ferguson, who begins following Madeline, played by Kim Novak, after retiring from the police force after nearly falling to his death from a building.
A.  Vertigo

15.  Answer the following on ideal solutions FTPE.
A. A solution will boil when this quantity matches the external pressure. Henry's law states that its value for a solute is proportional to the solute's mole fraction.
A. vapor pressure
B. The lowering of vapor pressure is, together with osmotic pressure, boiling pont elevation, and freezing point depression, one of these properties which depends only on the number of solute particles, not their identity.
A. colligative properties
C. Ideal solutions obey this law, the basis of the colligative properties, which states that the vapor pressure of a solvent is proportional to the solvent mole fraction.
A. Raoult's law

16.  Time to name that Scholastic philosopher FTPE!
A.  No dummy despite a later derivation from his name, this man was known in his lifetime as the “subtle doctor” and wrote the Tractatus on First Principles.
A.  John Duns Scotus
B.  This author of Sic et Non is probably better known for his relationship with a woman whose brothers made him pay for wooing her–and how!
A.  Peter Abelard
C.  Considered the greatest German theologian of the middle ages, this man was the teacher of Thomas Aquinas.
A.  Albertus Magnus

17.  Name these colorful figures of the American Old West FTPE.
A.  This marshal in many towns in Kansas and the Arizona territory is most famous for fighting alongside his brother Virgil at the OK Corral.
A.  Wyatt Earp
B.  A friend of Earp’s, this man arrested the notorious bandit Dave Tudabaugh but retired to New York, where he became a well known sports writer and man about town.
A.  Bat Masterson
C.  This man was killed by Jack McCall in Deadwood in North Dakota while playing cards.
A.  William “Wild Bill” Hickock
18.  Name these plays by Aeschylus from descriptions FTPE.
A.  Xerxes, leader of the titular people, and his wife Atossa are crestfallen by their defeat by the Greeks.
A.  Persians
B.  In this part of the Oresteia the mad Orestes flees from the Furies, who are later renamed after Athena decides to acquit Orestes of his crimes.
A.  Eumenides
C.  In this work the title character, imprisoned on a crag in Scythia, has a conversation with the human-turned-cow Io about how both Zeus’s love and hate can cause suffering.
A.  Prometheus Bound

 

19.  Answer the following about who kills whom at Ragnarok FTPE.
A.  Thor will slay this giant creature though he will die in the effort.
A.  Midgard Serpent or Jormungand
B.  Odin will be killed by this ferocious wolf, though it will in turn be killed by his son, Vidar.
A.  Fenrir or Fenris Wolf
C.  Tyr will kill and be killed by this terrible dog from hell.
A.  Garm

 

20.  Answer the following on failures of classical physics, FTPE.
10) According to the classical Rayleigh-Jeans law, blackbodies radiate an infinite amount of energy at high frequencies, an erroneous result given this name.
A. ultraviolet catastrophe
10) The rate of advance of this planet's perihelion could not be explained under Newtonian mechanics, giving early support to the general theory of relativity.
A. Mercury
10) The Gibbs paradox results from a faulty derivation of this quantity, which is equal to Boltzmann's constant times the natural log of the multiplicity.
A. entropy

 

ACF FALL TOURNAMENT
PACKET BY SOUTH CAROLINA A/TEXAS A&M A

TOSSUPS

1. Planning to emancipate the serfs upon ascension, this ruler was forced instead to secularize clerical land due to debt left by the empress Elisabeth. This monarch successfully conducted war against Turkey and put down Pugachov's rebellion, and before her mysterious 1797 death engaged in an affair with Grigory Potemkin. A friend of the enlightenment FTP identify this German-born Russian empress known as "the Great"?
Answer: Catherine II or Catherine the Great

2. This artist's decorations for the Chapelle des Anges of S. Sulpice included his "Heliodorus Expelled from the Temple". Rumored to be the son of Talleyrand, he debuted at the Paris Salon of 1822 with Dante and Virgil in Hell, while a trip to northern Africa provided inspiration for exotic subjects like The Women of Algiers. Creator of "The Massacre at Chios" and "The Death of Sardanopolus", FTP, who was this French Romantic painter of "Liberty Leading the People"?
Answer: Eugene Delacroix

3. The basis for the Venturl effect, this law can be used to explain the principle of flight. In it , compressibility and viscosity are assumed to be negligible. Equivalent to a statement of the law of conservation of energy, it states that the total mechanical energy of a fluid is the sum of the energy resulting from the fluid pressure and the potential and kinetic energies of the fluid. FTP, what is this law formulated in 1738 by its namesake Swiss scientist?
Answer: Bernoulli's Law

4. “Is it a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?” is the entire content of Chapter 5 of Volume IV of this novel, while both Chapters 18 and 19 of Volume IX of this novel are completely devoid of content. At various stages we learn of the protagonist's uncle, who was wounded at the siege of Namur, as well as Hafen Slawkenbergius, who is an expert on noses. Full of typographical eccentricities and violations of the conventions of the novel, other characters include the Widow Wadman, Parson Yorick, Uncle Toby, and the protagonist's father Walter. FTP, what is this novel describing the Life and Opinions of a Gentleman, written by Laurence Sterne?
Answer: The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman

5. This composer of the one-act opera "Overnight" showed an early interest in music, but had to wait for the "S" volume of an encyclopedia his family was buying on an installment plan before he could learn how to compose a sonata. Influenced by Richard Strauss, his Gurrelieder was one of the high points of post-romanticism. Departing from that style, he is famous today for works like "Moses and Aaron" and “Transfigured Night". FTP, name this German composer of "Pierrot Lunaire" who developed the 12-tone method of Composition.
Answer: Arnold Schoenberg

6. The centers of these objects consist of mesons and hyperons, its intermediate layers maintain a superfluid state, while its outermost kilometer is solid, reaching temperatures as high as 1 million Kelvin. Perhaps their most important characteristic are their magnetic fields, which cause surface ions to polymerize into long chains of iron atoms. Believed to result when a massive star undergoes a Type II supernove explosion, its mass is restricted to below two solar masses by the Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit. FTP, what are these extremely small, superdense stars named for the presence of a certain type of particle?
Answer: neutron stars

7. United in 1632 by King Fasilides, its first permanent capital was Gonder. Home to the monolithic churches of King Lalibela, the youngest member of the Zagwe dynasty, a major event in its modern history was its repudiation of the Treaty of Ucciali, which led to its 1896 victory over Italy at Adowa, led by Menelik II. FTP, what is this African country whose most famous 20th century ruler was Haile Seslassie?
Answer: Ethiopia

8. In the Thioreskssaga, he was the grandson of the King of Spain, wielded the sword Garm, and rode the fearless horse Grani, an offspring of Sleipnir. After killing Fafnir he captured the Andvaranant and was married before falling under the spell of Grimhild. Forgetting his wife, he married Gundrun, and was eventually slain by Gundrun's brother Guttorm. FTP identify this husband of Brunhilde and hero of the Ring Cycle.           
Answer: Siegfried

9. Anticipated in the 11th chapter of Augustine's City of God, this philosophical statement served as the basis for its creator's entire philosophy, and created the basis of solipsism. It was first introduced in 1644's Principles of Philosophy, but its French equivalent received more notice in 1637's Discourse on Method. Based on the idea that the ability to doubt one's existence necessarily implies one does exist, FTP name this famous Latin dictum of Rene Descartes, which may be translated as "I think therefore I am."
Answer: Cogito Ergo Sum (PROMPT: "Je Pense donc je suis" OR "I think therefore I am")

10. Classified into 4 categories, the last is susceptible only to a tachyon heterodyne grid. Used in the Tomad Incident to destroy an S-4023 ship, its weakness, the inability to fire torpedos, was described by the Khitomer Conference and eventually overcome by the renegade Klingon vessel, Dakronh. Used and then set aside by Starfleet, FTP, identify this Romulan technology which allows star ships to conceal themselves.
Answer: Cloaking Device

11. Much of the information in this book comes from Floyd Wells, who is serving time in Lansing Prison. The central event is investigated by KBI agent Alvin Dewey, while other information and rumors are circulated in Hartman’s Café. The original suspect, Bobby Rupp, is cleared after passing a lie detector test, and it is eventually learned that the murderers are Richard Hickock and Perry Smith. FTP, what is this work about the murders of Nancy, Gonnie, Herbert, and Kenyon Clutter, written by Truman Capote?
Answer  In Cold Blood

12. Solutions are called perfect is they obey this law over a wide range of concentrations. This law only holds for ideal binary mixtures, with positive or negative deviations occuring depending on whether the activity coefficient is greater than one or less than one. These deviations for mixtures of liquids result in the formation of azeotropes. Stated mathematically as p equals p sub 0 times X, FTP, what is this chemical law stating that the partial pressure of a solvent is proportional to its mole fraction?
Answer: Raoult's law

13. This area was originally known as Mukuntuweap National Monument, but was enlarged to 230 miles in area and made a national park. 1,500 fott high walls can be found in its fingerlike Koblob Canyons, but its main attraction is a canyon cut by the Virgin River. FTP name this national park that is home to Sentinel Mountain, East Temple Mountain, and West Temple Mountain, located in southwestern Utah.
Answer: Zion National Park

14. Originally a province of Scandinavia, its second incarnation reached its height under King Gundobad, but in 534 the Merovigians subjugated it. Broken up by the Treaty of Verdun and later by John the Good, its attempts to attain de facto independence were strengthened by dynastic marriages with the rulers of Flanders and reached their height under Duke Charles the Bold, but his death in 1477 brought it back under French control. Known for supporting England during the Hundred Years War, FTP, identify this region with capital at Dijon whose name also identifies a type of wine.
Answer: Burgundy

15. As this novel opens, one main character is returning from his first visit to Bombay in fifteen years. On the same plane is the other protagonist, an Indian film star who specializes in playing Hindu gods. After the plane is hijacked and explodes over the English channel, the two men, Saladin Chamcha and Gibreel Farishta, experience a series of metamorphoses, dreams, and revelations that imply a new interpretation for the founding of Islam. FTP, what was this controversial novel by Salman Rushdie?
Answer: The Satanic Verses

16. Members of this phylum possess gelatinous mesohyl regions through which food-collecting amoebocytes travel.  Most are hermaphrodites, lack nerves and muscles, and were not regarded as animals until the eighteenth century.  Water flows through the osculum in and out of the central cavity, called the spongocoel.  FTP, identify this invertebrate phylum which includes the sponges.
Answer:  Porifera  (prompt on early “sponges”)

17. The recipient of the first Political Science PhD from Harvard, this man began his political career in 1880. Co-author with Theodore Roosevelt of a book of "Hero Tales", like Roosevelt he issued a corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, his concerning the disapproval of sale of strategically important land by Latin-American countries. As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, he issued 14 reservations in opposition to Wilson's 14 points. FTP identify this Massachusettes politician whose grandson of the same name also went on to a career in politics.
Answer: Henry Cabot Lodge

18. While a student of the Ecole Normale in the 1870's this author of "Pedogogical Evolution of France" became acquainted with Jean Juares, the future leader of the French Socialist party. Impressed by Wilhelm Wundt, many of his ideas can be found in "The Rules of Sociological Method" and "The Elementary Forms of Religious Life", while in "The Division of Labor in Society", he expressed his belief in the existence of a social disconnectedness, which he termed anomie. FTP identify this French sociologist best-known for his 1897 study "Suicide."
Answer: Emile Durkheim

