MUT 2012: Reenacting Scenes from Platoon with Charlie Sheen
Packet 10
Edited by the University of Minnesota and University of Illinois
1. One member of this group, Charlie Siringo, wrote the book Two Evil Isms comparing this group to anarchism. Another member, James McParland, used the alias “James McKenna” when working for Franklin B. Gowen. Dashiell Hammett worked for this group and used his experiences when writing about the Continental Op. The logo of this group was an open eye with the slogan “We never sleep.” One member infiltrated the organization known as the Molly Maguires. Its namesake and founder foiled an assassination plot against Abraham Lincoln prior to being inaugurated, and members of this group were hired to track Jesse James and the Reno Gang. For 10 points, name this detective agency founded in 1850, whose employees frequently worked as strikebreakers.
ANSWER: Pinkerton National Detective Agency [accept Pinkertons or anything with the word Pinkerton in it]
2. One work on this concept argues that the desire for “self-mastery” or “authentic self-distinction” is one type of it that should be restricted, while the other type of it is used to define all the abilities that a person has that is only bounded by mere incapacity. Another work that attempted to define this concept argues that actions should not be as free as opinions and should be banned if they are a “nuisance” to others. In addition to the negative / positive distinction of it proposed by Isaiah Berlin, another work titled after it attacks the tyranny of the majority and advocates the use of the harm principle. For 10 points, identify this subject of an 1859 essay by John Stuart Mill, which was held up as inalienable along with the “pursuit of happiness” and “property”, according to a work of John Locke.
ANSWER: liberty
3. The diamond problem occurs when using these programming constructs during the “multiple” type of a certain process. Except for private member variables, languages like Smalltalk are entirely comprised of these constructs, lacking even primitive types. Functors are these kinds of things specifically designed for function use. In C++, “the rule of big three” refers to the necessity of writing an assignment operator, destructor, and copy constructor for these things, and these structures are instantiations of classes. A programming philosophy named for these entities emphasizes polymorphism, inheritance and encapsulation. For 10 points, name this these things that certain programming paradigm “orients” towards.
ANSWER: objects [accept classes until mentioned]
4. This country is the subject of John Dower’s book Embracing Defeat.It hid artillery at an officer’s club fake “swimming pool” in another nation as part of a scheme involving an explosion at a railway. This country paid a fine after sinking the gunboat Panay, and it was opposed by Claire Chennault’s volunteer air force. Its navy staged a successful attack in the Battle of Port Arthur during a conflict ended by negotiations in Maine with a rival country’s diplomat Sergei Witte. One of its monarchs announced this country’s surrender in the Jewel Voice Broadcast. This country’s forces won a war ended by the Treaty of Portsmouth and committed the Rape of Nanking in China. For 10 points, name this country led by Hirohito during World War II.
ANSWER: Empire of Japan
5. This author wrote a short story about George Withermore, who is tasked with writing about Mrs. Doyne and Ashton Doyne’s life, in his “The Real Right Thing.” Another story by this author sees its John Marcher reunite with May Bertram, only to be consumed by thinking about his future “spectacular fate.” In addition to “The Beast in the Jungle,” another of this author’s characters pretends to be engaged to Giovanelli, which annoys Winterbourne who had earlier taken her to Chillon Castle in Geneva. This author also wrote a novel in which Gilbert Osmond and Ralph Touchet vie for the hand of a woman that eventually chooses Caspar Goodwood, Isabel Archer. For 10 points, name this author of Daisy Miller and The Portrait of a Lady.
ANSWER: Henry James
6. Seneca’s play named after this mythological figure contains a vivid account of the continent of Atlantis. Herodotus relates that with her own son, she went to country of the Aryans, who renamed themselves after this figure in her honor. In one story this mother of Polyxenus fled from the king she married after she tried to use wolfsbane to assist that king in unwittingly murdering his own son. The nail that stoppered the single vein of Talos was plucked by this granddaughter of Helios, who owned a chariot pulled by a pair of dragons. Flames consumed Glauce as a result of a rigged wedding dress received from this priestess of Hecate that gave the Golden Fleece to her lover when they met in Colchis. For 10 points, name this witch and lover of Jason.
ANSWER: Medea
7. This author wrote about a replica of the title figure that is covered with ketchup but soon starts to be covered in moss and grow hair on its arms. This author wrote a novel which includes a symbolic scene at the Miranda Ballroom, in which soldiers are able to see reflections of themselves and realize who they are for the first time. One of this author’s title charactesr classifies everyone as “chingadores” and “chingados,” either “mother-fuckers” or “fucked over.” In addition to “Chac Mool,” he wrote about Harriet Winslow, the lover of Arroyo in a work that tells the story of Ambrose Bierce’s disappearance. He also wrote about the title newspaper magnate recounting his life on his deathbed. For 10 points, name this author of The Old Gringo and The Death of Artemio Cruz.
