Aztlán Cup Packet 7: UCLA and Friends (P. Lujan, C. Meigs, D. Wynne, M. Sherman)
Tossups:
1. It was first synthesized by Hans von Pechmann in 1898, and the first practical process for synthesizing it was discovered by Eric Fawcett and Reginald Gibson at ICI Chemicals in 1933, who applied high pressures to a mixture of benzaldehyde and ethylene. A Ziegler catalyst is used to ensure no branching in its high-density version, while the low density variety is created by free radical polymerization. For ten points, what is this common polymer made of repeating CH2 units?
ANSWER: polyethylene or polyethene or just PE
2. The theoretical value of it does not equal the experimental value but rather the limit of the experimental value as the concentration goes to zero. Ion pairing explains why it decreases as the concentration of a solution increases. Boiling point elevation and osmotic pressure are not only proportional to it, they depend on it. FTP, identify this factor named after the 1901 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, usually denoted i, the measure of disassociation of a compound.
ANSWER: Van’t HoffFactor
3. He played Dr. Sundesval in the Killing Fields and was Jan Smuts in Gandhi, but is better known for writing. His earliest works were Nongogo and No-Good Friday. His Statement plays produced in the 1970’s produced one of his most critically acclaimed works, about a black man who has to take on a dead man’s identity to survive, Sizwe Banzi Is Dead. FTP, name this playwright of the Road to Mecca and Master Harold and the Boys.
ANSWER: (Harold) Athol (Lanigan) Fugard
4. After his death, his father Henry posthumously published a collection including a biographical sketch of him that Henry wrote. Not included in it, however, was a series of poems in English and Italian inspired by Anna Wintour. It turns out that she was only the passing fancy of a teenager, since only five years later he became engaged to Emily Tennyson. FTP, name this poet, perhaps best known for the essay, “On Some of the Characteristics of Modern Poetry and On the Lyrical Poems of Alfred Tennyson,” who was later eulogized in Tennyson’s famous poem, “In Memoriam A.H.H.”
ANSWER: Arthur Henry Hallam
5. His dagger was called Carnwennan (karn-wen-ahn), his shield was Wynebgwrthucher (woo-neb-goor-thoo-hair), his spear was Rhongomyniad, and his sword was Caledfwlch (call-ed-foolkh). He kept court at Ehangwen and his champion Gwenwynwyn (goo-in-win-win) ap Naf (nahv) was among his 222 knights. Fighting and dying in his last battle at Camlann, more notable might be his wife Gwenhwyfar (goo-in-hwy-vahr), and his knights Bedwyr and Cai (kay). FTP, this describes what hero of the Mabinogion, a king who might be better known from English-language works by T.H. White and Sir Thomas Mallory.
ANSWER: Arthur
6. Set in the early seventeenth century, this opera's title character spends most of the opera hiding in a monastery. The man who spurs the action is Sobinin, who cannot marry his beloved Antoninda until her father is certain that a true tsar sits on the throne. The plot twists in the second act when it is revealed that a group of Poles are plotting to make a Pole tsar by capturing the chosen Russian tsar. Antoninda's father, Ivan Susanin, sacrifices himself to foil the Polish plot in, FTP, what 1836 opera by Glinka?
ANSWER: A Life for the Tsar (prompt onIvan Susanin)
7. The "realistic" tendency stresses the search for the universal essences of different sorts of matters. The first manifestation of the "hermeneutical" type is represented by Hans-Georg Gadamer. The "constitutive" variety is most devoted to reflections on a namesake method. The "existential" stage is often traced back to Martin Heidegger's Being and Time. For 10 points, what school of philosophy was based on the work of Edmund Husserl?