19. This author first gained acclaim for early novels line "The Victim" and "Dangling Man", while recent novels include "The Dean's December" and "The Theft". Known for drawing attention to the modern moral and social crises experienced by Jewish-Americans, his work ranges from the picaresque "The Adventures of Augie March" to philosophical works like "Mr. Sammler's Planet" and "Henderson, the Rain King". Winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, FTP, who is this author of "Humboldt's Gift"?
Answer: Saul Bellow

20. This mathematician's "characteristic" is defined to be the number of vertices of a graph minus the number of edges plus the number of faces. He introduced the symbols of pi and sigma to mathematics, and his phi function tells the amount of numbers between 1 and n relatively prime to n. He solved the Seven Bridges of Konigsburg problem, but went completely blind by 1766. FTP, who was this Swiss mathematicisn whose namesake identity involves the number e?
Answer: Leonhard Euler

21. This poetic work gives its name to the meter in which it is written, a 4-couplet mix of iamb and anapest. An unfinished supernatural romance, the title character discoveres Geraldine while praying for her fiance in the woods and brings her back to her father's castle. However, she soon discoveres Geraldine is an enchantress, but when she tries to warn her father Sir Leoline he fails to believe her. FTP, what is this gothic ballad by Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
Answer: Christabel

22. Capable of being bounded by Gresgorin discs, Jacques Strum first studied these numbers in a general setting. Often labelled by a lambda, their constituent set is referred to as the spectrum, and are solutions to the characteristic polynomial. Their sum equals the matrix's trace, and their product equals the matrix's determinant. FTP, what are these "values" which for some value of x and matrix A fulfill the equation A times x equals lambda x?
Answer: eigenvalues (or characteristic values)

23. Returning from Athens, the protagonist of this work meets Polemarchos on the road and goes back with him to his home. Meeting Polemarchos' father, Cephalus, in the courtyard, the three men and Thrasymachus engage in a conversation during which Thrasymachus attempts to force the central figure to abandon his question-and-answer method. Dicussing the question of justice, the group concludes that justice favors the strong. A work in 10 Books, the tenth rejects poetry while the seventh contains the famous allegory of the cave. FTP identify this Platonic Dialouge in which Socrates describes the idea of the philosopher king and the government of an ideal state.
Answer: The Republic

24. John Goodricke discovered delta prototype of this type of star in 1784. The exceptional RR Lyrae type hinders its main use, which derives from the fact that its size fluctuates anywhere from 7 to 15 percent, allowing them to be used to determine stellar distances using their period-luminosity law, discovered by Henrietta Leavitt. FTP, what are these pulsating variable stars? 
Answer: Cepheid Variable Stars

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PACKET BY SOUTH CAROLINA A/TEXAS A&M A

BONUSES

1. Identify the following terms related to cell motility FTPE.
1. This locomotive appendage undulates, driving a cell in the same direction as the axis of the appendage.  There are usually no more than a few per cell.
Answer:  flagellum
2. These locomotive appendages work like oars, moving the cell in a direction perpendicular to its axis.  A single cell may have many of them.
Answer:  cilia
3. This structure is similar to a centriole, and it serves to anchor a cilium or flagellum.
Answer:  basal body

2. Identify these parts of the Appalachian system, FTPE
1. (10 points) Named for their ubiquitous haze, these mountains are found in Tennessee and North Carolina.
Answer: Great Smoky Mountains
2. (10 points) Extending from South Pennsylvania to Northern Georgia, this eastern part of the Appalachians is home to Shenandoah National Park.
Answer: Blue Ridge Mountains
3. (10 points) Found in the Blue Ridge Mountains, at 6,684 feet high this is the highest peak east of the Mississippi.
Answer: Mount Mitchell

3. FTPE, answer the following about the novel Vanity Fair.
1. (10 points) Who wrote Vanity Fair?
Answer: William Makepeace Thackeray
2. (10 points) One of the protagonists of Vanity Fair is this virtuous girl who loses her fiance George Osborne at the Battle of Waterloo and eventually marries William Dobbin, after earlier having been forced by poverty to give up her son Georgy to his grandfather.
Answer: Amelia Sedley (accept either name)
3. (10 points) The other protagonist is this cunning woman who fleeces Joseph Sedley, but is eventually ostracised for her behaviour and forced to leave England.
Answer: Becky Sharp (accept either name)

4. Name these figures from various mythologies noted for their tongues, 5-10-15.
1. (5 points) These sisters from Greek mythology had snakes for hair, tusks like boars, and lolling tongues.
Answer: Gorgons
2. (10 points) From Norse Mythology, this son of Odin and Frigg is the patron of poets. Runes were carved on his tongue, and he inspired poetry in humans by letting them drink from the mead of poetry
Answer: Bragi
3. (15 points) From Hindu mythology, this god of the Rig-Veda personified fir,e and has two faces and seven tongues which he uses to lick up sacrificial butter.
Answer: Agni

5. Answer the following about famous relatives from American History:
1. The grandson of Jonathan Edward,s he led much less devout life, during which he served as vice-president and was arrested for treason.
Answer: Aaron Burr
2. The son-in-law of Zachary Taylor, he too was arrested for treason. Never tried, he died in 1889 in New Orleans.
Answer: Jefferson Davis
3. This son-in-law of Thomas Hart Benton was the first presidential nominee of the Republican party.
Answer: John C. Fremont

6. Identify the following particles from Physics:
1. A member of a group of subatomic particles which obey the Pauli exclusion principle and have odd half-integral angular momentum
Answer: Fermions
2. Fermions may be subdivided into 2 classes. This first class respond only to electromagnetic, weak, and gravitational forces and do not take part in strong interactions. Examples include electrons, muons, and neutrinos.
Answer: Leptons
3. The other class, these particles are made up of three quarks. Examples include protons, neutrons, and muons.
Answer: Hadrons

7. F5PE and a bonus 5 for all correct, name the composers of these orchestral pieces.
1. (10 points) Flight of the Bumblebee
Answer: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
2. (10 points) In the Hall of the Mountain King
Answer: Edvard Grieg
3. (10 points) Finlandia
Answer: Jean Sibelius
4. (10 points) The Rock, and The Isle of the Dead
Answer: Sergei Rachmaninoff
5. (10 points) La Valse
Answer: Maurice Ravel

8. Answer the following about Russian literature:
1. Prominent in 19th century Russian works, this is a character type who is typically well-educated, well-meaning, and idealistic but is unable of effective action.
Answer: Superfluous Man
2. The term "Superfluous Man" was taken from "The Diary of a Superfluous Man," an 1850 work by this author of A Sportsman's Sketches and A Nest of Gentlefolk.
Answer: Ivan Turgenev
3. Although coined by Turgenev, the type was actually introduced in this author's 1833 verse novel "Eugene Onegin". He is also known for "The Bronze Horseman" and "Boris Godunov".
Answer: Alexandr Pushkin

9. Given the Roman emperors.
1. Calling for the last great persecution of the Christians, this emperor's reorganization of the empire into four districts led to a resergence of the empire during his 284-305 reign.
Answer: Diocletian (or Caius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus)
2. The first Roman emperor to profess Christianity, he fought at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge and later named for himself what would become the capital of the Eastern Empire.
Answer: Constantine I the Great
3. A vigorous suppressor of paganism, he instituted the Nicene creed and oversaw the permanent split of the empire into East and West in 395 AD.
Answer: Theodosius the Great

10. Name the following associated with a method of philosophy:
1.Meaning "to converse", this was originally Socrates' method of using questions to challenge positions held by others.
Answer: Dialectic
2. In his "Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Outline," this German philosopher used a dynamic form of dialectic, composed of a thesis, antithesis, and synthesis, as his method of exposition. He is also known for his The Phenomonology of Mind and The Philosophy of Right.
Answer: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
3. Derived from the teachings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, this philosophy did not deny the reality of mental or spiritual processes, but affirmed that ideas could arise as products and reflections of corporeal conditions.
Answer: Dialectical Materialism

11. Name the following works set during the middle ages, for 10 points each:
1. A component of Scott's Waverly series, this novel concerns a fictional saxon knight who seeks to win the love of Rowena.
Answer: Ivanhoe
2. An Umberto Eco murder mystery, this novel centers on the monk William of Baskerville, who is investigating the killer Jorge of Burgos.
Answer: The Name of the Rose
3. Written by Horace Walpole, it was the first gothic novel, and revolves around Manfred, the tyrannical usurper of the titular princedom.
Answer: The Castle of Otranto

12. Identify the following Data Structures, FTPE.
1. This is a first-in-first out data structure whose basic operations include add and delete
Answer: queue
2. This is a list such that each item is connected to the next. Types include Double and Circular.
Answer: Linked List
3. This is a tree in which every node has a key greater or less than the key of its parent.
Answer: Heap

13. Identify the following concerning a Baroque artist:
1. The byname of Michelangelo Merisi, this Italian painter scorned the traditional idealized interpretation of religious subjects, using chiaroscuro and peasant models to create realistic artworks. A famous work is The Supper at Emmaus.
Answer: Caravaggio
2. From the Italian for "obscure, this is the use of dark tonalities in artworks, and is applied almost exclusively to Caravaggio and his followers.        Answer: Tenebrism
3. Caravaggio's first commission, for the Contarelli Chapel, was a cycle of works about this Biblical character. The series included his calling and martyrdom.
Answer: St Matthew

14. Identify each of the following American third parties:
1. Organized for Agrarian reforms, in 1892 James B Weaver polled more than a million votes for this party.
Answer: Populist Party
2. Organized under Lafollette in opposition to Taft, it fielded presidential candidates in 1912 and 1924.
Answer: Progressive Party
3. The oldest minor party still in existence, it best showings came in 1888 and 1892 with Clinton Fish and John Bidwell.
Answer: Prohibition Party

15. Identify the following about economics terms.
1. This is the proportionate change in a dependent functional variable with respect to an independent functional value.
Answer: elasticity
2. This English economist coined the term elasticity and applied it to demand in his seminal 1890 work "Principles of Economics".
Answer: Alfred Marshall
3. Also coined by Marshall was this term which designates the amount by which consumers value a product over and above what they pay for it.
Answer: consumer surplus

16. Identify the following about a novel form:
1. Usually a first person narrative, its name derives from the Spanish for a low brow adventurer. Examples of the form include Lazarillo de Tormes and Gil Blas.
Answer: Picaresque
2. Considered to be the first English picaresque novel, this Thomas Nashe work tells of the life of Jack Wilton, a former page in the court of Henry VIII who travels as a soldier of fortune.
Answer: The Unfortunate Traveller, or the Life of Jack Wilton
3. Tracing the adventures of an orphan girl from her early seduction through her various love affairsand career of crime to her transportation to Virginia and her final prosperity there, this Defoe novel features the best known female picaro.
Answer: Moll Flanders

17. Answer the following about an bodily organ:
1. This narrow, muscular tube is closed at one end, and is attached to and opens into the cecum at its other end. In humans it is a vestigial organ.
Answer: Appendix
2. The full name for the appendix includes this adjective which means "Resembling the long, thin, cylindrical shape of a worm."
Answer: vermiform
3. Though usually prevented by the omentum, this painful infection of the abdominal cavity is most often caused by a burst appendix.
Answer: peritonitis

18. Identify each of the sieges from World History
1. In an 1683 expedition by the Turks against the Holy Roman emperor Leopold I, Pope Innocent XI persuaded Charles of Lorraine to join a combined army under John Sobieski which eventually defeated the Turks.
Answer: Vienna
2. From March 1884 to January 1885, this modern African capital garrisoned by Charles Gordon was besieged by the Madhi. Following the slaughter of the British forces, the Mahdi abandoned the city and made Omdurman his capital.
Answer: Khartoum
3. Besieged for a month in 1453 by Ottoman sultan Murad II, this city eventually fell and Constantine XI Palaeologus was killed.
Answer: Constantinople

