2010 - ACF Regionals - Yale a + Miami B
ACF Regionals 2010: A Cultural Artifact of Unimaginable Significance
Packet by Yale A (Kevin Koai, John Lawrence, Richard Mason) and Miami B
Tossups:
1. In one scene from this play, Bert reports on troublemaking in the neighborhood to a character who pretends to be the sheriff, joking that there is a jail in his basement. This play opens with Dr. Jim Bayliss discussing the wanted ads in the newspaper after lightning split his neighbor's apple tree in two. Frank Lubey creates a horoscope for November twenty-fifth and insists another man cannot be dead because he disappeared on his "favorable day". At the end of this play, one character shoots himself offstage after his wife Kate reads a suicide letter written by their son. In this play, Chris hopes to marry Anne Deever, the former girlfriend of his brother Larry. For 10 points, identify this play by Arthur Miller in which Joe Keller sent out faulty cylinder heads that caused twenty-one fighter planes to crash
ANSWER: All My Sons
2. This artist showed a woman wearing armor under her green cloak, decorated with a plaque of Victory and flying over Athens, in Pallas Athene. He depicted a child Hercules handing a globe to a ruler in his Allegorical Portrait of Charles V and he showed a voluptuous baby Jesus leaning on an orb while holding a rose in left hand in Madonna della Rosa. This artist painted a man sleeping in the right side while John the Baptist points upward at the Virgin and child in his The Vision of St. Jerome. On the right hand corner of his best-known painting a prophet holds a scroll under a giant Doric column, while six angels surround an elongated baby who appears to be falling off the lap of his mother. For 10 points, name this Mannerist artist who painted Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror and Madonna with the Long Neck.
ANSWER: Il Parmigianino [or Francesco Mazzola]
3. This man's partisan, Gebhard of Salzburg, was successfully kept away from a meeting targeting this man by his long-time foe, Hugo Candidus. He was elevated to his highest office after a mixed crowd of clergy and laymen began angrily demanding his election during the funeral service of his predecessor, Alexander II. This man's most notable efforts were validated in the century after his death through the First Lateran Council and the Concordat of Worms thanks to the work of Callixtus II. The Synod of Worms condemned this man, whose response led to the appointment of Guibert of Ravenna as Antipope Clement III. Clerical marriage and simony were targeted by this Pope, whose most notable opponent made a long walk to Canossa and groveled in the snow after his excommunication. For 10 points, name this Pope who feuded with Henry IV during the Investiture Controversy, the seventh Pontiff to bear his name.
ANSWER: Gregory VII [or Hildebrand of Sovana]
4. The gene dcp-1 is necessary for this process to occur in Drosophila, and it can be triggered by the release of endonuclease G from the mitochondria. This process can be inhibited by a family of proteins with multiple BIRs at the amino terminus, or by a pathway involving Pl-3 kinase and Akt kinase, which phosphorylates the protein Bad. This process can be induced by hypoxia or heat shock, unless it is suppressed by Bcl-2. This process results from a release of cytochrome c into the cytosol, which triggers a cascade of caspases. Eventually resulting in the fragmentation of the cell, for 10 points, identify this process of programmed cell death.
ANSWER: apoptosis
5. This entity was said to possess two pigs, one of which was always growing while the other was always roasting. He possessed a certain instrument, that when played. put the seasons in correct order. That instrument, Daurdabla, or the "Four Angled Music", was an oak harp. Some of this man's sons include Bodb Dearg, Cermait, and Brigit. This deity's weapon could kill nine men with one blow, but could return the dead to life with its handle. In order to hide his affair with Boann, he made the sun stand still for nine months, after which his most famous son was born. This god succumbed to wounds inflicted by Cethlenn, the wife of Balor, at the second battle of Magh Turiedh. The possessor of a noted magic cauldron, for 10 points, identify this God and ruler of the Tuatha de Danann whose son was Angus and who is also known as "the good god".
