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 Washington (Joelle Smart, Carolyn Woods, Nate Beutel, Grayson Siegel, Evan Mann, Alex Avakiantz, and Mike Bentley)

TOSSUPS

1. As a player, this man once played for the Leicester Panthers of the Budweiser National League in the UK, and during the 1987 NFL players’ strike, this man played quarterback for the Chicago Bears. This man’s first NFL coaching job came in 1997 as quarterbacks coach for the Philadelphia Eagles. In his first NFL head coaching job in 2006, his team lost the NFC title game in Chicago, and in 2012, major fallout ensued from revelations that this man’s players had intentionally injured opposing players in exchange for cash bounties. For 10 points, name this currently suspended head coach of the New Orleans Saints.
ANSWER: Patrick Sean Payton

2. One of this writer’s poems describes the title women as unbeautiful and having “comfortable minds,” and ends by comparing the moon to “a fragment of angry candy.” Another poem by this writer describes a man “who used to ride a watersmooth-silver stallion” and begins by saying that “Buffalo Bill’s defunct.” This poet of “the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls” wrote a poem in which a balloonman “whistles far and wee” in “Just-spring,” while another of his poems contains the repeated line “sun moon stars rain.” For 10 points, name this poet of “anyone lived in a pretty how town,” who notably used lowercase letters as well as unusual punctuation and syntax.
ANSWER: edward estlin cummings

3. This man eliminated the post of princeps senatus, increased the number of quaestors and praetors, and doubled the size of the Senate from 300 to 600. After hearing of Cinna’s death, he started a rebellion that ended with his victory at the Battle of the Colline Gate. As quaestor, he diplomatically convinced Jugurtha to surrender during the Jugurthine War. After consolidating power, he had thousands of enemies killed by routinely publishing lists of them in the Forum with the promise of reward money for their deaths during his namesake “proscriptions.” For 10 points, name this dictator of the Roman Republic and rival of Marius.

ANSWER: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

4. This process has been linked to the degradation of IAA19, which binds to and inactivates certain transcriptional regulators. Those regulators, ARFs, may promote this process by controlling the expression of genes containing auxin response elements. Some mutants unable to perform this process contain lower levels of a protein whose domains bind to flavin chromophores. That namesake protein is autophosphorylated in response to a certain stimulus, resulting in accumulation of the hormone auxin in areas where the stimulus is absent. For 10 points, name this process that occurs under blue light and is principally controlled by the plant protein phototropin.
ANSWER: Phototropism

5. One tributary of this river is fed by the Duchesne and Yampa rivers; that tributary of this river is called the Green river. The Black Canyon is formed by this river, which then flows south where it is met by the Gila River near the city of Yuma. The town of Page is near the Glen Canyon Dam on this river. A Compact named after this river divvies up its water between six states, although California’s use of the surplus water has caused calls for renegotiation. Lake Powell and Lake Mead are both formed by dams on this river. For 10 points, name this river of the Southwestern U.S. that flows through the Grand Canyon.
ANSWER: Colorado River

6. This president signed the Budget and Accounting Act and made Charles Dawes director of the newly created Bureau of the Budget. This politician gave the speech nominating William Howard Taft at the 1912 Republican Convention and appointed Taft as chief justice of the Supreme Court. Party leaders decided to back this man in a “smoke-filled room” of the Blackstone Hotel. This man ran for president promising a “return to normalcy.” His Secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall, accepted bribes from oil companies in exchange for drilling contracts. For 10 points, name this Ohio Republican whose administration was tainted by the Teapot Dome Scandal.
ANSWER: Warren G. Harding

