Round Eleven
Tossups
1.This author wrote about an unlucky youth with the moniker “pot” who is beaten by his mother in “How Much Land Does a Man Need?”, and Nikita murders the illegitimate baby he fathered with his own stepdaughter in his play The Power of Darkness. The title character of his last novel is a Muslim Caucasian warrior who is betrayed by his own chieftain Shamil, and in another novel Pozdnyshev murders his wife after her affair with a violinist. Along with Hadji Murad and The Kreutzer Sonata, he wrote about and a judge, who befriends Gerasim while slowly dying after bruising his side. FTP, name this author who wrote about Pierre Bezukhov and Natasha Rostova in War and Peace.
ANSWER: Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
2.Nicolas Bailly found no evidence against this military leader born in the Dutchy of Bar, who had captured Auxerre and Troyes and scored a victory over John Fastolf at Patay before being captured at the siege of Compiègne, but Bishop Pierre Cauchon proceeded with this leader’s trial anyway. Before bringing Charles VII to Reims for his coronation, she inspired an unexpected victory at Orlèans.FTP, name this peasant girl burned at the stake for heresy after voices told her to expel the English and lead the French army during the Hundred Years War.
ANSWER: Joan of Arc (accept Jean d’Arc)
3.The palm that his Saint Bibiana holds appears to grow toward the light source in its church. He made busts of Scipione Borghese, Costanza Bonarelli, and Louis XIV and also designed features of the Piazza Barberini and Piazza Navona. He designed the baldachin over the altar, the tomb of the Alexander VII, and the front colonnade of St. Peter’s Basillica, and his The Rape of Proserpina is on display in the Borghese. Creator of the Triton and Four Rivers fountains, this is, FTP, what Baroque artist of the Cornaro chapel, site of his Ecstasy of St. Teresa?
ANSWER: Gianlorenzo Bernini
4.Strong ones are odorless and nonvolatile, while weak ones may have a characteristic odor as they slowly hydrolyze. The ability to form an insoluble one drives many double-replacement reactions. There are both acidic and basic varieties, despite their derivation, based on what happens when they are dissolved in water, and in solution, since they can conduct a current, they are electrolytes. By definition, they are the result of neutralization reactions between an acid and a base. FTP, give the chemical term that in common usage might refer to sodium chloride.
ANSWER: salts
5.He hatched a deal with Robert Moton to gain African-American support to add to his popularity from organizing relief for a Mississippi flood. He had been criticized for sending food to the Soviet Union, but praised for feeding Belgium. As Secretary of Commerce, he chose a part-Native American, Charles Curtis, as his running mate and supported Prohibition. As President, he arranged the construction of Boulder Dam. FTP, identify this president who gave his name to shantytowns erected during the Great Depression before he was defeated by Franklin Roosevelt.
ANSWER: Herbert Hoover
6.This action was proposed by a Jack Benny lookalike and resulted in embarrassment for the “California Kid,” who did not complete it. A parody of it occurred on a dock in the “Motherboy XXX” episode of Arrested Development, a moment less dangerous than the one to which Potsie agreed on behalf of his friend during a trip to Hollywood. Performed wearing a leather jacket and with Richie Cunningham driving the boat, this is, FTP, what stunt performed on Happy Days by Fonzie that has come to mean the moment when a television show’s quality begins to decline?
ANSWER: jumping the shark
7.The first stanza of this poem describes walls and towers which surround “gardens bright with sinuous rills”, and the third stanza features an “Abyssinian maid” playing the dulcimer for the narrator, who hopes others will cry “Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair!” The poem mentions “caves of ice” where the title character hears “ancestral voices prophesying war” amidst the echoes of “Alph, the sacred river.” which empties into “caverns measureless to man, down to a sunless sea.” For 10 points, name this Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem about the title character’s “stately pleasure-dome” in Xanadu.
ANSWER: “Kubla Khan”
8.The Carquinez Strait connects San Pablo Bay, an inlet of this body of water, with Suisun Bay. Islands in this body of water include the Castro Islands, Treasure Island, and Yerba Buena Island as well as the site of a notable quarantine and immigration center, Angel Island. The Marin Islands lie in it near Marin County, but the most famous of its islands, once home to Robert Stroud and Al Capone, is Alcatraz. Connected to the Pacific Ocean by the Golden Gate, this is, FTP, what bay that shares its name with the largest city of northern California?
ANSWER: San Francisco Bay
9.Catecholamines induce it to up-regulate AMPA receptors in the hippocampus, increasing long-term potentiation and possibly enhancing memory. Inhibition of rectal contractions accompanies glycogenlysis in the liver. Its pre-ganglionic motor neurons arise in the spinal cord and link to parallel chains of ganglia that enervate various internal organs and glands. Increased blood pressure, inhibited peristalsis, and a dilated respiratory tract are associated with, FTP, activation of which branch of the automatic nervous system that stimulates the “fight or flight” response?
