Penn Bowl 2011: Written entirely by Eric Mukherjee
Packet by Michigan B, Alabama A, and GMU (Saul Hankin, Bryan Berend, Phil Guan, Surya Sabhapathy, Saul Hankin, Bryan Berend, Phil Guan, Jake Sundberg, Jonathan Thompson, Dargan Ware, Robert Palmer, Ben Cole, Neeraj Vijay, Zach Foster)
Tossups
1. One commercial method for accomplishing this available from Invitrogen is the Clonase reaction, which is designed for use with the companion Gateway product. Conditional knock-in studies often use a type of this called the Cre-lox system, which may be induced using pIpC. It can be responsible for fusion genes, such as BCR-ABL and AML1-ETO, and one variety of it in antibodies makes use of RSSs on variable, diversity, and (*) joining regions. Another variety of it occurs during Prophase I at points known as chiasmata, while artificial means of performing it often make use of sticky ends to control the orientation of the fragments in the construct. Exemplified by chromosomal crossover, for 10 points, name this process by which segments of DNA are cleaved and then joined together with other segments.
ANSWER: genetic recombination [accept homologous recombination]
2. Early in this man’s reign, he became involved in a Danish civil war between Swend III and Valdemar I. This ruler recognized his greatest rival in the Peace of Anagni, which would be confirmed in the Peace of Venice. During this man’s reign, he put to death a religious revolutionary, who was condemned at the Second Lateran Council and the Synod of Sens, Arnold of Brescia. While besieging the town of Ancona, this man, who endorsed the anti-pope Victor IV, won a major victory over Oddo Frangipani at Monte Porzio. This leader held a council which saw him attempt to assert his sovereignty over a group of cities, the Diet of Roncaglia, and that same group of cities would later defeat at Legnano. At the Diet of Mainz, this man was able to compel Richard the Lionhearted to join him on expedition to take back Jerusalem from Saladin. For ten points, name this Holy Roman Emperor, whose sobriquet reflected his red-beardedness.
ANSWER: Frederick I or Frederick Barbarossa
3. One apocryphal story about him says that when he was a baby the angel Gabriel guided his hand to a burning coal instead of a jewel, leaving him with a stutter. Phinehas, the grandson of this man’s brother, threw a spear that killed a Midianite woman, which resulted in this man ordering the slaughter of all the Midianite women and children. Hur and this man’s brother held up his arms during a battle with the Amalekites in order to ensure the victory for the Israelites. He named his son by his first wife, Gershom and he met that wife after he saved her from assault at a well. In the Book of Numbers, he fashions a serpent out of copper that had the power to cure people- of snakebites and after he defied God by not speaking to a rock, he was unable to enter the Promised Land. The brother of Aaron and recipient of the Ten commandments, for 10 points, name this prophet who led the Israelites out of Egypt.
ANSWER: Moses [or Moshe]
4. He hit a game winning jump shot for Texas Christian to defeat Texas in a key Southwest Conference game in 1986 that would help the Horned Frogs win its first SWC title in fifteen years. After college, this member of the Screen Actors Guild and veteran of TV commercials would become the head basketball coach of a school in New Zealand before becoming an assistant at Los Angeles Valley College, UC-Santa Barbara, Hawaii and for Ben Howland at Northern Arizona. On the way to becoming head coach of the US Under-19 men’s basketball team, he earned his first head college coaching job after (*) Ben Howland left to go to UCLA in 2003. For 10 points, what brother of former Army women’s basketball coach Maggie, is the current head men’s basketball coach at Pittsburgh.
ANSWER: Jamie Dixon
5. The monastery at Mount Melleray, where the monks sleep in coffins, is discussed in this work. Among its characters are the womanizing Mr. Browne, the drunk Freddy Malins, and the protagonist’s wife Gretta, who complains about her husband’s forcing her to wear galoshes. During a dance, the protagonist is insultingly called a “West Briton” by Miss Ivors, and when the performance of “The Lass of Aughrim” moves his wife to tears, he discovers that his wife once loved a boy named(*) Michael Furey, who died waiting to see her before she went to Dublin. The protagonist is unsure whether to use a quote by Robert Browning in his speech at an annual Christmas dinner party hosted by his aunts Kate and Julia for fear that he may sound too intelligent or pretentious. For 10 points, name this short story ending in contemplation of falling snow by Gabriel Conroy, the last story in the collection Dubliners by James Joyce.
ANSWER: “The Dead”
6. A progression of triplet arpeggios in A major, G-sharp minor, F-sharp minor, and E major appears twice in the second of his Two Arabesques, and he included “The Hills of Anacapri” and “Minstrels” in his first book of Preludes. The third movement of one of his orchestral works begins with the cellos playing alternating sixteenth notes on F-sharp and C-sharp while a (*) wordless female chorus joins the orchestra; that movement is “Sirens” from his suite Nocturnes. He is perhaps best known for a solo piano work in 9/8 time which precedes a Passepied, and is based on a Paul Verlaine poem; that work is the third of four movements in his Suite bergamesque. For 10 points, name this French composer of La Mer and Clair de Lune.
