DACQ Nationals Prep Packet 2: Tossups
1. This man's early work centered around commentaries on Laplace's Nebula Hypothesis, which would eventually lead to the observations that triggered his most famous theory. An analysis of the centrifugal force of two bodies with the same angular frequency was conducted by George Hill based on the work of this astronomer, leading to namesake Spheres. He is better known describing an area where one body experiences gravitation by two other bodies, a namesake (*) lobe, and for naming the distance at which tidal forces will cause a body to disintegrate. FTP, identify this French astronomer, famous for his eponymous Limit.
ANSWER: Edouard Roche
2. This treaty did not resolve the conflict with Hannover or Prussia, which neccesitated the concurrent Stockholm Treaties. One of its provisions was a two million silver thaler payment as compensation for territorial loses, while another nation had all its lost lands restored. Frederick I signed this treaty, although territories like Ingria, (*) Livonia, and Estonia were lost under his predecessor, Charles XII. FTP, identify this treaty that marked the triumph of Peter the Great over Sweden in the Great Northern War.
ANSWER: Treaty of Nystad
3. This man punishes his son for shredding some flowers by making him read Ivanhoe to Mrs. Dubose. He smiles and tells Bob that he only wishes he would brush his teeth more often after that man spits on him, and in a pivotal scene discredits Mayella. This pacifist memorably shoots a (*) rabid dog, but despite tossing a glass at his client is unable to win an aquital for Tom Robinson due to some racist Maycomb jury members. The father of Jem and Scout, FTP, identify this lawyer memorably portrayed by Gregory Peck, a quintessential hero in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.
ANSWER: Atticus Finch
4. This composer of the operas The Nightingale, The Soldier’s Tale, and Mavra also composed vocal works honoring Dylan Thomas and John F. Kennedy. He created the ballets Agon and Apollon Musagete, while two of his better-known operas feature Satan: The Flood and a work with a libretto by Auden and based on a series of works by (*) Hogarth, The Rake’s Progress. This composer of Pulcinella earned a commission from Sergei Diaghilev that would lead to a riot-inducing premiere. FTP, name this Russian composer of The Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite of Spring.
ANSWER: Igor Stravinsky
5. This value is placed under the square of the elementary charge in the Quantum Hall effect. Because it is divided by 2 pi in an equation used to convert it from phase to action in the Schrodinger Equation, the Dirac Constant is often referred to as the (*) “reduced” version of this value and is differentiated by a bar. The Heisenberg Uncertainty principle involves the relation of unkown values to this constant, which has a rough value of 6.626 x 10 ^-34. FTP, identify this constant from physics, named after a major founder of quantum theory.
ANSWER: Planck's Constant
6. His screenplays include The Saddest Music in the World and The White Countess. Characters of his novels include a man that investigates his parents’ disappearance in China, Christopher Banks, and Frank, who goes to America with Sachiko. In addition to When We Were Orphans and A Pale View of the Hills, this author wrote of Tommy, Ruth and Kathy, who are cloned (*) organ donors, and a servant who questions the integrity of Mr. Dupont’s friend Lord Darlington, the Butler Stevens. FTP, name this Japanese-British author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of The Day.
ANSWER: KazuoIshiguro
7. Pluemelei is also known as the “star” variety, while the Chola dynasty created examples like Brihadisvara and Airavatesvara Temples. Alexander VII engraved one at Cestius and Lepsius compiled a list of them, but those of Abu Gurab and Abusir may have been miscounted. La Danta and the one at (*) Cholula are the largest ones in the Americas. Snefru and Djoser constructed Bent and Step ones, and IM Pei designed a Glass one for the Louvre. FTP, name these structures mostly associated with Egypt, whose city of Giza has all the best examples.
