2008 UIUC HIGH SCHOOL SOLO
ROUND 2
1. Mike Sorice is playing at NAQT ICT, and due to an error in the randomization, the packets are horribly inconsistent. In 20% of the games, he'll channel Sudheer Potru and put up 90 points a game. In 20% of the games, he will take four or five negs, and his points per gamein those games drops to 25. In the remaining 60% of the games, he normalizes, and averages 50 points per game. Overall, what is his average ppg? To calculate it, you multiply the probability of the three occurrences by the result, and add them. For ten points, what is 90 times 20% plus 25 times 20% plus 50 times 60%?
ANSWER: 53 (18+5+30)
2. Bagoas poisoned his predecessors, Artaxerxes III and Arses, but this king forced Bagoas to drink the poison himself. The League of Corinth was formed to free the Greek cities under his control, and when Charidemus critiqued his battle plans, this ruler had Charidemus executed. The downfall of this last Achaemenid ruler began with the loss of the Battle of the Granicus, and he allowed his own family to get captured at the Battle of Issus. FTP, identify this Persian king who got slapped around by Alexander the Great.
Answer: Darius III (accept Codommanus)
3. Senator Norris Brown claimed that it was necessary for the court a Constitution with only one interpretation when he proposed it. While governor of New York, Charles Evans Hughes argued that it would lead to a centralization of government power, and it was later upheld in the case of Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad. It was created in response to the Supreme Court case of Pollock v. Farmer's Loan and Trust, and in the Glenshaw Glass case, the Supreme Court ruled that any increase in weath was subject to it. FTP, identify this Constitutional amendment that allows Congress to levy income taxes.
ANSWER: Sixteenth Amendment (accept income tax amendment)
4. In this work, two figures use literary experts to defend their interpretations of a dream, with one arguing that the other should take a laxative. Immediately preceded by a series of short tragedies, it is told by Sir John, and the central character has several consorts, among which Pertelote is his favorite. Russell, a fox, almost has a tasty meal, but his prey convinces him to taunt his pursuers, after which Chanticleer flees. FTP, identify the Canterbury tale told by a man who serves the prioress of a Benedictine convent.
ANSWER: The Nun's Priest's Tale
5. In one work by this author, the owner of a restaurant tries to get involved in her husband's political campaign, but the conservatives end up using her past promiscuity to win, and a character created by this author goes out of her way to not tan, but dies from a heart attack when attempting to save her children from an undertow. The author of After the Banquet and The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea, the protagonist dreams of eating a schoolmate and realizes that he is gay in his novel Confessions of a Mask, and one figure created by him buys arsenic and a knife, but ends up not committing suicide after burning the title locale. FTP, Mizoguchi ends up torching the Temple of the Golden Pavilion in a novel by what Japanese author?
ANSWER: Yukio Mishima
6. The foramina of Morgagni lie between two attachments of this muscle, and its left crura extend downward to attach to the vertebral column. A hiatal hernia can result from a tear or weakness in it, and in bulbospinal polio, this muscle is paralyzed. The fibers that make up it are costal, sternal, and lumbar, depending on their point of origin, and when this muscle spasms, it can cause hiccups. FTP, identify this abdominal muscle that is the principle muscle of respiration.
ANSWER: diaphragm
7. He won an award for a theoretical analysis of the use of water jet vibrations in determining surface tension, and the idea that a new theory should explain all phenomena clarified by its preceding theory was known as his “correspondence principle.” He teamed up with John Wheeler to develop the liquid-drop model of nuclear fission, and in his most notable theory he proposed that negatively charged particles with arbitrary radii revolve around the nucleus. FTP, identify this Danish scientist who incorporated quantum physics into his atomic model.
ANSWER: Niels Bohr
8. Judy Oppenheimer's autobiography of her is entitled Private Demons, and she wrote about the schizophrenic Natalie Waite in Hangsaman.This author created a kindergarten student who tells her parents of an imaginary student, as well as a man who introduces Mildred Kent to Arthur Adams and gives them money to spend doing whatever they want. Dr. Montague conducts paranormal research in the title locale in The Haunting of Hill House, and in story, Mr. Summers keeps a black box for the title event. FTP, identify the author of the dark short story The Lottery.
ANSWER: Shirley Jackson
9. MODERATOR NOTE: Argeiphontes [ar-gee-FON-teez]
His statues were found in ancient Greek gymnasia, and he also invented the syrinx, which were made popular by his son Pan. He killed a tortoise and used its parts to invent the lyre, and he helped Perseus by giving him winged sandals. He was given the epithet Argeiphontes for his help in freeing Io, and he was known as psychopomp for his role in guiding souls to the underworld. FTP, identify this Greek deity, owner of the caduceus and god of those who live by their wits, including merchants and thieves.
ANSWER: Hermes (do not accept Mercury)
10. At the opening of one of his works, the curtain rises on “a corner in lower Manhattan,” and at the conclusion of another, Robert Mayo, sick with tuberculosis, drug himself up to the hilltop. A silver bullet was cast by the title character as a good luck charm in his play The Emperor Jones, and most of the action revolves around a saloon owned by Harry Hope in The Iceman Cometh, while a semi-autobiographical play by this author contains a morphine-addicted mother, an overly stingy father, and an alcoholic eldest son. The author of Anna Christie and Strange Interlude, FTP, identify this four-time Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Long Day's Journey into Night.