ANSWER: Claude Debussy
7. The study of these compounds was pioneered by Alfred Werner, who first created the compound hexol and demonstrated its chirality. Tanabe-Sugano diagrams are used to predict the absorption spectra of these substances, which can undergo charge transfer, a process observed using UV-Vis spectroscopy. These compounds may exhibit linkage isomerism, and the rate of their formation is governed by their stability constant. Examples of these compounds include metallocenes and (*) chelating agents, and they are described by the interactions of their contiguous and non-contiguous atoms of ligands with the central atom. For 10 points, name these chemical complexes prominent in organometallic chemistry that consist of metal ions bonded to covalent anions.
ANSWER: coordination complex [prompt on ligand]
8. This deity’s father is often confused with the mother of a certain god of lightning, and in one story she “embraced” another figure in order to destroy a statue that she stripped of its gold. The flying and water-treading horse Hofvarpnir belonged to her attendant, Gna and Syn protects the doors to the residence of this deity. This mother of Hermod and one-time wife of both Villi and Ve has the gift of prophecy and resides at the water-filled Fensalir. When disguised Loki visited her, he was able to learn of powers of dart of mistletoe, which this deity’s blind son Hod would use to kill her other son Balder. For 10 points, name this Norse deity, who is llowed to sit on Hjildskalf as the queen of the gods and the wife of Odin.
ANSWER: FriggorFrigga
9. He abandons his short-lived plans to flee to Sweden in his first published book, the memoir If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home. The title character's trek to Paris is revealed to be the imaginings of Paul Berlin in this author's novel Going After Cacciato. This author's most famous work is a collection of short stories, the last of which tells the story of his childhood love, Linda, who died of brain cancer.In another of those stories, “Speaking of Courage,” Norman Bowker drives around the lake in his hometown thinking of (*) Kiowa's death. The collection is titled after its first story, which is told primarily from the point of view of First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, who obsesses over a girl back home named Martha. It also includes extensive lists including items ranging from comic books and M&M's to M-79 grenade launchers. For 10 points, name this American Vietnam War veteran and author of The Things They Carried.
ANSWER: Tim O'Brien
10. At the behest of the author of Spiritual Regulation, this leader created a new religious body which consisted of ten clergymen and was known as the Most Holy Synod. This man created a system that assigned a number from 1 to 14 to every public office. His early reign saw a revolt that resulted in the lynching of Grigory Romandovsky and was masterminded by Maria Milovskaya. This ruler sent Aleksey Shein and Patrick Gordon to put down another rebellion fomented by the imprisoned Sophia Alekseyevna. In addition to the Table of Ranks and the revolts of Strelsy, this man embarked on a major set of campaigns which were conducted near the Don and resulted in the Treaty of Constantine, the Azov campaigns. This ruler’s reforms weakened the power of the Boyars and he reformed his country’s navy, which helped him to win the Great Northern War. Imposing a beard tax, for ten points, name this long-ruling Russian tzar responsible for westernizing Russia.
ANSWER: Peter the Great or Peter I or Pyotor Alexeyevich Romanov
11. The production of this particle is enhanced in the deconfined QGP phase, which has allowed scientists at the Large Hadron Collider to use the observation of this particle as evidence for deconfinement. Its discovery was preceded by the work of Glashow, Iliopoulos, and Maiani, formulators the GIM mechanism which predicted the existence of the particles that compose it. This particle has an unusually long lifetime of approximately 10^-20 s and a very narrow decay width of 3 keV, both of which are explained by the (*) OZI rule. Discovered during the November Revolution, it won the Nobel prize for Samuel Ting and Burton Richter, two scientists who discovered it independently and each contributed one letter to this particle’s name. For 10 points, name this simplest charmonium bound state consisting of a charm quark and charm antiquark, a certain meson with a two-letter name.
ANSWER: J/psi meson
12. By navigating up the Finlay River, explorer Samuel Black discovered that this river’s headwaters originate from Thutade Lake. After passing through the San Sault Rapids, it narrows to less than half a kilometer through a series of limestone cliffs known as the Ramparts. This river receives much of its water from the Peel and Laird Rivers, while earlier it passes through Lake (*) Athabasca. Known as Deh Cho, or “Big River,” it also passes by the Fort Good Hope and Fort Simpson before entering into its large delta bounded by the Richardson Mountains and the Caribou Hills. Emptying into the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic Circle, this river is named after discoverer, who called it “Disappointment River” because it did not lead to the Pacific. For 10 points, name this longest river in Canada.
