Buzzer Question: If You Could Travel Anywhere in the World Right Now Where Would It Be?

Round 6

Buzzer Question: “If you could travel anywhere in the world right now where would it be?”

Tossups:

1. In a poem from this collection, the narrator speaks of his emergence “Out of the mocking-bird’s throat, the musical shuttle” and of “Two feather’d guests from Alabama.” This collection includes a work that begins “flood tide below me! I meet you face to face.” In another poem in this collection the narrator describes the titular figure as having “fallen cold and dead.” Other poems in this collection include “Where Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” and “I Sing the Body Electric.” For ten points name this collection of poems by Walt Whitman which was partly dedicated to Abraham Lincoln.

Answer: Leaves of Grass

1. The Enuma Elish depicts this action being performed with the blood of Quingu. In Egyptian mythology, this action was caused by the tears of Atum over the disappearance of his children Shu and Tefnut. Kukulkan and Tepeu performed this action with fresh corn, while brother gods Odin, Vili, and Ve performed this action with two tree trunks. After a battle between the Titans and the gods, Prometheus—like several deities in other religions—performed this action by using clay. For ten points, the biblical characters Adam and Eve are the result what action?

Answer: creating humans [accept reasonable variants]

1. Kashubian is recognized as a minority language in this country. This country is the northernmost member of the Visegrad Group and its western border is the Oder-Neisse Line. The Bug river forms part of its borders with Eastern neighbors; that river flows into the Narew and ultimately the Vistula. This country’s most populous metropolitan area is centered around Katowice [KAH-TO-VEE-TSE], the capital of its Silesian voivodeship. Jagiellonian University is in this country’s second most populous city of Krakow, which is near Auschwitz Concentration Camp. For ten points, name this Slavic country governed from Warsaw.

Answer: Republic of Poland or RzeczpospolitaPolska

1. Raphael Lemkin coined a certain term after learning of this event, and a city in Colombia was renamed after a certain country in commemoration of this event. The “I apologize” campaign aims for a certain country to recognize this event. Henry Morgenthau heard of this event after the Siege of Van, and Jesse B. Jackson witnessed it in Aleppo. The Tehcir Act enabled “special measures” against a certain group of people, beginning this event. During this event, a certain group was deported to camps near Deir ez-Zor in modern day Syria. For ten points, name this event during World War I in which the Ottoman Empire conducted a systematic extermination of a certain ethnic group.

Answer: Armenian Genocide or Armenian Holocaust or Hayotstseghaspanutyun

1. This work of art is set in Cushing, Maine, instead of the artists’ hometown of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. The creator of this work used his wife as a model for the head and torso of the main figure of this painting, instead of using his usual model, a German neighbor named Helga Testorf. This painting features a barn and farmhouse that belonged to the Olson family. The only person in this painting takes up the bottom left of the panel, and has her back to the viewer as she reaches toward the top right corner of the canvas. For ten points, name this 1948 painting by Andrew Wyeth that features a CMT-stricken woman crawling through the fields.
   Answer:Christina’s World

1. Because heavier isotopes result in reduced vibration frequencies this quantity must be higher according to the kinetic isotope effect. This quantity can be calculated using the Eyring-Polanyi equation and it also appears as the numerator of the exponent in Black’s equation. This quantity can be found by calculating the slope of a line that plots the log of the rate constant against the inverse of temperature. Often characterized as the “potential barrier,” its negative is divided by the product of absolute temperature and the gas constant in the exponent of the Arrhenius equation. For ten points, name this quantity, the point of energy that must be attained in order to reach a transition state.

Answer: activation energy or EA

1. In this play, two characters mention how Mary Farquhar likes to flirt with her husband across the dinner table. One character makes cucumber sandwiches for a guest, but there are none left by the time the guest comes. That character calls another character a Bunburyist and he likewise argues with another character about the proper way to eat a muffin. One woman accidentally leaves an infant stranded at a train station and Dr. Chasuble is asked by Jack Worthing to christen him using a fake dead brother’s name. For ten points, name this play about Jack using the titular name to woo Gwendolen, a work by Oscar Wilde.
   Answer:The Importance of Being Earnest

1. Much of his earliest studies were performed under Jean-Martin Charcot and he also worked extensively with otolaryngologist Wilhelm Fliess. This thinker discussed religion in one work that describes Moses as the “pater familias” of the Jewish people. He developed an alternative theory regarding the origin of hysteria in his “seduction theory” and he likewise developed the concepts of the “Thanatos” and “Eros.” Another of his works claims that the titular entities act as a form of “wish fulfillment,” while another discusses the concept of the “pleasure principle.” For ten points, name this Austrian psychologist who authored such books as Civilization and its Discontents and The Interpretation of Dreams.

