ROUND 10
WILDCAT INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT
TOSSUPS
1. After this event, the king’s son Phyleus, to avoid the perpetrator’s anger, decided to honor his father’s wager and give the protagonist one tenth of all their herds. Performed for the king of Elis, this accomplishment was achieved when, after removing a protective wall, the hero diverted the Alpheus and Peneus rivers into a canal directed at the building he was supposed to clean. FTP, what was this sixth labor of Heracles?
Answer: cleaning of the Augean Stables (accept equivalents)
2. The resting potential of a neurone is established by ions of this element, which move across the cell membrane by the namesake pump. The sixth most common element, it is used in the antiknock additive tetraethyl lead, and can be produced via the Downs process. FTP, what is this alkali metal with atomic weight 23.0 and symbol Na?
Answer: sodium
3. One of the earliest memories of this novel’s protagonist is the ongoing arguments between his father Simon and his aunt Dante Riordan over the merits of Charles Parnell. He becomes popular at school after being beaten by Father Dolan for breaking his glasses, at age 16 is seduced by a woman in a pink gown, and in conversations with Davin and Lynch expresses his doubts about the Church and Ireland, which he leaves at the end of the novel, intending never to return. FTP, what is this autobiographical novel concerning Stephen Dedalus, written by James Joyce?
Answer: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
4. This director’s early films include Adventures of Dollie and Judith of Bethulia, while later efforts include Sorrows of Satan, Orphans of the Storm, and Broken Blossoms. With his cameraman G.W. Bitzer he pioneered many basic cinematic techniques, such as soft focus, pan shots, fade-ins, close-ups, and the cross-cut, and made the film Intolerance as a reaction to the response to his most famous film. FTP, who was this director of The Birth of a Nation?
Answer: David Wark Griffith
5. In June 1778 this man organized the first US espionage agency, the Headquarters Secret Service, and he allied himself with the secessionist Essex Junto during his unsuccessful 1804 campaign to become governor of New York. He won 30 electoral votes for president in 1796, and by mobilizing the Friendly Society of St. Tammany engineered the Democratic Party’s electoral victory in 1800, but the House relegated him to the vice-presidency. FTP, who was this man tried for treason for a scheme to conquer Spanish colonies best-known for killing Alexander Hamilton?
Answer: Aaron Burr
6. The Bunnerong power station now lies on this roughly circular inlet about 5 miles across and 1 mile wide at its mouth between the Kurnell and La Perouse peninsulas. Receiving the Georges and Cooks rivers, its shores are now home to Kingsford-Smith Airport and many suburbs of Sydney. Originally named Stingray Harbor, FTP, what is this inlet of the Tasman Sea, the site of James Cook’s first landing in Australia, now named for the wide variety of plants found there?
Answer: Botany Bay
7. This constellation’s Moving Cluster is the nearest star cluster to the Earth, and it is home to the Owl Nebula and the first binary to have its orbit computed. It stars include the famous naked-eye double star Mizar, and Lalande, the 4th closest star to the Sun, while its two brightest stars are Alioth and Dubhe, the latter of which is one of the pointers to Polaris. FTP, what is this 3rd largest of the constellations, which contains the Big Dipper and is popularily known as the Great Bear?
Answer: Ursa(e) Major(is) (prompt on Great Bear)
8. This author of the plays The Glorious First of June and Cape St. Vincent was one of the greatest orators in England during his 32 years as a Whig in Parliament, but he did not achieve great political success because of his reputation as an unreliable intriguer. His skill for adaptation and revision can be seen in works like Pizarro and A Trip to Scarborough, and he revived the plays of Congreve through his ownership of the Drury Lane Theater, but is best-known for original works like The Critic. FTP, who was this playwright of The Rivals and The School for Scandal?
Answer: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
9. This artist’s finest surviving painting is the Christ of the Column, but he is better-known as an architect, his first building being the Santa Maria presso San Satiro in Milan. Highly influential due to his use of trompe-l’oeil and perspective, he designed the majestic architectural setting of The School of Athens, in which he is protrayed as Euclid, and his major designs include the Belvedere Court at the Vatican and the Tempietto of St. Pietro in Montorio. FTP, name this creator of the High Renaissance style of architecture who in 1506 designed the new basilica for St. Peter’s.