19. Answer the following questions about the poems of John Greenleaf Whittier, FTPE
10: This poem features the line “Of All Sad words of Tongue and Pen/The Saddest are these, ‘It might have been.” It tells of the title woman, who falls in love with a judge but who doesn't marry him because their places in society are different.
Answer: Maud Muller
10:  Preceded by an excerpt from Agrippa’s Occult Philosophy and subtitled A Winter Idyll, this poem describes the members of his rural New England family during a week-long blizzard.
Answer: Snowbound
10: This poem describes an alleged incident that supposedly took place in Frederick, Maryland. In this poem, an old woman raises an American flag in the presence of Confederate troops, but Stonewall Jackson refuses to take punitive measures against her.
Answer: Barbara Frietchie

20. Given the notes in them, identify the following musical scales as major, natural minor, harmonic minor, chromatic, pentatonic, or whole-tone, FTPE.
1.  A  B  C  D  E  F  G#  A            
Answer:  harmonic minor
2.  C  D  E  F# G# A# C
Answer:  whole-tone
3.  C  D  E  F  G  A  B  C   
Answer:  major

21. Answer the following about DNA replication FTPE.
1. At a replication fork, these enzymes catalyze the elongation of new DNA, adding complementary bases one by one.
Answer:  DNA polymerases
2. Since DNA polymerases can only add nucleotides in the five-prime to three-prime direction, one of the two strands of the new DNA, called the lagging strand, must be synthesized in the reverse direction as a series of segments.  Identify these fragments, named for the Japanese scientist who discovered them.
Answer:  Okazaki fragments
3. This enzyme untwists the double helix at the replication fork, separating the two strands of the old DNA molecule so that replication can take place.
Answer:  helicase

 

Valencia Fall Invitational 2003
Quarterfinal Round–Questions by CB, Amy Harvey, Brennan Enos, Boris Nguyen with science by Seth Teitler

1. Initially considered impossible by many Keynesian theorists who focused on shifts in aggregate demand, this term was coined by Paul Samuelson in 1974 to describe what occurred in the US and Europe in the early 1970s.  At that time OPEC quadrupled oil prices in a brief period, while unemployment grew and economic growth slipped into neutral.  FTP what is this condition, a period in which a recession is coupled with inflation?
A. stagflation

2.  The major force behind the staging of the Armory Show, this artist got his training in his field in Berlin in the 1880s.  Toward the end of his life in the early 1940s he did a series of photographs of cloud patterns over his home at Lake George.  These differed greatly from the cityscapes that made his reputation, including his famous shots “The Terminal” and “The Steerage.”  Famous also as a promoter of art, his 291 studio helped make photography into an art form.  FTP name this photographer who sadly might be more famous for being married to Georgia O’Keefe.
A.  Alfred Stieglitz

3.  He wrote plays, including 1927's Him and 1946's Santa Claus, and even produced a satirical ballet titled Tom.  His non-fiction includes the essay collection six nonlectures and The Enormous Room, which describes his time imprisoned by the French for giving comfort to an enemy soldier while an ambulance driver in WWI.  Still, it is for his poetry, like “i sing of olaf glad and big,” that he is best known.  FTP name this author of “in just spring” and “buffalo bill” best known for his odd use of typography and capitalization.
A. e. e. cummings

4.  This man’s father moved the family to North Carolina from Pennsylvania after he was banished from the Exeter Quaker group for allowing one of his sons to marry a non-Quaker.  After a stint of service in the Seven Years’ War, he started traveling, living in a cave near the Shawnee River from 1769 to 1770.  In 1775 he became an agent of the Transylvania Company, supervising the clearing of the Wilderness Road and escorting settlers over its course.  FTP name this American icon famous for exploring the areas that are now Kentucky and Missouri.
A.  Daniel Boone

5.  The sourceful or inhomogeneous equations are expressed by stating that the 4-differential of the field tensor equals the 4-current density times a constant depending on units, regardless of gauge. They can be simplified by introducing the d'Alembertian and adopting the Lorentz gauge. A model of the ether induced their namesake to introduce the displacement current, a term which generalizes Ampere's law beyond magnetostatics. FTP name this set of 4 equations which unify electromagnetism.
A. Maxwell's equations in free space

 

6.  This term’s 19th-century coiner called it a method, not a creed, and said that adherents of it should “try all things and hold to those that are good.”  That coiner, Thomas Henry Huxley, disdained the sureness with which the religious professed their knowledge, so he simply added an “a” to the Greek term often used for what they knew.  FTP identify this doctrine usually defined as the idea that one cannot know with certainty whether or not a god exists.
A. Agnosticism

7.  This holiday originated in the celebration of Candlemas among early German converts to Christianity, who associated that day with predictions regarding the beginning of the planting season.  Its current incarnation most famously is celebrated on a small hill called Gobbler’s Knob.  Though the original German celebrants looked for a hedgehog, FTP February 2 is celebrated in Punxsatwney with the name of what other rodent?
A.  Groundhog’s Day

8.  The French magazine Le Monde in 1998 uncovered data that showed that 90% of this European company’s workers in 1944 were non-German, mostly slave laborers imported from Eastern European countries overrun by the Nazis.  Its establishment dates to 1935, when Adolf Hitler met the company’s founder, Ferdinand Porsche, at the Berlin Auto Show and asked him to design a low-cost vehicle for Germany’s middle class.  FTP name this largest German automaker.
A.  Volkswagen

9.  On stage and screen he has been portrayed by Phil Collins, Jack Wile, Davy Jones and Elijah Wood.  Described as “snub-nosed” and “flat browed” with “bow legs,” he was one of the queerest fellows the titular protagonist had ever seen. With his best chum Charley Bates he attempts to turn Oliver into a chief in Fagin’s gang. For ten points identify this cunning
pickpocket, the pseudonym of Jack Dawkins in Oliver Twist.
A. The Artful Dodger (acc. Jack Dawkins before mentioned)

10.  For ten juicy math points, what is the slope of the line tangent to the graph of the function  f(x) = x3 – 4x2 + 2 at the point (2, -6).
A. -4

11.  Cities on its northern shore include Kingsville and Leamington, while some on its southern shore are Ashtabula, Geneva-on-the-Lake and Euclid.  Pelee Island can be found in it, and can be reached by Ferry from Sandusky.  With Toledo on its westernmost shore and Buffalo on its easternnmost, FTP this is what body of water, the smallest of the Great Lakes?
A.  Lake Erie

12.  A piano prodigy, this composer won the Rubinstein Prize at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where he studied under Rimsky-Korsakov.  In 1918 he released his “Classical Symphony” in D Major, a work which was the antithesis of his Scythian Suite, issued two years earlier.  Though he wrote the well known opera The Love for Three Oranges, he’s best known in the West today for an orchestral fairy tale often played for children.  FTP name this composer of Peter and the Wolf.
A.  Sergei Prokofiev
13.  Roughly 300 people attended on July 19 and 20, with 11 resolutions passing unanimously from the central document read on the first day by its author, a co-sponsor of the meeting.  Eventually 100 people signed the central document, including Amy Post and Frederick Douglass, though Amelia Bloomer attended but didn’t sign the Declaration of Sentiments.  The meeting was inspired by one of the co-founder’s experience of not being allowed to speak at the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention due to her gender.  FTP name this 1848 meeting centered on women’s rights called by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.
A.  Seneca Falls Convention

14.  The similarly titled book being written in this novel by the protagonist is subtitled “the Confession of a White Widowed Male,” and is being written in a jail cell where he is awaiting trial for murder.  The title character reminds the protagonist of his childhood passion for Annabel, which was never fully realized, perhaps leading to his obsession.  The protagonist’s jealous possessiveness toward the title character eventually leads him to kill Claire Quilty.  FTP name this novel about Humbert Humbert’s desire for Dolores Haze, a work by Vladimir Nabokov.
A.  Lolita

15.  Christopher Gluck operas have placed her at Aulis and Taurus while different legends hold that she did not die but was saved by Artemis and sent to Tauris to become a priestess. It was there that she allegedly saved her brother Orestes from madness and death after he killed their mother.  For ten points identify this eldest daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, who was sacrificed to Artemis by her father in order to secure more favorable winds.
A. Iphigenia

16.  The Kerr-Newman variety is the most general type. Price's theorem states that any initial magnetic fields or nonspherical protrusions must be radiated away when one of these forms, providing the mechanism which makes them "hairless." They contain BKL singularities and evaporate due to Hawking radiation. FTP name these objects so massive that inside their event horizon even light cannot escape.
A. black hole

17.  As of this week, this NFL team is number 10 in ESPN’s Power Rankings with a 6-2 record.  They beat a division arch-rival Sunday despite injuries to offensive linemen Flozell Adams and Larry Allen, and Troy Hambrick made up for two fumbles by scoring two touchdowns.  Having suffered only their second loss of the season to the Bucs two weeks ago, quarterback Quincy Carter rebounded with a strong game against the Redskins Sunday.  FTP name this NFL team which is suddenly a contender again under Bill Parcells, the only NFC team from Texas.
A.  Dallas or Cowboys

18.  This character’s wit and occasional insubordination can be seen when he replies to a request from the title character to take 3,300 lashes from a whip, “Now that I have to sit on a bare board, does your worship want me to flay my bum?”  The faithful husband of Teresa, he patiently puts up with the title character’s wild ideas, partly because he has been promised governorship of an island.  FTP who is this sidekick of Don Quixote?
A.  Sancho Panza
19.  Her father Acacius was a bear trainer at the Hippodrome, where she began her theatrical career as a mime. As an actress she settled in Alexandria and converted to Monophysitism, later ending the persecution of the monophysite Christians as well as women in Byzantium after she came into a position of power.  For ten points identify this woman who helped to quell the Nika revolt in 532 C.E., the wife of the emperor Justinian.
A. Theodora

 

20.  Following his father “Cap” into state politics in the 1960s, this man twice won the Florida Association of Community College’s Legislator of the Year award.  As the state’s 38th governor he improved education standards and strengthened environmental protections with his 1983 “Save Our Everglades” program.  A popular trademark of his service has been his “workdays,” during which he spends a day in occupations as diverse as elementary school teacher, airline baggage handler, and busboy.  FTP name this senior senator from Florida who on Monday declined to run for re-election.
A.  Bob Graham

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Valencia Fall Invitational 2003–Quarterfinals Boni

1.  Time for the first annual Raj Dhuwalia Commemorative Bonus!  Answer the following about stuff relating to Raj FTPE.
A.  It is not commonly known that Raj is an amateur practitioner of this type of singing commonly done in Tuva, in which multiple tones can be produced at one time.
A. throat singing
B.  Raj is truly enchanted by the literary works of this Cornell engineering graduate, who like Raj merges vast scientific knowledge with a taste for esoteric history and literature in works like V. and The Crying of Lot 49.
C.  Raj saw this famous overweight film critic at the Pegasus restaurant in Chicago two years ago, but unfortunately didn’t go ask him if he mourns the passing of his thin partner a couple years ago.
A.  Roger Ebert

2. Name the following related scientific laws and principles FTPE.
A. This law states that the induced electromotive force is proportional to the time derivative of the magnetic flux.
A. Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction
B. The minus sign in Faraday's law is the mathematical expression of this law, which states that the induced current flows so that its magnetic flux opposes the change.
A. Lenz's law
C. Lenz's law is sometimes considered a consequence of this principle from chemistry, which states that a system at equilibrium will respond to disturbances in a way that minimizes the effects of the disturbance.
A. Le Chatelier's principle