ANSWER: Pyramids
8. His later works, like Garnered Sheaves and The Fear of the Dead in Primitive Religion were largely ignored due to dissatisfaction with questionably scientific methods. William Robertson Smith heavily influenced his study Folklore in the Old Testament. He derived his theory of Totemism from Claude Levi-Strauss and his most famous work, which discusses The (*) Year King and two types of magic, has its name derived from a tool Aeneas uses to enter Hades. FTP, name this anthropologist who wrote The Golden Bough.
ANSWER: James George Frazer
9. This nation experienced a major unrest in 2003, due in large part to autonomous regions such as the Aslan Abashdze-led Adjar and breakaway republics like Abkhazia and South Ossetia seeking independence. Protesters in this country marched to the capital yelling “Kmara!” or “Enough!” and holding up (*) roses to oust Eduard Shevernadze. The Rose Revolution occurred in, FTP, what nation ruled by Mikhail Saakashvilli, whose capital is Tbillisi?
ANSWER: Republic of Georgia
10. This mythical figure's most prolific coupling was with Astraios, which produced Boreas and his brothers. One of three children of Theia and Hyperion, she is sometimes conflated with Hemera in the Cephalus myth. Memnon and Emathion were produced in her most famous match, which ended in tragedy after Zeus's abduction of Ganymede (*) caused this goddess to request eternal life, but not eternal youth, for Tithonus. FTP, identify this sister of Helios and Selene, the Greek equivalent of Aurora and goddess of the Dawn.
ANSWER: Eos (do not accept Aurora)
11. This man might have written about a mouse and the Frog King in Batrachomyomachia, and in such a case would almost certainly have collaborated with Thestorides for Phocais. More controversy exists around his authorship of the Epigoni, an epic focusing on the sons of the (*) Seven Against Thebes. Samuel butler submitted that this figure was female, while Balboa is misidentified as Cortes in a poem describing a translation of this man's work by Chapman. Best-known for works featuring Telemachus, Priam, Hector, and Achilles, FTP, name this blind poet of The Iliad and The Odyssey.
ANSWER: Homer
12. This artist is often cited as the most probable creator of the Leconfield and Aberdeen heads, and another of his works shows the subject leaning against a tree trunk touching his well-braided hair, and is named for that work's presence in the Lykeion. He depicted that same subject, Apollo, about to catch a (*) lizard in another work, while a cloak is held in the left hand of his Aphrodite of Cnidus. His most famous sculpture shows one title figure cradled in the left arm of another, having just taken him from Semele. FTP, identify this famous Greek sculptor of Hermes Bearing the Infant Dionysus.
ANSWER: Praxiteles
13. This character's voice is actually almost identical to his creator's similar character Steve, who appeared in the Life of Luke shorts. He is one credit short of graduation from Brown after leaving to work on his novel, which is often mocked as a terrible adaptation of the Iron Eagle film series. He has an illegitimate son named Dylan and was blamed for the pregnancy of (*) Seabreeze, although Ted Turner turned out to be the culprit. To his horror, he discovered his mother was being used as a coffee table after taking a trip to his birthplace with Stewie. FTP, identify this least-insane member of the Griffen family, a talking white dog from Family Guy.
ANSWER: Brian Griffen
14. These bodies contain receptors that bind to Abscisic acid in order to raise their pH, triggering their primary function. They are able to function due to several rings of cellulose microfibrils, which prevent them from swelling and only allow them to lenghten in a bowing motion, creating an (*) opening. This process is triggered by increased water flow after a proton pump forces H+ ions from these bodies. FTP, identify these specialized parenchyma cells that create the holes known as stomata to facilitate plant respiration.
ANSWER: Guard Cells
15. Sophocles is the subject of the second part of his Holderlin’s Hymn lectures which expound the ideas of Ratsel and Deinon. This philosopher questioned whether the title object is a supreme danger or saving power by using examples of hydroelectricity and power plants in his The Question Concerning Technology. He uses Nietzsche’s “will to power” concept when analyzing a Van Gogh painting about shoes in his The (*) Origin of the Work of Art. FTP, name this author of “On the Essence of Truth,” a big Nazi who discussed the principle of dasein in Being and Time.
