2004 Chicago Open
Editor Packet 6 – Tossups by Ezequiel Berdichevsky and Subash Maddipoti
1. A turning point in this novel occurs with the knowledge that moving a loose stone allows access to the aqueduct and thus entry into a besieged city guarded by the famous warrior Gisco. The opening scene’s debauchery, which includes the defilement of bejeweled fish in a private lake, provokes the first appearance of the protagonist. She later loses her virginity in a scheme to recover the sacred veil of Tanit and is thus given to the Numidian warrior Narr Havas. With Spendius urging him on, the Lybian giant Matho ends up fighting against his former commander Hamilcar and the novel ends with him being flayed alive before the title figure, a beautiful priestess of the moon, who then kills herself. FTP identify this historical novel about Carthage by Gustave Flaubert.
Answer: Salammbo
2. He was credited with averting a near riot by in Sherman when he convinced a group of “war widows” that officers were not withholding goods from their families. Originally a schoolteacher and gambler from Ohio, he first gained national headlines when he encountered General James Blunt’s men on their way to Texas at Barter Springs and killed the whole group. This followed his attempt to capture Senator James Lane, leading to a massacre in Lawrence, Kansas. Flanked by his Lt., “Bloody” Bill Anderson, he made a point of recruiting such unwanted figures as the Younger and James brothers. FTP, identify this Confederate guerilla leader of an eponymous group of raiders.
Answer: William Clarke Quantrill
3. Its inheritance was first demonstrated by Neel and Beet. Pedigree analysis revealed three genotypes and phenotypes controlled by a single pair of alleles, A and S. Affected individuals could arise from both homozygous genotypes. Linus Pauling and his colleagues provided the molecular basis for this disease by showing changes in migration after a gel electrophoresis in two different hemoglobins but were unaware of the valine-glutamine substitution error. FTP, identify this disease, named for the shape of the affected red blood cells.
Answer:sickle-cell anemia
4. Legends surrounding this figure identify him as the dark one who wrestled Jacob, the destroyer of Sennacherib, and, according to the Midrash, a guardian of the Holy throne. As the personification of thunder and terror he appears in the First book of Enoch to warn Noah of the deluge, and is usually cited as the wielder of the fiery sword who drives Adam and Eve from Eden. Sent by God to answer Ezra’s queries, Milton describes him as “regent of the sun.” FTP, identify this important angel whose name in Hebrew means “fire of God.”
Answer: Uriel
5. It was painted shortly after its artist abandoned watercolors for thick applications of oil. Although it took nearly twenty years to complete, the compartments, black bordered shapes inspired by stained glass works, were evident from the earliest sketches. Dressed in glowing red robes, heavy impasto on the bottom left of the canvas makes it seem like the title figure is holding something in his left hand. Less ambiguous is the dark facial hair that frames his closed, resigned eyes, as well as the golden necklace that matches his crown. FTP identify this work portraying an aged monarch by Georges Rouault.
Answer: The Old King
6. It ends with a tale about Booker’s betrayal of the activist Johnny-Boy, who is avenged by his elderly mother Sue. Another features Mann’s escape from the authorities after a flood forces him to steal a boat. The most famous tale is about a day at a swimming hole gone bad when the title character is surprised by a white woman, kills Jim in self-defense, and must hide in a snake-infested kiln to escape a lynch mob. In 1940 the author decided to preface the book with his essay “The Ethics of Living Jim Crow” to set stories like “Down by the Riverside” and “Fire and Cloud” in context. FTP, this story collection by Richard Wright that takes its title from an earlier work by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Answer: Uncle Tom’s Children
7. Arrested twelve times in the space of one year due to the passage of the “Cat and Mouse Act,” this figure’s My Own Story documents how each release was celebrated with a procession on a flower-decked wagon. Late in life, she joined the Conservative Party and ran for office. But she is better known for the organization she founded with the motto “Deeds not Words.” That group, the Women’s Social and Political Union, strove to undermine Liberal legislative control by interrupting Cabinet meetings. Often working alongside her equally radical daughters Christabel and Sylvia, FTP, identify this woman whose death in 1928 coincided with her ultimate goal: the passage of universal suffrage in Britain.
Answer: Emmeline Pankhurst
8. In this equation, the variable L is used to indicate the heat absorbed per mole in the change from one state to another. In the case of a transition from liquid to vapor, the volume of the liquid can be ignored. This differential equation states that in a system containing two phases of the same substance, heat is added slowly so as to produce a reversible equilibrium between the two states. FTP, identify this equation from physical chemistry that mathematically describes phase changes in a system, named after its two formulators
Answer: Clausius-Clapeyron equation
9. The third section discusses the influence of Gestalt theorists, the promulgation of “holism,” and the title concept’s relationship to Utopianism. The book ends by asserting that modern proponents of the subject are seduced by its emotional appeal and the false impression that they have discovered “the problem of change.” First published in a series of articles in Economica it was later appended by the paper “Indeterminism in Classical and Quantum Physics” and is dedicated to those who have fallen victim to the fascist and communist belief in destiny. FTP, identify this work that argues against laws of progress and a social science based on studying the past, a book by Karl Popper.