 

3.  Answer the following about a novel FTPE.
A.  First published in 1957, this novel is set on the Mediterranean island Pianosa and features characters like Milo Minderbinder and Colonel Cathcart.
A.  Catch-22
B.  This captain is the protagonist of Catch-22.
A.  Yossarian
C.  Who wrote Catch-22?
A.  Joseph Heller

4.  Name these famous sculptures FTPE.
A.  There are sixteen known versions of this smooth brass sculpture by Constantin Brancusi, representing the idea of flight, in existence.
A.  Bird in Space
B.  This classical sculpture by Myron shows contrapposto in its athlete’s coiling motion.
A.  Diskobolos (acc. Discus Thrower)
C.  Copies of Rodin’s sculpture of this French writer and contemporary of his can be seen at the Museum of Modern Art in NY as well as in numerous European museums.
A.  Honore de Balzac

5.  Answer the following about a guy and his school FSNOP.
A. (15 pts.)  This school of philosophy was founded in the fourth century BCE, and its teachings were continued by Theophrastus and Strato after it’s founder’s death.  It was named for its founder’s habit of walking about while lecturing.
A.  Peripatetic School
B. (5 pts.)   This Greek, author of Poetics and Nicomachean Ethics, was the founder of the Peripatetic School.
A.  Aristotle
C. (10 pts.)  This is the center of learning founded by Aristotle in a grove on the banks of the Ilissus River in Attica.
A.  Lyceum

6.  Name these US presidents from examples of their abuse of dogs FTPE.
A.  A famous photograph of this Texas-born president holding his beagles Him and Her up by their ears generated hundreds of letters of protest from dog lovers.
A.  Lyndon Johnson
B.  This president didn’t do a good job of keeping his chocolate lab Buddy under control and he (Buddy, that is) ran out and got flattened by a truck.
A.  Bill Clinton
C.  This president used to force his famous dog Fala to drag him about in a wagon while whipping him brutally.  Okay, not really, but he did have a Yorkie named Fala.
A.  Franklin Delano Roosevelt

7.  Express the following expressions containing factorials as a single real number:
A. 5 points: 0! (zero factorial);
A. 1
B. 5 points: 4! (four factorial);
A. 24
C. 10 points: 10 ! / 8 !  (ten factorial divided by eight factorial);
A. 90
D. 10 points:  8! / (3! 5!)  (eight factorial divided by, in the denominator, three factorial times five factorial).
A. 56

8.  Identify these contenders for the Democratic nomination for president FTPE.
A. The former VP candidate with Al Gore, this senator continues to be hawkish on Iraq.
A.  Joe Lieberman
B. This former commander-in-chief of NATO forces in Europe is a recent addition to the race.
A.  Wesley Clark
C.  This Vermont governor has surprised many with the amount of his online contributions.
A.  Howard Dean

 

9.  Answer the following about a playwright FTPE.
A.  This Norwegian is the author of Peer Gynt and A Doll’s House.
A.  Henrik Ibsen
B.  This female is the protagonist of A Doll’s House
A.  Nora Helmer
C.  The title character of this play is Dr. Stockmann, who tries to convince townspeople that their public baths are contaminated.
A.  An Enemy of the People

10.  Answer the following about some ancient wise guys FTPE.
A.  This Chinese thinker of the 6th and 5th centuries BCE had his teachings preserved in the Analects.
A.  Confucius (Kong Fu Tsu, Kong Qui, whatever)
B.  This author of the Tao Te Ching was the creator of Taoism.
A.  Lao Tzu
C.  This later school of Chinese thought was mostly devised by Fei Zi and emphasized the inherent evil of men, and thus the need for a strong bureaucracy and uniformly applied behavioral codes.
A.  Legalism

11.  Identify the years of these elections from American history FTPE.
A.  In this year’s election Rutherford B. Hayes lost the popular vote to Samuel J. Tilden but took the presidency in the electoral college.
A. 1876
B.  William McKinley won re-election in this year but was assassinated less than a year later, leading Teddy Roosevelt to take office.
A. 1900
C.  In this election Lyndon Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater.
A. 1964

12.  30-20-10 Name the composer from works.
A.  (30 pts.)  The opera Voivoda and Capriccio Italien
B.  (20 pts.)  Marche Slav; the fantasy-overture Romeo and Juliet
C.  (10 pts.)  Symphony #6 the “Pathetique”
A.  Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

13.  Stuff about a certain battle FTPE.
A.  In 732 a Muslim army under Abd-er Rahman met a French force near this city on the Loire River and was crushed, limiting Moorish influence to Spain.
A.  Tours
B.  The French leader was this man, nicknamed “the Hammer” long before that M.C. guy started wearing those puffy pants.
A.  Charles Martel
C.  Martel used this ancient formation used by many peoples, notably the Spartans, tightly packing his men in a rectangular array and confounding Muslim horsemen.
A.  phalanx
14.  Name the American playwrights of the following FTPE.
A.  Seascape; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf                               A.  Edward Albee
B.  All My Sons; The Crucible                                                     A.  Arthur Miller
C.  Golden Boy; Waiting for Lefty                                                A.  Clifford Odets

15.  Answer the following about that great ally of the U.S., Pakistan, FTPE.
A.  This is Pakistan’s capital.
A.  Islamabad
B.  Of course you know that Pervez Musharraf is currently the leader of Pakistan, but what woman is the only person to serve in that role?
A.  Benazir Bhutto
C.  Finally, this is the native language of Pakistan.
A.  Urdu

16.  Answer the following about Boris Nguyen’s homeboy, the Buddha, FSNOP.
A.  This is the cycle of reincarnation central to Buddhism.
A.  samsara
B.  Right view, right thought, and right speech are among the tenets of this numerically named basis for Buddhist living.
A.  Eightfold Path or Way
C.  The more strict of the yana, or vehicles, of Buddhism, this sect mandates asceticism and believes that the Buddha was a human teacher who ceased to exist at his death.
A.  Hinayana (acc. Therevada; prompt on “lesser vehicle”)

17.  Identify the following concerning joints FTPE.
A. This is the membrane that lines the ligament surrounding a freely movable joint.  It secretes a namesake fluid that lubricates the layers of cartilage forming the articulating surfaces of the joint.
A. synovial membrane or synovium
B. This is the general term given to a smooth round knob of bone that fits into a socket on an adjoining bone, forming a joint.
A condyle
C. This is the term given to an immovable joint.  Examples include the joints between the bones of the skull.
A. suture

18.  Identify the Russians who wrote the following novels on a 10-5 basis.
A.  (10 pts.)  Poor Folk; The House of the Dead
(5 pts.)   The Brothers Karamazov                                         A.  Fyodor Dostoevsky
B.  (10 pts.)  Taras Bulba; Dead Souls
(5 pts.)   The Inspector General; The Nose                             A.  Nikolai Gogol
C.  (10 pts.)  Sevastopol Sketches; Resurrection
(5 pts.)  War and Peace                                                         A.  Leo Tolstoy

 

19.  Answer the following about a man and his plan FTPE.
A.  What name is given to the Union plan to blockade the South Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico ports held by the Confederacy while also sending troops down the Mississippi to hurt the South economically during the Civil War?
A.  Anaconda Plan
B.  The Anaconda Plan was suggested by this longtime Union general, nicknamed “Old Fuss and Feathers.”
A.  Winfield Scott
C.  Most of the logistics of the Union blockade strategy was organized by this Secretary of the Navy for the Union, who earned the nickname “Old Father Neptune.”
A.  Gideon Welles

20.  Answer the following about the Israelite King David FTPE.
A. David was the youngest of the eight sons of this man.
A. Jesse
B. David ensured that this man, husband of Bathsheba, whom he coveted, was sent into the front lines in battle and killed.
A. Uriah
C. David wept upon hearing that this rebellious son of his had been killed by Joab while hanging from a tree by his hair.
A. Absalom

 

Valencia Fall Invitational
Round 6—Questions by Matt C. of Iowa State (lightly edited for gentleness by CB)

1) This Scot’s vices were womanizing - he contracted gonorrhea seventeen times in thirty years - and watching public executions.  Although a lawyer by trade, he gained renown for his monthly series in London Magazine, “The Hypochondriak,” as well as his Account of Corsica which defended the island’s independence movement.  Best known for describing his relationship with another writer, FTP identify this author The Life of Samuel Johnson.
Answer: James Boswell.

2) This man built the Garden of Fidelity in Kabul after its 1504 conquest, but despite renunciation of his Sunni faith and an alliance with Shah Ismail of Persia, he failed to permanently re-conquer his ancestral capital, Samarkand, from the Uzbeks.  Instead, in alliance with Alam Khan, he took up arms against Ibrahim Lodi, defeating him at the 1526 battle of Panipat and capturing Delhi which became the capital of his new empire.  FTP name this founder of the Mughal dynasty, who was not an elephant.
Answer: Babur or Babar.

3) Close to 400 manuscripts of it have been discovered making it second only to the Bible in Medieval popularity, and such renowned personages as Chaucer, Queen Elizabeth, and Alfred the Great translated it.  It combines verse and a prose dialogue between the author and the title figure who argues that power and fame are not intrinsically valuable because they can be used for evil.  Written while its author awaited execution in 522 CE, FTP name this philosophical tract written by Boethius.
Answer: The Consolation of Philosophy or De Consolatione Philosophiae.

4) After this reaction takes place one of the products is recovered using a vacuum pump while the other is precipitated by sodium chloride.  It can be defined as the alkaline hydrolysis, catalyzed by a strong acid or  base, of fatty acid esters.  More specifically it occurs when an aqueous potassium or sodium hydroxide is used as a treatment to decompose Triglycerides giving as products glycerol and fatty acid salts.  FTP identify this process which creates soap.
Answer: Saponification.

5) He was born in 1869 in the Tyumen district of Siberia and fell in with an orthodox sect, the Skopsty, who believed that the only way to reach God was through sinful actions. He eventually made his way to St. Petersburg where church leaders were looking for charismatic people to bolster their power. In 1907 he was brought in by the ruling family as a healer for their hemophiliac son, Alexander.  Ultimately killed by Prince Felix Yusupov after being poisoned, shot and drowned in the Neva, FTP what man was believed to gain supernatural control over the Romanoff Tsarina. 
Answer: Grigory Efimovich Rasputin

 

6)  A graduate of Duke law school, this man joined the Navy in 1942 and served in the Pacific Theater.  He He won a House seat from California after the war in 1946 and defeated Helen Douglas in 1950 in an ugly race dominated by his charges of her communist sympathies.  Two years later he became Vice-President.  FTP name this man who lost his bid for the California governorship in 1962, but was lying when he said the American people wouldn’t have him to kick around anymore, as he became president in 1968.
Answer:  Richard Milhous Nixon

 

7) Characterized by their heavy, ungainly bodies, these creatures of genus Latimeria were dominant in the Devonian period.  Related to lungfish, their most distinctive features are their stumpy leglike fins and vestigial lungs, which have generated speculation that these and their relatives were the original ancestors of today's amphibians.  For ten points, name these fish, once thought long extinct, but  rediscovered in 1938 off the coast of South Africa.
Answer: coelacanths

 

8)  The father in Kleist’s The Marquise of O is revealed through this.  Other examples include King Louis XIV in Tartuffe, and Fawkes in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, while Athena in the Orestia and Helios in Medea are famous early instances; its name comes fron the crane used to lower the titular character/literary device onto the stage in Greco-Roman tragedies. FTP which literary device involves an outside force interfering and solving all plot conflict or saving the characters from imminent doom, Latin for “god out of the machine”.
Answer: Deus ex Machina (DAY-us ex MA-key-nah)

 

9)  In the background one can see a tree outside a large window supported by columns as well as a myrtle plant on the windowsill.  To the right of this are two female servants; one is wearing red and slightly bent over and the other, clad in white, is on her knees rummaging through clothing in a chest.  The titular figure in the foreground is emphatically separated from them by a dark drape stretching half-way across the painting.  She is reclining on a bed and at her feet lies a sleeping dog. She holds a bunch of roses in her right hand but whether she is hiding or pleasuring herself with her left has been debated.  FTP identify this painting of a nude Roman goddess by Titian.
Answer: Venus of Urbino.

