Ridgewood Summer Invitational
Questions written and edited by Ridgewood High School (Ben Bechtold, Zoe Blecher-Cohen, Bryan Clarendon, Aryan Falahatpisheh, Esther Sun, Thomas Husband, Louis Lim, Mark Perfect, Sanjana Rajagopal, Abbas Raza, Jonah Salzman-Cohen , Justin Shin, David Song, Kara Vo, and Claire Walter) with help from Ben Zhang
Round 09-Tossups
1.The protagonist of this work is brought up by his cruel stepfather, Edward Murdstone and is forced to attend Salem House Academy. There, he befriends the morally questionable Steerforth, who later runs off with Emily. The protagonist forms a friendship with the mentally challenged Dr. Dick while living with his aunt Betsey. The titular character marries twice, first to Dora Spenlow. His second wife nurses Dora as she is dying and claims to have loved the protagonist her whole life. The titular character also continuously lends money to the eternally broke Micawber family. For 10 points, name this semi-autobiographical Charles Dickens novel with characters such as Agnes Wickfield and Uriah Heep.
ANSWER: The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield
<Rajagopal>
2.A 200 pound transvestite used to live across from two of this show’s main characters. Another character in the show reportedly constructed an armed robot out of an easy-bake oven to defend his room from his sister, which malfunctioned and resulted in his sister getting her eyebrows burned off. Another character from the show was calculated to have dated approximately 193 men and had sex with approximately 31 of them. Another character’s principal characteristic is a case of selective mutism, which does not allow him to talk to women outside of his family and can only be suppressed by alcohol or experimental social anxiety medications. For 10 points, name this popular TV show named after a theory on the origins of the universe.
ANSWER: The Big Bang Theory
<Shin>
3.In 2007, this politician supposedly answered a reporter that he thought about the upcoming election even while he shaved. He was the chosen candidate of his country’s UMP party after he won 98% of that party’s vote for his candidature. In February of 2007, he expressed support for affirmative action and put aside his personal views on gay marriage to advocate civil unions. After winning the 2007 election, he celebrated his victory by going on a billionaire’s yacht to Malta along with his wife. In the elections that took place in May of this year, this politician was the first in his country’s history to be ousted from a re-election, with only 48% voter support. For 10 points, name this 23rd president of the French Republic, preceded by Jacques Chirac and recently succeeded by Francois Hollande.
ANSWER: Nicolas Paul Stephane Sarkozy de Nagy-Bocsa
<Rajagopal>
4.This value was not meant to measure externalities, such as wealth distribution and sustainability of growth. Purchasing power parity is usually taken into account when comparing this between two nations. Okun’s law states that there is an inverse relationship between this value and unemployment. This quantity is symbolized “Y” in the equation “MV equals PY. Developed by Simon Kuznets in 1934, For 10 points, this is what value of all officially recognized goods or services produced within a country, not to be confused with GNP.
ANSWER: Gross Domestic Product[do not accept or prompt on Gross National Product]
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5.A work about one of these objects is about Shay Garrett who is getting ready for her upcoming wedding when she receives the title object from her mother. Sylvia Plath describes this object as “Silver and exact” and it has no “preconceptions” as it watches a woman drown a young girl in her poem titled after this object. In Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott” the title character owns one of these that enables her to watch the people of Camelot. Alice steps through one of these objects in a book by Lewis Carroll. For 10 points name these objects, one of which is often asked “Who’s the fairest of them all?” by Snow White’s evil mother.
ANSWER: Mirrors
<Sun>
6.Admiral Yi Sun-shin used them in his “pushing” infantry to ward off the Japanese. One legendary one may have had either 30 or 49 barbs, that was made from a sea monster’s bone. Indra gave one to Karna, and Chiron gave one to Peleus. Ajax injured Hector with this object, and Bellerophon threw one down the Chimera’s throat. Indra and Zeus’s lightning bolts were often represented as these. Examples of this weapon include Fu Chai, Gungir, and the Holy Lance. A jeweled one stirred the oceans in Shintoism, and Poseidon had one with three points. For 10 points, name these weapons that have a shaft and a head and of which a three-pronged one is called a trident.
