Maryland Spring Tournament 2012 - Packet 6
“Does Anybody Have a Question Set We Can Use?”
Tournament Written by Issac Hersh, Jeff Amorous, the Amorous Amoros, Chris Rudes, Ophir Lifshitz, Gary Weiser, Paul Marchsteiner, Brain “Brains” McPoke, Logan Anbinder, SteveJon Guthram, Pan Duma, Chris Ray
1. Operation Provide Comfort was intended to help this group of people that was also targeted by the Anfal Campaign. Some members of this group follow a religion that exalts the Peacock Angel, Malek Taus. That faith is the Yazidi Religion. The Bazzazz Declaration attempted to stop an uprising of these people led by Mustafa Barzani and Abdullah Ocalan was the founder of a group tied to terrorism that advocates for these people, the PKK. For ten points, name this ethnic group that resides in northern Iraq and comprise the largest minority ethnic group in Turkey.
ANSWER: Kurdish People
2. One member of this movement painted a bunch of flags next to ships against a blue background in his work Regatta at Cowes. Another artist of this movement depicted red crosses on a blue bridge underneath a green city in his Charing Cross Bridge. In addition to Raoul Dufy and Andre Derain, the most famous artist of this movement painted a window depicting green pasture next to a woman seitting a table in front of a red background in his The Red Room and depicted five nude women linked in a circle in his work The Dance. Containing the painter Henri Matisse, for 10 points, name this French art movement with a name meaning “wild beasts”.
ANSWER: Fauvism or Fauves
3. One image in this poem is of a beautifully embroidered sheet found in a dresser so poor as to lack glass knobs, while one of the few lines to lack concrete details commands to "let be be the finale of seem." One figure in this poem has "horny feet" that "protrude" while in another room "wenches dawdle in such dress as they are used to wear." This poem opens with an an invocation to "call the roller of big cigars" to work a certain machine; that character is bid to "whip in kitchen cups concupiscent curds" of the title food. For 10 points, name this poem by Wallace Stevens about the ruler of a certain dairy dessert.
ANSWER: “The Emperor of Ice Cream”
4. The flowers of some Hydrangea species can act like these compounds due to the presence of aluminum in the soil, and these compounds are the major ingredient of disappearing inks. The major distinguishing feature of these compounds occurs at ranges centered on the equivalence point, where these compounds transition between their neutral and ionic form. Examples of these compounds include methyl orange and bromothymol blue. The most well known of these substances, phenolphthalein, changes from colorless to pink, and litmus is a simple example of these found in paper for easy testing. For 10 points, name these substances that change color in response to a change in pH.
ANSWER: pH Indicator Solution
5. One myth about this deity claims that honey bees were actually his tears, and he was descended from a watery void named Nu. One manifestation of this god was Khepri, a scarab beetle, and this god is sometimes conflated with a god who created Shu by spitting her out, Atum. Pharoahs were sometimes referred to as sons of this god, and this god was eventually combined with the wind god Amun. He was represented by the Mnevis Bull. For ten points, name this god whose cult was at Heliopolis, the Egyptian god of the sun.
ANSWER: Ra [or Re]
6. One Act named after this region modified the Test Acts and maintained the seigeurial system. The Asbestos Strike of 1949 may have led to an uprising here in which the Parent Commission reformed the education system. James Cross was kidnapped as part of a crisis in this region. Following the Quiet Revolution and the October Crisis, Lucien Buchard led the “Yes” group on a referendum that was opposed by Daniel Johnson and Jean Chretien in this province. One group that supports this region is known as Pequistes and Daniel Paille currently leads a “Bloc” that holds four seats in the Canadian House that supports this province. For ten points, name this Francophone Canadian Province that has a strong separatist movement and many of whose people speak French.
ANSWER: Quebec
7. One form of this compound is produced in fungi from ergosterol, while furry mammals ingest this compound orally when grooming themselves. Aold Windaus received his Nobel for work on the synthesis of this vitamin. In the liver this vitamin is converted to its active form of calcitriol, after which it prevents diseases like rickets by promoting calcium absorption. This compound can be formed by reacting 7-dehydrocholestrol with two hundred ninety six nanometer wavelength light, so high levels of melanin slow its synthesis. For 10 points, name this vitamin the human body can synthesize itself when exposed to sunshine.
ANSWER: Vitamin D or calciferol [accept "calcidiol" or "calcitriol" before mention]
8. This author wrote a one-act play in which Moon and Birdboot are drawn into play set in Muldoon Manor. In another play, several scholars discuss a possible duel involving Lord Byron while in the past Thomasina Coverly discusses the nature of entropy with her tutor Septimus Hodge. This author's most famous work includes the question game and a section where one character flips a coin which lands on heads every time. That play focuses on a group of Tragedians and two minor characters from Hamlet. For 10 points, name this British playwright of The Real Inspector Hound, Arcadia, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
ANSWER: Tom Stoppard
9. The Supreme Court case Taylor v. Louisiana overturned the earlier Hoyt v. Florida which allowed sex discrimination in this institution. Membership in this institution can be revoked by peremptory challenges or removal for cause, and in general is determined by a process of questioning called voir dire. In the US, a “grand” version of this institution decides whether a criminal indictment will be issued, and the availability of this institution is guaranteed in civil cases by the seventh amendment and in criminal cases by the sixth amendment. For 10 points, name this group gathered to render an impartial verdict, such as the guilt of an accused criminal.