ANSWER: Carlos Fuentes
8. One of this composer’s works was inspired by James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake and is titled The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs.He wrote the music for Syvilla Fort’s dance piece Bacchanale. This man collaborated with Lejaren Hiller to write HPSCHD (“Harpsichord”). This composer used the I Ching to create a piece titled Music of Changes. He claimed it was possible to give “a single pianist the equivalent of an entire percussion orchestra” when he coined the term prepared piano. This composer of the Imaginary Landscape series had his most famous work premiered by David Tudor, who opened the keyboard lid of his piano to mark the end of the first movement. For 10 points, name this American composer whose 4’33’’ features the performer not playing anything.
ANSWER: John Milton Cage Jr.
9. One of these figures stabbed the extremely fat Eglon while a crowd thought Eglon was relieving himself. A lesser known one of these figures vowed to sacrifice the first thing he saw and then spotted his daughter. That figure later killed those who could not pronounce the word “Shibboleth.” One of these figures tells a riddle whose answer refers to honey in a lion’s carcass. Another of these figures asked for a sign from God by putting out a wool fleece and later used trumpets to confuse the Midianites. The most famous of these figures is last seen destroying the temple of Dagon after being blinded by the Philistines due to the treachery of Delilah. For 10 points, identify this group of Biblical leaders which included Gideon and Samson, who led Israel in their namesake book after the death of Joshua.
ANSWER: Judges [prompt on leaders of Israel until “leaders” is mentioned, do not accept “king of Israel”]
10. The N-terminus of these proteins is composed of many lysine and other positively charged basic residues, and the genes that code for these proteins are thought to have very few introns. These proteins are arranged in either a zig-zag or spherical arrangement to form the thirty nanometer fibers, which is eventually densely packed in heterochromatin. These proteins are very highly evolutionarily conserved, and in their most notable role, these proteins function as an octomer and form a structure often described as “beads on a string.” Those beads are called nucleosomes. For 10 points, name these proteins around which DNA is wound.
ANSWER: histones
11. This man’s military defeated king Totila at the Battle of Taginae, and he employed the unpopular tax collector John the Cappadocian. He set up an “Eternal Peace” with Khosrau I that did not last twenty years. This ruler dispatched Mundus to massacre dissidents, who had chosen Hypatius to replace this man. His reign is covered in the Secret History of Procopius and he was married to the powerful Theodora. This ruler was forced to dismiss his adviser Tribonian after tension at the Hippodrome’s chariot races turned into the Nika riots. During his reign, the Corpus Juris Civilis law code was compiled and his general Belisarius defeated the Vandals. For 10 points, name this Byzantine emperor who ordered the building of the majestic Hagia Sophia.
ANSWER: Justinian I [or Justinian the Great]
12. In one scene in this film, characters are encouraged to celebrate with a free sep-tua-centennial cupcake in a cup. Fred Willard has a cameo as corporate president Shelby Forthright. One character in this film, Captain McCrea, protests that he doesn’t want to survive, he wants to live, and asks for the definition of “dancing.” The protagonist of this film enjoys watching a clip of the song “Put On Your Sunday Clothes” from Hello, Dolly! and meets his love interest when she arrives looking for a seedling. It ends with EVE and the crew of the Axiom returning to Earth, which is now habitable again after the mass consumption damage caused by the Buy-n-Large company. For 10 points, name this Pixar movie about the title trash compactor robot.
ANSWER: WALL-E
13. The left foreground of this work shows a man dressed in brown, clasping hands in prayer, and the right background of this work depicts a large steeple and a group of rioters. Illumination in this work is provided by a large square lantern placed between the two central groups. The central figure of this work has a large stigmata in one of his hands, which he raises in defiance. This painting’s companion piece shows a man getting stabbed and falling off a white horse and is titled Charge of the Mamelukes. The central yellow and white clad man stands next to a group of scared men covering their faces. For 10 points, name this painting of an execution of Spanish loyalists by Napoleon’s troops, a work of Francisco Goya.
ANSWER: The Execution - May 3, 1808 [or The Third of May, 1808]
14. One grade for this stuff common in the East is called Fateh. API gravity and pour point are factors in determining its value. A significant price differential between two major forms of this stuff has been attributed to a bottleneck in Cushing, Oklahoma; those two benchmarks are the “Brent” and “West Texas Intermediate” variants. The Bosporus, Malacca, and Hormuz Straits are major chokepoints for the transfer of this commodity and nearly 45% of the production of it occurs in OPEC countries. For 10 points, identify this commodity which is traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange in units of barrels.