Answer: Donato Bramante (or Donato di Angelo)
10. This leader was assassinated by his half-brother Dingaan in 1828. Earlier, he had been conscripted into the army of Dingiswayo, and quickly rose to power, reorganizing his army of 40,000 into regiments called impi, and after Dingiswayo’s death he conquered what is now Natal. FTP, who was this chief of the Zulus?
Answer: Shaka (or Chaka) Zulu
11. Among these writings are a large number of texts called sthala which glorify temples or sacred places. Like the great epics they are usually written in narrative couplets, and are classified according to whether they exalt Vishnu, Siva, or Bhahma. Distinguished from the 18 most important are the so-called “lesser” ones, while the most popular is the Bhagavata. Meaning “ancient lore”, FTP, what are these secondary Hindu texts concerning myth, legend, and genealogy?
Answer: Puranas
12. This compound’s 7-dehydro derivative is converted by sunlight into vitamin D3. A major constituent of myelin and gallstones, it is a precursor of adrenocorticoid hormones, sex hormones, and bile acids, and serves principally as a constituent of blood plasma lipoproteins. It can exist free or as a long-chain fatty acid, and is absorbed through the intestine or manufactured by the liver. With formula C27 H46 O, FTP, what is this sterol which can cause clogged arteries?
Answer: cholesterol
13. At the end of this play Don Parritt confesses to the anarchist Larry Slade that he had turned his own mother over the the police due to her affair with Larry before killing himself by jumping from the fire escape. The protagonist is arrested after revealing he shot his wife Evelyn in her sleep to escape the guilt of his drinking and womanizing, but not before convincing bar patrons like Piet Wotjoen, Hugo Kalmar, and Jimmy Tomorrow to pursue the impossible pipe-dreams that are causing guilt in their lives. Set in Harry Hope’s saloon, FTP, what is this drama centering on Theodore Hickman by Eugene O’Neill?
Answer: The Iceman Cometh
14. Starting in 1883 this man studied the Eskimos of Baffin Island, and while at Clark University studied the Indians of British Columbia. Author of "Anthropology and Modern Life" and "Race, Language and Culture", he shaped American anthropology with his theory of cultural relativism while professor at Columbia University. FTP, who was this teacher of Ruth Benedict, the author of "The Mind of Primitive Man"?
Answer: Franz Boas
15. This politician considerd his greatest achievement to be his National Insurance Act of 1911. A Liberal Member of Parliament for Caernarvon Boroughs, he became Chancellor of the Exchequer after Asquith, and as Minister of Munitions during WWI succeeded in ending the steel shortage on the Western Front. FTP, who was this Prime Minister from 1916-22 who strove for moderation as a delegate to the Versailles Peace Conference?
Answer: David Lloyd George
16. The Act II lamplighter aria is a famous moment in this 1893 opera which also features Guardate, pazzo son, in which the male lead begs a sea captain to let him go with the title character. It tells how Geronte wins the daughte of a sergeant in the King’s Guard with wealth despite her love for Des Grieux. When Geronte sees her with Des Grieux, he has her sent to Louisiana as a “woman of loose virtue”, where she dies. Based on a work by Abbe Prevost, FTP, what is this first great opera by Giacomo Puccini?
Answer: Manon Lescaut
17. This structure derives during gastrulation from cells that migrate anteriorly in the midline between the hypoblast and the epiblast, with the cells coalescing immediately beneath the developing central nervous system. It is incorporated into the nuclei pulposi in adult vertebrates, but in other organisms it lies above the alimentary canal and below the nerve cord and acts as a protagonist for the muscles. FTP, what is this flexible rodlike structure, the principle structural element of chordates?
Answer: notochord
18. This philosopher held that men have an innate predisposition to goodness revealed in the instinctive reaction of anyone who sees a child about to fall into a well, and argued that a truly moral ruler would receive the spontaneous support of the people, an important idea during the Warring States period during which he lived. Taught by Confucius’ grandson Tzu Ssu, his sayings and conversations are recorded in a book which is named for him. FTP, who was this man, considered the second greatest philosopher of Confucianism?
