ACF Fall 2012: I Made it on the Bevel
Edited by Matt Bollinger, Diana Gerr, Jarret Greene, Daniel Hothem, Jasper Lee, and Stephen Liu
Packet by UNC (Peter Schultz, Peter Wu, Gregg Godwin)
TOSSUPS
1. A mutated form of transcription factor c-myc is found in these structures. These structures release molecules like basic fibroblast growth factor to induce poorly-regulated angiogenesis in surrounding microvessels. Complications such as hyperuricemia can occur in their namesake lysis syndrome. When these objects circulate through the bloodstream it is called hematogeneous spread, or more generally metastasis. These bodies often highly express oncogenes, and they are most commonly manifested as carcinomas. For 10 points, identify these swellings which can be either benign or malignant and may be caused by cancer.
ANSWER: tumors [prompt on cancer cells]
2. This god broke the backs of two giants who pushed from under his chair and tried to crush him against the ceiling. The sorceress Groa momentarily stopped chanting while healing this god and left a whetstone stuck in his forehead. This god’s goats had the ability to regenerate themselves after they were eaten. To get a possession back from Thrym, he once cross-dressed as the goddess Freya. Thialfi was a companion of this god, who wore a belt that doubled his strength and was married to a golden-haired goddess named Sif. For 10 points, name this hammer-wielding Norse god of thunder.
ANSWER: Thor
3. Optimality Theory proposes that a series of ranked constraints determine which of these objects is chosen in a given environment. In a phenomenon known as neutralization, distinctive features which contrast these objects may be eliminated. It has been postulated that these objects are represented in the mind via feature geometry. One way to determine whether two of these objects are in contrastive distribution is by looking at a minimal pair. Variants of these objects which occur in a predictable environment are called allophones. For 10 points, identify this linguistic unit, the smallest pairing of sound and contrastive meaning.
ANSWER: Phoneme [or Phone before “neutralization” is read; prompt on sounds]
4. This value is a linear function of defect concentration at low concentrations according to the spherical Montroll-Berlin-Kac model. At this value, susceptibility equals infinity according to a law named for this value and Weiss. Past this value, rotation symmetry in certain materials breaks down in a second-order phase transition. It is analogous to the Neel point for an “anti” type of material. Above this point, ferromagnets begin to exhibit paramagnetism. For 10 points, give this temperature that is named for a French physicist who worked with his wife Marie on radioactivity.
ANSWER: Curie temperature [or Curie point]
5. This state’s highest peak is located within the St. Francois Mountains, which is bordered by the Mississippi Alluvial Plains to the south. This state’s Marvel Cave contains the one of the largest entrance rooms in North America and eventually became the basis of the Silver Dollar City theme park. A massive 1812 earthquake originated in this state’s New Madrid Seismic Zone, and this state experienced a dioxin contamination in the 1970s at Times Beach. The Pony Express and Oregon Trail began in this state, and the Mississippi River and its namesake river converge at St. Louis. For 10 points, name this Midwestern state with capital at Jefferson City.
ANSWER: Missouri
6. Sergei Prokofiev wrote five of these works, the second of which he rewrote from memory after the score was lost in a fire. The first of this type of work by Tchaikovsky begins with a four-note horn fanfare. The second of these works by Rachmaninoff was written after hypnosis convinced him to and is in C minor. Beethoven wrote five of this type of composition, including one nicknamed “Emperor.” Ravel and Prokofiev both wrote works of this type “for the left hand.” For 10 points, name this type of musical composition, in which the orchestra accompanies a solo keyboard instrument.
ANSWER: piano concerto [prompt on concerto; prompt on works for piano or anything else that is not specific]
7. One protagonist created by this author spends two years at the Benedictine monastery Mariafels, where he befriends Father Jacobus, and learns from Elder Brother in the Bamboo Grove. Another of this author’s protagonists meets a jazz saxophonist who loves Mozart, Pablo, and kills his lover Hermine inside the Magic Theater. Another character created by this author contemplates a river and hears the word “Om,” then succeeds his friend as ferryman of the river. Joseph Knecht and Harry Haller are creations of, for 10 points, what German-Swiss novelist, the author of The Glass Bead Game, Siddhartha, and Steppenwolf?
