Yale University
Bulldogs over Broadway—Oct 29, 2005
Edited by Mike Wehrman
Packet by Rochester C and D
Tossups:
1. His first success was 1922’s Drums in the Night. The rise of Nazism in his native Germany led him to seek exile throughout Europe and eventually the United States, during which he wrote some of his most famous works and the screenplay to Hangmen Also Die. When he returned to Germany, East German guards excluded him from a Berlin reception in honor of his career, one that employed his theory of “Epic Theater” which encouraged a critical view of the events onstage. For 10 points, name this poet, stage director, and author of The Threepenny Opera.
Answer: Bertolt Brecht
2. It’s the state Moe Szyslak’s 1973 Liquor License comes from, and it was the location of the longest professional game of baseball recorded, 33 innings, played in 1981. Home to the first three Gravity Games, its natives include Meredith Viera, Mena Suvari, and Harry Anderson. It is also home to the National Tennis Hall of Fame, and the setting of an NBC drama starring Melina Kanakaredes. For ten points, what is this state that is featured in most Farelly Brothers films and is home to the Griffin Family of Family Guy?
Answer: Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
3. In 1914, it was discovered by Henry Hallet Dale, and Otto Loewi later confirmed its function and significance. It is found, among other places, in the nucleus basalis, and it is in short supply in those suffering from Alzheimer’s. Nicotine and muscarine increase the activity of its receptors, while atropine and scopolamine block these same receptors. For ten points, name this neurotransmitter at many neural synapses and at the motor end plate in human muscles.
Answer: Acetylcholine (prompt on ACh)
4. It was first published in the collection “In Country Sleep” in 1952. A villanelle with only two different rhymes, it refers to several different groups of men, including wise men, wild men, good men, and, in the last stanza, the poet’s own father, who was dying. For 10 points, name this Dylan Thomas poem which contains the famous line, “Rage, rage, against the dying of the light.”
Answer: Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night
5. Eugen Bleuler was the head of the Bugholzli Clinic when he came there in 1900, and was deeply influential on his work. His interests in the occult, alchemy, and mysticism permeate his works, and he created the technique known as Word Association. The writer of such texts as Aion and Psychological Types, for 10 points, name this Swiss psychologist best known for his work on psychological types and archetypes such as the shadow and the persona.
Answer: Carl Jung
6. Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov choreographed the original, while Matthew Bourne directed and choreographed a version that appeared on Broadway during the late 1990s featuring an all-male cast. A single dancer usually plays the two lead parts, the twins Odette and Odile, the former of whom falls in love with Prince Siegfried. First performed at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow in 1877, at the end of the work, Von Rothbert dies and his spell is broken, resulting in Odette’s turning back into a human. For 10 points, name this Tchaikovsky ballet.
Answer: Swan Lake
7. Editorials in its Oct. 27th issue are devoted to the importance of sleep, and asking the EPA to issue specific information on potential health hazards in New Orleans in the wake of Hurrican Katrina. Founded by Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer, this journal was first published on November 4, 1869. Unique for its inclusion of a wide range of scientific fields, it is considered by many to be the foremost scientific journal. For 10 points name this international weekly journal of science that has seen its share of notable publications, including Watson and Crick's "A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" on February 28, 1953.
Answer: Nature
8. Seen as a commentary of fading tradition as it is attacked by Westernization and militarization, it takes place during a war, as the third youngest title character is hesitant to marry, and her impatient younger sibling has affairs with several unsavory men. Written during the end of World War II and shortly thereafter, the title characters also engage in blossom viewing and practicing traditional dance, all while clinging to their name and fading glory. The four main characters of this novel were based on the author’s wife, Matsuko, and her siblings. For ten points, identify this novel by Junichiro Tanizaki whose title characters are Tsuruko, Sachiko, Yukiko, and Taeko.
Answer: The Makioka Sisters (accept Sasameyuki or Light Snow)
9. Born in Metz in Lorraine, he saw combat in the Franco-Prussian War with the French infantry, and his city turned into a German one, which he vowed to avenge. In the First World War, he helped to prevent the advance of Germans at the Second Battle of Marne and eventually accepting their surrender. He also accepted the title of Marshal of Poland for his advice during the Polish-Bolshevik War of 1920. For 10 points, name this Marshal of France who died in 1929.
Answer: Marshal Ferdinand Foch
10. Despite only recording 29 songs in his lifetime, this man was chosen by Rolling Stone magazine as the fifth greatest guitarist of all time. Considered by Eric Clapton to be “the most important blues musician who ever lived,” some say his talent is the result of a transaction with the devil, receiving his talents in exchange for his soul, as a legend often told by Son House suggests. For 10 points, name this Delta blues guitarist and singer of “Travelin’ Riverside Blues,” Love in Vain,” and Crossroad Blues.”
