Valencia Delta Burke 2010
Round 2
1. One type of this algorithm in quantum computing operates in Big O of square root of n time, and is named for Lov Grover. The process of backtracking is associated with the depth-first, but not breadth-first, type of this algorithm. The divide-and-conquer strategy is used in the binary type of this algorithm. For 10 points, name this type of algorithm that is used to locate a desired object.
ANSWER: searching algorithm
2. The speaker of this poem describes his final destination as a house which seemed but “a swelling of the ground,” with a roof that was “scarcely visible,/The cornice but a mound.” Previously the speaker described passing “fields of gazing grain” and the “setting sun,” all this after surmising that the “horses’ heads/Were pointed toward eternity.” Having “put away/[his] labor, and [his] leisure too” for his host’s civility, the speaker notes that the title figure had “kindly stopped for [him].” FTP what is this poem by Emily Dickinson in which the Grim Reaper picks up the speaker to take him to eternity?
ANSWER: “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”
3. A crucifix is partially obscured by a green curtain in the upper left of this painting. Stephen Greenblatt has argued that the fact that three different times are indicated by a polyhedral sundial in it, a physical impossibility which suggests the artist’s attempt to “unsettle reality.” A small silver skull appears on a brooch on the slanted cap of Jean de Dinteville, the figure on the left of this painting, perhaps mirroring the memento mori of the anamorphic image of a skull appearing at its bottom.. Depicting Dinteville and Georges de Selve in front of a collection of items showing their worldliness is, FTP, what painting by Hans Holbein the Younger?
ANSWER: The Ambassadors
4. This sport is in the title of a work that discusses America's growing social-capital deficit, and was written by Robert D. Putnam. A band with this sport in its name released the album A Hangover You Don't Deserve and the song "Ohio (Come Back To Texas)." A piece of equipment from this sport was used by Daniel Plainview to kill Eli Sunday in There Will Be Blood. Professionals in his sport include Norm Duke, Parker Bohn III, and Pete Weber. For 10 points, name this sport in which participants attempt to roll strikes by knocking down pins.
ANSWER: bowling
5. The first empire to flourish in what is now this modern nation reached its height under the ruler Ezana, who helped hasten decline of a rival to the west of this modern nation, Meroe. Ezana also adopted Christianity as his state religion, making Axum in this modern nation the first to officially declare that faith. This nation was the site of the 1896 Battle of Adowa, where a force led by Oreste Baratieri was defeated by this nation’s Menelik II. Also the realm of the emperor born as Ras Tafari, FTP name this nation on the Horn of Africa, once ruled by Haile Selassie.
ANSWER: Ethiopia
6. This thinker argued that the imagery associated with medieval alchemy could be connected to the individuation of the self in his long essay “Psychology and Alchemy.” He described the undesirable aspects of one’s personality, that which is denied by one’s conscious self, as the “shadow,” and this man’s theories of personality types provided the basis for the creation of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. One of his best-known concepts is exemplified by figures like the Wise Old Man, Great Mother, and Hero. Believing that archetypes populate the reservoir of mythic images and concepts inside all people was, FTP, what Swiss formulator of the idea of the collective unconscious?
ANSWER: Carl Jung
7. This man hid out in a cave for a month to avoid his father’s wrath after stealing some cloth and selling that and his horse to pay for repairs to the tiny church of St. Damian. Angelus Tancredi, Leo, and Rufinus were this man’s noted “Three Companions,” who wrote his hagiography, while Rufinus’s cousin founded the “Poor Clares,” the female analogue to this man’s namesake monastic order. He wrote his “Canticle to the Sun” soon before he died, and the “Fioretti,” or little flowers, describe his preaching to the birds. FTP who was this Italian saint from Assisi?
ANSWER: St. Francis of Assisi
8. One of the earliest proponents of public education, Horace Mann, was affiliated with this party. The New York Tribune helped to promulgate this party's views, shared by its editor, Horace Greeley. A prominent politician from this party advocated high tariffs to build roads and canals, the American System; that man was Henry Clay. The last president from this party was Millard Fillmore. For 10 points, name this American political party which formed in opposition to Andrew Jackson.
