Antonin Artaud Tournament of Cruelty
August 11, 2001
Round 3 Tossups
1. Son of a Gaylord judge, among his lesser known inventions is an off balance unicycle to be used for jugglers. His dissertation was entitled “An Algebra for Theoretical Genetics” and while a student he worked with Vannevar Bush on his Differential Analyzer. He wrote one of the early papers on getting a computer to play chess, but is more famous for work he did applying Boolean logic to switching circuits like telephone systems, writing the article, “A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits.” FTP identify this Michigan grad who pioneered information theory with his “A Mathematical Theory of Communication.”
answer: Claude Shannon
2. Toward the end of the novel the protagonist is taken care of by an old woman named Tiare, who eventually introduces him to his second wife, Ata. After a major illness, he is nursed back to health by the wife of a fellow in his profession. Though she professes to hate him, she falls in love with him, eschewing her husband Dirk Stroeve in the process. Stroeve stalks his wife until he finds she has poisoned herself because painter and stockbroker Charles Strickland has only been using her as a model in, for 10 points, what novel by W. Somerset Maugham?
answer: The Moon and Sixpence
3. Taking over the family barbershop upon the death of his brother, he later attended Knox College. Provost Marshal of Vicksburg for a time, he also worked as editor of the Southwestern Christian Advocate. Serving as president of Alcorn College after the war, he was later removed from the office but reelected because of his efforts in destroying the carpetbagger government of his state. For 10 points, name this African-American minister, Secretary of State ad interim and senator in the state of Mississippi, the first black man elected to the U.S. Senate.
answer: Hiram Rhoades Revels
4. An important theory of his was the so-called core-context theory of meaning, where new mental processes acquire their meaning from the context of other mental processes within which they occur. He also characterized mental processes as having five properties: quality, intensity, duration, clearness, and extensity. In such works as Systematic Psychology: A Prolegomena, he pioneered the use of structuralism in psychology, and developed his own school of psychology: the Experimentalists. For 10 points, identify this pioneering Cornell psychologist, known for having brought the ideas of Wundt to America.
answer: Edward Titchener
5. His second Orchestral Set includes the movements "An Elegy to our Forefathers" and "The Rockstrewn Hills Join in the People’s Outdoor Meeting." He also composed a symphony containing the parts “Washington’s Birthday,” “Decorated Day,” “Fourth of July,” and “Thanksgiving and Forefather’s Day” and titled New England Holidays. Having set General William Booth Enters Into Heaven and Lincoln the Great Commoner, he went on to such works as Central Park in the Dark and The Camp Meeting. For 10 points, name this composer of The Unanswered Question and Three Places in New England.
answer: Charles Edward Ives
6. To become catalitically competent, this protein must be activated through carbamylation of an active site LYS residue that completes the binding site for the essential Magnesium two plus ion. During photorespiration it catalyzes a competing oxygenation reaction, and during photosynthesis, it catalyzes the initial step in the fixation of carbon dioxide. FTP, identify this protein, the most abundant on earth, that is also known as ribulose-1,5-biphosphate carboylase/oxygease.
Answer: Rubisco (accept ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase or RuBP carbolase or Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygease or RuBP carboxylase/oxygenase, or RuBPCase on early buzz)
7. This poet published a translation of the fables of La Fontaine in 1954. Some of this poet’s critical prose works include "Idiosyncrasy and Technique: Two Lectures," and "Dress and Kindred Subjects." Working as a librarian in New York City, the poet later became the editor of the literary magazine, The Dial. Using a wide range of references in her poetry, in the poem “Like a Bulwark” she refers to a number of Protestant hymns. She also penned the collections O To Be A Dragon and Nevertheless, which contains the poem “The Mind is An Enchanting Thing.” For 10 points, identify this author of Observations, who wrote of poetry, “I, too, dislike it.”
