Round 6
Related Tossup/Bonus Phase
Tossup 1. Critic Lillian Feder compared this work to the Aeneid in a work describing the narrator’s “Descent into Hell.” A dispute over two black hens leads to the demise of a Dane named Fresleven in this work. One character in it wrote a report for the International Society for the Suppression of Savage Customs, which he later defaced with the inscription, “Exterminate all the brutes!” A main character in this work features in the epigraph of T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men,” which claims “he dead.” For 10 points, name this work narrated by Marlow, a novella featuring the ivory trader Kurtz, written by Joseph Conrad.
ANSWER: Heart of Darkness
BONUS. One character in this novel is a singer nicknamed the “Brass Monkey.” For 10 points each:
[10] Name this novel about Saleem Sinai and Shiva, who were both born at the exact moment of the partition of India.
ANSWER: Midnight’s Children
[10] This Indian author who was smacked with a fatwah after the publication of his The Satanic Verses wrote Midnight’s Children.
ANSWER: Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
Tossup 2. As a lieutenant colonel, he led an expedition to Santa Barbara to retake the Presidio, leading to General Pio Pico’s surrender. He gained social status by marrying Jessie, the daughter of Thomas Hart Benton, and along with runningmate William Dayton, he outgained American Party candidate Millard Fillmore despite losing to James Buchanan in the Election of 1856. For 10 points, name this leader of expeditions surveying the Great Basin, Oregon Trail, and California, the first Republican presidential nominee, nicknamed “The Pathfinder.”
ANSWER: John Charles Fremont
BONUS. The Prussians here were led by Gebhard von Blucher, who ordered Ziethen’s flank march here. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this battle that ended the Hundred Days, a victory for Wellington that saw Napoleon exiled to St. Helena.
ANSWER: Battle of Waterloo
[10] This French general, dubbed “the bravest of the brave,” commanded the left wing at Waterloo before Napoleon handed him command of the battlefield, leading to his ordering a futile cavalry charge to commence hostilities.
ANSWER: Marshal Michel Ney, First Duc d’Elchingen, First Prince de la Moskowa [accept any of those three]
Tossup 3. The artist of this painting depicted a gigantic fish and a bunch of blocks moving apart in a work depicting this painting’s “disintegration.”A large, flat surface extends from off the canvas in this painting’s upper left, while the background depicts the coastline of CapeCreus. Ants swarm an object in this painting’s lower right, while its center features a white object with a huge closed eyelash. A bare branch grows out of a table in, for 10 points, which work that features three melting clocks, by Salvador Dali?
ANSWER: The Persistence of Memory or La persistencia de la memoria
BONUS. Name these musicians who were inspired by painters, for 10 points each.
[10] This composer was inspired by the work of Matthias Grunewald to write Mathis der Mahler.
ANSWER: Paul Hindemith
[10] This composer created a symphonic poem based on Arnold Bocklin’s painting Isle of the Dead. He also composed Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
ANSWER: Sergei Vaselievich Rachmaninoff [or Sergei Vaselievich Rachmoninov]
Tossup 4. In plant cells, this stage is presaged by the formation of a phragosome, which is followed by the “pre” version of this phase, in which a namesake band is formed at the equatorial plane. Gamma tubulin is recruited during the beginning of this phase, which pushes the centrosomes to opposite sides of the nucleus and begins the formation of the spindle. Sister chromatids attach together at the centromeres in this phase, which sees the condensation of chromatin into chromosomes. For 10 points, name this stage of mitosis that comes in between interphase and metaphase.
ANSWER: prophase [do not accept “propase I” or “prophase II”]
BONUS. These are saturated hydrocarbons that contain only hydrogen and carbon. For 10 points each:
[10] Name these compounds, sometimes called paraffins, the simplest of which is methane.
ANSWER: alkanes
[10] The Clemmensen reaction can be used to create alkanes from these compounds, which contain a terminal carbonyl group.