7. This thinker argued that societies did not just provide “individual” needs like food, but also had to provide for “instrumental” and “integrative” needs. This teacher of Edmund Leach researched whether the Oedipus Complex was universal across different cultures. In one study, he analyzed the spells used in cultivating yams and bananas by a certain culture. This author of Coral Gardens and Their Magic also examined a system of barter in which necklaces were exchanged clockwise and armshells counter-clockwise, the “kula ring,” in a study of the Trobriand Islanders. For 10 points, names this anthropologist, author of Argonauts of the Western Pacific.
ANSWER: Bronislaw Malinowski

8. One work by this artist shows a leopard pelt on a horse in a scene that depicts three hunting dogs and several men attacking the title creatures. Another piece by this creator of The Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt shows many putti playing among some red curtains while two pairs of lavishly-dressed men and women stand on a stage. That painting, The Exchange of the Princesses, was part of a series of works that was intended to depict the life of Marie de’ Medici. The center panel of an altarpiece by this artist shows several muscular men attempt to lift the seemingly unbearable weight of Christ. For 10 points, name this artist known for The Elevation of the Cross and fleshy nudes.
ANSWER: Peter Paul Rubens

9. The opacity of one material made up of this element is equal to pi times the fine structure constant, or roughly 2.3%. That material was first isolated by Geim and Novoselov by using the “Scotch tape” method. One molecule made from this element is made up of twelve pentagons and twenty hexagons. An isotope of this element with eight neutrons has a half-life of around 5,730 years. Buckyballs are made of this element; another substance made up of this element has a value of 10 on the Mohs hardness scale, while another is used as pencil lead. For 10 points, name this element used in radioactive dating that makes up graphite and diamonds.
ANSWER: Carbon [or C]

10. In one section of this work, the speaker states that “there was a Door to which I found no Key.” An extended section of this poem describes a dialogue between clay pots who discuss theology by wondering who their potter is. One verse of this work describes how “The Moving Finger writes and, having writ, moves on.” The most well-known English translation of this work is by Edward FitzGerald, and this work contains the lines “A book of verses underneath the bough, a jug of wine, a loaf of bread—and thou beside me singing in the wilderness.” For 10 points, name this collection of Persian poems written by Omar Khayyam.
ANSWER: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

11. This ruler’s civil service reforms include dividing public servants into thirty-three grades called mansabs and appointing wazirs to oversee revenue collection by local governors. This ruler built the Jama Masjid around the tomb of Salim Chishti in a capital he named the “city of victory,” Fatehpur Sikri. This ruler ingratiated himself to his Hindu subjects by marrying Rajput princesses and by abolishing the jizya tax on non-Muslims, though he fought against the Hindu king Hemu at the Second Battle of Panipat. For 10 points, name this successor of Humayun, the third and arguably greatest emperor of the Mughals.
ANSWER: Akbar the Great [or Jalal-ud-Din Muhammad Akbar]

12. This substance is added to chromium trioxide in order to form Jones’ reagent. An alkyne can be converted to a ketone using a mercury-containing catalyst in a solution of water and this substance. The fuming type of this molecule is created when a certain trioxide is dissolved in it. In addition to forming oleum, this substance can be created using the lead chamber process. However, a process that supplanted it involves a vanadium oxide catalyst; that method is known as the contact process. For 10 points, name this strong acid with chemical formula H2SO4.
ANSWER: sulfuric acid

13. In Irish myth, the sorceress Aife was transformed into one of these animals by Bodb after she turned the children of Llyr into these out of jealousy. Regin's plot to kill Sigurd was thwarted when Sigurd tasted blood and understood the speech of these animals. In the Arabian Nights, some of them that destroy Sinbad’s ship with boulders are called rocs. Hercules used a magic rattle to scare away some of these creatures in Lake Stymphalia, and one of them ate Prometheus’ liver every day. For 10 points, name this type of animal that included one that was born again from its ashes, the Phoenix.
ANSWER: birds [Accept swans until “speech of these” and accept eagles after “Prometheus.”]