ANSWER: Eugene O'Neill
11. When he wanted to get into shape, he looked up to Ronald Weisenheimer, and was accused of ripping off of teen heart throb Dylan Farnum. His pet's doghouse has a satellite dish and is shaped like an igloo, and among his alter egos were one that has a waffle-iron for a shoe and another wears a leather belt on his head and fresh underpants over his shorts, better known as Quailman. A fan of The Beets, he despises his vice-principal Mr. Bone and has a crush on Patti Mayonnaise. FTP, identify this Nicktoon character, the best friend of Skeeter Valentine and owner of Porkchop.
ANSWER: Douglas Yancy Funnie
12. Derek Freeman argued that its author ignored violence and put too little emphasis on the effect of biology on behavior, and it was followed up by a comparative study of primitive education. It advocates biological determinism as the foundation of culture, and in a revision, its author added two chapters concerning child rearing in the United States. Subtitled A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization, its author sought to establish whether adolescence was traumatic across the board. FTP, identify this work about people on a South Pacific island by Margaret Mead.
ANSWER: Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization
13. Yuan-Wu collected and commented on one hundred of them in a collection known as the “Blue Cliff Records,” and Muju wrote a book of them entitled Collection of Stone and Sand. Used to bring about a state of satori, it remains one of the main practices of the Rinzai sect, and strict followers contemplate them while sitting in zazen. Potential solutions are presented through san-zen, and a notable example of one is “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” FTP, identify this term for a paradoxical statement meant to enhance discipline in some branches of Buddhism.
ANSWER: koans
14. The leader of the winning side came into this battle with the goal of attacking the Charleston Railroad, and one side aimed to drive the other into the swamps of Owl Creek and prevent a link-up with Don Carlos Buell's Army of the Ohio. The day after this battle was over, Nathan Bedford Forrest led a charge which served as the beginning of the Battle of Fallen Timbers. The tide turned in this battle when forces led by Benjamin Prentiss and W.H.L. Wallace defended the position nicknamed the “Hornet's Nest” at this battle. A victory for Grant's Army of the Tennessee. FTP, identify this April 1862 Civil War battle fought in Tennessee following the capture of Fort Donelson.
ANSWER: Battle of Shiloh (accept Pittsburg Landing)
15. Iosif Shklovsky suggested that it was both hollow and artificial, and it is seen as the most likely source of the Kaidun meteorite. The Stickney Crater is found on its surface, and the Soviet Union sent two probes to study it, but the first was lost en route, and radio communication was lost with the second, but not before taking several pictures of the surface. Features on this body are named for Asaph Hall, its discoverer, and Edouard Roche. Its orbit is reduced by about 2 meters per century, FTP, identify this Martian moon, larger than its partner Deimos.
ANSWER: Phobos
16. A book by Barry Strauss describes it as “the battle that saved Western civilization,” and the victorious force used a tactic known as diekpolous. One leader in this battle demoralized a portion of the losing side through an inscription on the rocks of Euboea, and the opposing head watched this battle from Egaleo hill. The winning side in this battle was a force of 350 triremes, and the forces led by Themistocles drove the Persians led by Xerxes I. FTP, identify this 480 BC naval battle between the Persians and Greeks.
ANSWER: Battle of Salamis
17. Historically referred to as Taprobane or Serendib, the Mahaweli River is the only river that does not follow a radial pattern beginning in the Central Highlands and it is bordered on the west by the Laccadive Sea. Kotte serves as its legislative capital, and according to Muslim legend, Adam stood on one leg on this island for 1,000 years. Separated from the mainland by the Palk Strait, it is in the midst of a civil war between the Sinhalese and the rebel Tamil Tigers. FTP, identify this island with capital at Colombo which lies off the coast of India.
ANSWER: Sri Lanka (accept Ceylon)
18. This quantity’s substantial time derivative is zero according to the continuity equation, which means that this quantity is constant for an incompressible fluid. The constant of proportionality between the kinematic and dynamic viscosities, this quantity can be measured by a pycnometer. The volume integral of this quantity is the mass. Archimedes’ principle dictates that objects float in a fluid if their value for this is less than the value for this the fluid. For 10 points, name this quantity usually symbolized rho and having SI unit kilogram per meter cubed.
ANSWER: mass density [accept specific gravity]
19. MODERATOR NOTE: Delacroix - [DAY-luh-qua]
In the lower left of this painting, a man is shown with one blue sock and no pants, while the artist depicted himself with a top-hat and gun. One man in this painting is holding a sword in his right hand and a gun down his pants with a white satchel draped across his body. A woman in a blue shirt is crawling towards the central figure, and the boy standing on the right is holding a gun in his right hand. The most prominent figure is seen wearing a yellow dress that is torn, with a bayonet in her left hand and the French tricolor in the right. FTP, identify the painting by Eugene Delacroix depicting an armed mob.
ANSWER: Liberty Leading the People(accept La Liberté guidant le peuple)
20. usHis first opera revolves around Cleonilla and the numerous figures who pursue her, and he also composed three operas based on works by Ludovico Ariosto. Many of the fast movements of this composer are in a ritornello form, and J.S. Bach translated for keyboard five concertos from his Opus 3, L’estro armonico. His most notable composition includes a sonnet that accompanies each section, with the first depicting lightning shrouding the air, and the last describing teeth chattering in the cold. FTP, identify this Italian composer of the Four Seasons.
ANSWER: Antonio Vivaldi
OT. George Shelby gave him a dollar and promised his eventual return, and when his faith in God wavered, he saw Christ in a vision. After putting cotton into the basket of a woman who was ill, he was flogged until he was unconscious, but on his deathbed, he forgave Sambo and Quimbo. While on his way to New Orleans, he saved the life of Eva St. Clare, whose father was knifed down before he could free all of his slaves. FTP, identify this title figure of a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
ANSWER: Uncle Tom