ANSWER: aldehydes
Tossup 5. Current Major League managers who primarily played this position include Bob Melvin, Ned Yost, and Bruce Bochy. A Hall of Famer at this position was the namesake of Mickey Mantle, and legendary Negro League slugger Josh Gibson played this position.Jose, Yadier, and Bengie, the three Molina brothers, all play this position, and the man who appeared to wave his shot fair in the 1975 World Series has hit the second-most homers by a player at this position . For 10 points, name this position played by Carlton Fisk, as well as Joe Mauer and Mike Piazza.
ANSWER: catchers [prompt on “2”]
BONUS. Name these movies about sports, for 10 points each.
[10] Kevin Costner learns that “if you build it, they will come” in this movie that sees a rendezvous with Moonlight Graham and the construction of a baseball diamond in Iowa.
ANSWER: Field of Dreams
[10] This less-serious hockey flick follows the minor-league Charlestown Chiefs. Their player-manager Reggie Dunlop, played by Paul Newman, tries to keep the goonish Hanson Brothers in check; hilarity ensues.
ANSWER: Slap Shot
Tossup 6. In the seventh Sura of the Qu’ran, this man speaks after Salih and claims that stones rain down upon sinners; Muslims considers him a prophet but Christians do not. The Jewish Midrash relates that Abraham cared for this man after his father Haranwas burned in a fire started by Nimrod. He was the father of the patriarchs of two nations, Moab and Ammon, and he conceived those children after his daughters got him drunk in a cave and slept with him. For 10 points, name this unfortunate man whose wife looked back at Sodom and turned into a pillar of salt.
ANSWER: Lot [accept Lut or Lout]
BONUS. Defying the laws of genetics, this man was two-thirds immortal. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this legendary king of Uruk, who travels with his Wildman buddy Enkidu in his namesake epic.
ANSWER: Gilgamesh
[10] This man, who with his wife was the only survivor of the great flood in Babylonian myth,is the object of Gilgamesh’s quest; Gilgamesh hopes to obtain the secret of immortality from him.
ANSWER: Utnapishtim [or Uta-Napishti]
Tossup 7. This work discusses the Uncle with the Yellow Beard, Frau Doni, and Count Thun. The title activity of this work was dubbed a “royal road” to understanding by its author, who broke down the title entities into “manifest” and “latent” content. A notable episode in this work takes place in a large hall, containing the author’s friend Otto as well as a widow. In addition to that anecdote, “Irma’s Injection,” this book postulates that the title entities are “wish fulfillment”and saw the first usage of the phrase “Oedipus Complex.” For 10 points, name this work that analyzes some nighttime visions, a book by Sigmund Freud.
ANSWER: The Interpretation of Dreams [or Die Traumdeutung]
BONUS. This concept is divided into Hicksian and Marshallian types, depending on how income is represented. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this concept, usually represented as a downward-sloping curve contrasted with supply.
ANSWER: [aggregate] demand
[10] The demand curve is generally not positive, meaning that price increases with quantity, except in the case of these types of goods. They are inferior goods with few substitutes, like potatoes during the Irish famine.
ANSWER: Giffen goods
Tossup 8. The European arrival in this country led to monks moving the supposed left canine tooth of the Buddha. Lourenco de Almeida was the first European to come to this country, and resistors to his government formed the Kingdom of Kandy. This nation’s current civil war began with Bandaranaike’s declaration of the exclusionary “Sinhala Only Act,” and rebels from this country killed the prime minister of a neighboring nation, Rajiv Gahdhi, who sent in the Indian Peace Keeping Force. For 10 points, name this country that is home to the rebellious Tamil Tigers, with capital Colombo.
ANSWER: Democratic SocialistRepublic of Sri Lanka [or Ceylon; or Serindip]
This woman went to Jerusalem to check out the Second Crusade. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this queen consort to both Louis VII of France and Henry II of England.