ANSWER: crude oil [accept oil; accept petroleum]
15. This artist designed the Jesuit church of Saint Andrew in the Quirinal. He received his first major patronage from the then Cardinal-nephew Scipione Borghese. This artist renovated and redesigned the Scala Regia, at the base of which he placed his equestrian statue of Constantine the Great. He created the Cathedra Petri and the central Baldecchino for St. Peter’s Basilica, for which he also designed the trapezoidal piazza. One of this artist’s works is illuminated by a window that is hidden from the viewer, and depicts the founder of the Discalced Carmelites. In that work, located in the Cornaro Chapel, this sculptor depicted the central figure as she has a vision of an angel holding a spear. For 10 points, name this Baroque sculptor of The Ecstasy of St. Theresa.
ANSWER: Gian Lorenzo Bernini
16. This poem is the epigraph to Eric Auerbach’s Mimesis, and line 186 of “The Wasteland,” about “chuckle spread from ear to ear” is a reference to this poem. Its last stanza describes the “willing soul” that “transpires at every pore with instant fires.” It describes “your quaint honour turn to dust” and notes that “worms shall try” withering a certain quality that is “long preserv’d.” This poem notes that “the grave’s a fine and private place” and “before us lie deserts of vast eternity.” The speaker of this poem imagines finding rubies by the Ganges and says that his “vegetable love should grow faster than empires, and more slow.” Its speaker claims to hear “time’s winged chariot hurrying near.” For 10 points, name this poem that begins “Had we but world enough, and time” written by Andrew Marvell.
ANSWER: “To His Coy Mistress”
17. The Duane-Hunt law describes an inverse form of this phenomenon produced by the bremsstrahlung. The stopping potential is typically used in experimental measurements of this phenomenon. Millikan was able to measure Planck’s constant to within 0.5% precision in a series of experiments on this effect. The change in energy of a certain particle due to it is independent ofintensity of the incident radiation. It can only occur when the work function is less than the product of Planck’s constant and the frequency of the incident light. For 10 points, name this effect in which photons eject electrons from a metal plate, whose explanation won Einstein the 1905 Nobel Prize.
ANSWER: photoelectric effect [accept Hertz effect before mention]
18. Marcus Terentius Varro authored a study on the “rare words” found in the works of this man. Hilarity ensues when Mercury attempts to buy more time for Jupiter to sleep with Alcmena in this man’s Amphitryon, and another of his works sees Philolaches try to convince his father Theopropides that his own house is haunted. Other works by this author focus on Euclio, who religiously guards a pot of gold, and the sons of Moschuss, Sosicles and Menaechmus, who realize that they are twins. That work inspired Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors. For 10 points, name this Roman playwright known for stock characters, whose works inspired the musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
ANSWER: Titus Maccius Plautus
19. One member of this dynasty was married to Gerberga, whose flight to a rival kingdom following his death prompted that kingdom’s destruction. Another member was ridiculed for bribing the chieftain Rollo to end the siege of a major city. Another member of this dynasty had a hunchbacked son found guilty of treason and was temporarily married to the daughter of Desiderius. Two members would sign the Treaty of Mersen and also pledge the Oath of Strasbourg in opposition to their brother. After the death of Louis the Pious, members of this dynasty, such as Lothair and Charles the Bald, ended a civil war by signing the Treaty of Verdun. For 10 points, name this dynasty whose most famous rulers were Pepin the Short and Charlemagne.
ANSWER: Carolingian Dynasty [prompt on Franks]
20. A protein that confers this characteristic to androgens is inhibited by the drug Exemestane, which is used to treat breast cancer. An aluminum chloride catalyst is used in a set of reactions which substitutes these compounds, and one of those reactions is often followed up with a Clemmensen reduction. Cyclopentadiene is highly acidic because losing a proton would make it into one of these compounds, and cyclo-octa-tetra-ene would be expected to have the opposite form of this property. This property is governed by Hückel’s rule, and adding a hydroxyl group to one of these compounds produces phenol. For 10 points, name this class of compounds exemplified by benzene.
ANSWER: aromatic [accept word forms like aromaticity]
Tiebreaker
A transcient ester linkage between a carboxylic acid group and a hydroxyl group is made during this process, and in prokaryotes, the factors Ef-G and Ef-Tu assist in this process. This process is followed by a step in which its results are verified by hydrolytic editing. In prokaryotes, it begins with the binding of the Shine-Dalgarno sequence. A new amino acid is added to the peptide sequence when a molecule of tRNA with the corresponding anticodon brings it to the binding site. For 10 points, name this stage of protein synthesis where mRNA is used by a ribosome to form a polypeptide chain, the step following transcription.
ANSWER: translation [prompt on protein synthesis]
Bonuses
1. Answer the following about the Great Disappointment, for 10 points each.
[10] On October 22, 1844 followers of this man, the Harold Camping of his day, were disappointed that the Second Coming of Christ did not take place. The Advent Christian Church emerged from this man’s followers.