answer: Marianne Moore
8. In the advertisement of this work, the author says that if he is successful in this work, he will move on to address Morals, Politics and Criticism, though his later work barely addresses them. The opening section contains his “Copy Principle”, that complex ideas are built out of faint sense impressions of basic ideas. The second section of the work, “Of the Passions” contains his theory of aesthetic judgments, which, unlike the other sections of this work, was not reworked into other books. The other sections “Of the Understanding” and “Of Morals” became books unto themselves. For 10 points, identify this monumental work in empiricism by David Hume.
answer: A Treatise of Human Nature
9. With the design and execution of such fresco series as the lyrical Romulus cycle in Bologna’s Palazzo Magnani, he was soon recognized as the most gifted of his family. He had earlier teamed with his brothers to found the Accademia degli Incamminati [del-YIN-cam-in-AH-tee], a painting school with the avowed purpose of reforming art by retrieving the classical principles of the High Renaissance masters. His works include The Butcher's Shop and The Assumption, though he became better known for his decorations of the Farnese Palace. For 10 points, name this artist of Domine, Quo Vadis? and Flight into Egypt.
answer: Annibale Carracci
10. After serving briefly as president of the Red Army Academy and as a member of the Communist liaison team with the Nationalists, in 1943 he resumed the presidency of the Military and Political Academy in the Communist capital of Yenan. Becoming commander of the Fourth Field Army, he had previously led the army vanguard during the Long March. For 10 points, name this vice premier of the State Council and a vice chairman of the National Defense Council who in 1971 allegedly sought to remove Mao Zedong and seize power and subsequently died mysteriously.
answer: Lin Biao or Lin Piao
11. Legend has it that in the Sala de los Abencerrages [ahb-ens-air-AH-gez] Boabdil massacred the Abencerrage chiefs at a banquet. The Hall of the Two Sisters is notable for its stalactite work, while other important sites include the Hall of the Ambassadores and the Court of the Myrtles. On the east side on the Hill of the Sun is the Generalife [hen-air-al-EEF-ay] and the Cypress of the Sultan. The most famous locations may be the Court of the Lions or the Alcazaba. For 10 points, name this building named for the red color of its brick, a landmark in Grenada.
answer: Alhambra
12. Among the many important mathematical results related to this concept of point set topology is that it provides a necessary condition for a space to have the property that all compact sets are closed. A related but slightly weaker condition is the T1 axiom. FTP, name the type of space in which any two distinct points are surrounded by disjoint open neighborhoods, named for a German mathematician who killed himself before being sent to a concentration camp.
answer: Hausdorff
13. In the same year that he graduated from university, his first short stories including “The Imo-gruel” and “The Handkerchief” were published. The story “Kesa and Morito” concerns a man driven to kill a man he doesn’t hate by a lover he doesn’t love. In the satiric “Kappa”, he writes a fairy tale about elves, and is meant to reflect on his native society. His suicide note contains allusions to the suicides of luminaries such as Empedocles and Heinrich von Kleist, and is famously titled, “A Note to a Certain Old Friend.” One of his stories, “In a Grove” was combined with another in a film adaptation. For 10 points, identify the Japanese author for whom a literary prize is named, the author of "Rashomon."
answer: Akutagawa Ryunosuke
14. One branch of the family, descended from Theodore, son of Andronicus II, held the marquisate of Montferrat from 1305 to 1533. Zoe, one of the last children of the family, married Ivan III of Russia. Though the accession of the infant John V was disputed by John VI Cantacuzenus, the family continued to control the Byzantine Empire with the coronation of Manuel II in 1391. For 10 points, name this dynasty that rose with Michael VIII and died out with Constantine XI under whom Constantinople fell to the Turks.
answer: Palaeologus
15. One of its notable architectural monuments is the palace of Peter the Cruel, built in the Mozarab style, and its main bridge across the Guadalquivir [GWAHD-ahl-kee-VEER] River is still called the Puente Generalisimo in honor of Franco. Its cathedral is built on the site of a massive mosque and still preserves its old tower, the Giralda [heer-AHL-duh]. A cigarette factory that was the workplace of Carmen still stands in, for 10 points, what biggest city of Andalusia whose other operatic residents include Don Giovanni and the barber Figaro?