ANSWER: sympatheticnervous system (or SNS)
10.He talked about the time he stole a load of pears to feed some pigs, but more famously supported infant baptism. He believed that lust existed in thought and not action, and wrote “another’s lust cannot pollute thee” to the virgins who were raped during the sack of Rome by the Visigoths in 410, a tragedy that prompted him to write about the separation of heavenly and temporal affairs in City of God. A proponent of original sin, he discussed his sinful youth and conversion to Christianity in Confessions. FTP, name this Christian thinker who was bishop of Hippo.
ANSWER: St. Augustine of Hippo (accept Aurelius Augustinus)
11.This dynasty sheltered Pirooz, the heir of the last Sassanid Emperor, and was later defeated by Ziyad ibn Salih at the Battle of Talas. It was interrupted by the rise of Gaozong’s consort, Wu Zetian, and again during the reign of Xuanzong after the promotion of Yang Guozhong inspired an obese Sogdian to sack Luoyang and set up the Yan Dynasty in Chang’an. Known for the poetry of Li Bai and Du Fu as well as the An Lushan Rebellion, this is, FTP, what Chinese dynasty of the seventh-through-tenth centuries that eclipsed the Han and Sui?
ANSWER: Tang Dynasty
12.A study by Daniel Hopkins placed the year of its disappearance at 1996, but Blair Levin wrote an op-ed to claim that it never actually existed and a study by the University of Washington claimed that this year saw it in reverse. It was named for the foe of George Deukmejian, it also affected Harvey Gantt, Harold Washington, and Jesse Jackson. A 1988 study found that it depends on the race of the questioner, and some thought it could explain inaccurate numbers from ARG and Zogby in the 2008 New Hampshire primary. FTP, identify this “effect” in which fears about the social acceptability of prejudice lead white voters to tell pollsters they support a black candidate.
ANSWER: Bradley effect (accept Wilder effect)
13.Harry Burleigh’s “Goin’ Home” is based on this piece’s Largo movement. It features a nine-note leitmotif first heard in the horns, and it is known for its deliberate use of the pentatonic scale. Originally titled “Legend,” the second movement features an English horn solo and portrays a funeral march. That movement was inspired by The Song of Hiawatha, and its other movements incorporate such tunes as “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.” Czech melodies complement the American influences on, FTP, what symphony written in New York by Antonín Dvořák?
ANSWER: Symphony from the New World (accept New World Symphony or Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 in E minor)
14.His hall, Svarga, is the destination for dead warriors, and he is called Sakka in the Tipitaka, while in another tradition he is lord of the Vasus and thus called Vasava. He created a set of attendants for himself, the Maruts, when Diti remained pregnant for a century and he struck the fetus with a thunderbolt, creating either seven or forty-nine offspring. Famous for defeating Vritra, this King of the Devas loves drinking soma and is the father of Arjuna. FTP, identify this Vedic storm god.
ANSWER: Indra
15.This novel’s protagonist says her name is “Lu” when approached by Amy, and she is reunited with her mother-in-law and sons Howard and Buglar with the help of Stamp Paid. The disappearance of Here Boy coincides with the arrival of this novel’s title character, who leaves after the protagonist does not kill Mr. Bodwin, whom she had mistaken for Schoolmaster. Schoolmaster had been in charge of Sweet Home, where Paul D. and Baby Suggs had lived. Denver’s sister is murdered at 124 Bluestone Road by Sethe in, FTP, what novel by Toni Morrison?
ANSWER: Beloved
16.Their force fields have nonzero curl because they cannot be represented as the gradient of a scalar field. For the same reason, the path integral of one of these forces around a circle is nonzero. The work they do is equal to the change in mechanical energy. They arise from neglecting some of a system's degrees of freedom by using statistical methods, since a molecular analysis would never find energy to be “lost” as heat. FTP, name these forces, such as drag and friction, that depend on path.
ANSWER: non-conservative forces
17.The Yellow Fleet remained trapped in this body of water for eight years, while one American ship remained trapped in nearby Lake Timsah, although the right of navigation in it was guaranteed by the Convention of Constantinople. The Battle of Jebel Heitan, a controversial victory for Ariel Sharon, was the bloodiest incident in its eponymous crisis, which ended when Britain, France, and Israel halted their invasion of Egypt after its nationalization. Running from Port Said to its namesake gulf, this is, FTP, what waterway that links the Mediterranean and Red Seas?
ANSWER: Suez Canal (accept Qanat Suways)
18.The Steiner-Lehmus theorem states that if the lengths of two of these are equal in any triangle, then the triangle is isosceles. They can be easily constructed by connecting a vertex of the triangle to the midpoint of the minor arc connecting the other two vertices on the circumcircle. Their namesake theorem relates the ratio in which they cut the opposing side with the ratios of two sides of the triangle. Their external versions intersect at the excenters, while their internal versions intersect at the incenter. FTP, name these lines that divide the corners of a triangle in half.