10) Denharm Harmon asserts that it is caused by free radical compounds while Error Catastrophe Theory attributes it to accelerating errors in protein transcription while.  Still another theory points to the Hayflick limit - a set, specific clonal lifespan.  On the cellular level it is synonymous with senescence, the inability to produce while still being metabolically alive.  FTP identify this process synonymous on the human level with getting older.
Answer: Aging (accept senescence before it is mentioned and prompt on gerontology).

11) Herodotus, who associated her with Artemis, said that her festival attracted 700,000 followers - who partied on barges and then got drunk - the most of any Egyptian deity.  The Pyramid texts refer to her as the mother of Yinepu or Anubis and, similarly to Tefnut, she is often depicted holding an ankh.  Primarily a goddess of Lower Egypt, she was worshipped at Memphis in conjunction with Sekhmet who, like her, was personification of the sun‘s rays.  Along with both Sekhmet and Hathor she is referred to as “The Eye of Ra.” FTP name this goddess with the head of a household cat.
Answer: Bast or Bastet or Bubastis.

12) His later works include the opera The Wandering Scholar and a tone poem based on Hardy’s Return of the Native, Egdon Heath .  He was interested in Sanskrit literature and composed the Vedic Hymns and two operas, Sita and Savitri based on Indian texts.  Although he was only nineteen when he had his first opera, Lansdown Castle, performed he spent much of his time composing for amateur groups best exemplified by the St. Paul’s Suite for the girl’s school at which he taught.  He is known mainly for one work, a seven-part tone poem which he described as “a series of mood pictures” FTP name the composer of The Planets.
Answer: Gustav Holst.

13) It is one of the best places to observe large whales because of the enormous plankton blooms there.  Cities on it include Hampton, Moncton, Parssboro and St. George and it has two upper arms: Chignecto Bay and Minas Basin. Access to it is through the Gulf of Main and its chief port is St. John.  It receives and releases over 100 billion tons of sea-water each day which produces its most notable feature.  FTP identify this large inlet of the Atlantic between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia known for its 50 foot tides.
Answer: Bay of Fundy.

14)  Of unknown authorship, it was first transcribed in the 14th century and is set in the sixth century, starting on Christmas Eve.  The first title character accepts the challenge of the second to strike him one blow in return for a counterblow to be offered a year later.  After the good knight beheads the giant, the giant picks up his head and rides off.  In the meantime, the good knight is hosted by Sir Bercilak, who issues him further tests and later turns out to be the giant who appeared earlier.  This describes, FTP, what tale ascribed to the “Pearl Poet” about a knight of the round table and a colorful opponent?
Answer:  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

15) The narrator of the story is an easterner who has been asked to call on a talkative miner named Simon Wheeler, who proceeds to tell him a tall tale about the exploits of Jim Smiley.  Smiley would bet on anything, including which bird would leave a tree branch first.  Smiley also had a bull pup named Andrew Jackson which died after losing a fight to a three-legged dog.  But Smiley’s best known pet is the title creature, a frog named Dan’l Webster.  FTP name this story set in California by Mark Twain.
Answer:  The Notorious (acc. Celebrated) Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

 

16) As the captain of the Stargazer, he became the hero of the Battle of Maxia.  He was romantically involved with few women, but most notable were his romances with Jenice Manheim and the archaeologist and treasure huntress Vash.  He has a younger double who leads the Reman rebellion and jeopardizes the uneasy peace between their societies. As Locutus, he nearly destroys all of his comrades, and he later finds that he has a son – or perhaps not.   Name this captain of the USS Enterprise, a native of La Barre, France.
Answer:  Captain Jean-Luc Picard

 

17) It has a period of about six days and acts as an obstacle to oncoming gas which it deflects to the north or south.   To the north of it winds blow westward relative to it while to the south winds blow to the east.  It varies in size; sometimes it is smaller than the earth and sometimes three times larger. Continually observed for nearly 400 years, it rotates counterclockwise like other southern high pressure regions and many scientists believe that sulfur and phosphorous compounds are the cause of its distinctive color.  FTP identify this enormous atmospheric storm located in the southern hemisphere of Jupiter.
Answer: The Great Red Spot.

18) A Franciscan, in 1474 he led an army to restore papal authority in Umbria, subduing the towns of Todi and Spoleto.  In gratitude, Sixtus VI elevated him to the position of Archiepiscopal See of Avignon, though his fathering of three daughters shows he was hardly overly devout.  On Sixtus=s death he aspired to the papacy, but seeing his chances slim, bribed other cardinals to elect the man who became Innocent VIII, as he knew he could manipulate him.  His own chance came in 1503, and he was selected after the shortest conclave ever.  FTP name this pope, born Guiliano Della Rovere, best known as a patron of artists like Michelangelo and Raphael.
A.  Julius II

19)  From 1964-70, under Eduardo Frei,, this party held power in Chile while another of the same name ruled Venezuela from 1968-83.  In Europe it currently holds power in seven of fifteen EU countries and is heavily represented in the European Parliament under the aegis of European People’s Party.  The Italian version was founded by Alcide De Gasperi and, after corruption charges in the early nineties, has morphed into the Forza Italia.  The German one was founded by Konrad Adenauer in 1945 and later returned to power under Helmut Kohl.  FTP identify this center-right party emphasizing certain religious values.
Answer: Christian Democrats. (accept Christian Democratic Union or Christian Democracy).

20)  In one part of this long work the title character’s three sons travel north to the dismal land of Pohjola to find a bride for the eldest and also to find the Sampo, a magic mill that grinds out meal and gold.  Beginning with a creation myth, it was compiled from oral recitations in the early 1800s by Elias Lonnrott.  Its alliterative, unrhymed trochees provided a poetic style used by Longfellow in Hiawatha.  Featuring Vainomoinen and Lemminkanen, FTP what is this Finnish national epic?
Answer:  Kalevala

 

Valencia Fall Invitational 2003—Round 6 Boni

 

Bonus 1:  Identify the “artists” (ha!) behind these songs, all of which are favorites of Seminole’s Bonnie Tensen and are currently in the Billboard Top Ten.  Five points each with a bonus five for getting them all.
A. “Baby Boy”                              A.  Beyonce (apparently featuring some dude named Sean Paul)
B. “Holidae In”                              A.  Chingy (featuring Snoop Dogg and Ludacris)
C. “Rain on Me”                            A.  Ashanti
D. “Why Don’t You and I”            A.  Santana
E. “Here Without You”                  A.  Three Doors Down

 

Bonus 2: Identify stuff about a British writer FTPE.
A. This writer planned a massive History of the World to begin with the Creation.  However, he only took it up to 168 B.C. partly due to the death of his patron Henry, Prince of Wales but also because of his continual imprisonment by James I on treason charges.
Answer: Sir Walter Raleigh.
B. Another of Ralegh’s ambitious projects was this long poem to Queen Elizabeth.  It was intended to contain 21 books but he did not publish it and today it survives only in fragments.
Answer: The Ocean to Cynthia.
C. Raleigh’s most recognizable work may be the poem “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” which was a cynical response to this Marlowe poem beginning “Come live with me and be my love.”
Answer: “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.”

 

Bonus 4: Name the B Complex Vitamin from clues, FTPE.
A. This vitamin found in yeast, nuts, whole grains and lean pork is important in carbohydrate metabolism.  Deficiency in it leads to the disease beriberi.
Answer: Thiamine or B-1.
B. This most complex of known vitamins is best found in animal tissues like liver and kidneys and together with folic acid is involved in the synthesis of proteins.  An inadequate amount absorbed can lead to pernicious anemia.
Answer: Colbalamin or B-12.
C. This vitamin participates in the metabolism of carbs, fats and amino acids and works in the Krebs cycle.  Hair loss is often a result of deficiencies in it.  Although vital it is only needed in small amounts and is synthesized by intestinal bacteria.
Answer: Biotin or Vitamin H.

 

Bonus 5:  Answer the following about a certain figure from Greek myth FTPE.
A. What founder of Corinth was condemned to forever roll a rock up a hill in Hades for ratting out one of
Zeus’s rapes?
Answer:  Sisyphus
B. Sisyphus twice fooled this god, the personification of death: first by imprisoning him and again by telling his wife to neglect certain customary sacrifices.
Answer: Thanatos.
C. Sisyphus is the son of what god of the winds?
Answer:  Aeolus

 

 

Bonus 6: Identify the 19th century landscapes painters from clues FTPE.
A. This Frenchman painted the Embarcation for Cythera.
Answer:  Eugene Watteau
B. Okay, not really exactly a landscape painter, this Frenchie is known for landscapes that include haystacks and lily pads.
Answer:  Claude Monet
C. He was the only painter to exhibit at all eight of the independent Impressionist exhibitions and was a major influence on Cezanne.  Paintings include The Orchard, Spring Sunshine and in a Field and The Garden of Les Mathurins at Pontoise.
Answer: Camille Pissarro.

Bonus 7: Stuff about quizbowl’s favorite war, the Thirty Years’ War, FTPE.
A. This 1620 battle, the first of the Thirty Years War saw Catholic Imperial forces under Tilly defeat Czech Protestant commanded by Christian of Anhalt signaling the end of Bohemian independence.
Answer: Battle of White Mountain.
B.  Though he fell at the Battle of Lutzen, what Swedish monarch’s forces went on to defeat those of Wallenstein at that engagement?
Answer:  Gustavus Adolphus
C.  The immediate cause of the war was this heaving of two Holy Roman Empire ministers into a dungheap in a Bohemian city.
Answer:  Defenestration of Prague

Bonus 8: Vonnegut works from clues FTPE.
A. Billy Pilgrim is taken on a time traveling adventure by the Tralfamadorians, a group of aliens, in this novel concerned with the question of free-will.
Answer: Slaughterhouse Five.
B. The setting is “one million years ago, back in 1986 A.D.” and the narrator is Leon Trout, the ghost of a ship-builder.  After an apocalypse a group of Cruise passengers evolve into less intelligent, flippered swimming creatures.
Answer: Galapagos.
C. This short story begins. “The Year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.” It ends when the Handicapper General kills the title character, a fourteen year old individualist who has escaped from prison and declared himself Emperor.
Answer: Harrison Bergeron.

Bonus: 9: Name these Supreme Court cases FTPE.
A.  In this 1803 case John Marshall established the concept of judicial review.
A.  Marbury v. Madison
B.  The plaintiff in this 1918 decision was a socialist who had handed out leaflets urging men not to serve the army in WWI.  It set the free speech limit of Aclear and present danger.@
A.  Schenk v. U.S.
C.  This case reaffirmed the right of the U.S. to relocate Japanese citizens during WWII.
A.  Korematsu v. U.S.