answer: Seville or Sevilla
16. A forerunner of modern day freestyle rappers, he took only 20 minutes to spontaneously compose lyrics so great that his singing caused a mighty tempest. He prophesied Saxon invasions and in one song claimed to be patriarch to Elijah and asserted his presence at Christ’s crucifixion and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. His name means “behold the radiant forehead,” the first words uttered by his foster father upon fishing him from the sea. Formerly a lad named Gwion Bach, he was swallowed by and reborn from the sorceress Ceridwen after mistakenly tasting a wisdom potion. Later he would claim to be an incarnation of Merlin. For 10 points, name this legendary Welsh bard and magician who helped Elphin outwit King Maelgwn.
answer: Taliesin (prompt on "Gwion Bach" but not "J. S. Bach."
17. Educated by Gmelin and Berzelius, yhis scientist discovered silicon nitride, silicon tetrahydride, and calcium carbide, and was the first to suggest that the silanes might exhibit an “organic” chemistry paralleling that of the hydrocarbons. Earning an honor from Napoleon III for his method of extracting aluminum, his work with benzaldehyde brought the theory of radicals, the first attempt to understand the structure of organic compounds. FTP, identify this man, whose friendship with Liebig and their common interest in cyanates led to his 1828 synthesis of urea.
answer: Friedrich Wohler
18. The frame story deals with passengers who have been on a train for two weary days and a night. One passenger begins to discuss a woman from Penza with whom he once fell in love. After they had had several children, the narrator decided to stay married simply for them, despite the fact that they were nuisances, and found himself in a loveless marriage. Still, he was jealous of other men, and when a former nobleman and musician named Trukhashevsky called upon his wife, the narrator fell into a jealous rage and killed her. Podznishef tells his story and describes a violin composition of Beethoven in, for 10 points, what short story by Leo Tolstoy?
answer: The Kreutzer Sonata
19. Between 1753 and 1756 this author of Letters on Tolerance accompanied Vincent de Gournay on his tours of inspection to various French provinces and had previously served in the Parlement [pahr-luh-MAHN] and the Royal Chamber. Nominated intendant [ahn-tahn-DAHN] of Limoges [limm-OZH] by Louis XV, it was from that position that he published his most famous works Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth and Reflections on the Grain Trade. For 10 points name this French finance minister who introduced his Six Edicts two years after coming to power in 1774.
answer: Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron De L'aulne
20. The work features the story of a Count who had his testicles torn off by a dog when he was a boy. It also contains the famous distinction between shame cultures and guilt cultures, which is meant to highlight the external versus the internal motivations for restrained action. A large part of the book is devoted to the analysis of the effects of hierarchy, particularly as source of stability and order. A common criticism of the work is that it assumes nonlinear inheritance, that a society’s population in the past is identical to that of the present. Commissioned by U.S. Army Intelligence, this is, for 10 points, what work about Japanese society, written by Ruth Benedict?
answer: The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Round 3 Bonuses
1. His name mean “father of the Turks,” for the stated number of points:
(5) Name this founder of modern Turkey.
answer: Kemal Ataturk or Mustafa Kemal
(10) At the War College, Mustafa was involved in the political dissent directed against the despotism of this Sultan.
answer: Abdulhamid II
(5) Ataturk came to the forefront of the national consciousness during his successes against allied attacks during this campaign.
answer: Gallipoli
(10) This leader of the Young Turk movement was the virtual dictator of Turkey during World War I and in 1918 fled to Germany and on to Russia, where he tried to drum up support to overthrow Ataturk.
answer: Enver Pasha
2. For 10 points each, identify the following works of children’s literature, none of which is by the late, great Robert Cormier.
(10) Originally titled Penny Whistles, this tome that features the poems “My Shadow” and “The Lamplighter” was penned by Robert Louis Stevenson.