Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament 2010 / ABC Spring 2010
Written by: Georgetown Day School, Brown University, and Vanderbilt University
Edited by: Matt Jackson, with assistance from Ian Eppler and Daichi Ueda
Packet 11
Tossup
1. This leader, who placed János Szapolyai as his puppet king, was also served by the architect Sinan. Like his father, he developed secular laws known as the Kanuns. He conquered Rhodes from the Knights Hospitalers, though Niklas Graf Salm successfully defended [*] Vienna from his army. His Janissaries also killed Louis II at the Battle of Mohacs. This leader ruled from the Topkapi palace after his father, Selim the Grim, and adopted Sunni Islam as his state religion. For 10 points, what longest reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire is known as “the Lawgiver” and “the Magnificent”?
ANSWER: Suleiman I [accept Suleiman the Magnificent] [DU]
2. Comedian Carol Burnett sued this show claiming that they had infringed on her trademarked Charwoman character. They were also sued for changing the lyrics of “When You Wish Upon a Star” in an episode featuring Weinstein. Andrea [*]Freidman defended her role as Ellen on this show, while South Park parodied this show by claiming that all of its cutaway gags are made by manatees combining random word balls. The brainchild of Seth MacFarlane, for 10 points, name this Fox animated sitcom which centers on the family of Peter Griffin.
ANSWER: Family Guy
3. In graph theory, the “chromatic” one of these objects determines how many colors a vertex graph can have, and the “Legendre” type are orthogonal in the integral inner product space from -1 to 1. Though they aren’t series, the Taylor [*] type of these can be used in approximations. According to the Abel-Ruffini theorem, there is no general solution to these of degree 5 or higher. Synthetic division can factor, for 10 points, what mathematical objects with positive integer exponents, exemplified by ‘x to the fifth plus two’ and ‘x cubed plus x’?
ANSWER: Polynomials
4. One character in this novel serves seedcake to the protagonist and a friend who later dies during a typhus outbreak, Helen Burns. That character, Miss Temple, works with the sadistic Miss Scatcherd at an institution that the protagonist attends and later teaches at, [*] Lowood School. The protagonist later becomes a private tutor for Adele Varens, but bizarre events attributed to Grace Poole eventually lead to the blinding of her lover and the burning of Thornfield. For 10 points, name this novel, in which the insane Bertha Mason is kept in an attic by Mr. Rochester, written by Charlotte Bronte.
ANSWER: Jane Eyre [IE]
5. A discredited theory of this man, the first to discuss Olbers’ paradox, used nested platonic solids. One principle named for him contains the proportionality constant 4 pi squared over G M, and relates the square of a [*] period to the cube of a semi-major axis. Another law of his describes a line between two bodies that sweeps out equal areas in equal time, and his first law states that the sun is a focus of the elliptical orbit of any planet. For 10 points, name this German mathematician and astronomer whose laws of planetary motion came from inspecting Tycho Brahe’s work.
ANSWER: Johannes Kepler [AJ/MJ]
6. This man sculpted an egg on its side called The Beginning of the World. A forerunner to one of his series of works was the Maiastra. The park he designed in his hometown includes the cylindrical Table of Silence and a tall stack of roughly hexagonal shapes. His sculptures of women include a curved, featureless [*] phallic form and a sideways bronze head with a sharp brow. Besides the Endless Column, Princess X, and Sleeping Muse, he attempted to capture the essence of flight with a long, curved, slender form in one series. For 10 points, name this Romanian sculptor of Bird in Space.
ANSWER: Constantin Brâncuşi [GT]
7. This man described a middle-class girl’s wish to marry a prince as unlikely in one work critical of religion; in another, he claims the title figure was a murdered relative of Akhenaten. In addition to The Future of an Illusion and Moses and Monotheism, he and Joseph Breuer described Bertha Pappenheim, who he called [*] Anna O, in “Studies on Hysteria,” and in another work he described manifest and latent content within the title occurrences and introduced the Oedipus complex. For 10 points, name this man who wrote The Interpretation of Dreams and divided the psyche into the Id, Ego, and Superego.
ANSWER: Sigmund Freud [DB-N]
8. One thinker of this school viewed philosophy as a clash between the tough-minded and the tender-minded and sought to answer “The Present Dilemma in Philosophy.” Another founder described the method of tenacity, the method of authority, and the a-priori method to reduce the irritation of doubt in his essay “The [*] Fixation of Belief.” An American who applied this philosophy to education was John Dewey, this school included C. S. Peirce [PURSE]. For 10 points, “A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking” is the name William James gave to what philosophy, which evaluates ideas based on their practical consequences?
ANSWER: pragmatism [DU]
9. One of his biographical works describes 24 historical figures starting with Romulus and another 12 religious figures from Adam to Heracles. In addition to On Illustrious Men, his “familiar letters” describe climbing Mont Ventoux on a whim, and he left unfinished an epic poem about the [*] victory at Zama by Scipio, entitled Africa. His Canzoniere contain another form that uses the volta as a bridge between an octave and a sestet. For 10 points, name this Italian Renaissance humanist who expressed his love for the unreachable Laura in many sonnets.
