2002 Chicago Open
Tossups – Round #7
1. Not long after proving his innocence in an accusation that he had deprived an associate’s illegitimate son of an inheritance, this character embarrasses himself by knocking over a priceless vase at a party intended to introduce him into society. Upon his arrival, he becomes a boarder in the house of Ganya’s mother, and begins his unfortunate tale. By the novel’s end, he has returned to the Swiss sanitarium from which he was traveling to St. Petersburg at the novel’s beginning. In his wake he left the flawed Natasha Filipovna, who had been murdered by Rogozhin, and his former fiancé, Aglaya Epanchin. FTP, name this sorrowful epileptic, the so-called “idiot” of a Dostoyevsky novel.
Answer: Prince Lef Nicolaievitch Myshkin (accept early buzz of: The Idiot)
2. Stuart, on the far left saw little action, during this battle, but McLaws and Walker to his right saw much heavier fighting just north of Dunker Church. The day before Union initiative was halted at Turner’s Gap due to the stout defense of D.H. Hill. In the late morning John Bell Hood’s Texas Brigade made inroads up the left flank, pushing back Joseph Hooker, and the Union center could not penetrate its opposite creating the venue known as Bloody Lane. However, the biggest joke proved to Ambrose Burnside, who was thwarted by a simple bridge. FTP, name this battle fought in September 1862 outside of Sharpsburg, the single bloodiest day of the Civil War.
Answer: Battle of Antietam (acc. early buzz of “Sharpsburg”)
3. Due to this formulation given one point on a coexistence line, we can discover other points on the line and the slope of the line. It is not thermodynamically exact because it contains two approximations and only applies when one of the phases in the transition is a gas. It states the temperature of the system, the ideal gas constant, and the molar enthalpy of vaporization of the liquid determine the rate at which the natural logarithm of the vapor pressure of a liquid changes with temperature. FTP, identify this equation named for its two discoverers.
Answer: Clausius-Clapeyron equation
4. This band was forced to alter its style following the withdrawal of their funding by millionaire Stanley Miesegaes. 2001 saw the release of the live album Is Everybody Listening?, but their last success before that had ironically been 1982’s Famous Last Words. It was their fourth album, Breakfast in America, that had such hit singles as “Logical Song,” “Goodbye Stranger,” and “Take the Long Way Home.” FTP, name this band with vocals by Rick Davies that was briefly popularized by the use of their “Give a Little Bit” in a series of Gap commercials.
Answer: Supertramp
5. In The Journal of a Tour, an account of a European tour she took with her husband, she explains the inspiration for her most villanous character. She has that character, formerly the Count di Bruno, poison Father Nicola and himself when his false claim of being the father of Ellena di Rosalba is uncovered. This happens in her novel subtitled The Confessional of the Black Penitents, which features the evil monk Schedoni. More famous, is a novel in which Montoni’s attempts to thwart the love of Valancourt and Emily St. Aubert prove unsuccessful. FTP, name this author of the Gothic novels The Italian and The Mysteries of Udolpho.
Answer: Ann Radcliffe or Ann Ward
6. As a result of his second marriage to Constance, daughter of Peter the Cruel, he laid claim to the throne of Castile, but he would give up his claim later when his daughter married Henry III of Castile and Leon. Together with Alice Perrers he controlled the government until Parliament banished her and curbed his powers. He never lived to see his exiled son rule England as Henry IV, but did guide his nephew, Richard II, during Richard’s rule. FTP, name this fourth son of Edward III and younger brother of the Black Prince.
Answer: John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster
7. They were discovered independently by the Frederick Twort in 1915 and Felix D’Herelle two years later. The first electron micrographs of them, obtained in 1942, showed a tadpole-like shape, five years after the father of their research, George Eliava, was killed in a purge. The tailed ones are known as the dsDNA ones because their tales are molecules of linear double-stranded DNA, and the most potent of them is believed to be the T4 class. FTP, identify these things that were famously used in the Hershey-Chase experiment and which are defined as viruses that can infect bacteria.
Answer: bacteriophage
8. The setting is that of a location in Chatou. Baron Barbier is the figure in the top hat in the distance, while Aline Charigot, the painter's wife-to-be, is seated on the left and is playing with a puppy. The man leaning backwards on the left is Monsieur Fournaise, the proprietor of this painting’s exact setting, the Restaurant Fournaise. Monsieur Fournaise looks away from the man on the bottom left, the artist Gustave Caillebotte. All together a group of the artist’s friends have gathered on a balcony by a lake to enjoy a meal. FTP, name this painting by Auguste Renoir.
Answer:Luncheon of the Boating Party or The Boating Party Lunch
9. This town is the seat of Merrimack County, on the Merrimack River above the city of Manchester. The site was granted by the Massachusetts Bay Colony as Penacook Plantation, and when settled two years later, the community was incorporated into Massachusetts by the name of Rumford. Notable landmarks include the home of Franklin Pierce, who practiced law in the town. It was claimed by New Hampshire in 1741 and given its present-day name in 1765. FTP, name this town, that became world famous on the night of April 19, 1775, along with nearby Lexington.