ANSWER: The Dagda
6. Reacting these compounds with benzenesulfonyl chloride in an aqueous base can help distinguish between different varieties of them in a process known as the Hinsberg test. Primary ones can be formed in the presence of formic acid via the Leuckart reaction, and the related Eschweiler-Clarke procedure can methylate them. Reacting these compounds with hydrogen peroxide is the first step in converting them to alkenes via the Cope Elimination. They can be prepared by reacting an alkyl halide with potassium phthalimide in the Gabriel synthesis. For 10 points, identify this class of organic compounds containing a singly bonded nitrogen atom.
ANSWER: amines
7. When the protagonist of this work tries to confide in a member of the doctors' club, the official merely replies: "You were right this evening: the sturgeon was a bit too strong!" The main character occasionally refers to women as "the lower race" and is sick of his wife, who uses "phonetic spelling". The two primary characters are reunited at a provincial performance of The Geisha. The title character of this story asserts her husband is Russian Orthodox even though his name is Von Diderits after she starts seeing a man she first met in Yalta. For 10 points, name this short story by Anton Chekhov in which Dmitri Gurov has an affair with Anna Sergeyevna, who is sometimes accompanied by her Pomeranian.
ANSWER: "The Lady with the Dog" [or "Dama s sobachkoy" [accept reasonable variants for the translated title]
8. In one essay by this man, he described the difficulty of formulating what he termed "parallelistic hypotheses". In that same essay, this man wrote about the influence of Pillsbury and called for a "functionalist" psychology. In one experiment by this psychologist, rats accustomed to running a certain distance in a maze began to crash into the walls when the corridor was shortened. Another more controversial experiment by this man involved striking a steel bar whenever the test subject touched a white rat, thus creating a fear of things that looked or felt like white rats. For 10 points, name this psychologist who wrote Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It,conducted the Kerplunk experiment and the Little Albert experiment, and who coined the term "behaviorism".
ANSWER: John B. Watson
9. Treaties named for Phoenice and Tempea brought brief respite from conflicts by this name. The son of one of the major antagonists of these conflicts, Perseus, started his own but was decisively smacked down at the Battle of Pydna. A conflict sometimes considered one of these was started by the Aetolian league and saw the defeat of Antiochus III at Thermopylae and Magnesia, while the fourth began with an uprising by the Achaean League against foreign occupiers. That conflict ended with the sacking of Corinth, the same year that Carthage was destroyed in the third Punic war. The first of these conflicts saw Rome taken on by Philip V, a ruler of the namesake region. For 10 points, name these wars fought in a seventy-five-year time span which eventually led to the Roman conquest of Greece, named for a kingdom most famously led by Philip II and his expansionist son Alexander.
ANSWER: Macedonian Wars
10. The second of these works by this composer is unusual for having all four movements written in C. The fourth of these works exists in an earlier version that uses Italian tempo markings instead of German ones, and is notable for generating all the thematic material from one motif. The third of these works has a fourth movement that is notable for the introduction of three trombones supposedly portraying a ceremony the composer witnessed that elevated Archbishop von Geissel of Cologne to the rank of cardinal. The first one of these works was titled after a poem by Adolph Boetgerr and was written right after its composer married Clara Wieck. For 10 points, name these works by the German composer of Carnaval and Scenes from Childhood, the third of which is the Rhenishand the first of which is the Spring.
ANSWER: Symphonies of Robert Schumann [prompt on "works of Schumann"]
11. In the beginning of this book, three Jewish servants refuse to eat the food of the king, but nonetheless grow healthier on a diet of vegetables and water. In one part of this book sometimes omitted, two men disagree about the type of tree under which they claim a woman met her lover, leading to their deaths. In a different part of this book which is sometimes omitted, a giant creature is secretly fed through a trapdoor, which is revealed by the namesake of this book. In this book, Shadrach, Mashach, and Abed-Nego are thrown in a furnace. Later, the writing "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Ufarsin" appears on the wall at Belshazzar's Feast. The apocryphal sections of "Susanna and the Elders" and "Bel and the Dragon" sometimes appears in this book of the Bible. For 10 points, name this book named for a prophet whom King Darius throws into a den of lions.