ANSWER: Francisco Petrarca [accept Petrarch] [MJ]
10. Its followers set aside four or five Ayyam-i-Ha, or Intercalary Days, before observing a nineteen-day fast. One leaderr of this religion translated Epistle to the Son of the Wolf into English; that leader was Guardian Shoghi Effendi, and its Houses of Worship include the New Delhi [*] Lotus Temple. In favor of abolishing the extremes of wealth and poverty, its Book of Certitude emphasizes the unity between God, religions, and humanity. Currently centered at the Universal House of Justice in Haifa, for 10 points, name this religion, founded in 1844 by the Báb and popularized by Baha’ullah.
ANSWER: Bahá’í [JoC]
[HALF-TIME / SCORE CHECK]
[If a team’s roster has more than four players, that team may substitute players in or out at this point.]
11. This composer’s namesake “snap” occurs in the fourth movement of his String Quartet No. 4, which is entirely pizzicato, and he wrote an instructional set of 153 increasingly difficult piano pieces called Mikrokosmos. This composer of Music for [*] Strings, Percussion, and Celesta depicted a “concrete jungle” and three “seduction games” in his ballet The Miraculous Mandarin, and in his most famous opera, the title character’s wife, Judith, coerces him to unlock seven disturbing rooms. For 10 points, name this 20th-century composer of Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, a folk tune-collecting Hungarian.
ANSWER: Béla Viktor János Bartók
12. The first battle in this conflict took place at Kraaipan, and the Fawcett Commission investigated conditions at this conflict’s “concentration camps”. A later event in this conflict pitted forces under George White against those of Louis Botha. That event, the siege of Ladysmith, [*] occurred at the same time as an event involving Robert Baden Powell, the Siege of Mafeking. Preceded by the Jameson Raid, this conflict was ended by the Treaty of Vereenging. For 10 points, identify this 1899 to 1902 conflict, which involved Great Britain and the namesake group of Dutch South Africans.
ANSWER: Second Boer War [do not accept “First Boer War”] [IE]
13. The TIM/TOM complex moves material in and out of them, and disorders caused by defects in these include Kearn-Sayle syndrome and Leber’s optic neuropathy. Substances found within them include ubiquinone, or coenzyme Q, and release of cytochrome-c [*] from these organelles helps trigger apoptosis. Their internal fluid is known as matrix, and the inner folds of their bilayer membrane are called cristae. Their maternally-inherited DNA is a subject of the endosymbiotic theory. For 10 points, name this organelle in which electron transport occurs and in which ATP is produced, known as the “powerhouse” of a cell.
ANSWER: mitochondria [MJ]
14. In one of this author’s short stories, Elisenda charges a fee for people to see the title figure, and in one of his novels, five perspectives describe the Vicario brothers’ revenge. Besides “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” and Chronicleof a [*] Death Foretold, this author of Leaf Stormwrote a novel in which Urbino’s death leads Florentino Ariza to consummate his love for Fermina Daza on a quarantine flag-flying ship, and another where a massacre by the banana company is provoked by José Arcadio Segundo of the Buendía clan. For 10 points, name this Colombian magic realist author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude.
ANSWER: Gabriel García Marquez [Prompt on just Marquez] [MJ]
15. He received a diplomatic and military education from Epaminondas while held hostage in Thebes. He made an alliance with the city of Olynthus, which was later broken when Olynthus sided with a long-time enemy. That enemy, who turned on this ruler after he refused to lease them the promised city of Amphipolis, was [*] Athens. He defeated the Theban Sacred Band at Chaeronea; later, his bodyguards assassinated him as he began to plan an invasion of Persia. Demosthenes wrote namesake speeches opposing, for 10 points, what Macedonian king, the father of Alexander the Great?
ANSWER: Phillip II [of Macedon] [JoC]
16. This man vetoed the McNary–Haugen Farm Relief Bill; like Franklin Roosevelt, his Secretary of Agriculture was named Henry Wallace. As Governor, he supported Edwin Upton Curtis and Mayor Andrew Peters by sending the state militia and denouncing the [*] Boston Police Strike. His Vice President won the Nobel Peace Prize for a post-World War I restructuring plan. The Vice President during the Teapot Dome Scandal, he was sworn in by his father when Warren Harding died. For 10 points, name the thirtieth US President known as “Silent”, succeeded by Herbert Hoover.
ANSWER: Calvin Coolidge [DU]
17. One novel by this author depicts the artist Thomas Hudson in its chapter “Bimini,” and a short story by this author features the wounded gambler Cayetano. In addition to writing Islands in the Stream and “The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio”, this author wrote a number of short stories centered on Nick [*] Adams. In one novel by this author, Robert Cohn and Brett Ashley travel to San Sebastián, much to the dismay of Jake Barnes, and in another, Joe DiMaggio is idolized by the Cuban Santiago. For 10 points, name this author of The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea.
