Ryan Westbrook Dream Packet
By Brendan Byrne, Dallas Simons, and Bruce Arthur
1. This man was the answer to tossup 6 of MIT’s packet at the 2009 Penn Bowl. According to legend, Philippe de Commynes left his position as court historian to this ruler after this ruler threw a shoe at him This ruler once massacred the inhabitants of the city of Nesle after the expiration of the Treaty of Peronne. (+) This ruler won the Battle of Montlhery, after which he forced one of his rivals to sign the Peace of Conflans. This man also fought a war against Rene II of (*) Lorraine. This participant in the “Mad War” had a daughter who married the Duke of Austria, and while attempting to capture the city of Nancy this man had his head split open by a Swiss mercenary, leading to the division of his lands between France and Austria. For ten points, name this last independent Duke of Burgundy.
ANSWER: Charles the Bold [or Charles the Rash; or Charles le Temeraire; accept “Charles of Burgundy” before Burgundy is mentioned]
2. This movement was preceded by a question on Hadley Cells in Round 6 of the first incarnation of FICHTE. One member of this movement examined medieval feudalism in his work The Chivalrous Society, while another member of this movement wrote about Cathars in the French village of Montaillou. (+) In addition to Georges Duby and Emmanuel LaDurie, other members of this movement's third generation included Marc Ferro and Jacques Le Goff, who emphasized (*) mentalitiés. This movement was founded by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre, who founded a journal and examined events using the longue durée time scale. However, this school is most closely associated with the author of Civilization and Capitalism who used this schools approach in his magnum opus The Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II. For 10 points, name this French historiography school associated with Ferdinand Braudel, which shares its name with a work of Tacitus.
ANSWER: Annales School
3. There was a tossup on one of this man’s works at in UC-Irvine’s packet at 1999 Cardinal Classic. Lesser-known works of this man include Morning Girl, Cloud Chamber, and Sees Behind Trees. One novel of his features the characters Christine, Ida, and Rayona, wile another highlights the life of his (+) adopted son Reynold, who was stricken with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Those two works are A Yellow Raft in Blue Water and The Broken Cord. (*) This man collaborated with his one-time wife on The Crown of Columbus, The Beat Queen and Love Medicine. For 10 points, name this author whose American Indian heritage is debated, probably best noted for formerly being married to Louise Erdrich, a somewhat controversial author who committed suicide in 1997.
ANSWER: Michael Anthony Dorris
4. This leader came up as a tossup answer in the 2008 Minnesota Open, 2009 THUNDER, and in Round 2 of the July Crisis. This figure's political philosophy was the model of a similar form in the pacific established by Walter Lini, and this figure was victorious at the Battle of Lukuya. (+) Later in life, this figure attempted to mediate a civil war in Burundi, and this figure helped bring France-Albert Rene to power in the (*) Seychelles. This figure served under Sir Richard Turnbull before founding the TANU party, and this member of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi party picked Ali Hassan Mwinyi as his successor. This author of Freedom and Development issued the Arusha Declaration, which established his thoughts on socialism called ujamaa. For 10 points, identify this figure who united Tanganyika and Zanzibar and served as the first president of Tanzania.
ANSWER: Julius Nyerere
5. This man was the answer to tossup 5 in packet 4 of 2009 Ike Bowl. This man was invited to the city in which he did most of his work by William Farel. In the opening line of one book, this man defined wisdom as having two parts: knowledge of God and of ourselves. This man wrote the treatise Psychopannychia, which refuted the (+) Anabaptist doctrine of soul sleep. This man’s views were attacked during the (*) Quinquarticular Controversy, but were defended by Franciscus Gomarus. This man was the teacher of Theodore Beza, and this man’s theology is sometimes reduced to “five points” abbreviated TULIP. More details about this man’s views can be found in his book, Institutes of the Christian Religion. For ten points name this reformer from Geneva associated with predestination.
