RAVE PACKET 4
Set written and edited by current and former students of RockfordAuburnHigh School(Abid Haseeb, Lloyd Sy, Jordan Hoffmann, Saad Sheikh, Alex Pandya, Michael Kikta, and Jacob Balogh)
1. In a collaboration with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, this man stated, “We can do this like gangstas and slug it out, or we can do this like punks and punk it out.” In a vitriolic collaboration with Outlawz, this man called out Prodigy when he asked if he had “sickle-cell or somethin’.” In another song, this rapper discussed his appreciation for his mother despite her drug problems and her incarceration; that song was (*) “Dear Mama.” His albums include Me Against the World and All Eyez on Me, and he was shot in 1996. For 10 points, identify this rapper behind “California Love,” who hadbeef with Notorious B.I.G.
ANSWER: Tupac [or Tupac Shakur; accept a thuggsta’s answer of Makaveli]
2. The inverse of this effect can be demonstrated using a photonic crystal and was demonstrated by Seddon and Bearpeak. One form of this effect can be described by an equation which includes a term equal to the square root of the quantity one plus v over c, all over the square root of the quantity one minus v over c. A canal ray tube was used in finding its transverse form in the Ives-Stilwell experiment, and it can be applied to explain(*) redshift and find the distance of a galaxy. For 10 points identify this effect, the perceived change in the frequency of a wave for an observer in motion, demonstrated by a change in the pitch of a passing siren.
ANSWER: Doppler effect [or Doppler shift]
3. At measure 109 in the first movement of this work, a sustained B pedal is played by the first horn and second bassoon. The second movement of this work, which was given to Anselm Hottenbrenner and discovered by his brother, ends with an E major chord and also features a clarinet solo over strings; that section is named Andante con moto. Some historians theorize that the entr’acte to the composer’s incidental music to (*)Rosamunde was meant to serve as a sketch for the ending of this work. For 10 points, give this B minor work by Schubert so-named because it had only two of its movements completed.
ANSWER: Schubert’s 8th “Unfinished” Symphony (accept either)
4. Projections known as nunataks can emerge from these entities, and the outcroppings known as roches moutonnees [RAWSH moot-un-ahyz] are formed because of these entities. Their surfaces include light and dark bands called ogives, and they are formed partially due to the compression of firn. Crevasses form across these entities when they come in (*) contact with a steep slope, and moraines form from the deposit of their till. Calving is the process by which icebergs break off these features. For 10 points, identify these large masses of compacted snow and ice which account for roughly 75% of Earth’s freshwater.
ANSWER: glaciers [prompt on things like ice caps, ice sheets, or ice shelves]
5. This country’s rebel groups include the Holy Spirit Movement, led by the mystic Alice Auma. A 1985 coup in this country was led by Tito Okello and Bazilio Okara-Okello, and this country’s first prime minister was Benedicto Kiwanuka. Another leader of this nation issued the “Common Man’s Charter” as part of his brand of socialism known as “Move to the Left”. This nation, which experienced several presidencies by (*) Milton Obote, also had a president that was overthrown after it went to war with neighbor Tanzania. That president expelled Asians from this country and may have been a cannibal. For 10 points, name this African nation formerly headed by Idi Amin.
ANSWER: Uganda
6. One character with this profession fathers Raoul with Marie Michon, whom another character of this profession had once kept as a mistress. Another character with this job owns a sword nicknamed Balizarde, and a character who becomes one of these carries on a courtship with Constance Bonicieux. One character having this occupation was married to (*) Milady de Winter, and another one of them becomes a priest in Twenty Years After. Those characters are Athos and Aramis. For 10 points, name this occupation held by three characters, and eventually by D’Artagnan, in an Alexander Dumas novel.
ANSWER: musketeer (prompt on soldier or warrior)
7. In the fourth chapter of this work, it is noted that the ignorant and lacking in faith waste their lives, and cannot be happy in this world or any other. The thirteenth chapter of it compares the body to a field and divides the mind into manas, buddhi, and ahamkara. Its last chapter differentiates between (*) Purusha and prakriti and champions sattva, or pure energy, over tamas, which signifies sloth and laziness. This work is framed by a question posited to Sanjaya, and it promotes working in one’s own dharma without regard for the consequences. For 10 points, name this section of the Mahabharata in which Krishna instructs Arjuna before a battle.
ANSWER: Bhagavad-Gita (prompt on just Gita)
8. This leader’s labor minister, Franz Josef Jung, resigned in 2009 following the deaths of Afghan civilians. This leader was once criticized for stating that multiculturalism had failed. This leader served as Minister of Environmental and Nuclear Safety under Helmut Kohl, and is the head of the (*) Christian Democratic Union. Aside from Margaret Thatcher, she is the only woman to chair the G8, and she succeeded Gerhard Schröder to become the first female chancellor of her country. For 10 points, identify this current chancellor of Germany.
ANSWER: Angela Merkel
9. One character in this work rubs butter instead of lotion on her arms; that character goes to Jezebel’s and finds her old friend Moira. Earlier, that character stays in a room where she reads “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.” The protagonist of this work is taken away by the Eyes in a black van at the end of this novel, while her lover reassures her that the Eyes are part of the (*) Mayday resistance. This novel has a frame story in which the main story is being told by Professor Pieixoto, and the protagonist of this novel begins an affair with Nick at the request of Serena Joy. For 10 points, name this novel about Offred, set in the Republic of Gilead, by Margaret Atwood.
ANSWER: The Handmaid’s Tale
10. One person who was part of this group, Robert Morris, had earlier been involved in the Glentworth Incident. Another leader of this group, Carmine DeSapio, was criticized by Herbert Lehman, and it was opposed by the William Leggett-led Locofocos. This organization was founded by William Mooney and had leaders called (*) “sachems”. Samuel Tilden attacked this group, whose most famous leader was depicted by Thomas Nast as having a money bag as a head. For 10 points, name this New York Citypolitical machine led by Boss Tweed.
ANSWER: Tammany Hall
11. The short path form of this process uses a Kugelrohr apparatus. A “piq” adaptor can be used to achieve better results in this process. At total reflux, the Fenske equation can be used to calculate the minimum number of theoretical plates required in one form of this process. For air-sensitive materials, a series of Teflon taps known as a Perkin triangle can be used in its (*) “vacuum” type. Some types of this process do not work for compounds deviating from Raoult’s law; those are azeotropes. This process comes in “fractional form.” For 10 points, identify this process of separating mixtures based on differing boiling points.
Answer: distillation
12. Room 1005 and Confidentially Yours were early proposed names for a work by this painter which shows a woman at a file cabinet looking over at a man at a desk. In another work of his, a woman in a green jacket and yellow hat drinks coffee in the titular establishment. In addition to Office at Night and Automat, he depicted a woman and her (*) doppelgänger in his Chop Suey, and his characteristic depictions of lonely urban scenes can be seen in his Early Sunday Morning. He remains best-known for his depiction of a diner which contains an advertisement for Phillie’s five-cent cigars. For 10 points, identify this American painter of Nighthawks.
ANSWER: Edward Hopper
13. The third scene of this play opens in a billiard-parlor in which Van Gogh’s Night Café is hanging; that scene involves a poker night with Steve and Pablo. The “Varsouviana” plays near the end of this drama, in which one character nearly gets married to Mitch before he finds out that she left her ex-husband Allen Grey for having a homosexual relationship. A woman who is (*) taken away by a Doctor at this play’s close states that she has “always depended on the kindness of strangers”; that woman moves into her sister’s apartment on the Elysian Fields in New Orleans. For 10 points, name this play in which Blanche Dubois visits Stella and Stanley Kowalski, by Tennessee Williams.
ANSWER: A Streetcar Named Desire
14. Regenerated fibers of this compound can be used to make lyocell and viscose; those products in turn can be used to make rayon. This compound is a straight chain polymer containing many hydroxyl groups that form hydrogen bonds, explaining its high tensile strength. This compound contains beta-1,4 glycosidic (*) bonds. In plants, this compound is created by namesake synthases, encoded by CesA genes, in rosette terminal complexes of the plasma membrane. Humans cannot digest this compound, but cows and termites can, with the aid of microorganisms. For 10 points, name this compound found in the cell wall of plants.
Answer: cellulose
15. After Pelops killed Myrtilus, this deity cleansed Pelops of his blood guilt at Oceanus. This god owns a three-legged table that can run around by itself, and during the Gigantomachy, he wounded Mimas. His failed attempt at (*) raping Athena led to the birth of Erichthonius, although it was his splitting of Zeus’s head that led to Athena’s birth in the first place. At his birth, he was thrown down from MountOlympus and nursed back to health on Lemnos. He once caught his wife in a net in the act of adultery with Ares. For 10 points, name this husband of Aphrodite and Greek god of the forge.
ANSWER: Hephaestus
16. This empire’s eastern and western provincial capitals were Tosali and Ujjain, respectively. After its last ruler was overthrown, Demetrius I of Bactria invaded it, and one leader of this empire was named for a mark he received on his forehead in infancy as a result of poison. Another leader of this empire established a capital at Pataliputra, and underwent a (*) religious change following the battle of Kalinga. In addition to being led by Bindusara, this empire saw Ashoka’s issuance of his rock edicts, as well as his conversion to Buddhism. For 10 points, identify this Indian empire whose founder was Chandragupta.