ANSWER: Ernest Hemingway [IE]
18. Achaemenides hitched a ride with this figure, who carries with him household deities called the Penates; this man’s enemies included Mezentius and Amata. His mother saves him from Diomedes, but he is wounded in the process, and then saved by Apollo. His [*] father, made lame as a punishment for fathering him, is Anchises. After being visited in a dream by his friend Hector, he flees Troy, and this son of Venus later sails from Carthage despite the appeals of Dido. For 10 points, name this man whose descendant Romulus founded Rome, the title character of an epic poem by Virgil.
ANSWER: Aeneas [AJ]
19. It’s not Palm Beach or Kirkcudbright, but the St. Ignatius Cathedral in this city was designed by William Doyle. The art deco Sassoon house in this city is now the Peace Hotel. Other notable buildings, such as the Development Tower and the Oriental Pearl Tower, lie on the western bank of the [*] Huangpu River. This city’s main airport, served by the world’s first commercial Maglev train system, is called Pudong International Airport. Including neighborhoods like the Bund, for 10 points, name this city that lies between Hangzhou Bay and the Yangtze River Delta, China’s most populous urban area.
ANSWER: Shanghai [JaC]
20. The Dirac equation produced a model of this particle consistent with relativity theory. It shares a charge and spin with two other particles, the muon and the tau. Beta decay can involve the emission of either this non-neutrino [*] fermion or its antiparticle, and it can be found in locations labeled s, p, d, and f. Its name comes from the Greek word for amber, and a beam of these particles is shot through a thin specimen in one type of microscopy. For 10 points, name this antiparticle of the positron, a low-mass, negatively-charged subatomic particle.
ANSWER: electron [accept elementary fermions or spin-one-half particles before “muon” is read] [AJ]
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21. One leader of this polity, who created a virtually valueless currency called redbacks, was Mirabeau Lamar. The climactic battle for the independence of this polity occurred after the Runaway Scrape and saw Deaf Smith burn Vince’s Bridge. Its resistance began after the abolishment of the Constitution of 1824,[*] and its first engagement was the Battle of Gonzales. After its recognition in the Treaties of Velasco, it was admitted to the union under Polk. Santa Anna ceded its territory after his loss at the Battle of San Jacinto to Sam Houston. For 10 points, “Remember the Alamo” was a rallying cry for what polity, known as the Lone Star Republic?
ANSWER: Republic of Texas [accept Lone Star Republic before mentioned] [DU]
Bonuses
1. Less common types of these include the comb, insertion, shell, game, and tournament. For ten points each:
[10] Name this algorithm that arranges elements in a list in a strictly non-decreasing order. A simple variety is the “bubble” one.
ANSWER: sorting algorithm
[10] Optimally, a sort algorithm should break the n log n barrier, calculated in terms of this notation. It describes the limiting behavior of a function, and is often used to calculate computational complexity.
ANSWER: Big O notation [also accept: Landau notation, Bachmann-Landau notation, asymptotic notation]
[10] This Millennium problem questions the relationship between two complexity classes. It essentially asks, “If ‘yes’ answers to a yes-no question can be verified quickly in polynomial time, can they be computed quickly?”
ANSWER: P versus NP problem [or does P equal NP problem; accept reasonable equivalents involving P and NP] [AJ]
2. This opera was supposedly inspired by the composer’s viewing of Bosch’s Adoration of the Magi, and characters in this opera include the kings Kaspar, Melchior, and Balthazar. For 10 points each:
[10]Identify this 1951 opera commissioned by Peter Adler, the first intended for television.
ANSWER: Amahl and the Night Visitors
[10]Amahl and the Night Visitors was created by this man, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his The Consul and founded the Spoleto arts festival.
ANSWER: Gian Carlo Menotti
[10]Menotti wrote the libretto for this man’s opera Vanessa. This American composer is also known for his solemn Adagio for Strings.
ANSWER: Samuel Barber [IE]
3. Answer some questions about quizbowl’s favorite architectural shape, the pyramid, for 10 points each:
[10] What third-largest city in present day Egypt and suburb of Cairo is the home of the three Great Pyramids and the Great Sphinx?
ANSWER: Giza
[10] Which father of Khafre was the Old Kingdom Pharaoh for whom the largest of the Great Pyramids was built?
ANSWER: Khufu [accept Cheops]
[10] The architect Imhotep designed an earlier Step Pyramid at Saqqara for this Old Kingdom pharaoh.
ANSWER: Djoser [be lenient with pronunciation; accept Horus-Netjerikhet] [JH]
4. This empire used multicolored strings of knots known as quipu to send long-distance messages. For 10 points each,
[10] First, name this empire in modern-day Peru, whose capital of Cuzco was sacked by the Spanish under Pizarro.
ANSWER: Incan empire
[10] This emperor of the Incas was captured by Pizarro at the siege of Cajamarca in 1532, and executed about a year afterwards.
ANSWER: Atahualpa
[10] Atahualpa had just defeated this man, his older half-brother, in a bloody war of succession after their father’s death. Chile commandeered an armored ship named for him during the 19th-century War of the Pacific.
ANSWER: Huáscar [MJ]
5. For 10 points each, answer these questions about trickster gods.
[10] This trickster god of Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest is known for stealing the sun, the moon, stars, and fire from his fellow creature Grey Eagle.