ANSWER: Martin Heidegger
16. This amendment has been the subject of the recent circuit court cases Silveira v. Lockyear and US v. Emerson, which made a general declaration in favor of this amendment despite upholding the challenged law. The conduct of Gabriel Presser was found to be so inane that it was not protected by this amendment in an 1886 case, while US v. Cruikshank claimed that this amendment was not (*) incorporated, a central argument in the recent case of DC v. Heller. FTP, identify this amendment of some illegally modified objects in US v. Miller and which is supported by members of the NRA, a provision outlining the right to bear arms.
ANSWER: Second Amendment
17. This author of the essay collection The Necessary Angel declared that the “intensest rendezvous…is the thought we collect ourselves” in his “Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour.” He offered as a substitute for religion a “Supreme Fiction,” and collected works like “Life is Motion” and “Hibiscus on the sleeping shores” in the collection Harmonium. Other poems by this author discuss a titular object placed “in Tennessee…upon a (*) hill,” and a figure described as the “The Roller of Big Cigars.” FTP, name this author of “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,”“The Anecdote of the Jar,” and “The Emperor of Ice Cream.”
ANSWER: Wallace Stevens
18. At least one of the central participants of this event, which had a key center around Thistle Mountain, was driven to act entirely because an act meant to lower firewood tax raised it instead. A clash at Independent Turtle Ridge marked the end of its Jintian phase, and it divided territory into Four Corners and Flank systems. Yang Xiuqing was opposed by Zeng Guofan in this conflict that saw over (*) twenty million deaths after a dream inspired Hakka layabout Hong Xiuquan to declare he was the brother of Jesus Christ. Charles Gordon earned his nickname during, FTP, what uprising which began in 1850 in China and sought the establishment of a Kingdom of Heavenly Peace?
ANSWER: Taiping Rebellion
19. Majoran Neutrinos may be suggested due to the neutrinoless variety of one form of this process, which occurs when the binding energy of a parent is smaller than that of a daughter and is known as the “double” form of this process. A Fermi-Kurie plot may be used to plot this process, which can occur via (*) positron emission, also known as the positive type, and k-capture. The negative variety occurs when a neutron is converted into a proton, emitting an electron and a neutrino. FTP, identify this form of radioactive decay.
ANSWER: Beta Decay
20. Its only source of outflow is the Lukuga, a minor tributary of the Lualaba, and outflows include the Malagarasi and the Ruzizi, which flows from Lake Kivu. Kalambo Falls lies toward one corner, and a substantial zone near the bottom is completely devoid of oxygen in this major body of water identified by (*) Burton and Speke, an effect caused by its depth. Shared by Burundi, Zambia, and Tanzania, FTP, this is what largest lake by volume in Africa and second deepest in the world?
ANSWER: Lake Tanganyika
DACQ Nationals Prep Packet 2: Bonuses
1. Bonus: Despite their infighting, they all had to deal with the pesky Greeks in the Lamian War. FTPE:
[10] Identify this group of generals that included Cassander and Lysimachus.
ANSWER: Diadochi
[10] The Diadochi were successors to this Macedonian conqueror, who won victories at Guagamela and the Hydasbes River.
ANSWER: Alexander III or the Great
[10] This member of the Diadochi established a vast kingdom that stretched from Asia Minor through Persia to the Indus Valley, and included the city of Antioch. He bore the epithet “Nicator,” meaning victor.
ANSWER: Seleucus I
2. Bonus: FTPE, name these Twentieth century French novels:
[10] This most famous work of Antoine de Saint Exupery tells of the titular figure, a tiny fellow who comes from outer space.
ANSWER: The Little Prince or Le Petit Prince
[10] Father Paneloux gives a sermon explaining why the titular phenomenon is the wrath of God in this novel in which Dr. Rieux is trapped in the city of Oran.
