BOB 2007
Packet by Matt Weiner
Edited by Andrew Uzzell
Tossups:
In the 1990s, this organization was led by a former rock singer and holder of a black belt in judo, Robert Hue. It resurged in 1981, when its candidate Georges Marchais got fifteen percent of the vote, but did not reach the heights of the interwar period, when it published the daily newspaper L'Humanité and paralyzed the nation with its control over the CGT's general strikes. Though it won a quarter of the votes in first election held for a Fourth Republic government, it never had as much influence as when it joined the Popular Front along with Leon Blum's Socialists. FTP, name this Western European political party affiliated with the Third International.
ANSWER: French Communist Party Parti or Parti Communiste Français or PCF or anything that mentions France and Communism and is not confused with the French Socialist Party
In one of her stories, the prostitute Hermelinda entertains Pablo with a game called Toad's Mouth, while Elena attempts to seduce Berna in another story by this author. One of her novels ends after Huberto changes his name to Comandante Rogelio and starts a guerilla army, and follows a girl who empties a chamber pot onto a cabinet minister and becomes a television writer. This author also told of the magic powers of a political prisoner's grandmother, who is married to one of the right-wingers trying to overthrow the author's uncle. FTP, name this author of Eva Luna who created Clara Trueba in The House of the Spirits.
ANSWER: Isabel Allende
This country adopted a new parliamentary system in 1961 in order to end a showdown between president Goulart an war minister Denys. It had faced an earlier political crisis in 1954 when newsaper editor Carlos Lacerda was murdered on the orders of the president, leading to the rise to power of J.C. Filho. Throughout the 1920s, the "tenentes" or junior officers led abortive coups in this country, whose first non-royal leader was Manuel Fonseca. This country had seen passage of the Law of the Free Womb and the Golden Law, decades before it was ruled by the "estado novo" of Getulio Vargas. FTP, name this large country once colonized by Portugal.
ANSWER: Brazil
A week after this event, the attack on bicyclist Marcella Sherwood which helped prompt it was punished by the issuance of the "Crawling Order." This incident was investigated by the Hunter Committee, and it resulted in the assassination of Michael O'Dwyer over twenty years later. It involved troops positioned in the only entrance to an illegal meeting of over fifteen thousand people, when the commander of the Jullundur Brigade, Reginald Dyer, ordered those troops to fire into the crowd, killing four hundred. FTP, name this 1919 atrocity in a city of the Punjab which became a ralling point for Indian activists.
ANSWER: Amritsar massacre or Jallianwala Bagh massacre
At one point in this novel, the main character borrows a gun from Billy Biasse in order to protect himself from the maniacal, razor-wielding Zeddy Plummer. During a sojourn to Pittsburgh, the main character discusses racial politics with Jake. The protagonist is disgusted by Congo Rose's desire to be struck by her boyfriends and is given a freebie by the prostitute Felice, with whom he moves to Chicago at the end of the book. That lead character is a native of Petersburg in Virginia, who skipped out on the army during World War I. FTP, name this Claude McKay novel in which Jake Brown moves to a New York neighborhood.
ANSWER: Home to Harlem
This man furtively took his own mares to mate with the divine horses of Laomedon, producing fine warhorses which were ultimately stolen by Diomedes. The arrow of Acestes catches of fire during the funeral games for this man, who predicts the future rise of the Caesars from the underworld. While working as a rancher on Mount Ida, he was spotted by a goddess who claimed to be the daughter of Otreus and seduced him, and he was later hit by a thunderbolt for bragging about that encounter with Aphrodite. The thunderbolt's crippling of him is why he was carried by his son out of the destruction of Troy. FTP, name this father of Aeneas.
ANSWER: Anchises
Form II is found only in proteobacteria, while the more common Form I of it is an octodimer composed of sixteen chains, eight small S chains and eight large L chains. Making up over sixty percent of the soluble protein in a leaf, it allows for two molecules of 3-phosphoglyceric acid to be produced when it catalyzes a reaction between one molecule of carbon dioxide and one molecule of RuBP. Thus, its activity controls the rate-limiting step in photosynthesis. FTP, name this enzyme, known far and wide as the most common enzyme on earth.