Answer: Sigmund Freud

1. The Treaty of Shimonoseki guaranteed the independence of this country. The Righteous Armies resisted invaders of this country during the Imjin War, during which its army used Seongja artillery. This country saw victory at the Battle of Myeongnyang and its eventual liberation was assured at the Battle of Noryang Point. When this country was invaded, its forces deployed turtle ships under the command of Admiral Yi and Hwacha rocket launchers. A dynasty established by Manchus was recognized as the rulers of this country by its Joseon dynasty. For ten points, name this peninsular country in Asia now divided between North and South.

Answer: Korea

1. TkInter (T-K-enter) is the most common GUI for this language and is included with the installation of the language. This language is community developed and iteration can be performed using its “xrange” type. This language delimits blocks using whitespace indentation and this language uses duck typing. This language manages memory by using reference counting and it also lacks backwards compatibility. Commonly used for web server scripts this is, for ten points, what programing language invented by Guido van Rossum which shares its name with a reptile?

Answer: Python

1. This opera features an aria in which one character sings that the “house must be full of flowers. Everywhere. As the night is full of stars.” Goro asks the protagonist of this opera to marry Yamadori and its second act ends with the “Humming Chorus.” One character in this opera is paired with variations on “The Star Spangled Banner,” and in another scene the name of the protagonist’s son is revealed to be “Sorrow.” Sharpless cannot bear to tell the titular character of this opera that her husband has married another woman named Kate. For ten points, name this opera by Giacomo Puccini about the titular woman Cio-Cio San and her faithless American husband Pinkerton.

Answer: Madame Butterfly

1. Moss engages in this activity with several visiting businessmen on The IT Crowd. In Community, the study group performs this activity to reunite Professor Hickey with his estranged son, and they had earlier performed this activity to help Fat Neil. Vin Diesel once wrote that he was “attracted to the artistic outlet” as it provided an “opportunity to explore” his identity. In the Weird Al Yankovic song, “White and Nerdy,” Al claims that “Drop skills, I’m a champion” at this activity. For ten points, the TV show Stranger Things starts with a group of boys playing what popular fantasy tabletop RPG?

Answer:DungeonsDragons

1. Recently, a copy of this philosopher’s lost book Rules for the Direction of the Mindwas discovered in a Cambridge University Library. This philosopher’s last published work synthesized his correspondence with Queen Elisabeth of Bohemia and is dedicated to Queen Cristina of Sweden. This author of the Passions of the Soul believed that the seat of the soul rested in the brain’s pineal gland. In his most famous work, the philosopher employs the skeptical method to guard against deception from an evil demon. For 10 points, name this author of Meditations on First Philosophy who wrote that “I think, therefore I am.”

ANSWER: Rene Descartes

1. This author wrote a poem recommending that women focus on manners first, before recommending compounds for makeup in “Women’s Facial Cosmetics”. In another work, Atticus is told that “every lover serves as a soldier” when describing the narrator’s affair with Corinna. He wrote one collection of poems from the perspective of famous female characters such as Dido and Briseis. Aside from the Heroides, this man also wrote a work in which Philemon and Baucis are turned into trees upon their deaths, and another poem which includes the story of Daphne being turned into a laurel tree to avoid Apollo. For ten points, name this Roman poet of Amores and Metamorphoses.

Answer: Publius OvidiusNaso

1. The Stribeck curve shows difference in this force between surfaces as a function of the Hersey number. The atypical decline of this force is described by the Stribeck curve. Light is produced from this force in a phenomenon known as triboluminescence. One of Amonton’s laws of this force, also known as the Coulomb’s law of this force, states that it is independent of sliding velocity. The tangent of the angle of an inclined plane is the static coefficient of this force. For ten points, name this force that is perpendicular to the normal force and resists motion.
   Answer: friction

1. One of these was used in Vigo, Spain to apprehend its subject after he fled corruption charges in the US. One of these works shows its subjects smoking a cigar whilst waiting next to a table that reads “there is strength in counting.” The subject of these works can be seen in the stands of a coliseum watching as a gladiator is eaten by a wild animal, and another of these works shows a circle of people pointing to one another. In another, the creator of these works can be seen next to a man with a vulture’s body as they sit atop some cliffs “waiting for the storm to blow over.” They include a work showing a rotund figure with a money bag for a head. For ten points, name these drawings that criticize the leader of Tammany Hall.