ANSWER: John Calvin
6. At 2009 ICT, a bonus where the third part was Italo Calvino, this man was the answer to the second part. This man assembled Alexandre Kojeve’s Introduction to the Reading of Hegel, and this author translated Amos Tutuola’s The Palm-Wine Drinkard into French. One of this man’s works begins with the word “Doukipdonktan,” (+) This author created the character of Valentine Bru in a novel that would later be turned into a movie, (*) The Sunday of Life. This author wrote a book of poetry titled Si tu t’imagines, and wrote a work titled One Hundred Trillion Sonnets. One work of this author features an 11 year-old, as well as a drag queen in Paris that was turned into a 1960 movie by LouisMalle. For 10 points, name this French author of Exercises in Style, and Zazie in the Metro, who like Georges Perec is a noted member of the Oulipo movement.
ANSWER: Raymond Queneau
7. A 2004 ICT tossup on this sport began with a clue about the Hungarian government spending 4 million dollars to support Zsolt Baumgartner, this sport’s first major Hungarian competitor. In the 1950’s, this sport was dominated by the Argentine (+) Manuel Fangio. From 1976 to 1983, this sport held an annual competition in Long Beach, California, which it termed “United States West”. Other notable competitors in this sport include the (*) Finnish Mika Hakkinen, and in recent years this sport has held competitions in foreign locations such as Malaysia and Bahrain. For ten points, name this sport once dominated by Michael Schumacher, the most notable European car racing circuit.
ANSWER: Formula One [accept: F1]
8. A tossup on this group followed a tossup on the Wannsee Conference in Round One of Gaddis. Members of this ethnic groups constructed knives called makiri for use in courtship, and this culture's houses had a central window called the rorun puyar and a willow stick called the inaw representing the houses's spirit. (+) The towns of Shiraoi and Akan are modeled after villages of these people, and today the chief tourist center of these people is at Nibutani. The creation god of this people was known as Kamui and they believed that the world was located on the back of a giant trout, and one ceremony of this people uses (*) strangling poles to restrain an animal while it is shot in the heart with a bow and arrow. Although some members of this ethnic group can be found in the Kuril Islands and on the island of Sakhalin, most live in the Hidaka district southeast of Sapporo. Known for their custom of the Bear Sacrifice, for 10 points, identify this ethnic group inhabiting the island Hokkaido in northern Japan noted for their light skin.
ANSWER: Ainu People
9. The author of this question was unable to find any tossups or bonuses on this literary work, although there was a tossup on the author of this poem at 2004 ACF Nationals. One section of this poem states “This is how I will/scratch my head/munch on seeds/some sunflower seeds.” (+) Another section states, “the blizzard splits his seams, the snow/ laughs wildly up the wirlwind’s sleeve.” This poem contains a prostitute, and a character named Peter, and Jesus Christ is used as a metaphor in this poem that describes (*) Red Army Soldiers. This poem compares events in St. Petersburg to a group of people who included Andrew, and Matthew, and this poem was published after some of its author’s lesser known works such as “Songs of the Beautiful Lady,” and ‘The Scythians.” For 10 points, name this Symbolist poem published in 1918, a poem that is likely the best known work of Alexander Blok, and is titled after a number.
ANSWER: “The Twelve” [or whatever that is in Russian]
10. This man has only been mentioned once at a modern ACF tournament, as the middle part of a 2004 Nationals bonus whose easy part was Alfred Binet. This man once won a libel suit against his critic, William Cobbett. This man resigned one position after a dispute with his rival and successor, William Shippen. This (+) Philadelphian’s anti-slavery works included “An Address to the Inhabitants of the British Settlements in America, upon Slave-Keeping”, and he is also credited with writing the letters that made (*) Thomas Jefferson and John Adams reconcile in 1812. More notably, this man wrote the first psychiatry textbook to be published in America and served as the first Surgeon General of the Continental Army. For ten points, name this doctor of the American Revolution, considered the founder of American medicine.
ANSWER: Benjamin Rush
11. Both 2008 VCU Open, and 2009 Chicago Open had bonuses entirely on this artist and his works. This artist demonstrated the title meteorological phenomenon in Landscape with a Rainbow, and like Ford Madox Brown, this man painted scenes of the Industrial Revolution such as The Iron Forge. This painter of A Girl Reading a Letter based one of his paintings on a (+) 79 A.D. historical event. That painting by this student of Thomas Hudson was (*) An Eruption of Vesuvius, Seen From Portici. This artist painted Miravan Opening the Grave of His Forefathers, Three Gentleman Observing the Gladiator, and The Alchemist In Search of the Philosopher’s Stone. He may me better known for The Maid of Corinth, and A Philosopher Lecturing in the Orrery. For 10 points, name this artist of many dark paintings, an artist who emphasizes the titlecontraption in An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, a British artist of the 18th century, who is as his name indicates, is from Derby.