ANSWER:The Plague (accept La Peste)
[10] George Molinier and his gang, which make fake coins are the title characters of this Andre Gide novel centering on the homoerotic relationship between Edouard and Olivier.
ANSWER: The Counterfeiters (accept Les Faux Monnayeurs)
3.Bonus: He idolized Thales for the practical applications of that philosopher's ideas. FTPE:
[10] Identify this English philosopher, who attempted to combine logic and ethics in his Principia Ethica.
ANSWER: George Edward Moore
[10] In Principia Ethica, Moore discussed this condition, which arises when philosophers attempt to categorize ethics using so-called inherent properties.
ANSWER: Naturalistic Fallacy
[10] The Naturalistic Fallacy can be seen as an extension of the “Is-Ought” problem of this author of Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.
ANSWER: David Hume
4. Bonus: Answer these questions regarding some special congressional elections, FTPE:
[10] A 2008 special election saw Democrat Bill Foster defeat Jim Oberweis to gain control of the seat formerly held by this ex-Speaker of the House.
ANSWER: Dennis Hastert
[10] The election was for the 14th district of this state, whose other representatives in the US Congress include Dick Durbin and Barack Obama.
ANSWER: Illinois
[10] Woody Jenkins ominously lost an election to replace Richard Baker when Democrat Don Cazayoux won a special congressional election in this southern state in May 2008.
ANSWER: Louisiana
5. Bonus: One of this group's central goals was the exploitation of the New People, who were mostly drawn from Urban populations. FTPE:
[10] Identify this group, which began as the Communist Party of Kampuchea.
ANSWER: Khmer Rouge
[10] The Khmer Rouge was most infamously headed by this huge murderer, who reset the calendar to year zero after assuming control of Cambodia.
ANSWER: Pol Pot
[10] This recently-abdicated king of Cambodia managed to survive through Pol Pot and the later Vietnamese invasion by wielding absolutely no power, and not complaining about any of the pesky killing fields.
ANSWER: Norodom Sihanouk
6. Bonus: Its title is completed by the line “We find that we have never lived.” FTPE:
[10] Name this play in which an avalanche kills Irene and Rubek, although Maia’s voice can be heard singing down below.
ANSWER: When We Dead Awaken
[10] Character in this play include Nils Krogstad, Dr. Rank, Christine Lind, Torvald and Nora, who declares that she has been living in the titular structure before slamming a door.
ANSWER: A Doll’s House (or A Doll House)
[10] Both When We Dead Awaken and A Doll's House are works by what Norwegian playwright, who also wrote Ghosts and The Wild Duck?
ANSWER: Henrik Ibsen
7. Bonus: Answer these questions about the 2008 CMT Music Awards, FTPE:
[10] The 2008 CMT Awards were hosted by this mullet-addicted singer of “Achy Breaky Heart,” who has managed to revive his fame by fathering his co-host, who teaches children the positive side of dissociative identity disorder on Hannah Montana.
ANSWER: Billy Ray Cyrus
[10] This group won Group Video of the Year for the second year in a row, possibly because most competitors don't actually make videos. They won for “Take me There” and “What Hurts the Most.”
ANSWER: Rascal Flatts
[10] One of the most entertaining audience members at the awards was certainly this dirty beard-sporting Mixed Martial Arts star, who gained fame when people posted internet videos of him fighting homeless people on the street.
ANSWER: Kimbo Slice or Kevin Ferguson
8. Bonus: Existing in three different colors and six different flavors FTPE
[10] Name these subatomic particles, whose varities include up, down, top, bottom, charm, and strange.
ANSWER: Quarks
[10] This concept, proposed by Murray Gell-Mann, arises as a consequence of flavor symmetries between various kinds of quarks and is used for organizing subatomic baryons and mesons into octets. It is named for a concept from Buddhism.