Answer: cartoons of Boss Tweed by Thomas Nast (accept equivalents so long as they mention William “Boss” Tweed and Thomas Nast)

1. The primary institution tasked with administering this entity is run by Mario Draghi. The name of this entity was officially adopted in a meeting in Madrid, but the concept for the entity was proposed in the Maastricht Treaty. This entity came into use in 1999, but included a 3 year transition period in which it replaced other entities with the same purpose. In a 2003 national referendum, Sweden rejected the use of this entity. Many countries in this entity's namesake zone experienced debt crisis in 2009. For ten points, name the world’s second largest reserve currency, that is used by 19 out of 28 European Union nations

Answer: euro

1. This process is regulated through the thioredoxin-ferrodoxin activation system and the enzyme aldolase is used to produce fructose-6-phosphate during one step of this process. It yields a net total of 6 NADP+ molecules as well as six net G3Ps, some of which are then used to form hexose. The other G3Ps are used to regenerate another component in this reaction which also requires the fixation of carbon from CO2. Requiring immense amounts of RuBisCO, this process occurs primarily in the stroma of chloroplasts. For ten points, name this process involved in photosynthesis, a series of steps often known as the “dark reactions.”

Answer: Calvin-Benson-Bassham Cycle (prompt on “photosynthesis” until read, accept light-independent reactions or dark reactions until the end)

1. This work inspired Marguerite de Navarre to write her own stories. Ser Ciappelletto fools a priest into believing he has led a holy life while receiving last rites in the first part of this work and Panfilo tells a story involving a sultan and Torello. Dioneo tells of how the nobleman Gualteri tests Griselda’s patience by threatening to kill their children, though later reveals that they are alive and well. Isabella puts Lorenzo’s head into a pot of basil after he is murdered by her brothers in another story from this work. A group of Florentine aristocrats are fleeing the Black Death in, for ten points, what collection of tales written by Boccaccio?

Answer: TheDecameron

1. The passage of this legislation overruled Minor v. Happersett. In Leser v. Garnett, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled this legislation was constitutional. This legislation was originally proposed by Aaron A. Sergeant. The Tennessee House of Representatives voted narrowly for this legislation, enabling its ratification. The New Departure strategy agitated for this amendment after court decisions would not enable its goal; that strategy was led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. For ten points, name this constitutional amendment that guaranteed American women’s right to vote.

Answer: The 19th Amendment

1. This man was placed into three barrels of water in an attempt to quell his anger. This man was trained by a group of warrior women at the request of his father-in-law so he could marry Emer. This man breaks two of his oaths when he is offered dog meat to eat, and later dies after tying himself to a stone to stand in battle. He accidentally killed his son Connla after using a weapon made of the bones of a sea monster. This son of Lugh is the only warrior to oppose the forces of Queen Medb [may-v] and wielded the spear Gae Bulg. The hero of the Cattle Raid of Cooley, for ten points, name this protagonist of the Ulster Cycle.

Answer: Cuchulainn; Cu Chulaind; Cuhullin

Bonuses:

1. Some astrophysicists believe that the centers of some galaxies may contain “supermassive” forms of these bodies. For ten points each:

[10] Name these astronomical bodies that emit Hawking radiation. Their gravity is so great that not even light can escape from them.

Answer: black holes

[10] According to this postulate, all black holes can be characterized by their mass, charge, and angular momentum, as all other information related to their formation is lost in the event horizon.

Answer: No-Hair Theorem

[10] This quantity is defined as the distance at which an object’s mass is compressed such that the escape velocity is equal to the speed of light. If an object’s mass is contained within this measure a black hole would result.

Answer: Schwarzschild radius

1. This material has been used in statuary since antiquity, but during the Renaissance, it was cast using the lost-wax method. For ten points each:

[10] The ancient Greeks often used what material, an alloy of copper and tin, famously used in the Artemisium Zeus.

Answer: bronze [do not accept brass]

[10] This artist often sculpted figures in bronze, including The Age of Bronze and a work in which a group of men, some of whom have nooses around their neck, prepare to surrender to Edward III’s army.

Answer: François Auguste René Rodin

[10] Another well known bronze work is this Donatello equestrian sculpture depicting the famed mercenary Erasmo of Narni.

Answer: Gattamelata

1. Recurring characters include the law student Eugene de Rastignac and the criminal Jacques Collin. For ten points each:

[10] Name this series set during the French Restoration, which includes works such as Louis Lambert and Cousin Bette.

Answer: The Human Comedy; La Comédiehumaine

[10] This character first appears in The Human Comedy at the boarding house Maison Vauquer. The student Eugene de Rastignac falls in love with this man’s daughter, Delphine in his namesake entry in The Human Comedy.

Answer: Jean-Joachim Goriot; PéreGoriot

[10] This French author gave up studying law in favor of writing; he wrote Le Pere Goriotand The Human Comedy.

Answer:Honore de Balzac

1. For Ten points each, answer some questions about some recent uprisings in the Middle East:

[10] This term refers to the string of uprisings that occurred in many middle eastern states against repressive governments between 2010 and 2012. This revolutionary wave has led to ongoing conflicts in Syria and Libya.