ANSWER: phenomenology
8. The end of the novel sees the young ward of the ironic title character grow insane, leaving her only able to say the word “shuttlecock.” That title character stabs himself with a pen knife after a life filled with affairs with the likes of a mistress of a Grand Duke of Monte-Carlo, La Dolciquita, and Maisie Maidan. His most notable affair is with the narrator’s wife, Florence, who dreams of being the lady of Branshaw Manor, the home of the title character. FTP, name this novel narrated by John Dowell about his former friend Edward Ashburnham, whom Dowell grossly imperceives in a work by Ford Madox Ford.
ANSWER: The Good Soldier
9. In addition to the major participants, a Calvinist army led by Johann Casimir of the Palatinat joined into the fray, being finally defeated at Vimory and Auneau. The war resulted from the Treaty of Nemours, which attempted to disempower the Duke of Guise. The three competitors were pared down to one by the assassination of the Duke of Guise and Jacques Clement’s (CLEM-AHN) assassination of the king of France. FTP, name this 1585-1589 war that saw the king of Navarre emerge as king of France, named for its trinity of same-named Frenchmen.
ANSWER: War of the Three Henrys (prompt on Wars of the Catholic League)
10. He ran for president in only one election with Fielding Wright as his running mate. He got his start as as a superintendent, and later became a judge, leaving that post to serve in World War II, where he was a decorated colonel. Winning his Senate seat from Burnet Maybank, it was the ugly loss of a protégé Albert Watson, that caused his 1970 decision to hire black aide Thomas Moss in order to survive as a Senator and remove himself from his former pro-segregation policies. FTP, name this 1948 presidential candidate and long-serving senator, a South Carolinian recently exposed for having a black daughter, Essie Mae Washington-Williams.
ANSWER: (James) Strom Thurmond
11. This point, which can be designated as the second Kimberling center X2, divides the three line segments that meet here in the ratio 1:2. It lies on the Nagel line along with the Nagel point and the incenter, and on the Euler line along with the orthocenter and the circumcenter. If the triangle is uniform, it represents the center of mass of the triangle. For ten points, what is this point in a triangle where the three medians intersect?
ANSWER: centroid (accept center of mass or center of gravity before it’s mentioned)
12. He designed the dome for the railway station in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, as well as the Nyugati station in Budapest. He was perhaps most prolific as a bridge builder, building bridges all over the world, including the Giza Zoo, Peru, and Austria. His career effectively came to an end when he and de Lesseps were charged with fraud relating to an attempt to build a canal in Panama. FTP, name this French architect of the interior work of the Statue of Liberty and a namesake Parisian landmark.
ANSWER: Gustave Alexandre Eiffel
13. The prosecution of interim governor Rip Van Dam and chief justice Lewis Morris led to these two important men hiring this man, a German formerly apprenticed to William Bradford. Defended by Andrew Hamilton, he had been sentenced to jail incommunicado by Governor William Cosby for his work for Van Dam and Morris as a printer. FTP, name this editor of the New York Weekly Journal who was acquitted of the charge of seditious libel against the governor.
ANSWER: John Peter Zenger
14. In materials like calcite, the e-ray produced does not obey this law, since the index of refraction is not constant with respect to direction. It can be used in conjunction with Fresnel’s (FRUH-NELL) equations to find the intensity, and can be derived solely from the translation-invariance of the boundary in conjunction with the index of refraction. It can also be derived from Fermat’s principle of least time. For ten points, what is this basic law which gives the angle of a refracted ray of light?
ANSWER: Snell’s Law
15. This people’s historical religion involves the worship of Malak Taus, a world-creating fallen peacock angel whose worship has stereotyped its believers as devil worshippers, a religion which disallows the eating of lettuce or butter beans. That religion, Yazidism, is now a minority faith among these people, and their ancient language of Pahlawani has been overtaken by the modern Kurmanji. The most famous persecutions of them occurred at Dersim in the 1930’s, and at Halabja, where a chemical attack was launched on them by Saddam Hussein’s régime. FTP, name this oppressed ethnic group of northern Iraq and southeast Turkey.