ANSWER: Whig Party
9. Ragged Red Fibers are seen in some disorders affecting this structure. Another disorder of this structure is an optic neuropathy named for Leber. The protein cytochrome c is released from this organelle during apoptosis. Surrounded by a double membrane, this organelle contains an area known as the matrix, and is the site of the Krebs cycle. For 10 points, name this organelle that also carries out oxidative phosphorylation in order to produce ATP.
ANSWER: mitochondria [or mitochondrion]
10. Virginia Woolf, in her essay “Professions for Women,” advocates killing this type of figure “in the House,” as she argues these beings represent female chastity and virtue. Lilia Herrinton falls in love with an Italian in E.M. Forster’s first novel, partly titled for these beings in a line taken from Pope’s Essay on Criticism. “Millenium Approaches” and “Perestroika” are the two parts of a play subtitled “A Gay Fantasia on National Themes” written by Tony Kushner and named for these beings “in America.” Alexander Pope writes that “fools rush in where,” FTP, what beings fear to tread?
ANSWER: angels
11. The southwest portion of this country contains the Damrei Mountains, and its northwest portion contains the Dangrek Mountains. This country's largest lake, Tonle Sap, is located to the south of the city of Siem Reap. In this country, a city formerly known as Kampong Som is located on the Gulf of Thailand. The communist regime Democratic Kampuchea existed in the 1970s in this country, whose official language is Khmer. For 10 points, name this southeast Asian country that is home to Angkor Wat, and has its capital at Phnom Penh [NOM PEN].
ANSWER: Cambodia
12. This instrument is featured in Johannes Maria Staud's composition Segue, which was premiered by Heinrich Schiff. A concerto in E minor for this instrument was composed by Edward Elgar, and was notably performed by Jacqueline du Pre [PREY]. The two concerti composed for this instrument by Shostakovich were both written for Mstislav Rostropovich. Six suites for this instrument were composed by J. S. Bach, and were popularized by Pablo Casals. For 10 points, name this string instrument that is played between the legs by Yo-Yo Ma.
ANSWER: cello
13. The imidazole ring has two atoms of this element, and a benzene analogue called borazine contains alternating atoms of boron and this element. In one context, the single bond from a carbonyl carbon to an atom of this element is called a peptide bond. One class of phase transfer catalysts is quaternary amines, which contain this element. This element's diatomic form has a triple bond that is broken in the “fixation” of it performed by bacteria. For 10 points, name this element whose diatomic form makes up the majority of the air we breathe.
ANSWER: nitrogen
14. Max Scheler attributes to this concept the emergence of “ever-higher value in [its] object.” Robert Nozick is one of many advocates of a “union view” of this concept, criticism of which has led to the impossibly dry definition of this concept as “robust concern.” The elemental philosophy of Empedocles opposed this concept to “strife.” A threefold division of this concept existed in the Greek concepts of agape, eros, and philia. For 10 points, name this powerful romantic feeling.
ANSWER: love
15. This military force adhered to the teachings of the Sufi dervish saint Bektashi, as he had offered them blessings after this group was instituted by Murad I. They were disbanded after the 1826 Auspicious Incident after Mahmud II decided they had grown too powerful. Originally recruited by the devshirme, a forced tribute of Christian subjects to the sultan, FTP, name this military force of the Ottoman Empire.
Answer: Janissaries
16. In one book by this author, a “white” World War II veteran named Neil discovers he has African-American ancestry. In another book by this author, the US is turned into a fascist state led by President “Buzz” Windrip. This author of Kingsblood Royal and It Can’t Happen Here created the fictional US state of Winnemac. Another book by this author centers on the titular evangelist, who gains a large congregation in the town of Zenith. This author of Dodsworth and Elmer Gantry also wrote of a titular doctor who leaves his cushy institute job to be an independent researcher in the book Arrowsmith. For 10 points, name this American author who wrote about Carol Kennicott in the novel Main Street.