ANSWER: Eleanor of Aquitaine [or Alienor of Aquitaine]
[10] Eleanor was the mother of Richard the Lionhearted and this other English king, who was forced to sign the Magna Carta by some barons.
ANSWER: King John
Category Quiz Tossups
Tossup 9. Barack Obama debated this issue on Meet the Press, claiming that he’d rather see a similar action “in diplomacy.” It was foreshadowed by a report authored by Frederick Kagan for the American Enterprise Institute entitled “A Turning Point,” which contained subsections by Joseph Lieberman and John McCain. Introduced in Bush’s speech about “A New Way Forward,” for 10 points, name this strategy overseen by General Petraeus, which saw five additional brigades deployed to Iraq in early 2007.
ANSWER: The Iraq Troop Surge
Tossup 10. One character in this work buys muriatic acid to prepare aqua regia in order to gold-plate keys, while another character rolls around in that acid with her Belgian aviator husband, Gaston. An Italian dance teacher in this work who arrives to tune the pianola, Pietro Crespi, becomes the love interest of both Rebeca and Amaranta. The seventeen illegitimate sons of one character are killed after Ash Wednesday crosses become permanent on their foreheads, and the central family’s downfall is predicted by the gypsy Melquiades’s manuscript. For 10 points, name this work featuring Don Arcadio and Colonel Aureliano, a work set in Macondo about the Buendias, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
ANSWER: One Hundred Years of Solitude [or Cien anos de soledad]
Tossup 11. This compound is formed, along with two of its derivatives, in the BXT process. It is acylated in the Friedel-Krafts reaction, and its derivatives include phenol, aniline, and toluene. This molecule’s structure was finally described in 1865 after a chemist dreamed of a snake eating its own tail; that man, Friedrich Kekule, first described the resonance of double bonds within this compound’s central carbon ring. For 10 points, name this simple aromatic hydrocarbon with formula C-6-H-6.
ANSWER: benzene [or benzol]
Tossup 12. This legislation included bills that created what is now the Federal Transit Administration as well as the National Trails System. This program saw Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel’s Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which established Head Start. This program established the Community Action Program, Upward Bound, Job Corps, and VISTA to fight the War on Poverty, a major initiative of this legislation. For 10 points, name this program of federal spending that included Medicare and Medicaid, enacted during Lyndon Johnson’s presidency.
ANSWER: The Great Society
Tossup 13. The third of these works was actually written by Carl Friedrich Abel, while the second may have been a work of the composer’s father Leopold. Two of these were alleged to have been written in just one week following the success of the composer’s opera Lucio Silla. Three late ones are titled after cities: “Linz,” “Paris,” and “Prague,” and the 35th of them was written upon the ennoblement of a prominent Salzburgcitizen. For 10 points, name these compositions including the “Haffner,” the 41st and last of which is called “Jupiter.”
ANSWER: symphonies of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [prompt on “symphonies” or “compositions of Mozart”]
Tossup 14. In the Aeschylus play Ion, Creusa attempts to murder Ion with the blood of a creature of this type, said to be an offspring of Gaia.The king Polydectes was killed by the body part of one creature of this type. Stetho and Euryale were characters of this type, and after another was killed, her sons by Poseidon, Chrysaor and Pegasus, sprung from her body. The only mortal one was killed by Perseus with the help of a mirrored shield. For 10 points, name these mythological creatures with snakes for hair and the ability to turn people to stone, one of whom is Medusa.
ANSWER: Gorgons
Category Quiz Bonuses
Arts: This work’s full title mentions “Typhon coming on.” The sun in the background is bright red behind the clouds, while in the foreground gulls attack dying men. For 15 points, name this J.M.W. Turner painting that depicts blacks thrown overboard during the Middle Passage.
ANSWER: The Slave Ship[or Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying: Typhon Coming On.]
