GHETTO WARZ III – UCLA PACKET OF ABOMINATIONS
“Fair Game” Theme Packet by Shaun Cassidy & the Grapico Kid
1. He was buried in Kabul, and ascended to the throne at the age of twelve. Not in that order. The son of Omar Sheikh, he demanded his original possessions with the aid of Ismail I of Iran after the death of Mohamed Shaibani. In one of his more famous battles, he defeated the forces of a Rajput leader. The notables of the Delhi Sultanate detested Ibrahim Lodi, and requested aid from him. A descendant of the conqueror Tamerláne, FTP, name this winner of Ghagra, the founder of the Mugal dynasty.
ANSWER: Zahir-ud-din MohammadBabur
2. In this work, the title character’s mother refers to him by a old-fashioned French form of his name, and one character’s presence is necessitated by an exaggerated bout of rheumatism. The title character fires a pistol after his brother-in-law, once married to Vera Petrovna and now married to the title character’s love interest, announces his intention to leave. The doctor Astrov and Yelena share a brief moment of passion, viewed with disgust by the title character, who has wasted his life working for art historian Serebryakov, the father of his niece Sonya. FTP, name this play about Ivan Voynitsky, a titular family member, a work of Chekhov.
ANSWER: Uncle Vanya or Dyadya Vanya
3. A Taco Bell on Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive in Merced uses this brand of hand soap. It is the last name of a modern poet who wrote the science fiction novel A World of Difference, co-authored The Egyptologists with Kingsley Amis, and serves as literary editor of the London Spectator. In a sample game of Scrabble used to demonstrate how to score the game, it is worth two hundred twelve points. In The Last Chronicle of Barset, Messrs. Crawley and Robarts discuss Crawley's daughter Grace making one out of Archdeacon Grantly.For 10 points, identify this eight-letter word that also names a USC fight song.
ANSWER: (Robert) Conquest
4. One saint of this name is the patron saint of gravediggers, thanks to his burial of Paul of Thebes, and also the patron saint of swineherds. His feast day is celebrated on Tobi 22, and he resided for a time in an abandoned Roman fort on the island of Pispir. He attracted the attention of Pachomius, who came to live near him and who would later found the first cenobitic monastery. The second was a noted miracle worker and is commonly known by the epithet “of Padua.” FTP, give the shared name of these saints, one from the thirteenth century and one who lived in Egypt from 251 to 356, regarded as the founder of monasticism.
ANSWER: Saints Anthony [the Great] and [of Padua]
5. According to his mother Sara, he "had a particular fondness for The Pickwick Papers". With his friend David Champernowne he invented "round-the-house" chess, where if you run around the house and get back before your opponent has made his move, you get another turn, and together they made the first
computerized chess program. One of his most famous works refutes nine objections, including the argument from Extra-Sensory Perception, to the idea of artificial intelligence. For 10 points, identify this British mathematician and computer scientist who shares a thesis with AlonzoChurch and invented a namesake "test".
ANSWER: Alan Mathison Turing
6. Weeks before his accession, he recorded in his diary playing a game of throwing pine cones at his cousin, a member of the House of Glücksburg, at the age of twenty-five. Police organizations created under one of his ministers led to duplicitous agent Evno Azeff executing Viacheslav Plehve, his interior minister. Korokovtsov and Goremykin succeeded the aforementioned minister, and other events from his reign were a demonstration led by George Gapon and the dissolution of several dumas. Aided by Stolypin and Witte, this is, FTP, what Russian czar whose reign saw the Russo-Japanese War and the beginning of World War I.
ANSWER: Nicholas II or Nikolai II
7. His verse work in dialogue form between Hussein, the Vizier, and the king, The Sick King of Bokhara, concerns love. Other works with an Eastern theme include Sohrab and Rustam, and in A Wish, the poet eschews the death bed for a place by a window. His Poems contains a work which waxes on the Mediterranean Sea, earlier having mentioned “Glanvil’s Book” and “Christchurch Hall.” His most famous poem mentions Sophocles and the “tremulous cadence” of waves, describing the “French coast” and the “cliffs of England” in its first lines. FTP, name this British poet of “Scholar-Gipsy” and “DoverBeach.”
ANSWER: Matthew Arnold
8. Jackson Township’s Nikki and Jordan Giavisis, the latter of whom is among this group of anywhere from seven to thirteen, make $20,000 a month for their efforts, and Jordan was indirectly a result of an exchange involving Sherman Douglas and Tyrone Hill. Jamir, Jamar, and Jaman were the result of a meeting at a 7-11 between their father and Marvena, and despite the marriage of the two, still are. The exploits producing them were highlighted in an issue of Sports Illustrated with a cover photo featuring Khalid Minor, a two-year son of Greg Minor. The result of a career including stops in Elkhart, Lexington, Orlando, Portland, Cleveland, and Seattle, FTP, name this group of young people spawned out of wedlock by a notable former Sonic nicknamed “The Reign Man.”