ANSWER: Kurds (accept word forms such as Kurdish)
16. His fiancée is Puss Flanagan, though he marries another woman, a chatterbox with whom he goes on a hog drive. He promotes prophylactic toothbrushes, soap, and baseball, while working three major miracles. The latter two, which require only gunpowder and an electric spark, completely humiliate the man he calls John W. Merlin. FTP, name thistitle character of a Mark Twain work, known in Camelot as The Boss.
ANSWER:HankMorgan (accept either; prompt on A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court orThe Bossbefore it is mentioned)
17. Had he been born later, and in America, he might have supported the free silver movement, as he supported the idea of a silver standard in his Proposals for an Economical and Secure Currency. The views expressed in his first publication, an anonymous article in the "Morning Chronicle," were rearticulated in his pamphlet The High Price of Bullion, and he used England and Portugal as examples in demonstrating the law of comparative advantage. Elected to Parliament in 1819, he campaigned against the Corn Laws until his death in 1823. FTP, name this economist, best known among economists for his theory of rents but among non-economists for his Iron Law of Wages.
ANSWER: David Ricardo
18. At Florida State, he roomed with Burt Reynolds, and played football along with Reynolds, Paul Gleason, and Robert Urich. Of those four, he was the only one to remain in sports, as he coached Louisville from 1969-1972, leading them to their first bowl game. He then led Indiana to their first victory in a bowl game, and coached Northern Illinois and the Orlando Renegades of the USFL. In 1987, he moved into commentating, and he has been a fixture on the college football circuit ever since. FTP, name this man, best known for catchphrases like “Not so fast, my friend,” one of the hosts of College GameDay affectionately known as “Coach.”
ANSWER: Lee Corso
19. The northwestern part of this island was ruled by the Brooke dynasty from 1841 to 1946 as James Brooke had deposed the last rajah of Sarawak. Major cities include Pontianak, Samarinda, Balikpapan, and Bandjarmasin, and regions include the Timur, Barat, Tengah, and Selatan regions of Kalimantan, which is the Indonesian name for this island. Sarawak and Sabah make up the Malaysian part of the island, and the island is divided with another nation. FTP, name this large island divided between Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei.
ANSWER: Borneo (accept Kalimantan before it is mentioned)
20. Graduating from RanchoBernardoHigh School, he quickly moved up through the ranks, moving from Charlotte to Tulsa in 2001, and becoming an opening day starter in the big leagues in 2002. He was a disappointment at first, hitting .211 and losing his job to Herb Perry, but in 2003, he became the first player since Jeff Conine to hit a pinch-hit home run during the All-Star Game, hitting .300 with 29 homers during the regular season. FTP, name this third baseman star for the Texas Rangers.
ANSWER: Hank Joe Blalock
21. Because Goran Ivanisevic [ee-von-EE-seh-vich] and Toni Kukoc [KOO-"coach"] were born in the geographic region between the island of Pag and the Bay of Kotor, this word can describe them. However, the word is more associated with an animal bred to run along horse-drawn carriages and made famous by Dodie Smith who owned nine, including one named Pongo. For 10 points, what dog breed retained its famous job even after horses were no longer used in firehouses?
ANSWER: Dalmatians
22. Believed to be named after the Sanskrit for “Island of Bliss,” this island’s nearby neighbors include Abdu I-Kuri and the Al-IkhwanIslands. Dominated by the HajhirMountains, Suq, Qalansiyya, and Mahattat Nujad are all major villages, but Madibu is the only sizable town on this island of 50,000 people. Nearest to the coast of Somalia, it has always been a key strategic point in the Red Sea, being occupied by the Soviets during the Cold War and becoming a possible base for U.S. troops in the war against Iraq. FTP, name this island in the Red Sea belonging to Yemen.