ANSWER: Spears
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7.A famine in this country in 1866-1868 killed 15% of its population, and this country’s first university was the Royal Academy of Turku. Carl Mannerheim established his namesake defensive line in this country to stop a Russian invasion. This country’s language achieved equal legal status with Swedish in 1892. Its civil war between the Reds and the Whites in 1918 resulted in a victory for the Whites, who were assisted by the Germans. The Broadway play Spamalot opens with a song about this country, whose last king, Frederick Charles of Hesse was elected in 1918. For 10 points, name this country, the birthplace of Sibelius, with capital at Helsinki.
ANSWER: Republic of Finland (accept Suomi)
<Bechtold>
8.This painting was created while it’s artist stayed at the Saint-Remy Asylum in 1889 . Acquired as part of the Lillie P Bliss Besquett, this painting currently resides at MOMA. Its creator painted a predecessor to this painting “[title] over the Rhone”. In the center of this painting a church’s steeple is clearly seen amidst the town and rolling hills in the background. A large shadowy tree dominates the left side of this painting, while a yellow crescent moon is present in the upper right. Eleven of the namesake objects can be seen in this painting, while the sky is painted a tumultuous blue. This is For 10 points, what this magnum opus of Vincent van Gogh.
ANSWER: Starry Night
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9.This phenomenon can be classified as either specular or diffuse. Seismic waves can undergo this phenomenon within the earth and it has allowed seismologists to determine the layered structure of the earth. This phenomenon is minimized at Brewster’s angle and another type is critical in the understanding of fiber-optic cables. Its namesake angle is equivalent to the angle of incidence. In acoustics, this causes echoes and is used in sonar. Above the critical angle, a "total internal" variety of this phenomenon occurs. For 10 points, name this phenomenon exhibited by mirrors.
ANSWER: Reflection
<Shin>
10.This narrative poem consists of fifteen books written in dactylic hexameter that describe various events in both history and Greek mythology: from the creation of the universe and the four ages of man until the death and deification of Julius Caesar. This work, a mock-epic completed in 8 AD, is considered the pinnacle of Latin Golden Age literature. It was completed shortly before its author was exiled to what is now Romania, by the Emperor Augustus. For 10 points, name this classical work by Ovid that includes the stories of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, all of which contain themes of transformation.
ANSWER: Metamorphoses
<Blecher-Cohen>
11.This man conquered the Jin and Xia dynasties and destroyed the cities of Samarkaand and Ugrench. The start to this ruler’s campaign may have started with his wife Borte’s kidnapping. This man created the Yassa law codes and succeeded by his son Ogedei. His grandson is the title figure of a Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem about a “stately pleasure dome” who founded the Yuan dynasty in China, Kublai. For 10 points, name this founder of the Mongol Empire, also known as Temujin.
ANSWER: Genghis Khan [Accept Temujin before mention]
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12.One piece by this composer opens with a 36-bar theme in A minor with virtuosic arpeggios and chromatic scalar passages, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso. The second movement of this composer's last piano concerto includes a song that the composer heard on the Nile, the Egyptian The Silver Bell and Yellow Princess were two of this composer's early operas. Another opera by this composer is about the titular Hebrew and Philistine and features the aria Mon c?ur s'ouvre ¨¤ ta voix [Pronounced: Mon cur s’uuvre ah tah vwa] Samson and Delilah. The strings play a slow version of the Galop infernal, in TortoissES as well as heavy use of the saxophone in Fossils in one work by For 10 points, what French composer of The Carnival of the Animals
ANSWER:Camille Saint-Sa?ns
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13.This group of elements consists of brittle solids and is considered good conductors with a lustrous appearance. In comparison to its two counterparts, this group does not give alloys or form interstitial or ionic compounds when mixed with metal. Early usage of the name for this group was to describe specific elements that floated on water. Despite being impossible to completely define, Slowinksi and Masterton generally characterized them by three or more properties, which included ionization energy and electronegativity. For 10 points name this periodic group containing elements such as boron, silicon, and arsenic, which is commonly known as the staircase.
