ROUND 4
WILDCAT INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT
TOSSUPS
1. At the beginning of this poem the protagonist has a dream warning her to beware of jealousy, pride, and men, but forgets the dream after being awakened by her dog Shock. Despite the protection offered by an army of sylphs led by the sprite Ariel, the title event occurs during a game of cards, and when the gnome Umbriel unleashes the charms acquired from Queen Spleen a battle ensues to regain the prize Lord Petre had stolen from Belinda. FTP, what is this mock-epic by Alexander Pope?
Answer: The Rape of the Lock
2. Major applications of this phenomenon include continuous wave and Fourier transform spectroscopy. In an external magnetic field, the moment vector of a nucleus with nonzero spin will precess about the field direction, allowing for the absorption of electromagnetic radiation. First observed independently by Edward Purcell and Felix Bloch, FTP, what is this phenomenon utilized by MRIs?
Answer: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
3. The central character of this work is first seen as a young man being fitted for clothes, and after spending time with artists and professors is then seen in a tavern being attended to by various women. In the final scene he is shown on the bottom right barely clothed and with a shaved head in a mad house, after having been arrested for debt and married to an old maid and depicted in scenes in a gambling house and prison. FTP, what is this series of eight engravings by William Hogarth?
Answer: The (or A) Rake’s Progress
4. As regent this leader defeated the Crimean Tatars, regained previously lost lands from Sweden, and recolonized Siberia. He is thought to have caused the death of Czarevitch Dmitri during Fyodor I's reign in order to prepare his path to the throne, which he attained in 1598, but his reign was weakened by the opposition of the false Dmitri. FTP, who was this tsar, the subject of a Pushkin play and Mussorgsky opera?
Answer: Boris Godunov
5. The Visp-rat part of this religious text contains homages to a number of spiritual leaders. The Vendidad concerns law, and also describes the first man, Yima. The Khurda is a collection of minor texts and hymns, while the Yashts are 21 hymns to various angels. The religious core is the Gathas, which are thought to be the very words of the religion’s founder. FTP, what is this religious text of Zoroastrianism?
Answer: Zend-Avesta
6. The title character of this novel is sent by Stein and Company to work at a distant trading post, where he hopes to escape the shame of his conduct on the Patna. On Patusan he falls in love with his predecessor Cornelius’ step-daughter Jewel and befriends Dain Waris, son of the chief Doramin, but when Cornelius’s treachery allows the ruffian “Gentleman” Brown to ambush the tribe and kill Dain Waris, the protagonist turns himself over to tribal justice and is shot by Doramin. FTP, what is this novel by Joseph Conrad?
Answer: Lord Jim
7. While working on cacodyl compounds a laboratory explosion cost this chemist an eye. He invented the carbon-zinc electric cell named for him, and with Gustav Kirchhoff used spectroscopic analysis to discover cesium and rubidium. FTP, who was this German known for a vertical metal tube through which a jet of fuel gas is directed known as his burner?
Answer: Robert Bunsen
8. This man reportedly writes all of his speeches in the bathtub, and before becoming an economist was a clarinet and saxophone player in a swing band. With bond trader William Townsend he founded a prosperous economic consulting firm, and first entered politics as director of policy research for Nixon’s 1968 presidential campaign. Gerald Ford appointed him chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, and he was appointed to his most famous post in 1987. Recently confirmed for a fourth term, FTP, who is this chairman of the Federal Reserve Board?
Answer: Alan Greenspan
9. This war was prompted by one participant’s loss of its Pacific coast in the Tacna-Arica settlement. Colonel Jose Felix Estigarribia was victorious despite being outnumbered, mainly due to the failure of Bolivia’s Indian conscripts to adapt to the humid conditions of the disputed region, forcing Bolivia to sue for peace in 1935. FTP, what was this war in which Paraguay won much of the lowland plain between the two countries?
Answer: Gran Chaco War
10. This philosopher’s biographer reports that he achieved a state of mystical union with God at least four times. A student of Ammonius Saccas, he convinced Emperor Gallienus to build a city to be governed according to the ideas of Plato, while his own ideas are found in the “Enneads” recorded by his student Porphyry. FTP, who was this 3rd century Greek philosopher, the founder of Neoplatonism?
