ANSWER: Sonny the Cuckoo Bird
GSAC XVIIRound 1
Toss-ups
1. This character's original voice also voiced the character with which he appeared, Chuck McCann, and he shares a later voice with Lion-O of Thundercats, Larry Kenney. This character's original design was created in 1962 by Gene Cleaves, and new voice Tex Brashear followed shortly after his new design. No longer seen in a pink and white striped turtleneck, this character was originally accompanied by Gramps, who tormented him by showing him the cereal with which he is associated and gave him his current name in the form of a nickname. For 10 points, name this General Mills mascot, who is “Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!”
ANSWER: Sonny the Cuckoo Bird
2. One short story by this man sees Aylmer accidentally kill his wife while attempting to remove the titular “birthmark,” and one of his novels concerns the half-sisters Zenobia and Priscilla, who is loved by Miles Coverdale. This author also wrote a short story in which the title character finds his wife Faith at a witches' sabbath, while in a novel by this author of The Blithedale Romance, Chillingworth torments Arthur Dimmesdale, the father of Pearl, who is the daughter of Hester Prynne. For 10 points, name this author of “Young Goodman Brown” and The Scarlet Letter.
ANSWER: Nathaniel Hawthorne
3. Among this man's deeds was the nationalization of the Azhar University. Early in his political career, he attempted to assassinate Muhammad Sirri Pasha. He served as the second Secretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement. As a member of the Free Officers, he opposed the execution of his country's overthrown monarch and later took power from Muhammad Naguib. Involved in the overthrow of King Farouk, this man also established the United Arab Republic, oversaw construction of the Aswan High Dam, and nationalized the Suez Canal. For 10 points, name this President of Egypt during the Six Day War, who was succeeded by Anwar Sadat.
ANSWER: Gamal Abdel Nasser
4. Several fungal varieties of these particles afflict yeasts and are helpful in mammalian research. These particles are responsible for a disease that eventually leads to complete sleeplessness, fatal familial insomnia. Though research is being done in skeletal cells, these agents are known to develop in brain, spinal, and lymphatic tissue. They convert into pathogens despite being the only known infective agents that lack genetic material. For 10 points, name these proteins which can be harmful when they fold, causing such transmissible spongiform encephalopathies as Creutzfeldt-Jakob and mad cow disease.
ANSWER: prions [accept proteinaceous infective particles]
5. This god whose weapons include the mace Kaumodaki and the chakra Sudarshana is often depicted sitting on the serpent Ananta, and he typically holds a conch shell in one of his four arms. This god supported Mount Mandara during the Churning of the Ocean in the form of Kurma, his turtle avatar, and he is also depicted holding a lotus. This blue-skinned god rides the bird Garuda, his consort is the goddess of wealth, Lakshmi, and another of his 10 avatars is Krishna. For 10 points, name this preserver god who forms the Hindu Trimurti with Brahma and Shiva.
ANSWER: Vishnu
6. This ruler discarded his wife, the daughter of Desiderius, in favor of Hildegard. This man established the Palatine School at his residence, headed by the English cleric Alcuin. He defeated the Avars with the help of his son Pepin of Italy, and in response to Pope Hadrian I he entered Italy and subjugated the Lombards. At the Treaty of Verdun, his lands were divided among his descendants Lothaire, Charles the Bald, and Louis the German. One of this man's paladins was killed by Basques at Roncesvaux Pass. Pope Leo III crowned him Holy Roman Emperor in 800. For 10 points, name this Carolingian king, the son of Pepin the Short.
ANSWER: Charlemagne [or Carolus Magnus or Charles the Great or Charles I or Karl der Grosse]
7. This composer arranged an array of themes taken from Rossini in his ballet La Boutique Fantasque. Vincenzo Galilei is among the composers whose lute pieces are worked into three suites of another of this composer’s compositions. His tone poems include one which depicts the title entities in four movements at different times of day and another which depicts scenes of a catacomb, the Janiculum, and the Appian Way. For 10 points, name this Italian composer of Ancient Airs and Dances, Fountains of Rome, and Pines of Rome.
ANSWER: Ottorino Respighi
8. For a variable density object, this value can be determined by dividing the volume integral of position times density by the volume integral of density. The total moment of inertia about an axis is equal to mass times distance to a parallel axis squared plus moment about this position for the parallel axis. This value can be calculated by taking a weighted sum of the positions of the various masses in a system and dividing by the total mass. For 10 points, gravity can be said to act entirely on what point at which an object can be balanced?
ANSWER: center of massor com[accept center of gravity or cog]
9. One character in this work's death is indirectly caused by witnessing eels being removed from the head of a dead horse, and the protagonist of this novel fathers Maria's child and later joins a troupe of entertainers. One character who is later killed by the S.S. is able to steal an expensive necklace for Agnes with the help of the protagonist's ability to break glass with his voice. For 10 points, name this work in which Oskar Matzerath receives the title object for his third birthday and chooses to stop growing, the first novel of the Danzig Trilogy by Gunter Grass.