Answer: The Poverty of Historicism
10. His parents almost ruined his chance at stardom when they encouraged him to do Al Jolson in blackface at the age of 5. While this soured him on performing for a while, he did go to voice school in Edmonton and became a semifinalist on CBC’s Pick the Stars. He first acted onscreen in His and Hers, but it was his performance in Atlantic City that drew raves. He remains best known, though, for his appearances on television variety shows such as Ed Sullivan, on TV Funhouse, and for his stage work as both Lancelot and Arthur in Camelot. FTP, name this lounge singing legend and Las Vegas entertainer of the year in 1982.
Answer: Robert Goulet
11. Comic relief is provided throughout the play by Nuno and his master Don Mendo whose songs and actions mark them as analogues of the bawdy Chispa and her scheming husband Rebolledo. The latter tries to aid his master in gaining access to the attic where Ines and her beautiful cousin are hiding from the recently arrived soldiers. The play ends with a rapist strangled in his jail cell and the arrival of Philip II, averting a war between Don Lope’s regiment and the townspeople, who clamor for justice and are led by a proud farmer named Pedro Crespo. FTP, identify this work by Calderon de la Barca which is named for the official of the title town.
Answer: The Mayor of Zalamea or El Alcalde de Zalamea
12. After his political marriage to Gisulf II was exposed as a sham, he made war against the citizens of Amalfi and eventually took Salerno as his capital. Though excommunicated for a time, the Concordat of Ceprano and his willingness to protect Rome and take up arms against Henry IV won him Gregory VII’s thanks. Although he won a great victory at Durazzo against Alexius Commenus, his dream of taking Constantinople was never achieved as he died during the siege of Cephalonia. FTP, identify this Norman soldier, a Duke of Apulia who led the conquest of Southern Italy during the 11th century.
Answer: Robert Guiscardor Robert de Hauteville
13.For a rod of mass M and length L spinning about its center at frequency omega, they carry away an energy per unit time equal to 2/45 M squared L to the fourth omega to the sixth. In 1975, a system of two stars in an elliptical orbit with a maximum separation of roughly one solar radius was found by Hulse and Taylor; precision measurements of this system have shown a speedup in orbital frequency consistent with emission of these. FTP, what is this form of radiation for which one needs a time-varying quadruple moment in a mass distribution?
Answer: gravitational waves
14. Sometimes worshipped as a God of air and wind, he won his first wife by defeating death thrice, yet when his bride died of grief he sought out a second daughter of the Northland. When her mother refused this request, he abducted her on his sled and fled Pohjola. But, her whining caused him to change her into a sea gull, and against Vainamoinen’s wishes, to fashion a wife out of gold. Yet, it is the quest for his greatest creation, which was given to Louhi, that dominates much of the Kalevala. FTP, identify this Finnish god of the forge who made the sampo.
Answer: Ilmarinen
15. It features the conspiratorial aria “Umsonst such ich” and the foreboding “Wie alles war.” The latter is sung by Erda in Act 4 and is soon followed by fratricide. Earlier, Mime is tormented in the bowels of the underworld as he fashions the shape shifting Tarnhelm. The action is set in motion with a renunciation of love underwater and the abduction of Freia, though by the end, Loge and Fricka help convince Wotan to renounce the treasure to Fasolt and Fafner. FTP, identify this work named for the precious hoard seized by Alberich to make the Ring of the Nibelung, an opera by Richard Wagner.
Answer: Das Rheingold
16. Though a fervent critic of Freud, in 1906 this man also published an analysis of dreams that focused on language disturbances. After a stint in Wundt’s laboratory, where he pioneered his nosology and studied the effects of drugs and alcohol on psychological health, he moved to Munich where he worked with Alzheimer. His magnum opus was revised continuously, most notably in 1899 when he fine-tuned his distinction between exogenous and endogenous disorders by naming them as manic depression and dementia praecox, though the latter would soon be renamed schizophrenia. FTP, name this man whose Compendium of Psychiatry devised the classification schemes that served as the foundation for the DSM.
Answer: Emil Kraepelin
17. Ralph Cheever Dunning throws milk bottles at the narrator and Ford Madox Ford debates him about whether Henry James is a gentleman before pointing out that Hillaire Belloc is sitting in the corner, though it turns out to be Aleister Crowley. It contains rapturous descriptions of goujon accompanied by Muscadet and the decision to go to Austria for the winter instead of leaving F. Puss, the cat, home alone with Bumby. It also recounts a trip to pick up a car in Cote’D Or with Scott Fitzgerald, but the most famous scene might be at the mechanic’s shop when Gertrude Stein turns to the author and says “You are all a lost generation.” FTP, identify this memoir of Paris life in the 1920s, a work by Ernest Hemingway.