Answer: Plotinus
11. Ultra-short acting ones like thiopental sodium and thiamylal are used intravenously to induce unconsciousness. Although largely replaced as sedatives by benzodiazepines, Nembutal, Amytal, and Seconal are used to fall asleep, while long-acting ones like Luminal are used to treat epilepsy. FTP, what is this class of organic compounds derived from malonyl urea and named for a woman?
Answer: barbiturates
12. This artist’s best-known paintings are the frescos in the grand salon of the Palazzo della Concelleria depicting the life of Pope Paul III, now known as the “room of a hundred days”. The first important collector of drawings, his reputation as an artist rests on his architecture, including his home in Arezzo and the Uffizi in Florence, but he is best-known for a work of history describing the progress of art in Italy. FTP, name this author of the “Lives of the Artists”.
Answer: Giorgio Vasari
13. As a child this literary character is taken by his doctor father to an Indian camp, where he witnesses a suicide, the first of many traumatic events in his life. His development from his boyhood in the Michigan woods to his return from WWI is described in stories like The Battler, The End of Something, Big Two-Hearted River, and The Killers. FTP, name this subject of many of the stories of In Our Time, considered the alter-ego of Ernest Hemingway.
Answer: Nick Adams
14. This politician served four different stints as a US Senator from 1817-61, and served as US Attorney General in 1841 and from 1850-53. Born near Versailles, Kentucky, he served as governor of Kentucky from 1848-50, and on December 18, 1860 introduced a resolution which would have permitted slavery in territories south of the line set by the Missouri Compromise. FTP, who was this senator famous for this proposed compromise?
Answer: John J. Crittenden
15. The Yaila Range rises in the south, while bodies of water surrounding this land mass include Akhtiarskaya Bay, Karkinitsky Bay, and the Kerch Strait. Connected to the mainland by the Perekop Isthmus, its major cities include Gurzuf, Alupka, its capital Simferopol, Sevastopol, and Yalta. Surrounded by the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea, FTP, what is this autonomous republic in southern Ukraine for which an 1853-56 war is named?
Answer: Crimea or Krym
16. They are apparently produced by three sets of closely linked genes that are located near the end of the short arm on chromosome 1. Absent from a high percentage of Basques, Berbers, and Bedouins, women who lack them are treated with gamma globulin after their first pregnancy to prevent erythroblastosis fetalis in subsequent offspring, while if transfusion patients who lack them are given blood containing them they will produce antibodies which will attack the foreign red blood cells from future transfusions. Discovered by Philip Levine, R.E. Stetson, A.S. Weiner, and Karl Landsteiner, FTP, what are these antigens named for the type of monkey blood used to determine its presence?
Answer: rH antigens or factor
17. According to myth this god fights the snake-like monster Apep and protects the sun barge of Re during its nightly journey through the underworld, where he is said to seize the souls of the unwary. Reputedly born in Ombos, he is most commonly associated with the consorts Astarte and Anat, and one story holds that he had his foreleg and testicles torn off while battling Horus, whose eye he took. FTP, who is this Egyptian god of chaos who tore Osiris’s body into pieces and scattered them throughout Egypt?
Answer: Seth or Set
18. This revolt was effectively ended by the arrival of US Commander John Sloat. Begun on June 10 when US citizens attacked Mexican authorities they believed were going to arrest them near John Sutter’s fort, it saw the occupation of Sonoma, and after John C. Fremont took command of the rebels he occupied San Francisco, but the US retook control of California a week later. FTP, what was this 1846 attempt to create a republic of California named for its flag?
Answer: Bear Flag Revolt
19. This musical work is divided into two unequal parts, the first a setting of the Latin words of the 9th century vesper hymn Veni, vreator spiritus, the second a setting of the closing scene of Part II of Goethe’s Faust. The first completely choral symphony in the history of music, its performance requires three sopranos, 2 contraltos, tenor, baritone, bass, double choras, boys’ chorus, organ, and a full orchestra. FTP, what is this Gustav Mahler symphony named for the large numbers required to perform it?