ANSWER: angle bisector
19.One author from this country wrote “Diary of a Madman” in A Call to Arms, but is more famous for The True Story of Ah Q. Another author from this country created a street urchin who uses his skill at a form of soccer to become prime minister and attack 108 men hiding near a rugged mountain. Another novel from this country features a boy who prefers opera to studying the Four Books, while another work details the exploits of Cao Cao. FTP, identify this country that has produced Water Margin, Dream of the Red Chamber and Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
ANSWER: China
20.This philosopher wrote the introduction to Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth as well as The Transcendance of the Ego and What Is Literature? One of his characters was looking at the roots of a chestnut tree when he realized that “the essential thing is contingency,” but that character had to stop writing a history of the Marquis de Rollebon because he could not pick up a piece of paper. In addition to Roquentin, he also created Estelle, Inez, and Garcin, who discover that “hell is other people.” FTP, name this Frenchman who wrote Nausea and No Exit.
ANSWER: Jean-Paul Sartre
Bonuses
1.His play Amphitryon depicts the seduction of Alcmena by Jupiter and ends with the birth of Hercules. For ten points each –
(10) Name this Roman comic playwright who also wrote The Pot of Gold.
ANSWER: Titus Maccius Plautus
(10) This Plautus play directly inspired Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors. It involves a set of twins and a lot of mistaken identity.
ANSWER: The Twin Menaechmi (or The Two Menaechmuses)
(10) Plautus was heavily influenced by this style of Athenian comedy typified by Menander. It broke with an earlier style of political satire and focused on love and stock characters.
ANSWER: New Comedy (or nea)
2.After journeying down the Ohio River, he captured Kaskaskia on July 4, 1778 and Cahokia less than a week later. For ten points each –
(10) Identify this Revolution-era adventurer, the brother of a surveyor sent west by Jefferson.
ANSWER: George Rogers Clark
(10) In 1779, Clark partnered with Italian fur trader Francesco Vigo to capture this Indiana town on the Wabash River.
ANSWER: Vincennes
(10) Clark lived for much of his life in this state, whose militia he served in alongside Daniel Boone and others who had settled it via the Wilderness Road.
ANSWER: Kentucky
3.His work helped develop the idea of cultural relativism, as a synthesis of many of his principles, and he wrote the essay “The Study of Geography” about the distinction between physical and historical science. For ten points each –
(10) Identify this father of American anthropology,
ANSWER: Franz Boas
(10) Name his most famous work, in which he exposited the autonomy of variables like language and culture, suggesting that none ought to be understood in terms of the others. Despite its title, there aren’t really implications of white superiority within the text.
ANSWER: The Mind of Primitive Man
(10) This author of Their Eyes Were Watching God studied under Boas.
ANSWER: Zora Neale Hurston
4.It may be calculated by the ratio of energy gained per unit charge; it therefore has units of volts and is often thought of as an induced voltage. For ten points each –
(10) Identify this quantity, produced by batteries and thermocouples. In one situation, Lenz's law gives its direction, and a counter- one is sometimes produced.
ANSWER: emf (or electromotive force; or electromotance)
(10) According to a certain law, the emf is proportional to the time derivative of the flux of this. Measured in webers, that flux is equal to the scalar product of the area vector and the vector associated with this.
ANSWER: magnetic field
(10) This law gives the emf induced by that magnetic flux.
ANSWER: Faraday’s law of induction
5.His friend grows up as a wild man, only becoming civilized after having sex with a prostitute, Shamat. For ten points each:
(10) Identify this king of Uruk, said to be two thirds god and one third human. One of his early adventures involves a trip to the Cedar Forest; later on, he tries to become immortal but cannot.
ANSWER: Gilgamesh
(10) Identify that friend, a savage who wrestles with him and subsequently becomes his companion. Together, they defeat Humbaba.
ANSWER: Enkidu
(10) After Enkidu’s death, the traumatized Gilgamesh seeks out this man, who had earlier survived a great flood, to ask him the secret of his immortality. Gilgamesh fails to meet his challenge to stay awake for a week.
ANSWER: Utnapishtim (or Uta-Napishti)
6.Name these works by Oscar Wilde for ten points each.
(10) This play ends with the marriages of Algernon and Cecily, and Jack and Gwendolyn after Lady Bracknell learns that Miss Prism accidentally left Jack in a bag in the cloakroom of Victoria Station.
ANSWER: The Importance of Being Earnest
(10) The title character of this work is almost caught with Lord Darlington, but Mrs. Erlynne pretends to have taken the title object to protect her.
ANSWER: Lady Windermere’s Fan
(10) In this work, Robert Chiltern is blackmailed by Mrs. Cheveley when she returns with the knowledge that he illicitly sold secrets when he was young.
ANSWER: An Ideal Husband
7.Its first movement progresses from an Adagio to an “”allegro non troppo” and includes a noted sextuple piano bassoon solo. For ten points each –
(10) Name this symphony in B minor, its composer’s sixth and final, whose final movement features a triple forte drum roll before the return of the “desperation” theme.
ANSWER: Pathetique
(10) Pathetique is the final symphony of this composer, who wrote The Nutcracker.