ANSWER: Daniel
12. The first holder of this office was bailed out of a volatile political environment when the murder of US diplomat Robert Imbrie by an angry mob enabled him to institute an expansive crackdown on his critics. The second failed miserably by attempting the same strategy in the wake of the Cinema Rex fire in a city heavily developed by that predecessor, a veteran of the Cossack Brigade. At the advice of the minister Teymourtash, the first of them signed the Treaty of Saadabad and developed Abadan, while the second was forced to allow supply of the USSR through a certain "Corridor"during WWII. That man used the brutal SAVAK to crack down on dissidents and was brought to power after Kermit Roosevelt organized Operation AJAX to supplant Mohammed Mossadeq, only to fall himself to Kohmeini's Islamic Revolution. For 10 points, identify position held by two Pahlavis, a monarchical office which ruled from Tehran.
ANSWER: Shahanshah of Iran [or King of Iran; or Emperor of Iran; accept anything that establishes singular rule of Iran; accept Pahlavis early]
13. This author described a mountaintop landscape as "The types and symbols of Eternity, / Of first, and last, and midst, and without end", which occurs after the speaker crosses the Alps. In another poem, he wrote "while the birds thus sing a joyous song", "to me alone there came a thought of grief:" That poem ends by noting that "the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears". In a better known poem addressed to his sister, this poet wrote that "a motion and a spirit, that impels all thinking things, all objects of thought, and rolls through all things"five years after his first visit to the titular location.For 10 points, identify this poet of The Prelude, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality", and "Tintern Abbey", a Romantic poet who collaborated with Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Lyrical Ballads.
ANSWER: William Wordsworth
14. This character's introductory speech in one of his appearances had the line "and I don't mean Mahatma Ghandi" changed to "And I ain't no mamby pamby". Until 1959, he was featured only in shorts directed by Friz Freleng, on whom he was based. In one appearance, he attempts to force his main enemy to fill in for the absent high-diver Fearless Freep, while in another he repeatedly answers his enemy's challenge to step over a line drawn in the sand, even when the line is drawn at the edge of a cliff. Other appearances involve portraying a jailer named Schulz, a Black Knight accompanied by a dragon with a sneezing problem, and, frequently, a pirate, in which guise he was accompanied by the Tasmanian Devil as the villain in Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island. For 10 points, name this "hootinest, tootinest, shootinest bob-tailed wildcat in the west", a red-haired cowboy antagonist of Bugs Bunny.
ANSWER: Yosemite Sam [accept Pirate Sam; accept Riff Raff Sam; accept Sam Schultz; accept any other character he plays, as long as his name is still Sam]
15. In the plane, this mathematician's namesake measure involves finding the greatest lower bound of the areas of the coverings of a given set, where a covering consists of a finite union of rectangles. One result named for this mathematician and Hölder follows from Zassenhaus's Lemma via Schreier's Refinement Theorem and states that any two composition series in a group are isomorphic. Any matrix with coefficients from an algebraically closed field can be rewritten in terms of blocks containing a single eigenvalue on the main diagonal and ones on the superdiagonal, a block form name after this man. Another result of his states that any closed curve divides the plane into an inside and an outside. For 10 points, identify this French mathematician, namesake of a "normal" or "canonical" form of a matrix, as well as a curve theorem.
ANSWER: CamilleJordan
16. This president's nomination of John Parker to the Supreme Court was not approved after backlash from organized labor and the NAACP. Though the Clark Memorandum was written during his predecessor's administration, this man attempted to implement it by withdrawing troops from Nicaragua and Haiti. This man appointed George Wickersham to chair a commission that produced the report Lawlessness in Law Enforcement and found the Volstead Act to be unenforceable. Before becoming president, this man had served as head of the U.S. Food Administration and Secretary of Commerce. For 10 points, taking public blame for the Bonus Army fiasco and ineffectively dealing with the Great Depression probably cost what thirty-first President his 1932 re-election bid?