Current Events: Two politicians with this name are both members of the Justicialist Party, and one of them recently won the presidency by the largest margin ever. For 15 points, give this surname of Nestor and Cristina, a married couple who are the former and current presidents of Argentina.
ANSWER:Kirchner
Geography:This body of water was the site of the World War II battle between the Admiral Graf Spee and the British cruisers Exeter, Ajax, and Achilles. For 15 points, name this estuary fed by the Uruguay and ParanaRivers, on whose shores layMontevideo and Buenos Aires.
ANSWER:Rio de la Plata [or River of Silver; or SilverRiver; or River Plate]
History:This man united the OwariProvince and defeated Imagawa Yoshimoto at the battle of Okehazama, where he legendarily discovered his talented sandal-bearer. For 15 points, name this Japanese conqueror, whose protégé and former footwear-toter Hideyoshi Toyotomi realized his dream of uniting Japan.
ANSWER:Oda Nobunaga [prompt on “Nobunaga”]
Literature: The title character of this novel is finally captured at Stonehenge and hanged, while her true love Angel Clare accompanies her sister Liza-Lu. For 15 points, name this novel in which the protagonist’s supposed cousin, Alec, rapes her and fathers her short-lived child Sorrow, a work of Thomas Hardy.
ANSWER: Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Math Calculation:Given that angle theta measures 45 degrees, give the value of the following expression: one minus the quantity [pause] the secant of theta over the cosecant of theta.
ANSWER:zero [secant over cosecant is just tangent, tangent of 45 degrees is one, one minus one is zero]
Popular Culture:Their single “Don’t Wanna Think About You” was featured on the Scooby-Doo 2 soundtrack, and they recently released their third, self-titled album, which features “When I’m Gone” and “Your Love Is a Lie.”For 15 points, name this Canadian band of the emo songs “Welcome to My Life” and “Untitled (How Could This Happen To Me).”
ANSWER: Simple Plan
Science:Further derivatives of this quantity have alternately been dubbed “jounce” and “snap.” Mass times this quantity results in yank, its analog of force. For 15 points, name this third derivative of position, the rate of change of acceleration.
ANSWER: jerk
Stretch Phase
Tossup 15. This state is home to Admiralty, Banarof, and Chichagof, the so-called ABCIslands of its Alexander Archipelago. Its coastline contains the Kotzebue Sound, and to this state’s west is the ChukchiSea. Towns on its panhandle include Sitka and Skagway, and the massive TongassNational Forest is in this state. Large cities in this state include Nome and Barrow, and its tallest mountain sits in DenaliNational Park. For 10 points, name this U.S. state that is home to MountMcKinley, the largest state by area with capital Juneau.
ANSWER: Alaska
BONUS. Name the following about mathematical models from population biology, for 10 points each.
[10] The Lotka-Volterra equations are used to describe biological interactions between species that have this relationship, in which one species hunts and eats the other.
ANSWER: predator-prey relationship [accept obvious equivalents]
[10] The Verholst equation, which contains the term r for carrying capacity, displays as this type of S-shaped curve on a graph.
ANSWER: logistics curve or function
[10] This doubly eponymous principle allows one to compute genotype frequency given allele frequencies p and q. p-squared and q-squared are the frequencies of homozygous individuals, while 2pq is the heterozygote frequency.
ANSWER: Hardy-Weinberg principle or equation [accept Hardy-Weinberg-Castle]
Tossup 16. This man’s works include Torso of a Young Man and another that features two holes on a head-shaped object on the end of a stalk, Socrates. Another of his works looks like a bronze chili pepper and is titled Maiastra, and he also sculpted a telephone-shaped work entitled Princess X. The Table of Silence and The Gate of the Kiss make up two thirds of this man’s work in his hometown of Targu Jiu; that work memorializes World War I soldiers and contains his nearly 100-foot tall Endless Column. Another of his works was taxed upon entry into the U.S. because the port inspector didn’t believe it was art. For 10 points, name this Romanian sculptor of Bird in Space.