Answer: Robert Leroy Johnson (Prompt on Johnson)
11. 95% of the world’s Oriental White stork population lives in the valley and flood lands of this river. Early peoples setting along this river include those of the Tungus and Manchu tribes. Often ice-coated from November to May, and the 1689 Treaty of Nerchinsk gave it to China, only to see it back in Russian hands 169 years later via the Treaty of Aaigun. Formed by the connection of the Argun and Shilka rivers and flowing some 2700 miles to the Tartar Strait, for ten points name this longest undammed river in the world, forming part of the Eastern border between China and Russia and sixth longest river overall.
Answer: Amur River (accept Hēilóng Jiāng, Black Dragon River (prompt on Black River), Khara-Muren, or Sahaliyan Ula)
12. Born on March 12, 1922, in Lowell, Massachusetts, he was the son of Quebec natives. The death of his brother Gerard at an early age later prompted him to write the book Visions of Gerard. His first novel, The Town and the City, was published in 1950, but it is his second novel, published in 1957, which is best known and features Dean Moriarty. For 10 points name this author of On the Road and prominent member of the Beat generation.
Answer: Jack (Jean-Louis) Kerouac
13. This goddess, who had the power of prophecy, chose not to tell what she knew, and Orion’s Belt is sometimes known as her distaff. One of only two to be allowed to sit in the high seat of Hildskajlf, her one regret is not telling mistletoe to not harm her loser son Balder. For 10 points, name this queen of the Aesir and wife of Odin who in practice often was conflated with Freya.
Answer: Frigg or Frigga
14. He became acquainted with John and Charles Wesley during their days at Oxford, and he is now buried under the Old South Presbyterian Church in Newburyport, Massachusetts. One of the leaders of the Methodist movement, he established Bethesda Orphanage in Georgia the 18th Century. Known for his itinerant preaching throughout the American colonies, FTP name this man, one of the fathers of Evangelicalism and a major figure in the Great Awakening.
Answer: George Whitefield
15. Its so-called “Vulgate Text” is the 1835 Cairo edition. Antoine Galland popularized this work in Europe with his 1717 translation of it into French, though Richard Burton’s translation is probably the most famous. Based on the eighth century Hazâr Afsâna, a central figure is King Shahryar. For 10 points, name this medieval Middle-Eastern book in which Scheherazade spins tales in order to save herself from execution.
Answer: TheBook of One Thousand and One Nightsor 1001Arabian Nights or The Book ofa Thousand Nights and a Night
16. He served as an official during the Warring States Period in the State of Qi from 319 -312 BCE/. He argued that it was acceptable for people to overthrow or even kill a ruler who ignored people’s needs and ruled harshly. He also argued for the infinite goodness of an individual, believing that humans are born with and innate moral sense and that society’s influence caused bad character. Name this philosopher whose namesake book is considered one of four books that form the core of orthodox Confucian thinking, the second most famous Confucian.
Answer: Mencius or Meng Zi or Meng Ke
17. Dead at the age of 36 because of a bleeding gone awry, this mathematician and associate of Augustus De Morgan stated, “the Analytical engine weaves algebraic patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.” To counteract dangerous romantic tendencies inherited from her father, she received heavy instruction in mathematics and is best known for her work in that field with Charles Babbage and the Difference Engine. She is often cited as the first programmer and her contributions to computer science are honored by a programming language that bears her name. FTP name this daughter of Anne Milbanke and Lord Byron.
Answer: Augusta Ada Byron Countess of Lovelace (A.K.A. Ada Lovelace or Ada King)
18. Three ships of the United States Navy have born this name, which comes from a river that is formed from the junction of the Pemigewasset and Winnipesaukee rivers in New Hampshire. The first was launced in 1798, and sold by the Navy in 1801, after which it sailed under the name Monticello. The third was a fleet oiler obtained by the Navy in 1941, and sailed in both the Antlactic and the Pacific. For 10 points, give this name that also belonged to the ship captured by the Confederate Army and turned into the ironclad CSS Virgina.
Answer: USS Merrimack
19. Considered a complement of the even skipped gene, it is expressed in certain bands of nuclei to create interstripe regions with fourteen stripes. In an early stage, it causes an embryo looked like a belted bean and is considered to be a secondary pair-rule gene in Drosophila. For 10 points, name this fly gene which translates to “too few segments” in Japanese, also known as Fushi Tarazu.
Answer: FTZ (or early Fushi Tarazu)
20. The first part of this 1927 novel details the day to day life of a family in Post World War I Scotland. The rather cold patriarch Mr. Ramsay is based on the author’s father, Sir Leslie Stephen. In the second part, three members of the family die in less than eight pages. The third part details some remaining members of the family taking a long-promised trip, and discusses the meaning of life. For 10 points, name this stream-of-consciousness novel by Virginia Woolf.