Answer:Concord
10. The central family is duped by a young man’s phony poor heart condition and allows him into their world. The biggest sucker is Mrs. Hopewell, who keeps going on about the lack of the title group, and how the young Bible salesman who has come to their door is one of the few exceptions. Of course, we soon see that Pointer is a fraud and he only has intentions of having his way with the one-legged Hulga. FTP, name this Flannery O’Connor short story, with an ironic title referring to the kindliness of rural folk.
Answer: “Good Country People”
11. It had been partly precipitated by wounded national pride following humiliating terms at Olmutz 16 years earlier. After the end of this conflict, Venetia was ceded to Italy via the terms of a separate peace, though it had already been officially concluded via the Treaty of Prague. The decisive campaigns were all won by the Army of the Main [MANN], which had been organized by von Roon and trained by von Moltke. Everything was downhill following the Battle of Koniggratz and the issue of Schleswig-Holstein was decided. FTP, name this war fought between Austria and Prussia in just under two months of 1866.
Answer: Seven Weeks’ War (acc. early buzz of Austro-Prussian War)
12. TEC’s are solid state heat pumps that operate on this effect. Refrigerators with no moving parts can be constructed using it, but they are not very efficient. It was discovered by its namesake when he joined a piece of copper wire to a piece of bismuth wire then to a battery and completed the loop back to the copper wire. He discovered a cooling of one junction and heating of the other when electric current is maintained in a circuit of material consisting of two dissimilar conductors. FTP, identify this effect named for its French discoverer, an analogue of the Seebeck effect.
Answer: Peltier effect
13. Its author argues that the “right of death” of the age of absolutism has been replaced by a “power over life.” More importantly he claims that the title concept is a great conduit of power and identifies four major focus points for that power: children, women, married couples, and the “perverse.” It begins by informing the reader of the “repressive hypothesis,” which the author disagrees with, claiming that discourse has increased since the 18th-century. FTP, name this projected six-volume work that takes a genealogical approach to sexuality and which was written by Michel Foucault.
Answer: The History of Sexuality
14. Against the Stream might be the least known work of this man, whose best-known work was a collaboration with Arnold Rose and R.M.E. Sterner. In Rich Lands and Poor he advocated greater aid for the economic development of third-world nations, a theory that was somewhat reflected in a more famous work, Asian Drama. His Crisis in the Population Question was written with his wife Alma, but his best-known work was a study for Carnegie Corporation. FTP, name this economist who studied black life in the U.S. in his work An American Dilemma.
Answer:Gunnar Myrdal
15. We learn that the narrator of this novel was telling the story while she was a patient at a sanitorium. This happens after her affair with the figure we meet on an airplane, Wylie White. The title character who was also traveling on the plane, but as Mr. Smith, is still in love with his dead wife, Minna Davis, but as the novel progresses he begins an affair with Kathleen Moore. The author’s notes tell of a planned bitter struggle with Pat Brady and the future of Pat’s daughter, the narrator Cecilia. FTP, name this work about film producer Monroe Starr, an unfinished novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Answer: The Last Tycoon
16. He wrote two memoirs about his political experiences, Seize the Time and A Lonely Rage, and a popular 1988 cookbook about “Barbeque’n with” him. After his political period he founded the youth-centered organization named R.E.A.C.H. and rehabilitated his extremist image. This came after a failed bid for mayor of Oakland in 1973 and acquittal from a murder charge in Connecticut. He famously led a group to protest an anti-gun bill in Sacramento in 1967, gaining notoriety for his organization. FTP, name this first chairman and co-founder of the Black Panthers.
Answer: Bobby Seale or Robert George Seale
17. Between its clusters, or alveoli, this organ contains a dense, fibrous, connecting tissue, the stroma, which also forms a tough capsule around it. At its ventral portion lies a small fissure known as the colliculus seminales, which lies just above its utricle. It contains 15 to 20 branched, tubular ducts, which form lobules, and it is penetrated by the vas deferens. Those ducts open into the urethra and it secretes a viscid, alkaline fluid to aid in sperm motility. FTP, name this triangular body that is highly susceptible to cancer in males.
Answer: prostate gland
18. His name was actually given to him by the Greeks to identify the baboon god Djeheuty of the Egyptians. When Tefnut had a dispute with Ra and fled to Nubia, it was he who reasoned with her and brought her back. He helped out Anubis by interviewing the dead before weighing their heart and then determining the quality of their afterlife. Commonly depicted holding a reed pen and scribal palette which fits with his duties, FTP, name this ibis-headed deity, the Egyptian messenger of the gods and the god of wisdom.