Bonus 10: Identify these Caribbean islands from clues FTPE.
A. This easternmost of the Caribbean islands has its capital at Bridgetown and is governed by a Parliament dominated by its Labour Party which recognizes Queen Elizabeth II as head of state.
Answer: Barbados.
B. The birthplace of V.S. Naipaul, this island off the NE coast of Venezuela was surrendered by the Spanish to the British in 1797 and since 1962 has been paired with a much smaller island to the Northeast.
Answer: Trinidad.
C. This island of the Southern Caribbean lies of the Northwest coast of Venezuela and has had autonomy in internal affairs since its separation for the Netherlands Antilles in 1986.  Its capital is Oranjestad.
Answer: Aruba.

 

Bonus 11:  Japanese history FTPE.
A.  Established in 1603, this feudal dictatorship was ruled by shoguns from the titular family.
Answer:  Tokugawa Shogunate
B.  The Tokugawa Shogunate sometimes goes by this name, from the ancient name of Tokyo.
Answer:  Edo Period
C.  The Tokugawa shogunate was formed by this man.
Answer:  Tokugawa Ieyasu

 

Bonus 12:  Stuff about an American poet FTSNOP.
A. (10) This early 20th-century woman authored the collections A Few Figs from Thistles and The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems.
Answer:  Edna St. Vincent Millay
B (10). Written when she was only nineteen, this poem started Millay’s literary career.  The speaker describes a transcendental communion with nature near the end of which she declares “God, I can push the grass apart/ And lay my finger on Thy heart.”
Answer: Renascence.
C (5/5).  Millay wrote “Justice Denied in Massachusetts” after witnessing and even being arrested during the murder trial of these two Italian anarchists who were eventually executed in 1927.
Answer: Sacco and Vanzetti.

 

Bonus 13: Related chemistry stuff FTPE.
A. This is a neutral molecule or ion having a lone electron pair that can be used to form a bond with a central metallic ion forming a complex ion.  Common ones are water molecule and acetate and nitrite anions.
Answer: Ligand.
B. This is a ligand which can bind to a metal ion with two or more pairs of electrons.  Its etymology is from the Greek for “claw.”
Answer: Chelate or Chelating ligand.
C. One of the most common chelates is this compound which can form up to six bonds.  It is used as a “scavenger” to remove heavy metals from the human body.  It is found in sodas, beer, salad dressing, and many cleaners.
Answer: EDTA or Ethylenediamine-tetraacetate.

 

Bonus 14: Identify these philosophical or scientific constructs from clues FTPE.
A. This imaginary creature was theorized by its namesake Scottish scientist to contradict the Second Law of Thermodynamics; it can open or close tiny trap doors in a hypothetical gas-filled box.
Answer:  Maxwell’s Demon
B. Employed to show the problem with overemphasizing reason and falsely attributed to a 14th century philosopher, this animal starves to death between two equidistant piles of hay.
Answer: Buridan’s Ass.
C. This construct is supposed to illustrate the principle of superposition in quantum physics.  The titular animal is placed in a lead box with a vial of cyanide.  Its creator argued that the cat is both dead and alive until we check to see which of the states it is in.
Answer: Schrodinger’s Cat.

 

 

Bonus 15: Identify the Behaviorist psychologists from clues FTPE.
A. The director of the psychology lab at Johns Hopkins this man founded Behaviorism believing that theories of introspection and the unconscious mind were unscientific.  His works include 1928’s Psychological Care of Infant and Child.
Answer: John B. Watson.
B. This guy is probably the best known Behaviorist and wrote Walden Two.
Answer:  B. F. Skinner
C. The author of 1933’s Hypnosis and Suggestibility: an experimental approach, this American Psychologist tried to mathematize psychology coming up with his Hypothetic-Deductive approach whereby postulates would be proposed and then tested.
Answer: Clark Leonard Hull.

 

Bonus 16 Name these recent films about writers FTPE.
A. The utterly lame Gwyneth Paltrow stars in this biopic about the life of the author of “The Bell Jar” and her doomed love affair with the poet Ted Hughes.
Answer:  Sylvia
B. The sometimes attractive Hayden Christensen portrays the rise of title character Stephen Glass, a staff writer for the New Republic in the mid-90’s until it was found he partially or wholly fabricated 27 of his 41 published stories.
Answer:  Shattered Glass
C. Cate Blanchett portrays the titular journalist, a writer for Dublin’s Sunday Independent, who exposed some of Dublin’s powerful drug lords but was gunned down by men hired by them in 1996.
Answer:  Veronica Guerin

Bonus 17:  30-20-10 Identify the composer from works.
A. (30 pts.) Aus Italien (1886) and Alpine Symphony (1915)
B. (20 pts.) Domestic Symphony (1903) and Elektra (1909)
C. (10 pts.) Salome and Also Spracht Zarathustra
Answer:  Richard Strauss

Bonus 18: Identify the following concerning a concept in fluid dynamics.
A. It is usually defined as resistance of a fluid to flow although it can also be thought of as a sort of internal friction.
Answer: Viscosity.
B. The CGS unit for dynamic viscosity is named for this French physician who has a law named for him showing that the rate of a fluid’s flow through a pipe is proportional to the pressure applied and the diameter of the pipe raised to the fourth power.
Answer: Jean Louis Poiseuille (prompt on Poise).
C. This is the unitless number which relates the radius of a pipe, the density of the fluid, and the speed of the fluid with its dynamic viscosity.   A high number means viscosity is negligible while a low one means it is dominant.
Answer: Reynolds’ Number.

Bonus 19: Identify the secretaries of state from clues FTPE.
A. Serving under Eisenhower, this brother of a CIA Director promoted the concept of Brinkmanship and has an airport in our capital named for him.
Answer:  John Foster Dulles
B. Due to support in the 1912 Democratic convention Wilson made this evangelical politician his secretary of state.  He’s probably better known for his “Cross of Gold” speech, though.
Answer: William Jennings Bryan.
C. As secretary of state to JFK and LBJ he defended the Vietnam War and armed opposition to Communism but also helped organize the 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
Answer: Dean Rusk.

 

Bonus 20: Latin American writers from clues FTPE.
A. This Argentine shows his fascination with cinema in works like Betrayed by Rita Hayworth and The Kiss of the Spider Woman.
Answer: Manuel Puig.
B. This Chilean Communist and Winner of the 1971 Nobel is probably best known for his poetry collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.
Answer: Pablo Neruda.
C. This Cuban musicologist and author coined the term “magical realism” in the preface to The Kingdom of the World.  His other novels include Explosion in a Cathedral and The Lost Steps.
Answer: Alejo Carpentier.

Bonus 21:  Theories concerning the causes of Ice Ages from clues, FTPE.
A. The most accepted theory climate change today may be this one, named for a Serbian astronomer, which attributes climate changes to “wobbles” in the earth’s orbit around the sun.
Answer: Melankovitch Cycle.
B. Another possible explanation for Ice Ages is large atmospheric reduction of this gas which is, discounting water vapor, the most abundant greenhouse gas in earth’s atmosphere.
Answer: Carbon dioxide or CO2.
C. Although probably not useful in explaining shorter, more recent Ice Ages this tectonic cycle of ocean basin growth and destruction may explain climactic changes on the scale of tens of millions of years.
Answer: Wilson Cycle.

 

                                                 Valencia Fall Invitational 2003
                           Round 8BQuestions by CB with science help from DePauw

1.  It is mandated by Leviticus 23:36 and following passages, and it is a time set aside to Aafflict the soul.@  One is not to wear leather shoes, engage in sexual relations, wash or wear cologne during it.  It is suggested to wear white, and many choose to wear a kittel, the white robe in which the dead are buried.  Its end is announced by the blowing of the tekiah gedola, a long blast on the shofar.  Occurring on the tenth day of Tishri, FTP what is this Jewish ADay of Atonement@ that ends the period of penitence begun on Rosh Hashanah.
A.  Yom Kippur (acc. ADay of Atonement@ before said)

2.  Lesser known men to have done it include Tim Keefe, John Clarkson, Old Hoss Radbourne, Kid Nichols and Eddie Plank.  Better known members of the group include Warren Spahn, Gaylord Perry and Tom Seaver.  Lefty Grove and Early Wynn barely made it, each having the same number.  FTP what is this milestone number of pitching wins achieved by Roger Clemens this past June?
A. 300 wins (acc. 300 club or equivalents early)

3.  The nucleus of this heavenly body has an albedo of 0.3, making it very cool and dark.  Its density is also very low, probably due to the sublimation of ices on its surface as it continues on its orbit.  It has a retrograde orbit 18 degrees from the ecliptic, and notable past sightings occurred in 240BC by Chinese astronomers and in 1301 by Giotto.  FTP, this is what stellar object depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry that famously can be seen every 76 years?
A. Halley=s Comet

4.  In 1859 miners Pat McLaughlin and Peter O=Reilly found some gold embedded in quartz near the head of Six Mile Canyon.  One problem they and subsequent miners found in excavating the gold was the sticky and persistent blue-gray mud they had a hard time removing from their picks and shovels.  One miner finally figured out that that mud was silver ore, more abundant and easily dug in this location than anywhere anyone had seen before.  The wealth of this site led Abraham Lincoln to make Nevada a state in 1864 despite not having enough population to qualify.  FTP name this legendary silver deposit which made Virginia City a boomtown.
A.  Comstock Lode (prompt on AVirginia City@ before mentioned)

5.  The protagonist is sent on his mission by Golz, a Russian officer.  While waiting for the right time to carry it out, he briefly befriends El Sordo, a guerilla leader who is later killed and beheaded by the enemy.  Rafael and some others want him to kill Pablo, the husband of Pilar, but he will allow nothing to get in the way of his mission to blow up a strategic bridge.  FTP this describes what 1940 novel by Ernest Hemingway with a title taken from John Donne?
A.  For Whom the Bell Tolls

6.  For ten juicy math points, find the determinant of the three by three matrix with first row 1, 0, 5, second row, 10, -1, 4 and third row 0, 0, 1.
A. – 1 (negative one)

7.  It premiered in Vienna in 1865, 37 years after its composer=s death.  Its first section is an allegro moderato with its famous theme arising from basses and cellos, and its second movement features a background of a descending scale in pizzicato basses.  A hundred measures of a third movement exist, but that=s it.  So nicknamed because it only has two movements instead of the usual four, FTP what is this last symphony written by Franz Schubert?
A.  Symphony #8 (acc. AUnfinished Symphony@)

A.  Kurt Vonnegut

16.  Identify these enzymes associated with DNA replication and synthesis, FTPE.
A. This enzyme is used by viruses because it can create DNA from the viral RNA in
a backwards fashion from the way DNA is normally synthesized.
A. reverse transcriptase
B. This enzyme is responsible for unwinding double stranded DNA in order for
DNA replication to begin.
A. helicase
C. This enzyme connects nucleotide fragments making a continuous strand of DNA.
A. ligase

17.   Stuff about a city celebrated in film FTPE.
A.  This mideastern city has provided the backdrop for many of the films of two of its native sons: John Waters and Barry Levinson.
A.  Baltimore
B.  This 1988 Waters film set in Baltimore featured a young and Rubenesque Rikki Lake with Divine playing her mother.  It has been turned into an award-winning musical.
A.  Hairspray
C.  One of Chris=s all-time favorites, this 1982 Barry Levinson ensemble movie stars Daniel Stern, Paul Reiser, Mickey Rourke, and Steve Gutenberg, whose character makes his fiancé take a test about the Colts before marriage.
A.  Diner
18.  July 8th was the 150th anniversary of a somewhat shameful example of American bullying; answer the following about it FTPE.
A.  On July 8, 1853, this Commodore arrived off the port city of Yokosuka in Japan insisting on the opening of Japan to trade with the U.S. (Note: a treaty was actually signed in 1854).
A.  Matthew Perry
B.  Perry carried a list of demands written up by this president.
A.  Millard Fillmore
C.  Perry=s opening of Japan to Western trade helped lead to this period of modernization in Japan that began in 1867 with the overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
A.  Meiji Restoration

19.  Name the Frenchies who wrote the following poems or collections of poems.
A. A Season in Hell; The Drunken Boat                           A.  Arthur Rimbaud
B. The Flowers of Evil                                                                          A.  Charles Baudelaire
C.  The Afternoon of a Faun                                                                 A.  Stephane Mallarme

20.  Identify the following things used in a science lab based on their abbreviations, FTPE.
A.  DMSO      Answer: dimethylsulfoxide
B.  SDS         Answer: sodium dodecyl sulfate
C.  PAGE       Answer: polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis

 

Valencia Fall Invitational 2003
Round 12—Questions by Matt C. of ISU (w/changes for ease by CB)

1) Gandhari, the mother of the slain Duryodhana, placed a curse on him which prophesized his death and the destruction of his city, Dwaraka. As a youngster he convinced the people of Braj to give up their worship of Indra and then moved Mount Govardhan to save them for his wrath, eventually compelling Indra to submit.  His first great act, performed with the help of his brother Balarama, was setting Ugrasena back on his throne by killing the evil king Kamsa.  FTP name this Hindu god who acts as charioteer of Arjuna and gives him spiritual advice in the Bhagavadgita, the 8th avatar of Vishnu.
Answer: Krishna.