ANSWER: The Tin Drum[accept DieBlechtrommel]
10. The urheimat of it is sometimes thought to be the Corded Ware culture, while according to Gimbutas, the Kurgan culture gave rise to it. Often said to arise from a northern region home to beech and salmon, other theories place its origin in Anatolia. This family includes a type of vowel gradation called ablaut, and centum and satem isogloss divisions based on velar evolution exist in this language family. Its eastern members included the Tocharians, absorbed by Turkic languages, while Dardic, Urdu, and Armenian are other members. For 10 points, name this widespread language family including the Romance and Germanic languages.
ANSWER: Indo-European Language Family [accept Proto-Indo-European before “family”]
11. This book contains the eunuch Hegai, in charge of the king's harem at Susa, as well as seven others including Zethar and Carcas who carry an order refused by the queen. Marsena is among those who suggest that Vashti be replaced, and an edict is issued when the husband of Zeresh is not properly honored with the date for a massacre chosen by lot. The namesake of this book persuades Ahasuerus to allow Mordecai to issue an edict opposing that of Haman. For 10 points, name this book whose namesake is a Jewish queen and which contains the basis of Purim.
ANSWER: Book of Esther
12. These interactions are encompassed in the “r to the minus 6” term in the Lennard-Jones potential. The typical region where these interactions occur is confined between their namesake surfaces, which are essentially spheres of electron density. This class of interactions occurs anytime an induced dipole is generated, and it is this type of interaction that allows geckos to climb up glass surfaces. These interactions are generally weaker than dipole-dipole interactions, and a broad definition of these forces encompasses London dispersion forces. For 10 points, identify these weak attractive forces named for a Dutch physicist.
ANSERS: van der Waalsforces/interactions [prompt on London dispersion forces before mentioned]
13. This philosopher controversially listed the eternity of God, the incorporeal nature of God, and the existence of resurrection among his thirteen articles of faith in one work. This philosopher also wrote a fourteen-volume work systematically compiling Jewish law and a work which rejects the kalam theory of creation and argues that God can only be described with negative terms. For 10 points, name this Jewish philosopher of Commentary on the Mishnah, Mishneh Torah, and Guide for the Perplexed.
ANSWER: Moses Maimonides
14. This novel sees a Belgian character named Gastón ask his wife, who has abandoned him, to send him his velocipede. One character signs the Treaty of Neerlandia and spends much of his time making golden fish, and the real-life Banana Strike Massacres are referenced in the carting away of machine-gunned bodies to the sea on a secret train in this work. Remedios the Beauty floats into the sky, and Melquíades provides the alchemist's lab that is used by Colonel Aureliano. For 10 points, name this Gabriel García Márquez novel chronicling many generations of the Buendía family in Macondo.
ANSWER: One Hundred Years of Solitude [or Cien años de soledad]
15. This group was massacred at the battle of Blood River, in which troops of Andries Pretorius mowed them down, but the forces of their leader Dingane kept harassing the winners of that battle until his rival Mpande defected and defeated him. In another war, this group was defeated at Kambula, leading to the destruction of their capital at Ulundi and the splitting of King Cetshwayo's lands. Previously, they had failed to capture Rorke's Drift after destroying a British column at Isandlwana earlier the same day. For 10 points, name this South African ethnic group which fought against the British in a namesake war and was led by Shaka.
ANSWER: Zulu [or amaZulu]
16. This man proved that geodesic structures must contain 12 pentagons and some number of hexagons in order to be spheroid. He names lines passing through the center of a nine-point circle, centroid, circumcenter, and orthocenter of a triangle. This man generalized Fermat's little theorem using his namesake totient function and derived a formula stating that the vertices minus the edges plus the faces must be two for polyhedra. Another formula he names states that “e to the i pi” plus one equals zero. For 10 points, name this Swiss mathematician who solved the Seven Bridges of Konigsberg problem and defined transcendental numbers such as e.
ANSWER: Leonhard Euler
17. This river's excess water is sent to Lake al-Habbaniyyah and Lake al-Milh. It is formed by the Karasu and Murat rivers and runs through the Taurus Mountains. It forms the western border of the Jazirah region, and five canals built by the Sassanids diverted some of its water to the east. Dams on it include the Atatürk, and it forms Lake al-Asad in Syria. It joins with another river to the east at the village of al-Qurnah to form the Shatt al-Arab, which flows into the Persian Gulf. For 10 points, name this river of Mesopotamia, often paired with the Tigris.
ANSWER: Euphrates River
18. In one of this man's novels, Brenda marries Jock Grant-Menzies after her husband Tony is declared dead and her affair with John Beaver proves unsuccessful. In addition to A Handful of Dust, this man wrote a novel in which Mr. Prendergrast accidentally shoots Lord Tangent and Margot is engaged to Paul Pennyfeather. In another of this man's novels, Julia marries Rex Mottram and Charles Ryder befriends Sebastian Marchmain, whose family owns the title estate. For 10 points, name this British author of Decline and Fall and Brideshead Revisited.