Answer: Mencius or Meng-tzu
19. In this play, the character of Kristin the cook provides a contrast to the title character, whose engagement to an attorney was broken off due to her sadistic attempts to dominate him. Having been raised by her mother to hate men, in a moment of weakness she seduces her valet Jean and, unable to deal with the consequences, decides to commit suicide. FTP, such describes what one-act play by August Strindberg?
Answer: Miss Julie (or Countess Julie or Lady Julie)
20. On July 29, under orders from Secretary of War Patrick Hurley, Douglas MacArthur used truncheons, tear gas, and tanks to forcably remove its last remaining members. Led by Walter F. Waters, in May 1932 17,000 men lobbied for amendment of 1924’s Adjusted Compensation Act by building a shanty-town in Washington, DC. FTP, what was this poverty-striken “army” of US veterans who demanded immediate payment of their pensions?
Answer: Bonus Army (or Bonus Expeditionary Force)
ROUND 10
BONUSES
1. Name these historically important Russians, FTPE.
1. (10 points) A German princess originally named Sophia of Anhalt-Zerbst, this woman became empress of Russia on the death of her husband Peter III. Popular unrest followed the failure of her Legislative Commission and the extension of serfdom by the charter of 1785.
Answer: Catherine II or Catherine the Great
2. (10 points) Claiming to be the assassinated Peter III, this man led a popular uprising in 1773-74 and captured Kazan before being betrayed and executed.
Answer: Emelian Ivanovich Pugachev
3. (10 points) A favorite of Catherine, this administrator extended Russian rule to the south, annexed the Crimea, implemented army reforms, and built the Black Sea fleet before dying in the war against the Turks.
Answer: Gregory Potemkin
2. FTPE, name these important rococo painters.
1. (10 points) This Frenchman entered the Acadedy with Coroesus Sacrificing himself to Save Callirhoe, but before his death his rococo style had gone out of fashion, as evidenced by the return of his series The Progress of Love, which he painted for Louis XV. He is most famous for The Swing.
Answer: Jean-Honore Fragonard
2. (10 points) Fragonard was taught for a time by this rococo artist who painted several protraits of Madame de Pompadour. Director of the Gobelins factory, he specialized in painting nudes like Reclining Girl for Louis XV, but objected to nature on the grounds that it was “too green and badly lit”.
Answer: Francois Boucher
3. (10 points) Arguably the greatest Italian painter of the 18th century, this artist developed a free, airy style seen in the frescoes in Wurtzburg Palace, scenes on the life of Cleopatra in the Palazzo Labia, and The Apotheosis of Spain.
Answer: Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) Tiepolo
3. FTPE, name these types of colloids.
1. (10 points) These are colloids in which the continuous and dispersed phases are both liquids.
Answer: emulsions
2. (10 points) These colloids are dispersions of gases in liquids or solids.
Answer: foams
3. (10 points) These are dispersions of liquid or solid particles in a gas.
Answer: aerosols
4. Name these French novels from secondary characters F15P, from the protagonist FTP, or F5P of you need the author.
1. (15 points) Jean Tarrou, Cottard, Joseph Grand, Raymond Rambert, Father Paneloux
(10 points) Bernard Rieux
(5 points) Albert Camus
Answer: The Plague (or La Peste)
2. (15 points) Ch’en, Baron De Clappique, Katov, Hemmelrich, Konig
(10 points) Kyo Gisors
(5 points) Andre Malraux
Answer: Man’s Fate (or La Condition humaine or Storm Over Shanghai)
5. FTPE, name these important Supreme Court decisions.
1. (10 points) Returning to an issue first addressed in Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee, in 1821 the court unanimously affirmed Section 25 of the Judiciary Act, which allowed federal courts to review cases from state Supreme Courts.
Answer: Cohens v. Virginia
2. (10 points) In this 1824 case, the court invalidated a New York steamboat monopoly.
Answer: Gibbons v. Ogden
3. (10 points) In 1832, the court overturned the conviction of two missionaries who were living on a Cherokee Reservation without licenses. However, Andrew Jackson refused to acknowledge the decision, stating “John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it!”