14. This composer’s 12th string quartet includes the birdsong of a scarlet tanager and begins with a viola introducing a theme while the first and second violin play repeated 16th notes. This man composed a tone poem in which a young lady has her hands, feet, and eyes removed; that piece is The Golden Spinning Wheel. In addition to writing the “American” string quartet, this composer wrote a symphony that inspired the song “Going Home” and was based off African-American spirituals. For 10 points, name this Czech composer of Symphony No. 9 “From the New World.”
ANSWER: Antonin Leopold Dvorak

15. According to Flynn et al., these devices can experience a type of passive switching when they contain a polymer that undergoes the Kerr effect. These devices require a pumping mechanism to keep them working by elevating electrons into a metastable state and maintaining population inversion. These devices are typically made of a cylindrical cavity with two mirrors at each end with a gain material placed in between. Holograms are made partially by aiming the product of one of these devices at an object. A coherent product is produced by these devices, which rely on stimulated emission. For 10 points, name these devices that produce an intense ray of monochromatic light.
ANSWER: laser [or light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation]

16. One character from this novel describes how he was “put in” a fountain of Mercury by friends of Boy Mulcaster, whose sister the protagonist later marries. Another character from this novel is very attached to his teddy bear, Aloysius, and first appears when vomiting into the protagonist’s ground-floor rooms. In this novel, the flamboyant Anthony Blanche warns the protagonist of his “bubbly” best friend, who becomes an alcoholic and lives his later days at a Tunisian monastery. For 10 points, identify this novel about Charles Ryder’s relationship with Sebastian Flyte’s Catholic family, written by Evelyn Waugh.
ANSWER: Brideshead Revisited
17. This thinker used the image of the Ship of Fools to contrast the ambivalent acceptance of the insane during the Renaissance with how today's deviants occupy the role of medieval lepers. Another of his works opens with a discussion of Las Meninas and seeks to analyze the origin of the human sciences. This author of The Order of Things introduced the concept of “biopower” in The History of Sexuality. In another work, he traced the development of prison systems throughout history and offered Bentham's Panopticon as the ideal modern prison. For 10 points, name this French social philosopher who wrote Madness and Civilization and Discipline and Punish.
ANSWER: Michel Foucault

18. This architect’s first art museum includes Brown pavilion and Cullinan Hall, both of which branched off the Caroline Weiss Law Building. In addition to that museum in Houston, this architect designed Crown Hall for the Illinois Institute of Technology. This architect is not Johnson, but he called for an abode that contained glass walls and had several flooding issues due to its proximity to the Fox River. This last director of the Bauhaus designed the Farnsworth House and apartments on 860-880 Lake Shore Drive. Collaboration between Philip Johnson and this architect resulted in the Seagram building. For 10 points, name this architect credited with saying “Less is more.”
ANSWER: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

19. One novel by this author contains characters like Herbert Truczinski, who falls in love with Niobe, a wooden figurehead of a ship. In another novel, this author wrote of a character who creates realistic scarecrows, Eddi Amsel, who is friends with Walter Matern. This author of Dog Years wrote a novel in which Alfred dies by swallowing a Nazi pin, and whose protagonist decides to stop growing and can shatter glass with his voice. For 10 points, name this German author who created Oskar Matzerath in The Tin Drum, part of his Danzig Trilogy.
ANSWER: Gunter Grass

20. While this man was away, his soldiers began playing football with the heads of prisoners during the Siege of Crema. This man, while destroying the Commune of Rome, captured Arnold of Brescia at the behest of Adrian IV. After the submission of Milan, lawyers sided with this man at the Diet of Roncaglia. This man’s feud with Alexander III resulted in the Treaty of Venice. That treaty was signed after his cousin Henry the Lion refused to help him at the Battle of Legnano against the Lombard League. This founder of the Hohenstaufen dynasty drowned in the Saleph River during the Third Crusade. For 10 points, name this Holy Roman Emperor who was known for his red beard.
ANSWER: Frederick I [or Frederick Barbarossa or Frederick III of Swabia]