ANSWER: rubisco or ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase
In one of her movies, she played the natural daughter of a couple portrayed by Edie Falco and Martin Donovan who adopt a deaf mute, while her other roles include a character described as "crazy about English guys" and nicknamed "the American Goddess" in Love Actually. In 2007, a picture of her playing a dead body was used in controversial ads for Captivity, while a more notable saw her character fall in love with her psychologist Barry Landes after the death of her mother Teri and apparent death of her father Jack. FTP, name this actress who starred opposite Emile Hirsch as Danielle, a former porn star, in The Girl Next Door and portrays Kim Bauer on 24.
ANSWER: Elisha Cuthbert
The current one was created by the author of the poem "Alfred Goldsmith Bailey," the historian George F.G. Stanley. Until 1924, it included a composite shield showing seven different coats of arms. That version was modified for use until 1965 and led to its displayers' neutrality being questioned during the Suez Crisis, because it included a Union Jack in the upper left. Known as the "red ensign," that version's replacement led to the creation of the "Bowtie Banner" or "Pearson Pennant," and to a vitriolic debate in the Commons with Opposition leader John Diefenbaker. FTP, name this emblem of a certain country which now shows red, white, and red stripes behind a red maple leaf.
ANSWER: the Canadian flag [accept obvious equivalents, but not specific things like "Maple Leaf flag" since the question describes multiple Canadian flags]
A Shirley Jackson short story titled after one of these items follows a bus trip to New York undertaken by Clara Spencer. Galactic Jack constructs rankings of the world's best murderers, which Hoss attempts to climb, in a Sam Shepherd play about the one "of crime." In The Bluest Eye, Pauline Breedlove is frustrated about one that is rotten. The title character of McTeague sometimes saves time by removing them directly with his hands, and the lives of Archie and Samad are followed in a Zadie Smith novel about white ones. FTP, name these anatomical entities which belong to a dragon in an Upton Sinclair novel and whose "skin" titles a play about the Antrobus family by Thornton Wilder.
ANSWER: tooth or teeth or equivalents
One of them was named after a vision of a pile of gems seen by his pregnant mother, while another of them was painted so realistically by an artist that the artist had his thumb cut off for spying on her. The penultimate one of these explained how the "206 spinsters" acquired the ability to emit light and was killed several times by his evil brother Kamath. Rishabhdev Bhagavan was the first in the line of twenty-four of them, known as the "ford-makers," while the last had "ten great dreams," preached ahimsa, and was called Mahavir. FTP, name these venerated figures in Jainism.
ANSWER: tirthankaras
The melting of ice at ground level in a permafrost-laden region causes the "thermo-" kind of this, which is common in the north of China, while in dry zones, the removal of fine particles by groundwater can form networks of tubes known as its "pseudo" variety. The Yucatán, the Causses area of France, and Kentucky are common places to find its true form, in which large structures called poljen are formed after a period of time. Characterized by pepino hills, lapies, natural bridges, and sinkholes, it is caused by the dissolution in acidic water of calcium carbonate. FTP, name this kind of terrain which occurs in areas with high amounts of limestone.
ANSWER: karst topography
He was the musical delegate to the "Week of the Modern Art," where performers executed his Characteristic African Dances. An advocate of the a capella style he dubbed "Orpheonic singing," he inspired Juan Mena Moreno to write a sequel to his most prominent piece. Even while writing his over two thousand career works, this man served as national director of musical education, and, in a noted work featuring such sections as "O Canto do Capadocio" and "Lembranca do Serato," he fused the neo-baroque fugue with indigenous music. FTP, name this man whose adoration for The Well-Tempered Clavier led him to compose the Bachianas Brasilieras and become the greatest composer ever produced by the Southern Hemisphere.
ANSWER: Heitor Villa-Lobos
In one of her novels, Theodore Peyrou is shockingly found to the son of the priest Armand La Luc, and the Marquis de Montalt catches a man trying to rob him, interrupting the romance of Adeline and Pierre de la Motte. In another novel, a ghost says that no one should try to find out the real identify of Ellena di Rosalba, but Vincentio di Vivaldi disregards the advice. In addition to The Romance of the Forest and The Italian, she wrote a novel in which a mysterious picture bequeathed after a man's death in the Pyrenees sets into motion a plot that comes to bear when Valancourt marries Emily St. Aubert. FTP, name this author, parodied by Jane Austen in Northanger Abbey, who created the successful gothic novel The Mysteries of Udolpho.