Answer: A Moveable Feast
18. A frequent visitor to the U.S., first as an exile and then as an Ambassador, he became a close friend of Horace Mann, and his wife, Mary, who actually translated this man’s most important works into English. Warning against the disaster of caudillismo, or personal magnetism in politics, he and Urquiza plotted to overthrow his country’s leadership, finally succeeding in 1852. His own presidency saw the end of war against Paraguay. FTP, identify this liberal Argentine statesman perhaps best known for his literary treatment of life under Juan Manuel de Rosas’ dictatorship, Facundo.
Answer: Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
19. They are number approximately 16,000 species, which are divided into the orders Centrales and Pennales, though they are sometimes grouped in their own phylum, Bacillariophyta. They possess a pigment known as fucoxanthin, which acts like chlorophyll. Their silicified cell wall forms a frustule, composed of an epitheca and a hypotheca, and helps in this organism’s usefulness in testing a microscope’s resolving power. Known as “jewel of the sea” because of their symmetry, FTP, name these floating organisms consisting of two interlocking symmetrical valves.
Answer:diatoms
20. After rewriting many of his works for a new audience, the success of The Fan convinced him to retire to Versailles, though he would die in poverty when his royal pension was cut by the Revolution. His early works include The Liar and The True Friend, while later works like Pamela and the dialect plays The Tyrants and Quarrels at Chioggia, dispensed with masked characters. This decision embroiled him in a two feuds, one with Pietro Chiari, whom he satirized in The Malcontent, and the other with Carlo Gozzi, a more traditional adherent of commedia dell’arte. FTP, identify this author of The Mine Hostess, the creator of the modern Italian comedy, and namesake of what was once the Teatro San Luca in Venice.
Answer: Carlo Goldoni
His take on the Austrian school was published as Capital and Time and his article “Monopoly” introduced the concept of “conjectural variation” to unite theories of imperfect competition. His 1937 work “Keynes and the Classics” introduced the IS-LM model and the “liquidity trap,” while his namesake “compensation criteria” announced his move into the New Welfare economics. Perhaps most well known for his assertion that utility need not be measurable to ascertain value, FTP, identify this economist the author of Value and Capital who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize with Kenneth Arrow.
Answer: John R. Hicks
The revenge plot at the center of this work is exposed when a dove tastes the wine mixed with Gorgon blood that was intended for the title figure and dies. The motif of the Gorgon is repeated when a well-preserved cradle featuring said design is brought out and a mother makes an amazing discovery. Beginning with a monologue by Hermes outside of the Oracle, Trophonius convinces a delighted Xuthus that he will soon have a son, but when his wife refuses to accept the young servant with a mysterious past into the family, it becomes clear that she had once been violated by and had lost her child. FTP, name this Euripides work about a notable King of Athens, the son of Creusa and Apollo.
Answer: Ion
2004 Chicago Open
Editor Packet 6 – Bonuses by Ezequiel Berdichevsky and Subash Maddipoti
1. Answer the following about the War of Austrian Succession, FTP each:
A. The war truly got underway after this April 1741 victory that allowed Frederick the Great to invade Silesia.
Answer: Mollwitz
B. The war became inevitable after Maria Theresa’s claim to the throne, via the pragmatic sanction of 1713, was challenged by this Elector of Bavaria and future Holy Roman Emperor.
Answer: Charles Albert or Charles VII
C. Although a treaty had been signed in Berlin three years earlier, fighting between Maria Theresa and Frederick the Great’s forces over Silesia didn’t really end until this treaty was signed in 1745.
Answer: Treaty of Dresden
2. Identify the following about organic chemistry reactions, FTP each:
A. In this basic class of reactions, a nucleophile displaces a leaving group in one step, inverting the stereochemistry. Its name is derived from its reaction order.
Answer: SN2 substitutions or substitution nucleophilic second-order
B. This class of second-order reactions is favored in basic conditions and when the molecule is sterically hindered, which prevents the attack of a nucleophile.
Answer: E2 eliminations or elimination second-order
C. In SN1 and E1 reactions, the leaving group leaves spontaneously, creating this positively charged ionic species, first isolated by George Olah.
Answer: carbocations
3. Name these women from the novels of Theodore Dreiser, FTP each:
A. This title figure seduces both Charles Drouet and George Hurstwood in Chicago, becomes a big star on stage in New York, and eventually realizes that her life is empty.
Answer: Sister Carrie or Caroline Meeber
B. In The Financier Frank Cowperwood marries the demure Lillian Semple, but is really in love with this daughter of his main rival, the trash magnate, Edward Butler.
Answer: Aileen Butler
C. An American Tragedy turns on Clyde Griffiths’ accidental drowning of this factory girl, whom he tries to eliminate to continue his relationship with Sondra.