Answer: To the Lighthouse
This Czech born playwright has won three Tony Awards but he is probably best known for his work as a screenwriter. His film credits include scripts for Enigma, Brazil, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. For 10 points name this man who received an Oscar for his screenplay for 1998’s Shakespeare in Love.
Answer: Tom Stoppard
Originally calling for a demarcation line along a circle passing 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands, its creation followed a papal bull issued by Pope Alexander VI. Despite the fact that the New World at that point was largely unexplored and highly controversial, it granted the Portuguese rights to new lands in Africa and India. The Spaniards were given most of South America, but Brazil went to the Portuguese. For 10 points, name this 1494 treaty which divided the New World between Spain and Portugal and was later expanded upon by the Treaty of Zaragoza in 1529.
Answer: Treaty of Tordesillas
A curve most commonly expressed with parametric equations in terms of theta and a constant, it is found using the method of calculus of variations. The time of traveling to the lowest point along this path is equal for every starting position. It is derived when finding the quickest path between two points in a gravitational field. For 10 points, name this shape produced when tracing one point on the rim of a rolling wheel.
Answer: Brachistochrone
A jihad against oppressors, called for by Usman dan Fodio, began the war from which this empire, of which dan Fodio was the founder, got its name. Known for its military prowess and scholarship, early nineteenth-century expansion included some of Yorubaland and a later assimilation with Hausaland, with Hausa becoming the official language. Unable to expand southward into the jungle or East into the kingdom of Kanem-Bornu, dan Fodio’s son Muhammed Bello moved the capital to Sokoto when he became sultan. Lasting until 1903 when it was split between France and Britain, for ten points identify this Islamic empire once stretching from present-day Burkina Faso to Cameroon, at its time the largest in Africa.
Answer: Fulani Empire (accept Sokoto Caliphate)
First proposed in 1956 by the psychologist Leon Festinger, it relates to states of oppositions amongst feelings, beliefs, emotions, or values. Festinger theorized that a mind in conflict will seek to attain psychological consonance by integrating new thoughts or beliefs, or by modifying previously held beliefs. For 10 points, name this condition which is related to the hypothesis of cognitive consistency.
Answer: cognitive dissonance (prompt on “dissonance”)
Yale University
Bulldogs over Broadway—Oct 29, 2005
Edited by Mike Wehrman
Packet by Rochester C and D
Bonuses:
1. For 10 points each, given a brief synopsis, name the work by Franz Kafka.
A. Gregor Samsa awakes one morning to find himself transformed into a monstrous vermin. His family shuts him in his room, but provides him with food and water. Gregor eventually dies, and his family is overjoyed when they find his corpse.
Answer: The Metamorphosisor Die Verwandlung
B. An explorer witnesses the justice dispensed in a in another culture. In this culture, the condemned is placed in an elaborate torture device which inscribes the command he disobeyed upon his back. At the end, the officer who is in charge of maintenance for the device places himself in it and is killed.
Answer: In the Penal Colonyor In der Strafkolonie
C. A performer who once drew massive crowds is now reduced to living in a cage in a circus, where the crowds pass him by. His act is to starve himself for long periods of time. When he dies, he is replaced by a panther.
Answer: AHunger Artist or AFasting Artist or EinHungerkünstler
2. Identify these people who aren’t from Ireland 5, 5, 10, 10.
A) Though his father was born in Ireland, this man was born in Chile and became the country’s first leader until he was overthrown by a conservative coup.
Answer: Bernardo O’Higgins Riquelme
B) This American hosted Nickelodeon game shows such as Guts and Global Guts and has been in ESPN commercials as “The Rick,” but now plays Jimmy Hughes on CBS’s Yes Dear.
Answer: Mike O’Malley
C) This American economist and director of the Thoreau institute has held fellowships at Yale and has frequently touted free-market solutions to urban renewal and environmental issues. He wrote the book Reforming the Forest Service.
Answer: Randal O’Toole
D) Played by Lana Wood, this Bond Girl runs into 007 while he is playing craps in the Whyte House in Diamonds are Forever. She dies when the creepy Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd drown her in Tiffany Case’s pool.
Answer: Plenty O’Toole
3. The "Central Dogma" of biology as outlined by Francis Crick in 1957 holds that DNA is transcribed to RNA which is then translated into proteins. For 10 points each, identify these components involved in this process:
A. This short-lived RNA molecule is transcribed from DNA and serves as the template for protein production.
Answer: mRNA or messenger RNA
B. This type of RNA contains a codon complementary to a three base pair sequence present on mRNA. Its function is to bring the proper amino acid to the nascent peptide chain.
Answer: tRNA or transfer RNA
C. This organelle is a conglomeration of RNA and protein that serves as the site of translation.
Answer: ribosome
4. Identify these Stephen Sondheim works for ten points each.
A. Produced in 1979 it originally starred Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Lovett, and Len Cariou was the title maniac. Patti Lupone is slated to fill the Mrs. Lovett role in the new, minimalist Broadway version.