ANSWER: illegitimate or bastard children of Shawn Kemp
9. While in school in Baetica, his fondness for Greek literature was such that he was nicknamed Graeculus, “little Greek”. Active in the wars against the Dacians, he had just been elevated to governor of Syria when he learned of his accession. The Castel Sant’Angelo lies on a site originally designed as a mausoleum for this man, and the most famous architectural achievement under this man’s rule was built during a consulship of Agrippa. The pederast lover of Antinous, FTP, name this emperor succeeded by Antoninus Pius and preceded by Trajan, namesake of a famous British wall.
ANSWER: Publius Aelius Traianus Hadrianus
10. The "error" of this type equals zero for a unity feedback system with step input if and only if the forward path transfer function is infinite at zero, or equivalently, when there is at least one pole at zero. In astronomy, the theory of this name involves the Wheeler-Feynman theory, violates the principle of conservation of mass, and was crippled by the discovery of quasars. In biochemistry, a "pseudo" version is one of two key assumptions of Michaelis-Menten theory. For 10 points, give this hyphenated term, which in general chemistry denotes the assumption that concentrations of intermediates in multi-step reactions stay the same.
ANSWER: steady-state
11. A pivotal moment in one of his novels is the death of eight-year-old Tamiko, which causes a rift in the relationship between two of the central characters, while Jake Horowitz and Carly Tompkins meet for coffee after a mutual vision of fucking in a physics lab. In another book, a hit man is paid extra to castrate Hans after the protagonist discovers his wife Cathy slept with him, and a rogue AI traps Cathy in their apartment. Also the writer of a trilogy called The Neanderthal Parallax, for 10 points, name this author of Starplex, Frameshift, and Flashforward, a Canadian who won a Nebula for The Terminal Experiment.
ANSWER: Robert J(esuschrist) Sawyer
12. The subject of one Evans-Pritchard anthropological work, who created a religious order, was an ascendant of one of this nation’s kings. From 1922 to 1928, forces under this nation’s later king fought a guerrilla war against troops led by Pietro Badoglio, later a governor of Abyssinia. That king was the descendant of the Grand Sanusi, who created a religious order that sponsored much of the uprisings directed at the Italians after a 1911 conquest. Home to Fezzan and Cyrenaica, its leader pitched the creation of “Isratine” and lives in a tent, authoring the Green Book. FTP, name this country led by Qaddafi with capital at Tripoli.
ANSWER: Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya or Al-Jamahiriya Al-‘Arabiyya Al-Libyiyya Ash-Sha’abiya al-Ishtirakiyya
13. His running mate had the fantastic middle name of Vespasian. Of senator Sumner’s famous speech he said “The Senator from Massachusetts…practiced [his speech] every night before the glass, with a negro boy to hold the candle and watch the gestures.” He engaged in debates at Jonesboro, Charleston, and Ottawa, and married the daughter of a slaveholder, although he’s famous for a compromise position taken up at the second in a series of debates, and Southern Democrats nominated John Breckinridge in opposition to his presidential candidacy. A proponent of the Freeport Doctrine, FTP, name this 1860 presidential candidate who lost to fellow Illinoisan Abraham Lincoln.
ANSWER: Stephen Arnold Douglas
14. In the music video for this song, the lead singer spies his love with opera glasses and then delivers flowers to her while wearing a sash reading “Your Singing Telegram.” The video teaches the viewer that powder from a make-up compact can dissolve Martin Fry, at least powder from a woman who “comes when she comes.” A famous rhyme in the song involves “stupid” and the name of a Roman god, and the lead singer encourages settling, saying “lower your sights, yeah but raise your aim.” Off the album Lexicon of Love, FTP this is what hit by ABC, whose chorus commands “Shoot that ‘blank’ to my heart.”
ANSWER: “Poison Arrow”
15. In sickle-cell disease, it codes for glutamic acid in hemoglobin; because it’s hydrophobic, the homglobin does not fold correctly. The smallest amino acid in its family, a deficiency of it can cause maple syrup urine disease. Along with leucine and isoleucine, it can be used as a starting point for gluconeogenesis. In E. Coli it activates threonine dehydratase, as it differs from threonine only by a methyl group replacing threonine's hydroxyl group. For 10 points, identify this essential amino acid symbolized V.
ANSWER: valine
16. Assuming enharmonic notes to be the same, there are only three different scales of this type, as the scales that start on C, C sharp, and D are the same as those starting on D sharp, E, and F, only modulated. Each of those scales contains eight distinct notes instead of the typical seven, and the first, third, fifth and seventh notes of the scale, as well as the second, fourth, sixth, and eighth notes, both form the namesake seventh chord. For 10 points, identify this term that names any triad consisting of two minor third intervals, one of the four major types of chords along with major, minor, and augmented.
ANSWER: diminished
17. According to one story, she was killed while having intercourse with Theoclymenus at Athena’s behest by a man who killed many but spared Maeon, her nephew. Wearing for “headgear a Thessalian hat” and riding “upon a colt of Aetna’s breed,” she delivered news of an oracle stating “thy country shall yearn in time to have thee for their weal alive or dead.” Killed by Tydeus during a conflict involving a heptad, she uttered the line “We are women, it is not for us to fight against men,” though she later begs the target of that phrase, “let me share in your death.” Charged by Creon with the same crime as that target, this is, FTP, what character from Sophocles’ Oedipus trilogy, the sister of Antigone.