Answer:Thoth
19. In the final part the tunes “It’s Been So Long Since I Saw You” and “Cabbages and Turnips” are played in counterpoint with the theme of central aria. That two-part aria in G major is used as the departure point and was from the second notebook the composer wrote for his second wife, Anna Magdalena. It was published as the fourth part of the composer’s Clavier-Ubung, its notable parts include the French overture of number 16. Composed to fulfill the desire for music to put Count Keyserlink to sleep this was, FTP, what set of 30 variations by J.S. Bach?
Answer: Goldberg Variations
20. It is prefaced with a Greek allusion to Hesperus, a quote from Plato. About halfway through, the author compares Byron to Apollo the Pythian for his attack on contemporary critics. The 45th stanza makes mention of Sir Philip Sidney, Thomas Chatterton, and Lucan, three poets in a similar situation. The 55th and final stanza ends, “Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are,” and mentions those gathered including Morning and Spring, Sorrow and Pleasure, Dreams and Desires, and Urania, the mother of the titular being. FTP, name this Percy Shelley elegy on the death of John Keats.
Answer: “Adonais”
2002 Chicago Open
Bonuses – Round #7
1. Answer these questions about a treaty, FTP each:
A. What treaty, signed at the titular site in the Netherlands in 1992, created the European Union?
Answer: Maastricht Treaty
B. What nation, of the initial 12 member states present, was the only one to initially reject the treaty, doing so on June 2, 1992? Its voters would ratify it the next year in May 1993.
Answer: Denmark
C. Spurred by the treaty, what nation under the left-center government of Jean-Luc Dehaene approved a devolution process making it a federal state with three more autonomous regions in July 1993.
Answer: Belgium
2. Stanley Miller’s test of the primordial soup was actually based on the work of some earlier scientists. Name this things about that work, FTP each:
A. In the 1920s an Englishman and a Russian independently proposed the theory that unique primordial conditions would favor spontaneous generation of life rather than inhibit it. For 10 points, name either one of those men.
Answer: H.B.S Haldane or Alexander Oparin
B. In Alexander Oparin’s laboratory a solution of polypeptides, nucleic acids, and polysaccharides came together to form these colloidal droplets, leading to the idea of a primordial soup.
Answer: coacervates
C. Coacervates are just one type of these molecular aggregates of organic polymers that were the primitive ancestors of living cells. Other types of them included microspheres and liposomes.
Answer: protobionts
3. In reviewing it for the New York Times Eudora Welty praised the writing as “original, first-rate, serious and beautiful.” Of particular note was the story known as either “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” or “A Beautiful Day for Bananafish.” FTP each, name:
A. That 1953 anthology of short stories.
Answer: Nine Stories
B. The author of Nine Stories as well as a set of two novellas about the Glass family entitled Franny and Zooey.
Answer: Jerome David Salinger
C. Either of two stories that would be Salinger’s last published stories after his 11 tales of the Glass family.
Answer: “Hapworth 16, 1924” or “Go Tell Eddie”
4. Name these baseball players who returned to success after World War II, FTP each:
A. In his first ever game of what would be 17 seasons with the same team this man struck out eight consecutive batters with his fastball. In 1946 he amassed 348 of his 2,581 career strikeouts.
Answer: Bob Feller or Robert William Andrew Feller
B. Upon returning from the war halfway through the 1945 season, he hit a ninth-inning grand slam that lifted his team to the AL pennant and his seven RBI’s helped his Tigers win the championship that same year.
Answer: Hank Greenberg
C. After returning from two years in the navy, he was purchased by Bill Veeck in 1947 and the next year, his stellar center field play and .318 batting average in the World Series helped lead his Indians to the title.
Answer: Larry Doby
5. Name these Scandinavian sagas and ancient works, FTP each:
A. One of Snorri Sturlson’s two major works, it is a history of Norse kings from ancient times until 1177.
Answer: Heimskringla
B. Sturlson may be better known for this work, a textbook on poetics that explains the meters of the early Icelandic skalds, or court poets.
Answer: Prose Edda or Younger Edda (prompt on “Edda”)
C. This 13th-century manuscript tells of the titular hero and outlaw of medieval Iceland, the son of Asmund Longhair.
Answer: Grettir the Strong
6. Name these 15th-century English usurpers, both unsuccessful and successful, FTP each:
A. Led by the titular Irish adventurer who took the name of Mortimer, it was a 1450 uprising by the men of Kent against the misrule of Henry VI.
Answer: Rebellion of Jack Cade
B. Henry Tudor had to deal with this dupe, who claimed to be Edward, Earl of Warwick, the last Yorkist claimant to the throne. He was captured in 1487 and employed in the royal kitchens until his death in 1534.
Answer: Lambert Simnel
C. After the death of his brother Edward in 1483, this man usurped the throne, but he would soon meet his maker at Bosworth Field.