ANSWER: Hermann Hesse
8. This man stated that “We will not walk to Canossa” following Pope Pius IX’s rejection of his country’s ambassador. A conference organized by this man protected the right to free trade in the Congo basin. The training and appointment of clergy were made state responsibilities when this man passed the Falk laws. He chatted with the captured Napoleon III after the Battle of Sedan, which ended a war he provoked by editing the Ems Dispatch. This man’s “culture war” against the Catholic Church was known as Kulturkampf. This man engaged in realpolitik and is famous for his “blood and iron” oration. For 10 points, name this “Iron Chancellor” of Prussia.
ANSWER: Otto von Bismarck
9. This man collaborated with Johnny Hartman on an album that included notable performances of “Lush Life” and “They Say It’s Wonderful.” This jazz musician’s interest in Indian music led him to name his son after Ravi Shankar .This man’s first album fully made of his own compositions includes “Mr. P.C.,” a reference to Paul Chambers, while another of his albums includes the songs “Acknowledgement” and “Resolution.” Ira Gitler referred to this man’s music as “sheets of sound.” For 10 points, name this jazz saxophonist who is best known for his albums Giant Steps and A Love Supreme.
ANSWER: John Coltrane
10. While at Harvard, this thinker rejected Kantian thought by defining beauty as “pleasure objectified” that gives us our idea of God, rather than the other way around. This philosopher critiqued Cartesian foundationalism by arguing that humans are certain in their knowledge not out of reason, but because of a pre-rational belief in matter, concluding that philosophy must begin “in medias res.” This author of The Sense of Beauty described matter, essence, truth, and spirit as the “realms of being” and wrote Skepticism and Animal Faith. For 10 points, identify this Spanish-American philosopher who stated, “those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.”
ANSWER: George Santayana
11. This king visited his sister while travelling as “Count Falkenstein.” The treaty of Versailles was strengthened by this man’s marriage to Isabella of Parma. One of this man’s reforms was an attempt to quell a peasant revolt in Horea. This man extended religious freedom to Jews with his Edict of Tolerance, which was released a year after his Patent of Toleration. This man became co-regent after the death of his father Francis I. This brother of Marie Antoinette was succeeded by his younger brother Leopold I, who undid this man’s liberation of the serfs. For 10 points, name this enlightened son of Maria Theresa.
ANSWER: Joseph II
12. G.C. Pimental has attempted to bond this element with two fluoride atoms. This element’s yellow spectral lines were first observed during a solar eclipse by Pierre Janssen. Two atoms of this element can be combined to form Beryllium, and ultimately Carbon-12. This element’s most common isotope does not have a triple point where gas, liquid, and solid phases coexist in equilibrium. This element forms the basis for the triple-alpha process, and it can be created by the fusion of hydrogen. For 10 points, name this element with atomic number two, the lightest of the Noble gases.
ANSWER: Helium
13. The initiates of this faith are called The Knowers, or uqqal, and they are the only ones with access to this religion’s holy texts, The Instruction. Although this religion eschews ritual and ceremony, its adherents revere the tombs of Sabalan and Jethro as holy sites. Founded during the caliphate of al-Hakim, this faith is symbolized by a five-pointed star of green, yellow, red, white, and blue. After a feud with the Maronite Christians, many members of this faith moved to Mt. Hauran in Syria. For 10 points, identify this monotheistic religion that grew out of Islam and is practiced in Israel, Lebanon, and Syria.
ANSWER: Druze
14. This poet asked, “Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?” in an poem attacking Lord Hervey as “Sporus.” This writer penned the phrases “A little learning is a dangerous thing: / Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring” and “to err is human, to forgive divine” in one of his works. This author of the “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot” wrote an epic poem in which guardian sylphs such as Brillante and Ariel appear; that work by this author centers upon Lord Petre’s theft of a snippet of Belinda’s hair. For 10 points, identify this English poet, known for using elegiac couplets in poems like Essay on Man and The Rape of the Lock.