ANSWER: Socotra or Suqutra
23. Sam Green killed Bill Lang over the lynching of this man's half-brotherJesus (HAY-soos). Harry Love led a group of rangers tracking him down.After Love caught up to his group of bandits at Arroyo Cantua, WilliamByrnes supposedly shot, then decapitated him, although modern historiansbelieve the head belonged to an Indian named Chappo. Family history sayshe died shortly after the attack at a rancho in AlamedaCounty,insisting that the "Anglos" must never know his fate. FTP, name thisChicano folk hero, the subject of the 1936 film The Robin Hood of ElDorado.
ANSWER: Joaquin Murrietta or Joaquin Muriataor Joaquin Muriati
Aztlán Cup Packet 7: UCLA and Friends (P. Lujan, C. Meigs, D. Wynne, M. Sherman)
Bonuses:
1.Name these things related to writing four-part harmony for 10 points each.
A.Transporting both the bass and soprano lines from C up to F isan example of this error.
ANSWER:Parallel octaves
B.This note, one half step below the tonic, should never bedoubled.
ANSWER:leading tone
C.Generally, there should never be more than this interval betweenthe soprano and alto voices.
ANSWER:one octave
2.F10PE, answer the following questions about a novel.
A.This novel features a nymphomaniac named Florentino Ariza, who waits over fifty years’ for his love’s husband to finally die.
ANSWER: Love in the Time of Cholera or El Amor en el Tiempo de Cólera
B. This author wrote Love in the Time of Cholera.
ANSWER: Gabriel García Márquez (do not prompt on or accept: Marquez)
C.FTP, name either Florentino’s love, or her husband of fifty years, a doctor who falls from a mango tree trying to capture a parrot.
ANSWER: FerminaDaza (accept either) or Dr. JuvenalUrbino (accept either)
3.Answer these questions about Rena Sofer, the most inevitable person on television these days, FTSNOP.
A.F5P, Rena Sofer most recently was a cast member on which disastrous British import, which promised to be a racier version of Friends.
ANSWER: Coupling
B.F5P, Sofer had a recurring role on this series as DA Bonnie Hane, vying with Carol Vescey for the love of the titular bowling-alley owning lawyer.
ANSWER: Ed
C.F10P, Rena played Suzanne Vandermeer on what short-lived sitcom, the first television program helmed by Six Feet Under and American Beauty’s Alan Ball?
ANSWER: Oh, Grow Up!
D.F10P, Rena was introduced to the world as Andrea Larson, the romantic foil to one of the main six characters in this TV special, about a trip nearly shanghaied when Mr. Worthington plans to destroy The Hideaway and, to no one’s excitement, Mr. Belding shows up.
ANSWER: Saved by the Bell: Hawaiian Style
4.FTPE, name these golfers who have recently been outclassed or played even by a fourteen-year-old girl.
A.The most well known golfer to be outplayed by Michelle Wie at the Sony Open, this golfer, nicknamed the Walrus, made headlines last year when he won the B.C. Open despite playing primarily on the Senior Tour.
ANSWER: Craig Stadler
B.This fiery Northern Irishman is a winner of the Match Play Championship and is known on tour for his open alcoholism and lax work ethic. His best showing at a major came at the 1997 British Open.
ANSWER: Darren Clarke
C.FTP, name either the defending U.S. Open or defending British Open champion who finished with the same 140 that Wie did.
ANSWER: Jim Furyk or Ben Curtis
5.FTPE, name these members of the Diadochi, the successors of Alexander III of Macedon.
A.This general of Alexander, with the epithet “Monophthalmos,” is assumed by many to have held Macedonia, but he only held Asia Minor and Palestine.
ANSWER: Antigonus Monophtalmos or One-Eyed Antigonus (accept equivalents)
B.This man, regent of Macedonia from 317-305 and king outright from 305-297, was responsible for many murders of Alexander’s successors including Alexander’s mother Olympias, his Persian wife Roxane, and his son Alexander IV.
ANSWER: Cassander of Macedon
C.His victories over fellow Diadochi included the killing of Lysimachus of Thrace at Corupedium, and he ruled over most of the former Persian Empire, beginning his namesake dynasty in his namesake capital.