Answer: Symphony of a Thousand or Mahler’s Eighth Symphony
20. Beginning with the discovery of Jeremiah de Saint-Amour’s suicide, the first chapter of this novel describes the last day in the life of Dr. Juvenal Urbino. Thus ended the 51 year, 9 month, and 4 day wait of Florentino Ariza, who had engaged in a long series of affairs to make up for the loss of Urbino’s wife, Fermina Daza. FTP, what is this novel about unrequited love by Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
Answer: Love in the Time of Cholera
ROUND 4
BONUSES
1. FTPE, name these related acts from US History.
1. (10 points) This 1807 act outlawed export of US goods and forbade US ships to sail outside territorial waters in an attempt to avoid being dragged into the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon used it as a pretext to seize US ships under the Bayonne Decree.
Answer: Embargo Act
2. (10 points) This 1809 act repealed the Embargo Act and allowed trade with all countries but France and Great Britain.
Answer: Nonintercourse Act
3. (10 points) This 1810 law replaced the Nonintercourse Act and permitted the president to reopen trade with Britain and France with the proviso that if either agreed to honor the neutrality of the US Merchant Marine trade would cease with the other if it didn’t reciprocate.
Answer: Macon’s Bill Number 2
2. FTPE, name these psychological concepts introduced by Carl Jung.
1. (10 points) These are images, patterns, and symbols that are often seen in dreams and appear as themes in myth, religion, and fairy tales.
Answer: archetypes
2. (10 points) This is a group of associated ideas, usually charged with emotion, which may be wholly or partly repressed.
Answer: complex
3. (10 points) This is the part of the collective unconsciousness within an individual which represents the feminine aspect of man’s nature.
Answer: animus or anima
3. FTPE, answer the following about amino acids.
1. (10 points) When the SH groups of two molecules of this amino acid are oxidized a disulphide bridge is formed, which maintains the three-dimensional shape of proteins.
Answer: cysteine
2. (10 points) The amino acid sequence in a polypeptide chain can be found using this reagent also called 2,4-dinitrofluorobenzene. Used in identifying the terminal amino acid in a protein, it is named for a chemistry Nobel Prize winner.
Answer: Sanger reagent
3. (10 points) At the isoelectric point amino acids exist as these ions exhibiting both acidic and basic properties, depending on the pH.
Answer: zwitterions
4. FTPE, name these characters from a novel by Laurence Sterne.
1. (10 points) This gentleman attempts to write his own autobiography, but spends most of his time describing the lives of his father Walter, his Uncle Toby, and others. The text is often interrupted by his long-winded opinions.
Answer: Tristram Shandy
2. (10 points) Tristram Shandy describes this humorous parson who claims descent from a character in Hamlet.
Answer: Yorick
3. (10 points) Gogol’s The Nose was inspired by this imaginary author with a great nose, who Shandy describes as a expert on all nose lore.
Answer: Hafen Slawkenbergius
5. 5-10-15, name the following about a work of Hindu myth.
1. (5 points) Containing the Shantiparvan, a discourse on statecraft, as well as the Bhagavadgita, this epic poem tells of the war between the royal brothers Dhritarashtra and Pandu.
Answer: Mahabharata
2. (10 points) In the Mahabharata the eldest Pandava, Yudhishtira, gains the throne, while Arjuna gains the hand of this princess, a strong-willed woman whose anger at being disrobed by Duryodhana leads to the battle of Kurukshetra.
Answer: Draupadi
3. (15 points) In the famous Savitri episode Damayanti falls in love with this king of Nishadha. Four gods want to marry Damayanti too, so they all take this man’s form, but Damayanti nonetheless chooses the actual version of him to marry.
Answer: Nala
6. F5PE and 30 for all correct, given a country, name its primary representative at the Congress of Vienna.
1. (5 points) France
Answer: Charles Maurice Talleyrand-Perigord
2. (5 points) Austria
Answer: Prince Clemens Metternich Winneburg
3. (5 points) England
Answer: Robert Stuart, Viscount Castlereagh