ANSWER: Evelyn Waugh
19. One work by this artist located in Bruges features a fat baby Jesus lounging on the lap of a seated Mary with a covered head and downward gaze not focused on Jesus. He created the unfinished sculpture Atlas Slave, as well as a slave stretching to escape his bonds, Rebellious Slave. He sculpted one work in which Leah and Rachel stand on opposite sides of a seated Moses with an exceptionally long beard, the tomb of Pope Julius II, and this artist of the Pietà sculpted a marble David contemplating the battle with Goliath. For 10 points, name this Italian Renaissance artist who painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
ANSWER: Michelangelo Buonarroti
20. The journalist Henry Villard was attacked by Ohio Legionnaires after defending these men, who briefly moved to Mexico to avoid conscription. The testimony of Celestine Madeiros four years after the trial was ignored despite numerous motions brought before Webster Thayer. The ACLU hired Fred Moore to defend these men on charges of murdering Frederick Parmenter and Alessandro Berardelli and stealing $15,000. All evidence was circumstantial, leading to a 1977 apology by Michael Dukakis. For 10 points, name these two Italian anarchists who were electrocuted in 1927.
ANSWER: Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
TB. This work discusses the title concept in terms of the hierarchy of needs and places blame on functionalists and the works of Margaret Mead. It was written in response to the author's findings based on interviews with graduates of Smith College. This work also posits that husbands pay for their power with ulcers and early death and rejects the forcing of modern women into Freudian ideals. This work discusses the “problem that has no name” but can be solved with education, and its title concept is the idea that all of women's needs are met by being wives and mothers. For 10 points, name this 1963 work of Betty Friedan.
ANSWER: The Feminine Mystique
Bonuses
1. For 10 points each, answer these questions about the Standard Model.
[10] These particles in the Standard Model have integer spin. Several ones with the same spin are capable of occupying the same quantum state, unlike fermions.
ANSWER: bosons
[10] This hypothetical boson, the only undiscovered particle of the Standard Model, allows for mass in vector bosons.
ANSWER: Higgs bosons
[10] While bosons obey Bose-Einstein statistics, fermions obey statistics named for Fermi and this man, who also names a function that is infinite for x equals zero, and zero everywhere else.
ANSWER: Paul Dirac
2. This piece’s technically demanding fourth movement is labeled Scene and gypsy song. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this five-movement orchestral piece which features two Alboradas and concludes with an Asturian Fandango.
ANSWER:Capriccio Espagnol [accept Spanish Capriccio; accept Capriccio on Spanish Themes]
[10] This Russian member of The Five composed Capriccio Espagnol in addition to composing Fantasia on Serbian Themes and the opera Sadko and orchestrating Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death. His opera The Tale of Tsar Sultan provides the frequently excerpted piece The Flight of the Bumblebee.
ANSWER: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
[10] This programmatic suite by Rimsky-Korsakov depicts a Festival at Baghdad, The Young Prince and the Young Princess, and The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship, all taken from tales related by the title figure.
ANSWER: Scheherezade
3. After this event was crushed, Jan Palach immolated himself in protest. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this 1968 occurrence in Czechoslovakia which was suppressed by Soviet tanks.
ANSWER: Prague Spring
[10] The leader of the Prague Spring was this man, who proclaimed “socialism with a human face” and was succeeded by Husák.
ANSWER: Alexander Dubček
[10] This man led the USSR at the time of the Prague Spring, and began the Soviet War in Afghanistan. He reversed many of Khrushchev’s policies.
ANSWER: Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev
4. The title object of this poem is located “beside the white chickens.” For 10 points each:
[10] Name this poem, upon the title object of which “so much depends.”
ANSWER: “The Red Wheelbarrow”
[10] “The Red Wheelbarrow” is by this American poet who apologizes for having eaten “the plums that were in the icebox” in “This is Just to Say.”
ANSWER: William Carlos Williams
[10] Williams also wrote this epic poem about the titular New Jersey city, personified in parts as a doctor.
ANSWER: Paterson
5. Peaks in it include Lhotse, Cho Oyu, and Annapurna, and the migration routes of Bar-headed Geese pass over it. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this highest mountain range in the world, located north of India and south of Tibet.
ANSWER: Himalayan Mountains
[10] This plateau in central India is bounded to the north by the Vindhya Range and the Ganges Basin.
ANSWER: Deccan Plateau
[10] These mountain ranges run along the coasts of India in Western and Eastern branches. They form the edge of the Deccan Plateau, and their name means “steps.”
ANSWER: Ghats
6. The subjects of this experiment were put in a room with fun toys and then told that they were prohibited to play with them. For 10 points each: