Auspicious Incident – Packet 14
Questions by Ezequiel Berdichevsky, Paul Litvak, Matt Lafer, Ben Heller
Tossups
1.This man first served with Pompey and Cicero, under Strabo in the Social War, then, as a lieutenant of Sulla. During the proscriptions he killed his brother-in-law Marcus Gratidianus. After a praetorship in 68 BC, he governed Africa for two years and was prosecuted for extortion, but was acquitted. Gaining the support of Caesar and Crassus in the 63 elections, he was defeated, after which he began to champion the cause of the poor and dispossessed. Finally killed near Pistoria in 62, identify this man brought down by his rival Cicero, who, FTP, organized a widespread conspiracy against the Republic.
Answer: Lucius Sergius Catalina or Cataline
2.It is classified as an iron-sulfur type reaction center and is structurally similar to those of heliobacteria and green sulfur bacteria. It consists of 11 subunits, two phylloquinones, and 3 Fe4S4 clusters. Subunits D and E support the binding of electron acceptors flavodoxin and ferrodoxin, while subunits A and B comprise the “antenna system” which captures photons, and the electron transport system, which contains the primary electron donor, P700. FTP, name this protein embedded in the thylakoid membrane of all plants, one of two such systems involved in photosynthesis.
Answer: photosystem I
3.Otto, the child born to the central couple resembles the objects of their desires. Their marriage is never repaired despite the efforts of the marriage counselor Herr Mittler. After the death of Otto by accidental drowning, one of the lovers starves herself to death, giving all her food to her protégé Nanny. This lover comes to the castle at the behest of the central couple’s daughter, Luciana. Luciana, however, later rebuffs Ottilie after her amorous feelings are revealed. The Captain comes to the castle because he loses his post and he and Charlotte fall in love. Edward, her husband, ultimately also dies after Ottilie. FTP, identify this novel about the quasi-scientific theory of attraction between lovers, written by Goethe.
Answer: The Elective Affinities
4.This operation featured a return to the herisson, or hedgehog, strategy that General Jean de Lattre had used with some success early on. The nine fortified positions near this battle’s namesake town were named for the defending Colonel’s lovers. Beatrice saw the first action on March 13, and two days later the 500 men at Gabrielle were decimated by heavy artillery. Although Operation Castor was launched to relieve the immense pressure, the occupation of the airfield near Gabrielle doomed relief efforts for Colonel Castries’ troops and marked the deathblow of Henri Navarre’s campaign to defeat the Viet Minh. FTP identify this nearly two month siege of the French forces by Colonel Vo Nguyen Giap’s forces in 1954.
Answer: Dien bien Phu
5.According to Gregory Butler this work was issued during the Michaelmas fair. Its featured aria is a sarabande and the work is divided into two sections with the latter beginning with a French Overture. The Quodlibet in the final movement includes two well-known tunes “Cabbage and beets have driven me away” and “I have so long been away from you.” Thought to have been completed alongside book II of the Well-Temperd Clavier this work was commissioned by Count Keyserlingk, an insomniac, and named for the virtuoso whose play lulled him to sleep. FTP identify work for harpsichord a set of diverse pieces on a similar theme by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Answer: Goldberg Variations for Keyboard, BWV 988
6. He wrote about the problems of governmental transition in The Knouto-Germanic Empire and the Social Revolution. At age 22 he translated Hegel’s “Gynmasial Lectures”, marking the first time Hegel had been translated into his native tongue. He opposed Marx on the grounds of the latter’s economic determinism, arguing that “being determines consciousness.” His belief in the inherent corruptibility of the state is expressed in such works as God and the State. After working with Alexander Herzen in London, he joined the First Internationale, but his militant views earned him expulsion by Karl Marx. FTP, identify this Russian theorist who, along with Proudhon is considered to be the founder of anarchism.
Answer: Mikhail Bakunin
7.Temperature must be slightly above the boiling point of the material and must stay stable to within a few tenths of a degree. A common detector is the flame ionization type, which has a high sensitivity but destroys the sample being tested. Two types of columns can be used; the packed type, which contains a solid support material coated with a liquid stationary phase, and the more efficient capillary type. The carrier is generally argon, helium or carbon dioxide. FTP, identify this separation technique which involves transportation through a column after the vaporization of the sample.
Answer: gas chromatography (acc. Capillary or packed chromatography on early buzz)
8.His first works were a series of Latin verses on Prince Henry’s death and he was soon appointed public orator at Trinity College. Outlandish Proverbs is a collection of pithy sayings in translation, while his guide for a country parson was published posthumously. In fact, upon his death he sent his works to Nicholas Ferrar with instructions to either burn or publish them. A volume subtitled “Sacred Poems and Ejaculations” was promptly released, it contained such works as “The Elixir,” “The Agony,” “The Pulley” and the famous pattern poems “The Altar” and “Easter Wings.” FTP identify this Metaphysical poet best known for his collection The Temple.
Answer: George Herbert
9.Ephraim Bowen left the most famous chronicle of its final hours. Chasing after the Hannah, which was captained by Benjamin Lindsey, it ran aground at Namquit Point. John Brown formulated a plan to destroy it and end its career as a patrol boat looking for smugglers. Captain Whipple tried to arrest its crew, but they resisted. Joseph Bucklin shot its captain, William Dudingston, who was moved to Pawtuxet before this ship was set on fire. For 10 points, name this ship that was destroyed by colonists off the coast of Rhode Island on June 10, 1772.
Answer: Gaspee
10.It is customary to eat dates prior the this holiday’s prayers, as fasting is prohibited. On it, two Rakas are said, followed by six Takbeers and the special Khutba, or sermon. Greetings declaring the day Mubarak, or blessed, are spoken. One of the holidays by this name falls on the 10th day of Dhul-Hijjah, while the other falls on the first day of Shawaal, the first month of the calendar. The name itself means something that is habitual, and thus there is one called “Al Fitr” while another is called “Al Adha” FTP, identify the shared name of these Islamic holidays, one marking the end of the year, and the other marking the end of Ramadan.
Answer: Eid (pronounced Eed)
11.The action begins when the Duchess of Berwick convinces the title character to go through her husband’s belongings, finding a number of suspicious checks. After a rash mistake, she accepts an invitation to potential adultery, but she is persuaded to not abandon her husband and child. Thus, she rebuffs Lord Darlington. When she returns, evidence of her impropriety remains, and the woman who dissuaded her, being her mother, sacrifices her recently regained social status for that of her daughter. In the end, Lord Augustus Lorton decides to marry the title character’s mother, despite her reputation. The title object drops to the ground, and is not used to strike Mrs. Erlynne. FTP, identify this play about an object used to alleviate heat, written by Oscar Wilde.
Answer: Lady Windermere’s Fan
12.This perturbation is responsible for the frequency of the 21-centimeter line because it produces a triplet and a singlet state in the ground state of hydrogen. Arising from the magnetic dipoles of both the orbital electron and nucleic proton, it is the result of spin-spin coupling. FTP, what is this energy perturbation that is about ten to the negative fourth times smaller than that of the fine splitting?
Answer: Hyperfine splitting
13.He had numerous battles with King Cisupala, defeated the Crane demon Baku, and founded the city of Dvaraka. His wives include Rukmini and Radha. Though he was marked for death from birth, he was exchanged for Yasoda and Nanda’s son and along with his older brother, Balarama, escaped to avoid the wrath of a King. Also known for sucking Putana dry of her poisonous milk, this dark skinned son of Vasudeva and Vasuki danced on the serpent Kaliya’s head and memorably guided the actions of a certain Pandava brother at the battle of Kuruksetra. FTP identify this 8th avatar of Vishnu and charioteer of Arjuna.
Answer: Krishna
14.Jean-Baptiste Colbert’s brother Charles negotiated the treaty which became necessary when, with the blessing of Leopold I, forces under Francois Crequy and Marshall Turenne initiated (*) this conflict. Indirectly precipitated by a marriage contract included in the Peace of the Pyrenees that renounced Philip IV’s daughter’s claim to the throne, the conflict featured the Prince de Conde’s invasion of Franche Comte and the formation of a Triple Alliance. It began when Maria Therese’s husband invoked an old Brabantian law that provided for property to pass to the children of a first marriage thus spurning Charles II’s claim to the throne in, FTP, what war that saw France try to annex the Spanish Netherlands beg inning in1667 and ending one year later with the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.
Answer: War of Devolution (accept Aix-la-Chapelle before the star)
15.In his later thought, he divided philosophy into negative, which developed the idea of God by reason, and positive, which proved the reality of the idea. This work stemmed from this philosopher’s attempt to relate the history of God in The Ages of the World. His separation of human reason into dark impulse and the power of good can be found in Of Human Freedom. His early work while at Tubingen was an explication of the nature of the Absolute, like “On the Possibility and Form of Philosophy In General.” In his philosophy of nature, he argued that art was the uniting of the natural and spiritual spheres. In this way, he united his thought of Fichte’s concept of Ego. FTP, identify this German romantic philosopher, most famous for his System of Transcendental Idealism.
Answer: Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
16.This island chain is linked at Cape Nao to the mainland Baetic mountain range. Divided into two sub-chains, the western chain, also called the Pitiusas, includes the islands of Cabrera and Formentera. The first settlers were of the prehistoric talayotic civilization, and the Carthaginians, Vandals, and Moors successively held them afterwards, while the Treaty of Utrecht ceded the island of Minorca to the British until 1802. Now a province of Spain, with capital of Palma, this is, FTP, what island group located in the Meditteranean Sea off the coast of Spain and including the islands of Mallorca and Ibiza?
Answer: Balearic Islands
17.As a child she has a nightmare about a gorilla, and she compares herself to a dandelion because it is so ordinary. After her husband is laid off, she works for Mrs. Burns-Cooper, who condescends to her, and when she takes her daughter to Santa Claus, she is outraged when Santa will not see her daughter. Her husband does not gain entry to the Foxy Cats Club, and she is hurt when he dances with a red-haired woman and ignores her. She does not blame her mother for liking her sister Helen better, assuming that she does so because of Helen’s lighter skin. Her marriage to the grocery clerk Paul Philips is sexually dysfunctional, and she spends much of her time trying to clean their dirty tenement. FTP, identify this novel about a repressed black woman in Chicago, written by Gwendolyn Brooks.
Answer: Maud Martha
18.Flamingos get their pink color from eating the Spirulina genus of this group of organisms. Fossilized mounds of them are often mistaken for amphibian eggs and are called stromatolites. They lack flagella, but some species, such as Oscillatoria are capable of locomotion through a still-unknown process. Containing specialized cells called heterocysts, these cells are vital in their role as nitrogen fixaters. Most closely related to chloroplasts before their conversion to endosymbiotes, name, FTP, this group of prokaryotic organisms also called blue-green algae.
Answer: cyanobacteria (or blue-green algae before it is mentioned).
19.This event resulted in a namesake 20 year conflict that would not be resolved until the ascension of AlfonsoV. It was instigated as the result of a conspiracy that included Byantine emperor Michael VIII and John of Procida, whose Hohenstaufen sympathies led him to support the future King’s claims to the throne vis-à-vis marriage to Constance. After several soldiers were killed at Santo Spirito the violence spread outward and soon 2,000 Frenchmen lay dead. Eventually Peter III of Aragon claimed rule and landed his forces at Trapani and together with the peasants from Palermo proceeded to engage the Angevin citizens and soldiers in battle. FTP identify this bloody rebellion that takes its name from the island on which it took place and the fact that it broke out on Easter Monday in 1282.
Answer: Sicilian Vespers
20.His Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople was a mural painted for the Museum at Versailles and echoed earlier historical works like Execution of the Doge Marino Faliero and The Battle of Nancy. His interest in lithography culminated in his illustration of a French edition of Faust. A great admirer of British artists and writers his Bride of Abydos and The Abduction of Rebecca reflect this interest. Earlier portraits of friends like George Sand and Frederic Chopin contrast sharply with paintings like The Barque of Dante and his Morocco inspired works like Arabs Skirmishing in the Mountains and Women of Algiers. FTP identify this painter, rumored to be the son of Talleyrand, whose best known works include Death of Sardanapalus, Massacre at Chios, and Liberty Leading the People.