ANSWER: Metalloids
<Clarendon>
14.In a cartoon version of this book, the main character saves the king, who is depicted as a pickle, from death by piano from the Peaoni brothers, and these two characters are banished to the Island of Perpetual Tickling. The protagonist is the child of Abihail, and the king in this book is often identified with Xerxes I. One person in this book stops an assassination attempt by Bigthana and Teresh. The titular character wins a beauty contest and replaces Queen Vashti because she had refused King Ahasuerus’s order to appear during a feast. Mordecai thwarts Haman’s plan to execute all the Jews of Persia in this book. For 10 points, name this biblical book that is read on Purim.
ANSWER: Book of Esther
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15.He wrote three books about his experiences as a cowboy in the Dakotas, but he was also the author of The Naval War of 1812. He supported the Gentleman’s Agreement, and received a Nobel Prize for his role in the Treaty of Portsmouth. His stance against corruption as a New York City Police Commissioner, and later the Governor of New York, caused machine bosses to force him to be nominated as vice president. As President, he was a trust buster, introduced the Square Deal, and signed the Meat Inspection Act. This man campaigned for a third term in the 1912 election under the Bull Moose Ticket. For 10 points name this aggressive American president and roughrider, who was related to future President Franklin Delano.
ANSWER: Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt [Prompt on Roosevelt]
<Falahatpisheh>
16.One student in this book comments about bourgeois suitcases. Another character, James Castle, jumps out of a window of his Prep School Dormitory after being tormented by boys he had offended. The protagonist writes a short essay about mummies and ends it with a note apologizing to his teacher, Mr. Spencer. He also writes another essay about his dead brother Allie’s baseball mitt. A pimp in this book punches the main character for extra money for a prostitute that the main character only talked to. While in a taxi, the main character asks his driver if he knows where the ducks go in the winter time. For 10 points, name this novel by JD Salinger about a troubled teenager, Holden Caulfield.
ANSWER: The Catcher in the Rye
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17.One of these devices was named after a French Physicist, when he suspended one from the dome of the Panth¨¦on in Paris. Chinese scientist Zhang Heng used one in his seismometer to try to detect earthquakes in the Han dynasty. This devices “double” type demonstrates chaotic motion and its inverted type can be demonstrated by trying to balance a broomstick vertically on your hand. Its Foucault variety can be used to demonstrate earth’s rotation without any astronomical observations. For 10 points, name this device, which consists of a weight suspended from a pivot.
ANSWER: Pendulum
<Shin>
18.This composer’s career began with an orchestral fantasy work entitled “ Feu D’Artifice” [ Pronounced Faux D’Artifeece] which only takes five minutes to perform and was created as a wedding gift for Rimsky-Korsakov’s daughter. Other pieces from this author’s Russian period of music were Le Rossignol [Pronounced Rossin-yahl], and Renard. In 1920, this composer orchestrated a ballet christened Pulcinella, in homage to the Commedia Dell’Arte character of the same name. This composer also created a ballet about a traditional straw and sawdust Russian puppet, who like Pinocchio, comes to life and develops emotions. In another one of his ballets, a young girl dances herself to death while performing a pagan ritual. That ballet was The Rite of Spring. For 10 points, name this renowned Russian composer ballets like Petrushka and The Firebird. .
ANSWER: Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
<Rajagopal>
19.This city-state led a war against Macedon, which failed after Agis the Third’s forces were attacked while sieging Megalopolis, and Agis himself took a stand on the ground to give his troops time to run away, and he himself was finally killed by a javelin. The Peace of Antalcidas ended one war that this city-state fought in, the Corinthian War. A defeat of this city-state was the Battle of Leuctra against Thebes, which diminished much of the hegemony it had gained after its victory in the Peloponnesian War. For 10 points name this military-minded Greek city state which made a legendary last stand at the Battle of Thermopylae, which was repopularized by the movie 300.