ANSWER: Sinclair Lewis
17. This quantity for photons is equal to the power flux density over the speed of light. For an ideal gas, the specific heat at constant volume is equal to R less than the specific heat holding this quantity constant. Also for an ideal gas, this quantity, all else equal, is proportional to temperature and inversely proportional to volume. For 10 points, name this quantity defined as the ratio of the magnitude of a force over the area over which it is exerted, often measured in torr or atmospheres.
ANSWER: pressure
18. Douglas Freeman wrote a seven-volume biography of this man, who was also the subject of Henry Wiencek's An Imperfect God. This man gave the Newburgh Address, and in another address, he stated, "Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances." This target of the Conway Cabal was sent by Robert Dinwiddie to Fort Le Boeuf in 1753, and was defeated by the French a year later at Fort Necessity. Also the subject of a biography by Parson Weems, this man lived at Mount Vernon. For 10 points, name this first President of the United States.
ANSWER: George Washington
19. In the Mabinogion, Cuhlwich ultimately has to consult one of these creatures to find Mabon, a great hunter needed to fulfill a quest. The best known one of these creatures in myth gained its namesake quality by eating hazelnuts that fell into Connla’s Well, where this creature was finally caught by the poet Finnegas, who asked his boy servant to prepare it for him, whereupon he burned his thumb touching it while it cooked. FTP what is this piscine creature that when inadvertently touched by Finn MacCool granted him deep insight?
ANSWER: Salmon of Knowledge (or Wisdom)
20. This author wrote a novel dedicated to the island of Guernsey in which the fisherman Gilliat accepts the task of freeing a ship that has run aground. This author explained the nature of romantic drama in the preface to his play Cromwell. This author of Toilers of the Sea wrote a novel in which Tholomyes impregnates Fantine, who lets the Thenardiers look after Cosette, who eventually marries Marius. That novel by this author is partly set in the Paris sewers, and features Inspector Javert and Jean Valjean. For 10 points, name this French author of Les Miserables.
ANSWER: Victor Hugo
Valencia Delta Burke 2010
Round 2 Bonuses
1. This man used a tape recorder to capture his spontaneously spoken verse in his “Wichita Vortex Sutra.” FTPE:
A. Who is this poet who memorialized his mother Naomi in “Kaddish”?
ANSWER: Allen Ginsberg
B. This Ginsberg poem famously begins, “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.”
ANSWER: “Howl”
C. In Ginsberg’s much-anthologized “A Supermarket in California,” the speaker imagines wandering in the title location with what poetic forefather, “graybeard,” and “lonely old courage teacher”?
ANSWER: Walt Whitman
2. This group forced Roman emperor Theodosius II to pay tribute. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this nomadic tribe from Asia who invaded Europe in the fourth and fifth century.
ANSWER: Huns
[10] This king of the Huns was convinced by Pope Leo I not to invade Rome. Known as the Scourge of God, he murdered his brother Bleda, and may have died as a result of a nosebleed.
ANSWER: Attila the Hun
[10] Attila the Hun was defeated by Aetius, who commanded Roman and Visigothic troops, at this 451 battle fought in present-day France.
ANSWER: Battle of Chalons [or Chalon; or Catalaunian Plains; or Campus Mauriacus]
3. Answer the following about various ideas about the destruction of the world, for 10 points each.
[10] In some Christian traditions, this event occurs at the end of Armageddon, at the Second Coming. In this event, all Christians rise up into the air; subsequently, everyone not taken away in this event experiences the Tribulation. Billy Beyer, however, will be left behind.
ANSWER: Rapture
[10] This Norse final battle sees the death of many gods, like Heimdall and Freyr.
ANSWER: Ragnarok
[10] This goddess almost destroys the world during one battle, but confronts Shiva in the form of an infant and stops dancing to comfort him.
ANSWER: Kali
4. This force is believed to be mediated by a massless spin-2 particle. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this attractive force that is the weakest of the four fundamental interactions, and causes falling objects near earth to accelerate at 9.8 meters per second squared.
ANSWER: gravity [or gravitational force]
[10] This man is the namesake of a program that uses idle computers "at home" to search for gravitational waves. He is also the namesake of a ring that results from gravitational lensing.