ANSWER: Mauryan empire
17. This author begins one poem by noting that “thou hast brought me many flowers/Plucked in the garden,” while another declares a confession of love to be a “cuckoo-song.” This poet asks to be loved “for love’s sake only” in a poem from a collection whose other works include one beginning “Go from me.” This writer detailed the trials of Marian Erle in her work (*) “Aurora Leigh.” This poet answers the titular question with “freely, as men strive for Right” in her poem “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” For 10 points, name this author of “Sonnets from the Portuguese”, the wife of another poet, Robert.
ANSWER: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (prompt on just “Browning,” accept Elizabeth Barrett)
18. One section of this work discusses the idea that a reputation for generosity leads to grief, and another states that one may safeguard himself by not showing sensitivity to truth. The 18th section of this work discusses the importance of the ways of the fox and the lion when acting as a beast, and the author states that a certain individual should escape being hated if he is to be (*) feared instead of loved, and indicates that the titular subject needn’t have all of the qualities he mentions, but that “he should certainly appear to have them.” Beginning with a letter to Lorenzo de Medici, this is, for 10 points, which work of political philosophy by Niccolo Macchiavelli?
ANSWER: The Prince [or Il Principe]
19. One of this artist’s works is said to be the inspiration for the Kaufmann Head in the Louvre. One of this artist’s most famous works was initially commissioned as a nude by the people of Kos, but was rejected for a draped version; the nude version became more successful. Another of his works depicts the title figure dangling grapes in front of an infant, whereas another of his sculptures depicts a figure from myth as he’s about to (*) kill a lizard. For 10 points, identify this Greek sculptor who created the Aphrodite of Knidos, Hermes with the Infant Dionysus, and the Apollo Sauroctonos.
ANSWER: Praxiteles
20. One day before this event, a statue of St. Paul was decapitated and fruit trees were cut down at the convent of Saint-Lazare. Jean-Baptiste Lallimand was one of many artists to depict the arrest of Governor Bernard-René de Launay during this event, after which his head was (*) stuck on a pike. The perpetrators of this event were motivated by the perceived notion of gunpowder deposits in the building involved in this event, while only seven prisoners were inside that building. For 10 points, name this event that occurred on July 14, 1789, in which a French prison was taken by the citizens of Paris.
ANSWER: storming of the Bastille [accept clear equivalents involving some sort of storming type of action on the Bastille]
1. This character fathers Pearl, but is troubled by his conscience. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this pastor and lover of Hester Prynne who is tormented by the guilt that Roger Chillingworth, who poses as a doctor living with him, subtly encourages in him.
ANSWER: ArthurDimmesdale (accept either)
[10] Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth, and Hester Prynne all appear in this Nathaniel Hawthorne novel, whose title entity is sewed onto Hester Prynne’s dress to mark her as an adulteress.
ANSWER: The Scarlet Letter
[10] The first chapter of The Scarlet Letter describes one of these plants springing up next to a jail-house. According to the book, legend states that this object appeared under the footsteps of Ann Hutchinson.
ANSWER: a rose-bush
2. This character is placed on temporary leave from his job as a paleontologist after his boss steals his sandwich. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this brother of Monica and longtime love interest of Rachel Greene. His ex-wife Carol left him for a woman and his second wife, Emily, left him because he said the wrong name at the altar.
ANSWER: RossGeller (accept either)
[10] Ross Geller, along with Chandler Bing, Phoebe Buffay, and Joey Tribbiani, are among the titular group of six people on this NBC sitcom which ran from 1994 to 2004.
ANSWER: Friends
[10] On the seventh season holiday episode of Friends, Ross dressed up as one of these animals in order to teach his son, Ben, about Hanukkah.
ANSWER: the HolidayArmadillo
3. One painter from here created notable depictions of the Immaculate Conception. For 10 points each:
[10] First, identify this country which also produced the artist who created The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, as well as a series titled The Disasters of War.
ANSWER: Spain [or España]
[10] The former of the previous artists referred to was Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, while the latter was this Spanish artist, who created the Black Paintings, including his Saturn Devouring His Sons, and a series called Los Caprichos.
ANSWER: Francisco Goya
[10] This work by Goya depicts some French soldiers pointing their rifles at a group of Spaniards. It is set on the titular date and is sometimes paired with The Charge of the Mamelukes.
ANSWER: The Third of May, 1808: The Execution of the Defenders of Madrid [accept things with the correct date and year]
4. This election year involved the striking of a “corrupt bargain”. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this election year in which Henry Clay threw his support to John Quincy Adams, and then was made Adams’s Secretary of State.
ANSWER: Election of 1824
[10] This candidate during the election of 1824 won the most electoral votes and the most states. He won the presidency in 1828.
ANSWER: Andrew Jackson
[10] This candidate from Georgia during the election of 1824 ran with Nathaniel Macon and, besides his home state, won only Virginia.
ANSWER: William Crawford
5. This concept’s frictional type consists of its “search” and “wait” varieties. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this phenomenon which takes place when people who are willing and able to work are unable to find a job. People under 16 years of age or of institutionalized status are not included in its statistics.