2) The student of Masolino de Panicale, he quickly abandoned the International Gothic style of his master exemplified by their collaboration Virgin and Child with St. Anne.  The three dimensionality seen in his work shows the influence of his contemporary Donatello while the exact proportions and perspective seen in his Holy Trinity are so like Brunelleschi’s work that some say he oversaw the project.  This painter’s two most famous works are frescoes for the Brancanni Chapel of Santa Marie del Carmine in Florence.  FTP identify this painter of The Expulsion of Adam and Eve and Tribute Money.
Answer: Masaccio or Tommaso di Giovanni or Tommaso Guidi.

3) It is used to monitor pollutants in the ozone and there are hopes that it may be able to identify minerals on Mars.  It has become easier to study and use with the development of powerful monochromatic lasers.  First predicted by Adolf Smekal in 1923, the spectral analysis of it shows Stokes and anti-stokes lines. It occurs when interactions cause photons to change their wavelength giving them a different frequency from their radiation source. FTP identify this type of inelastic scattering named for an Indian physicist.
Answer: Raman Scattering or Raman Effect (accept Raman Spectroscopy before “spectral analysis).

4) A Polish utopian community in California is the subject of her 1999 novel In America, though she’s better known for her critical essays. She was accused of self-righteousness and Anti-Americanism for suggesting that flying a plane into a building is not a cowardly act in a New Yorker essay later collected in the book Where the Stress Falls.  She had earlier gained renown for essays like The Style of Radical Will and On Photography which examined art and contemporary pop culture.  FTP name this author who coined the term “camp” and wrote Against Interpretation and Illness as Metaphor.
Answer: Susan Sontag.

5) Lows in this country’s history include the La Matanza incident in which military dictator Hernandez Martinez killed 15,000 followers of Faribundo Marti and the 1981 massacre by the American trained Atlacatl brigade of 1,000 civilians around El Mozote.  Currently the presidency is held by Guillermo Flores Perez of the rightist ARENA party although the largest seat-holder in the Legislative Assembly is the former guerrilla group FMLN.  FTP identify this small Central American nation bordering Guatemala and Honduras with capital at San Salvador.
Answer: El Salvador.

6) It was first explained in Sections 12 and 13 of Book II of Euclid’s Elements and is incorporated in the definition of the dot product.  It can be used to compute any angle of a given triangle if all three sides are known or the 3rd side of a triangle if two sides and the enclosed angle are known.  The Pythagorean theorem is a generalization of it when big C is ninety degrees.  The law states that little c squared equals little a squared plus little b squared minus two times little a times little b times the cosine of C.  FTP identify this law which can be used with the Law of Sines to find all sides and angles of a triangle.
Answer: Law of Cosines or Cosine Law or Cosine Rule.

 

 

7) His hobby is working with the fretsaw and one of his most prized possessions is a magazine picture of a lady in a fur coat which he put in a gilt frame.  He intended to send his sister Grete to the Conservatory to study violin on what little money he had left from supporting his family as a traveling salesmen.  Shortly after being discovered by three boarders, he dies of malnutrition and an infection in his back caused by an apple lodged in his back that his father threw at him.  FTP identify this man who one morning is turned into an insect, the subject of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis.
Answer: Gregor Samsa.

8) A product of Seminole Oklahoma Junior College he missed all of the 1997 season after undergoing Tommy John Surgery.  He impressed with a 2.10 ERA in five starts in 1999 but he went only a combined 10-13 in his next two years.  Last year Dave Wallace and Jim Tracy decided to change this Montreal native’s role and his trademark “Chia Chin” and fist pump are now famous.  This year despite giving up a game-winning homerun to Hank Blalock in the All-Star Game he broke Tom Gordon’s record of 55 consecutive saves.  FTP identify this closer for the Dodgers.
Answer: Eric Gagne.

9) Born in 1894, he was the son of Mary of Teck and the sitting monarch, George V, making him the great-grandson of Victoria.  His reign of eleven months is the second shortest among English monarchs, though unlike Edward V, this monarch didn’t die during his reign.  FTP name this man, British King in 1936 until he abdicated to marry his divorced love, Wallis Simpson.
Answer.  Edward VIII

10) The protagonist of this 1873 novel is very particular: early on he fires a servant for bringing him shaving water that is four degrees cooler than he requested.  In Chapter 27 the protagonist and his current servant encounter Mormons, whom the narrator refers to as “independent fanatics.”  Other things they see on their nearly twelve-week journey include a suttee procession in India and a great storm in Hong Kong, which pleases his rival, Fix, as he hopes the protagonist fails in his traveling bet.  FTP name this Jules Verne novel in which Passepartout and Phileas Fogg attempt to circle the planet within a set time.
Answer.  Around the World in Eighty Days

11) According to John Lee these structures’ failure to produce enough progesterone largely accounts for the disease Fibromanglia.  Together with a layer of connective tissue they forms the endoneurium.  Restricted to one axon apiece they are a type of glial cell and are similar to oligodendrocytes, which perform a similar role in the central nervous system.  FTP identify these cells of the peripheral nervous system which comprise the myelin sheaths covering axonz and are named for the German father of cytology.
Answer: Schwann Cells.

12)  This man graduated first in Stanford’s law class of 1952 and quickly got a job clerking for Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson.  While clerking for Jackson he authored a memo about the Brown case that argued that “separate but equal” was indeed a correct constitutional standard, though he claimed he wrote it to reflect Jackson’s views.  Regardless, he himself was nominated to the court in 1972 by Nixon.  During Clinton’s impeachment trial, we got a sense of his sartorial style when he designed the epaulets on his robes based on his love for Gilbert and Sullivan works.  FTP name this current Chief Justice.
A.  William H. Rehnquist

13) He received lessons from Irish pianist John Field but gained his musical education from trips to Berlin where he was instructed by Seigfried Dehn and Milan where he was influenced by Bellini and Donizetti.  His trip to Spain produced the overtures Jota Aragonesa and A Summer Night in Madrid.  His other works include the symphonic poem Kamarkinskaya and the opera A Life for the Tsar.  His best known work is an opera about a peasant searching for his kidnapped wife which was based on a Pushkin short story.  FTP identify this father of Russian national music, the composer of Ruslan and Lyudmilla.
Answer: Mikhail Glinka.

 

14) The author juxtaposes the “Barcan desert” of Libya with “the continuous woods/ where rolls the Oregon” to give the poem a sense of universality.  The last stanza, in which the author orders the reader to “go not like the quarry slave at night” but instead to go ahead “sustain’d and sooth’d/ by an unfaltering trust,” was added seven years after the poet first completed the work at age seventeen.  It opens with a comment that Nature “speaks in various languages” and contains the lines “All that tread/ The globe are but a handful to the tribes/ that slumber beneath in its bosom.”  FTP name this poem about death written by William Cullen Bryant.
Answer: Thanatopsis.

15) He oddly asserted that the stars were closer to the earth than the sun or moon and argued that the earth was cylindrically shaped and stationary because of its position equidistant from the orb of stars.  He was allegedly the first person to create a map of the world and posited that the sun was a burning rock.  An excerpt from his On Nature quoted by Simplicius also happens to be the earliest extant passage in western philosophy.  FTP identify this Milesian philosopher best known for asserting that apeiron, or the “boundless” was the fundamental makeup of the world, the student of Thales.
Answer: Anaximander.

16) She has a bold handsome face which is “red in hue,” but she also has large hips and gap teeth and is “somewhat deaf.”  She wears scarlet red hose which are “gartered tight” and a hat “As broad as a buckler.”  Skilled at cloth-making, she has been to Cologne, St. James of Campostella, Rome, and Jerusalem.  She defends the polygamy of Solomon and Abraham in her prologue, perhaps because she has been married five times and later asserts that what women want most is sovereignty over their husbands in her story of a knight forced to marry a hag who saved him from execution.  FTP name this proto-feminist pilgrim in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales named in part for her town of origin.
Answer: Wife of Bath (prompt on Alison or Alisoun).

17) John McWhorter, in his Afrogenesis Hypothesis, argued that they were imported from West African trading stations.  The Substrate Hypothesis argues they are a result of nearly complete relexification while Derek Bickerton’s Bioprogram Hypothesis says that first generations created them with the same innate means by which all first languages are acquired.  Examples include the Saramaccan of Suriname, the Papiamento of Curacao, and the Gullah of South Carolina.  FTP this describes what kind of language defined as a pidgin which has become a native language and named for the French spoken in Haiti.
Answer: Creole Languages (prompt on “pidgin” until “first generations in 3rd line).

18) This is the most corrosion-resistant metal, and either it or osmium is the densest known element.  Most often used as a hardening agent for platinum, it is part of the alloy from which the standard meter bar is made.  Discovered by Smithson Tennant in 1803 from a residue of platinum dissolved in aqua regia, its name comes from the Greek for “rainbow” because of the varying color of its salts.  FTP identify this element, number 77, whose concentration in the KT boundary suggests that a large asteroid killed the dinosaurs.
Answer: Iridium.

19) As a state, it administers many smaller islands, including Maria, Flinders, and Macquarie Islands.  The Derwent River flows near its highest point, Mount Ossa.  Its isolation has led to much unusual fauna, including the Fairy Penguin and the Pademelon, but its namesake tiger went extinct in 1936.  With capital at Hobart, FTP name this island separated by the Bass Strait from the Southeastern shores of Australia.
Answer:  Tasmania

20) The defenders formed a compact line known as the “hoary apple-tree position” on the Senlac Ridge in which their flanks were guarded by steep ravines and the forest of Anderid covered their rear.   The attackers had to march six miles and formed into three division north of Telham Hill.  The crippling attack was delivered by Eustace of Boulogne against the right flank after the defenders had been drawn off by a feint retreat.  Large-scale resistance ended after the death of King Harold Godwinson who had successfully defended his kingdom just weeks before at Stamford Bridge.  FTP, identify this 1066 battle which made William the Conqueror king of England.
Answer: Battle of Hastings.
Valencia Fall Invitational—Round 12 Boni

Bonus 1:  FTPE identify these folks born on today’s date:  November 8.
A. This actress, star of Bringing Up Baby and The African Queen, died earlier in 2003.
Answer:  Katherine Hepburn
B.  This hep-cat, beret-wearing singer is best known for her anthem about fellow folkie Chuck E. White, called “Chuck E’s in Love.”
Answer:  Rickie Lee Jones
C.  In 1900 this Atlanta Journal writer was born, 36 years before creating the characters Ashley and Melanie Wilkes, among more famous ones.
Answer:  Margaret Mitchell

Bonus 2: Identify things relating to a certain psychological condition FTPE.
A. Named for the love-interest of the nymph Echo, this condition, common to Brain Bowlers, is an excessive state of self-love.
Answer: Narcissism 
B.  In books like Neurosis and Human Growth, New Ways in Pscyoanalysis, and Feminine Psychology this neo-Freudian argued that narcissism was, along with “perfectionistic” and “arrogant-vindictive,” one of the three possible expansive neurotic channels.
Answer: Karen Horney. (horn-eye, for what it’s worth—and stop that snickering!)
C.  In Freud’s essay “On Narcissism,” he suggested that narcissism plays a large role in this complex, which in males is the anxiety that the father will cut off his penis to keep him away from the mother.
Answer:  castration complex

Bonus 3: Answer the following about a major event in Egyptian history for fifteen points each.
A.  Originally a class of non-Arab slaves used to serve Muslim rulers, they overthrew the Ayubbid Dynasty in 1250 and were later allowed to rule Egypt for the Ottomans after their conquest in 1517.
A.  Mamelukes
B.  In 1811 the Mameluke leaders of Egypt were tricked into Salah al-Din’s citadel and then slaughtered by this man, who then controlled Egypt until his death in 1849. He probably didn’t call his enemies “gorillas,” as his namesake infamously did in a fight in the Philippines162 years later.
A.  Muhammad Ali

Bonus 4: Answer the following about a couple 18th and 19th century English periodicals FSNOP.
A. (10 pts.) Founded by two English writers in March, 1711, this Whig-leaning literary journal succeeded the Tattler.
Answer: The Spectator.
B. (5 pts. each) These were the two Englishmen who founded The Spectator.
Answer:  Joseph Addison and Richard Steele (any order)
C. (10 pts.) This single-essay periodical was written almost exclusively by Samuel Johnson from 1750-52.  He composed on edition, on procrastination, extemporaneously to the copy body.
Answer: The Rambler.

Bonus 5 Answer the following questions about botany for the stated number of points:
There are two groups of seed plants.  For ten points, give the term used to refer to plants that produce seeds that are either totally exposed or found on cones.

1. gymnosperms

Now, for ten points, give the term used for the category consisting of flowering plants.

1. angiosperms

Now, for five points each, name the two classes into which angiosperms are divided.

1. monocots and dicots (also known as Liliopsida and Magnoliopsida)

 

Bonus 6: Stuff about a composer FTPE.
A. This Czech nationalist composer is known for works like Mountain Duet and Slavonic Dances.
Answer: Antonin Dvorak.
B. This main theme for the third movement of this ninth symphony one of the best known pieces of music.  No doubt Dvorak’s best known work it was intended to celebrate the 4th centennial of Columbus’ discovery.
Answer: The New World Symphony.
C. Dvorak wrote fourteen of this type of chamber music the most important of which is the twelfth known as “The American.”
Answer: String Quartet.

 

Bonus 7: Identify the battles of the War of 1812.
A.Oliver Hazard Perry sent the famous report saying “We have met the enemy and they are ours” after winning the September 10, 1813, battle on this Great Lake.
Answer:  Lake Erie.
B. This southern theater fight famously took place after the signing of the Treaty of Ghent and was a resounding victory for Andrew Jackson.
Answer:  Battle of New Orleans
C. Fought on July 14th 1814, this battle on the Niagara Frontier between two equal forces of 2000 under Drummond and Winfield Scott was the bloodiest conflict on Canadian Soil.
Answer: Battle of Lundy’s Lane.

 

Bonus 8: Answer the following about a certain Greek goddess FTPE.
A.  Who is the Greek goddess of agriculture and the harvest?
A.  Demeter
B.  What daughter of Demeter’s was seized by Hades and is later forced to spend half of her year with him, leading to fall and winter?
A.  Persephone
C.  These important sacred rituals of the Greeks were held in honor of Demeter and to promote good harvests; they are named for the town 22 kilometers east of Athens where they were held.
A.  Eleusinian Mysteries

 

Bonus 9: Identify these related theories for fifteen points each.
A. First proposed by M.B. Green and J.H. Scwartz in 1984 this is an attempt to unify quantum physics and general relativity by proposing 10 dimensions, including seven compactified dimensions.
Answer: Superstring Theory.
B. Examples of this type of theory include the Georgi-Glashow model and the Pati-Salem model.  It is an attempt to fuse the strong interaction and electroweak interaction forces.
Answer: Grand Unification Theory or GUT.

 

Bonus 10: Identify these roughly contemporaneous poems from lines for fifteen points; if you need the author you’ll only get five.

A. (15 pts.)  “I have always been scared of *you*,/ With your Luftwaffe, your gobbledygoo./ And your neat mustache/ And your Aryan eye, bright blue.”

      (5 pts.)  Sylvia Plath               

                  Answer: “Daddy”

B.  (15 pts.) “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by/ madness, starving hysterical naked-”

       (5 pts.)  Allen Ginsberg         

                  Answer: “Howl.”

Bonus 11: Identify these comedians who have tried their hand at movies FTPE.

A. This petite comedian has had major roles in Mystery Men, The Truth About Cats and Dogs, and Big Trouble.

                  Answer: Janeane Garofalo.

B. She had small roles in Heartbreakers and Evolution but her best movie role has been the “Raving Bitch” who yells at Benicio Del Toro and Ryan Phillipe for sitting on her boyfriend’s car in The Way of the Gun.

                  Answer: Sarah Silverman.

C. This portly comedian has appeared in a bunch of bad movies, including Dirty Work with Norm McDonald, but he’s much more famous for replacing Jackie Martling on the Howard Stern show.

                  Answer:  Artie Lang

Bonus 12: Identify the rivers of Asia from clues FTPE.

A. Rising in Chinese Tibet and emptying into the South China Sea, capitals on this river include Pnomh Penh and Vientiane.

                  Answer:  Mekong

B. This 500 mile long river which rises in the Changbai Mountains forms much of the border between China and North Korea and house the Sapung Dam one of Asia’s biggest electricity suppliers.

                  Answer: Yalu River.

C. This river rises in the Kailas Range of the Himalayas and flows 1800 miles forming a vast Delta with the Ganges in Bangladesh and eventually emptying into the Bay of Bengal.

                  Answer: Brahmaputra River  (also accept Jamuna and Yarlung Zangbo.)

Bonus 13: Identify the following related to the evolution of a governing entity 5-10-15.

A. (5 pts.) This name is given to the new economic alliance between 12 nations, including Great Britain and France.

                  Answer:  European Union

B. (10 pts.) Established by the Treaty of Rome in 1967 this organization known colloquially as the “Common Market” expanded upon the ECSC.

                  Answer: European Economic Community.

C. (15 pts.) The European Union was officially established what November 1997 treaty?

                  Answer: Treaty of Maastricht. 

Bonus 14: Identify the 20th century French novels from clues FTPE.

A. Meursault, the title character of this Camus novel, is imprisoned for killing an Arab on an Algerian beach after sun and sweat get in his eyes.

                  Answer: The Stranger or L’Etranger.

B.Pierre Boule wrote this novel about Japanese soldiers forcing POWs to build the title structure, though in his novel, unlike the later film, it is not blown up by Colonel Nicholson

                  Answer:  The Bridge on (or over) the River Kwai.

C. Set at Cambray, Marcel relates his love for Gilberte, the title character’s daughter tells of the title character’s earlier affair with Odette in this first novel of Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past.

                  Answer: Swann’s Way.

Bonus 15: FTSNP simplify the following expression containing complex numbers by writing them in the form a + bi where a and b are real numbers.
A. (5 points):  -i 2 (negative square of i);
A. 1
B. (5 points): 1/ i (one divided by i);
A. –i
C. (10 points): (1 – 2i)(1 + 2i)  (in parentheses, one minus two i times, in parentheses one plus two i);
A. 5
D. (10 points): (1 + 3i) 2 (one plus three i in parentheses raised to the exponent two).

        A. -8 + 6i

Bonus 16: Identify these bloody pieces of art from descriptions FTPE.

A. In this 1814 painting a Christ-like figure in a white shirt faces a firing squad while surrounded by dead and bloodied figures and comrades averting their eyes.

                  Answer: 3rd of May 1808. (By Francisco Goya).

B. A maid averts her eyes as one title figure decapitates the other title figure with a sword while watching his blood run over the sheets in this Biblically inspired painting by Artemisia Gentileschi.

                  Answer: Judith and Holofernes. 

C. This painting features two figures, both looking like the work’s Mexican painter.  The one on the right is traditionally dressed while the one on the left wears a bloodstained wedding dress and holds a pair of scissors in her hand.  Their hearts are exposed and connected by a thin artery.

                  Answer: The Two Fridas. (By Frida Kahlo).

Bonus 17: Identify the following about an Asian ruler FTPE.

A This guy ascended to the throne of the Mongol dynasty after the death of Mongke, his older brother.

                  Answer:  Kublai Khan 

B. Kublai founded this Chinese Dynasty after defeating the Song.  It lasted until 1368 when it was overthrown by the Ming.

                  Answer: Yuan Dynasty.

C. This Venetian spent seventeen years at the court of China which he later wrote about in his book Travels.

                  Answer: Marco Polo.

Bonus 18: German philosophers from clues FTPE.

A. This Transcendental Idealist searched for synthetic apriori principles and put for his moral theory of the categorical imperative in the Critiques of Pure and Practical Reason, respectively.

                  Answer: Immanuel Kant.

B.  The Kantian influence on this philosopher can be seen in his early Logical Investigations.  He is known for his concept of bracketing and for founding phenomenology in later works like Cartesian Meditations.

                  Answer: Edmund Husserl.

C.  This student of Husserl’s is called a “boozy beggar” in Monty Python’s “Philosopher’s Song.”  Oh, and he wrote Being and Time.

                  Answer:  Martin Heidegger

Bonus 19 Identify the mineral from clues FTPE.
A. This class of minerals, an aluminum silicate, is the most abundant mineral in the earth’s crust.  It is subdivided into two groups, the Plagioclase and the Orthoclase, and is found in all three types of rock.
Answer: Feldspar.
B. This most common sulfate mineral is found in sedimentary rocks and can be formed in the desert when water evaporates.  It is used in sheetrock and to make Plaster of Paris.
Answer: Gypsum.
C. This iron-magnesium silicate is found in both igneous and metamorphic rocks and its greenish color gives it its name.  Its gem is called peridote.
Answer: Olivine.

Bonus 20: Name the writers from the Arab world given clues for fifteen points each.

A. This Lebonese author wrote many of his early works in Arabic but is best known for his beautiful prose poem The Prophet.

                  Answer: Khalil Gibran.

C. Using the work of Daqiqi of Tus as a basis this poet wrote the 60,000 
line Persian national epic Shah-Nama or Book of Kings which was completed in 1010.

                  Answer: Firdausi or Firdousi or Abul Qasim Mansur.

 

 

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