ANSWER: Ismene
18. In 2004, a world leader suggested that one could be made “grand enough for 1,000 people,” and that even “cafes and restaurants” could be built there. Depicted by Valery Jacobi, one was the site of the wedding night of Avdotya Buzheninova and the jester Golitsyn, and was designed by Pyotr Eropkin. On February 9, 266 years after the building of the first, a replica was built, and other examples include one built in Saint Paul in 2004. One built during Empress Anna’s reign featured gardens and statues, and the most quixotic attempt at building this structure might have been the one built in the Kara Kum desert in Turkmenistan. FTP, name this structure, also the popular name of the Tampa Bay Lightning’s stadium, madeof a frigid building material.
ANSWER: ice palace or palace of ice
19. One variation of this, whose conditions are sometimes met in lithium in the Sun, is known as the Paschen-Back effect. Although observations of it in hydrogen led to the introduction of the gyromagnetic ratio, it was first observed in sodium in 1896. The effect of non-zero spin states results in the misnamed anomalous version of this effect. For 10 points, identify this effect in which an external magnetic field causes splitting of spectral lines, named after the Dutch physicist who with Lorentz shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics.
ANSWER: Zeeman effect
20. Originally named Losantiville, it received its current name from General Arthur St. Clair. The site of Libertarian nominating conventions which nominated Winfield Scott Hancock and James Buchanan, it features an early bridge by Roebling similar to the BrooklynBridge, and its CarewTower inspired the EmpireStateBuilding. The headquarters of the Scripps company, its “Purple People” bridge is one of many crossing to Covington. The site of famous 2001 race riots and counting among its former mayors Jerry Springer, this is, FTP, what third-largest city of Ohio located on the Ohio River.
ANSWER: Cincinnati
21. The death by a man of this name and profession resulted in the destruction of the town of Huamantla, and that man fought at the battle of Monterrey and during a trip to Washington, inspired a namesake type of Colt six-shooter revolver. He was the namesake of the county containing the prison town of Huntsville, and is a member of a thirty-strong hall of fame located in Waco. Another man by this name was an early creative effort of Paul Haggis who occasionally went back in time to protect wayfaring Mormons and was helped by Francis Gage, Sydney Cooke, finding relaxation in a bar owned by C.D. FTP, give the common name and profession shared by these two men, the latter of whom partnered with Trivette in a namesake Chuck Norris show.
ANSWER: Walker, Texas Ranger (Samuel and Cordell)
BONII
1. Sift through some blatantly misleading information regarding Sherpas and answer these geography questions, FTPE.
(10) A modern capital located on the dry bed of Lake Texcoco, legend has it that a Sherpa named Dzongchen Gyamtskho once commented that his stool resembled an eagle making out with a snake, which led to the founding of the original city on this site.
ANSWER: Mexico City
(10) The Church of Scientology holds that closet Sherpa William Walker designed to turn this country, site of his death, into a country with an economy based upon leading old British dudes up Cerro de Las Minas, its highest point. Its only Pacific coast is located along the Gulf of Fonseca, and it owns the BayIslands and Roatan.
ANSWER: Honduras
(10) It is generally not commonly accepted fact that a gulf on the northwest part of this country was named for the pet macaw and common-law wife of Tenzing Norgay. It is bordered on the north by the San Juan river, and it is home to Alajuela and the second biggest Cartago in the world, a former capital.
ANSWER: Costa Rica
2. He changed his name over thirty times, at one point calling himself "The Old Man Mad About Drawing". FTPE:
(10) Name this Japanese woodcut artist of the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji.
ANSWER: Katsushika Hokusai
(10) In this, arguably his most famous work, several small boats are being tossed around by the titular force of nature, which dwarfs the background's Mount Fuji.
ANSWER: The Breaking Wave off Kanagawa or The Great Wave off Kanagawa (intern anybody who attempts to answer in Japanese in the scenic California desert location of your choice)
(10) This Hosukai woodcut made circa 1820 continues in the line of netsuke showing intercourse with sea animals, and is a forerunner of the accurately-named tentacle rape.
ANSWER: The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife
3. Get yourself psyched up for the 2/2 Russian architecture distribution at Jerry Vinokurov’s singles tournament by answering these questions, FTPE.
(10) Zurab Tseretseli, a Georgian, has reconstructed Moscow’s Christ the SaviorChurch and is producing a forty-foot teardrop as a September 11th memorial in Bayonne, NJ. He may be best known for dumping a 90-meter tall statue of this capital-moving bastard upon the Muscovite populace.
ANSWER: Peter I or Peter the Great
(10) Designed by Auguste de Montferrand, this large church in St. Petersburg is named for the Dalmatian saint on whose feast day Peter was born. It features a gold-dome reaching to over 100 meters high.
ANSWER: Saint Isaac’s Cathedral or Izaakievsky Sobor