ANSWER: Anne Radcliffe
In the 1940 election, a political party of this name was led by a minister from Shreveport who was a fanatical supporter of Huey Long and published The Cross and the Flag, Joseph K. Smith. The better-known group by this name was led by such men as the North Dakota senator who praised the value of mules, Joseph Nye, and the former general who was by then president of the Sears company, Robert Wood. The third of its three major leaders made a speech in Des Moines which revealed its true attitude towards Jews. FTP, name this organization, affiliated with Charles Lindbergh, that clamored against U.S. aid to the Allies at the start of World War II.
ANSWER: America First (Party or Committee or whatever)
In the first act, "the Bonze" speaks out against religious conversion and a song about the upcoming honeymoon, "Vieni la sera," is sung. Containing the Humming Chorus, it opens with a song about hedonistically wandering the world, "Dovunque al mondo," after we see Goro negotiating a 999-year lease. The title character dismisses the laziness of the gods in “Un bel dì,” and while putting a blindfold on her son, sings "Tu, piccolo Iddio” after the appearance of Kate makes the situation clear to Sharpless. FTP, name this Puccini opera where the American naval officer Pinkerton abandons Cio-Cio-San in Nagasaki.
ANSWER: Madama Butterfly or Madame Butterfly [do not accept M. Butterfly]
In one form of this phenomenon, "energy gap D" must be applied to finalize the process of achieving it. This condition leads to film creep, and when this effect is induced in a rotating vessel, angular inertia ceases to apply to the vessel's contents, which has been proven analogous to the Meissner effect. Sometimes seen in the tripartite anomalous phases A, B, and A1, it occurs below the lambda transition, sometimes due to Bose condensation. FTP, name this phenomenon in which liquid helium just above absolute zero loses all resistance to flow.
ANSWER: superfluidity
The native language of this place shows an intriguing affinity, in words such as "holly," "lamb," and "hill," with the Basque tongue, and the chief dialect of this location's native language is Logudorese. Macomer, Oliba, and Oristano are some of the cities on this home to Gennargentu Massif, while the Flumendosa River flows to Muravera and enters the Tyrrhenian Sea from this island. FTP, name this island on the south of the Strait of Bonifacio, whose capital is Cagliari and which is the second-largest off-mainland possession of Italy.
ANSWER: Sardinia or Sardegna
A pendulum-like object is suspended from a four-legged frame with a sculpture on top in this man's Hour of the Traces, while sharp, concave triangles just out from the spine of the prostrate bronze figure in his Woman with Throat Cut. After becoming known for such works as 1 plus 1 equals 3 and Composition With Seven Figures and a Head, he was invited to design the sets for the 1963 revival of Waiting for Godot. At the same time, he was creating iconic series such as the "Tall Figures." FTP, name this sculptor who created thing, elongated miniatures of human forms.
ANSWER: Alberto Giacometti
One of his advisors was the editor of the Russian Courier who was obsessed with the idea of excluding lower-class children from schools, Mikhail Katkov. However, this man, who refused to sign the Loris-Melikov Constitution, was most influenced by the director of the Most Holy Synod, a fanatical hater of modernity named Konstantin Pobedonostsev. He presided over the end of the Russian alliance with Germany following the accession of Wilhelm II, and he cancelled his father's order to create representative assemblies on the day that he took power following that father's assassination. FTP, name this penultimate Russian tsar, who was succeeded by Nicholas II.
ANSWER: Alexander III
A new one of these arose temporarily in the "slot region" in 1998, and an extra permanent one had been discovered by the CRRES mission in 1990. They are produced by the "magnetic mirror effect" acting on the results of cosmic ray interactions. One of them is made of up protons that approach a twenty thousand particle per second intensity, while the other has helium ions captured from solar wind. Discovered by analyzing data from U.S. Explorer in 1958, FTP, name these toroidal zones of charged particles found in the Earth's magnetic field.