ANSWER: Alexander Pope
15. In this conflict, William Hicks’ army was completely destroyed at the Battle of El Obeid, and following that battle, the victor enlisted the help of the Hadendoa tribe, known as “Fuzzy-Wuzzys.” Garnet Wolseley was sent to relieve a key city during this conflict, but arrived two days after General “Chinese” Gordon’s force hadbeen defeated and slaughtered. Following the death of this conflict’s instigator, an army under Horatio Kitchener crossed south from Egypt and won a decisive victory at the Battle of Omdurman. For 10 points, name this colonial war in Sudan started by a Messianic leader.
ANSWER: Mahdi Revolt [accept Mahdist War or Anglo-Sudan War or the Sudanese Revolt or the Sudanese Campaign or the River War as Winston Churchill apparently called it]
16. According to Reichler et al, changes in wind patterns known as polar vortices in this area can cause a shift in deep sea circulation. During the winter, PSCs can be found in this area, which is also where blue jets reside. This area gets its name from a characteristic which is caused by the breakdown of ozone into atomic and diatomic oxygen in the presence of UVB and UVC radiation. These reactions cause this area to be warmer towards the top and colder towards the bottom, at an area called the tropopause. Aircraft often reach the lower levels of this atmospheric layer. For 10 points, identify this atmospheric layer that lies above the troposphere.
ANSWER: Stratosphere
17. One story by this author begins with an algebra teacher reading in the paper about his brother being caught in a heroin bust, and ends with the narrator’s brother playing jazz piano in a Greenwich Village club. This author of the story “Sonny’s Blues” included “Down at the Cross” and a letter to his nephew, “My Dungeon Shook,” in his essay collection The Fire Next Time. In one of this author’s novels, the born-again preacher Gabriel denies that he fathered Royal in an affair, and fourteen-year-old John Grimes has a vision on the threshing-floor of a Harlem church. For 10 points, identify this African-American author of Go Tell It on the Mountain.
ANSWER: James Baldwin
18. Giambalogna used this style to sculpt his Rape of the Sabine Women. In a painting of this art style, an old man at the top extends a muscular arm to the left, while two title figures, a mother and son, share an illicit embrace. Painters from this art period include Jacopo Pontormo and the artist of Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time, Il Bronzino. An iconic painting from this art period shows an extremely large infant Jesus on the lap of Mary; that work is Madonna of the Long Neck by Parmigianino. For 10 points, name this art style that followed the High Renaissance and preceded the Baroque, which often depicted strained and elongated figures.
ANSWER: Mannerism [accept word forms; prompt on the Renaissance]
19. Two people were tried for manslaughter following this event and were acquitted, although they later lost a civil suit and had to pay $75 per victim. These two men, Isaac Harris and Max Blanck, were initially found guilty of violating Section 80 of the Labor Code. Josephine Goldmark and Rose Schneiderman used this event as motivation to continue pressing for better working conditions, and it was investigated by future Labor secretary Frances Perkins. Beginning on the 8th floor, the victims of this event were unable to escape due to padlocked doors. For 10 points, name this 1911 industrial disaster which struck a garment factory in the Asch building in Manhattan.
ANSWER: Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire [or the Triangle Fire]
20. In one scene of this novel, the protagonist falls asleep along with Abraham while delivering beehives, causing a crash that kills the family horse Prince. Minor characters in this novel include Reverend Cuthbert, who marries Mercy Chant, and Parson Tringham, who tells the protagonist’s father of his illustrious pedigree. Its protagonist works with Retty Priddle and Izz at Talbothay’s Dairy and hopes that her lover will marry her sister Liza-Lu after her death. The protagonist bears and buries a child named Sorrow, her son by Alec, who she later kills to reunite with her lover, Angel Clare. For 10 points, identify this novel by Thomas Hardy.
ANSWER: Tess of the D’Urbervilles
TIEBREAKER
During this war, William Augustus lost to Maurice de Saxe at Fontenoy. The treaty that ended this war renewed Great Britain’s rights to the asiento. This war began shortly before Frederick the Great’s victory at Mollwitz as part of his invasion of Silesia. Known as King George’s War in America, this war was precipitated by a decree that violated Salic law. That Pragmatic Sanction came into effect after the death of Charles VI. This war was ended by the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. For 10 points, name this war that ended with the retention of a certain throne by Maria Theresa.
ANSWER: War of the Austrian Succession [prompt on “First” or “Second Silesian” War]