ANSWER: Mackenzie River [accept Deh Cho before it is read]
13. It’s not Carmen, but one character in this opera brags about his profession in the aria “Il cavallo scalpita”; that character later has his ear bitten by a man whom he challenged to a duel. Winning in a competition of over 70 entries, it opens with one character singing of his love for Lola, who married another man while he was in the military. A hymn based on the melody of the Regina coeli precedes the brindisi “Viva il vino spumeggiante” in this opera, which also sees a woman tell Lucia of her son’s adulterous activities in the aria (*) “Vio la sapete.” That aria’s singer, Santuazza, does not want to go to the Easter Sunday mass in part because Lola is there with Santuazza’s love Turiddu, who dies in a duel with Alfio at this opera’s end. Often performed along with Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, this is, for 10 points, what verismo opera by Pietro Mascagni?
ANSWER: Cavalleria rusticana or Rustic Chivalry
14. One work by this man features an Aristotelian metaphor machine whose functionality and purpose are explained to the protagonist by Padre Emanuele during his stay at Casale. That work sees the jesuit Caspar Wanderdrossel disappear after attempting to walk underwater to reach the titular locale. Another novel deals with Simone Simonini’s invention of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion(*) conspiracy, themes similar to those of an earlier work. That work has characters such as the sinister Colonel Aglie, the Brazilian former flame Amparo, and the computer Abouelafia used to connect seemingly unrelated facts to form a vast Templar conspiracy theory. For 10 points, identify this semiotician author of The Island of the Day Before who created Casaubon, Belbo, and Diotallevi in Foucault’s Pendulum and William of Baskerville and Adso of Melk in The Name of the Rose.
ANSWER: Umberto Eco
15. One engagement prior to this battle saw one side use searchlights coordinated with artillery fire to attack positions held at the Finow Canal. Gotthard Henrici attempted an attack from Plon to relieve forces fighting in this battle that also saw one commander plan an attack from Ploesti to create a flank against Chuikov’s forces. The Battle of Halbe occurred shortly after this battle that saw forces of Theodore Busse utilize the remnant Volksturm against Ivan Konev’s forces. Hanna Reitsch attempted to evacuate one commander in a biplane at this battle which occurred during Operation Clausewitz that saw the surrender of Albert Speer, and fall of the Flensburg government under Karl Donitz. For 10 points name this battle that saw Adolf Hitler commit suicide in the Fuehrerbunker , the final major battle of World War II in Europe
ANSWER: Battle of Berlin (Accept obvious equivalents like “Siege of Berlin”)
16. This work puts forth “ionisation” as a technical term that is both legitimate and useful, while the idea of volition falls into the category of currently useless technical terms like “phlogiston”. One section of this work posits that the sensations of lunatics occupy only a small corner of the field of sensations of normal people. This work suggests that an individual that calls himself “I” does not really understand what “I” means, which may be a (*) “category mistake”, a term coined in this work. Strongly influenced by Schopenhauer, this work may be best known for attacking the view that the mental and physical act in parallel but do not interact, also known as Descartes’ mind-body dualism. Putting forth the doctrine of the “ghost in the machine”, for 10 points, name this 1949 work by Gilbert Ryle.
ANSWER: The Concept of Mind
17. African American for pushing him off a sidewalk. Firemen from the nearby town of Monck’s Corner were called to bring food and water after an earthquake hit this city in 1886. One division at a siege of this city saw civilians participate in a skirmish at a location in this city known as “The Battery”. That siege also saw the saw the surrender of forces under the command of Benjamin Lincoln. One group of students from a military academy in this city formed a unit that opened fire on ships entering port at nearby James Island and a major revolt in this city was aided by Gullah Jack. Home to the Citadel and Denmark Vesey’s Revolt, this is, for 10 points what South Carolina city that saw the first shots of the American Civil War at Fort Sumter.
ANSWER: Charleston
18. One of this artist’s depicts a giant earthen cup towering above some mountains, while another work depicts a woman falling before an outdoor shrine of the Virgin Mary. In addition to Il Penseroso, he also painted a man resting on a pillar while looking at a pyramid and other buildings of various designs. A boat caught on fire and a headless statue surround the central scene of another painting where a large group of people are being slaughtered. This artist painted The Architect’sDream and Destruction, the latter of which is part of a(*) series that also includes The Savage State and Desolation. Another series by this artist depicted in Kindred Spirits shows a man in a boat traveling down a river at different times representing childhood, youth, manhood, and old age. The Course of Empire and The Voyage of Life were both painted by, for 10 points, what leader of the Hudson River School who also painted The Oxbow?
ANSWER: Thomas Cole
19. This organ’s namesake middle artery originates between the celiac trunk and superior mesenteric artery on the aorta. A deficiency in the enzyme 21-hydroxylase can lead to congenital hyperplasia of this organ, which is the only tissue to receive direct innervation from the greater thoracic splanchnic nerve. Its innermost region contains chromaffin cells, and lies deep to the zona reticularis. This organ’s zona glomerulosa is primarily regulated by angiotensin II, and excess stimulation of its (*) zona fasciculata can lead to a disorder with the classic symptoms of acanthosis nigricans, central adiposity, and moon facies, known as Cushing’s syndrome. For 10 points, identify this pair of endocrine organs that secrete aldosterone and epinephrine, two glands which sit above the kidneys.
ANSWER: adrenal glands (also accept suprarenal glands)