ANSWER Joseph Wright of Derby
12. At the main site of 2008 Minnesota Open, this scientist was the third part of a bonus in that tournament’s first round. This scientist invented the crystal oscillator, and his name is sometimes attached to The Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert Equation. (+) This scientist made important research advances in paramagnetism and diamagnetism, and along with Pierre Curie, whom he co-names a law with, he studied (*) piezoelectricity. Although this man is not Albert Einstein, one of this physicist’s ideas is similar to a doubly eponymous equation that models Brownian Motion, called the Fokker-Planck Equation. For ten points, name this French physicist who created the Twin Paradox, a physicist with a namesake formula, function, law, and equation.
ANSWER: Paul Langevin
13. At 2008 Cardinal Classic, this geologic period was the lead-in clue for a tossup on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The term “coal gap” refers to how we have never found coal from the early part of this geologic period. The Crurotarsi, a group that includes modern (+) crocodiles, evolved during this period. The leading herbivore of the early parts of this period was Cynodont, a therapsid synapsid. (*) Herrerasaurus, Eoraptor, and Coelophysis were dinosaurs from this period, during which both theropods and prosauropods appeared. This geologic period followed the Mass Extinction at the end of the Permian, and it was during this period that dinosaurs first evolved. For ten points, name this first period of the Mesozoic Era, which preceded the Jurassic.
ANSWER: Triassic [prompt on “Mesozoic”]
14. A tossup on this disease in ACF Nationals 2006 noted that it was diagnosed by searching the EEG for triphasic spikes. The inherited form of this disease is caused by mutations on the PRNP gene, and cases of this disease from transplanted corneas and improperly sterilized electrodes in the brain are called (+) “iatrogenic” cases, which contrasts with the “sporadic” cases. One form of this disease includes higher levels of 14-3-3 proteins, high levels of PrPSc, and an MRI giving a (*) pulvinar sign” are associated with this disease's “variant” form. This incurable disease leads to ataxia, dementia, and death within one year, as a result of cavities forming in the brain. For 10 points, identify this disorder, a spongiform encephalopathy in humans which is caused by prions and is often associated with mad cow disease, named for two German scientists.
ANSWER: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
15. This opera appeared as a tossup answer at ACF Nationals in both 2007 and 2009, which notes this opera's recitative “Sventurata.” The title character of this opera wonders if ghosts will haunt him in the aria “Vedrommi intorno.” One character in this opera asks for the (+) winds to bring love songs in the aria “Zeffiretti lusinghieri,” and the assistant Arbace sings the aria “Se il tuo duol” before two characters consider fleeing to Argos. One aria mentions a storm in his (*) soul in “Fuor del mar” and two characters are reunited on the coast while singing the aria “Il padre adorato.” Elettra loves one character who sings the aria “Non ho colpa” to Ilia, and that character later killed a sea monster. The title character of this opera is subject to the wrath of Neptune for refusing to sacrifice his son Idamante after arriving home from the Trojan War. For 10 points, identify this Mozart opera about a king of Crete.
ANSWER: Idomeneo, re di Creta
16. An RMPFest II tossup on this figure noted that he can be identified by the fact that dogs do not attack him, a clue that Bruce Arthur learned while reading about this figure’s visit to Agnar. Snorri credits this figure with founding the city of Sigtun, and this figure drinks in the hall of (+) Sokkvabekk. The villainous king Geirroth once tortured this figure, who once traveled to the underworld to interpret one of (*) Baldur’s bad dreams. Much of the poetic edda called the Havamal consists of this figure bragging about the various magical songs he knows, some of which he learned by using the Tusk of Rati. This god owns a hall made of shields called Gladsheim, and his mount is a son of Loki with eight legs. For ten points, name this owner of Sleipnir, Draupnir, and Gungnir, the one-eyed king of the Norse gods.