ANSWER: Jury [accept Jury Trial or Jury by Peer or anything similar containing Jury]
10. One team based in this city had back-to-back Slam Dunk competition winners in 1985 and 1986, those players being Spud Webb and “The Human Highlight Film” Dominique Wilkins. The NFL team in this city was defeated by the Denver Broncos for John Elway’s second Super Bowl title and that team was led by quarterback Chris Chandler and running back Jamal Anderson. That NFL team had no first round pick in the 2012 draft because they had traded up the year before to draft Alabama wide receiver Julio Jones, who is thrown footballs by quarterback Matt Ryan. For ten points, name this city which contains the Georgia Dome and whose teams include the Hawks and Falcons.
ANSWER: Atlanta
11. According to one source, this man spared a rival because that man had a vision while attending mass in this man’s camp. Eric of Friuli was this man’s brother in law. He sieged Pavia after his sister-in-law Gerberga ran away, and in that siege he defeated Desiderius, a king of the Lombards. Another battle fought by this man saw him get slaughtered by the Vascones after marching across the Pyrenees in an attempt to take Zaragoza. That loss is commemorated in an epic in which the horn Oliphaunt is blown. Biographers of this man include the Monk of St Gall and Einhard. For ten points, name this Carolingian ruler who was crowned Emperor of the Romans by Pope Leo III, a “great” Frankish King.
ANSWER: Charlemagne (ACCEPT: Charles the Great, prompt on Charles)
12. The south polar region of this body is home to dark dune spots and spiders which may represent geysers of sublimating CO2. The modern age of this body's geology is called the Amazonian, and many craters on this body have an outer ring called a rampart. This body's period of rotation is twenty four and a half hours. The Viking probes visited this solar body, as have the later machines Spirit and Opportunity. This body's Tharsis bulge is home to the largest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons, and its two small irregularly shaped moons are named Phobos and Deimos. For 10 points, name this red planet, the fourth from the sun.
ANSWER: Mars
13. This man wrote one tract about Mary’s special role as intercessor of mankind, as the Mediatrix, called Redemptoris Mater. An international celebration held every couple of years, World Youth Day, was founded and sometimes presided over by this man. In another encyclical, this man denounced murder, capital punishment, euthanasia, and abortion as going against the sanctity of human life, his Evangelium Vitae. He was also one of the founding members of an assembly that declared the vernacular, not Latin, should be dominant at mass, Vatican II. This pope’s advocacy of Catholic Social Teaching influenced Lech Waslea to found the Solidarity Movement in this man’s home country. For ten points, name this man born Karol Wojtyla, a Polish pope who died in 2005.
ANSWER: Pope John Paul II [accept Karol Wojtyla before mentioned] [prompt on partial]
14. One poem by this author says of the title object "you are not tomb, sepulcher, grave, tumulus mausoleum, but guard and keeper, hidden fire." That Ode to the Dictionary is collected with odes to Tuna and Criticism. One poem by this author begins "The memory of you emerges from the night around me" and follows poems entitled "I like you to be still" and "Tonight I can write the saddest lines." Another collection by this author contains cantos titled The Earth's Name is Juan and The Heights of Macchu Picchu. For 10 points, name this Chilean poet of Canto General and Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.
ANSWER: Pablo Neruda [accept Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto]
15. The head of this organization recently gave a series of lectures at George Washington University to attempt to push back against recent critics, such as John B. Taylor. It recently employed one strategy which member Charles Evans voted against, Operation Twist. The Mankiw Rule may have influenced this organization to introduce its quantitative easing. Criticized recently for its low inflation targeting, its former heads include Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan. For ten points, name this organization headed by Ben Bernanke that Ron Paul said he wants to “end”, the central bank of the United States.
ANSWER: Federal Reserve [accept the Fed]
16. Poinsot's ellipsoid is a construction designed specifically to set this quantity equal to zero. In engineering, a couple is a device that transmits only this quantity. This quantity is produced by the interaction of a magnetic dipole in an external magnetic field, such as the form causing Larmor precession--in general, gyroscopic precession is caused by an off-axis form of this quantity. This quantity is not energy, but it has units of Newton-meters. This quantity is the cross product between the moment arm and the force applied, and it is equal to the moment of inertia times the angular acceleration. For 10 points, name this rotational analogue of force.
ANSWER: Torque [prompt on "tau"]
17. This composer celebrated the work of his teacher by composing his Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge. The Madwoman wishes to cross the title stream in his Church Parable opera Curlew River which was based on a Japanese noh play. His sacred works include one composed for the reconsecration of the Coventry Cathedral and his other operas include one that features the former governess of Bly House, Miss Jessel, and one where the title fisherman is charged with the death of his apprentice. The composer of The Turn of the Screw, Peter Grimes, and The War Requiem, For ten points, name this composer who used a theme by Henry Purcell as the basis for his Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra.
ANSWER: Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten
18. The Book of Disquiet is an heteronymous autobiography by an author from this country. One epic poem from this country includes a dinner at the palace of Thetis, a rest at Love Island, and a battle at Mozambique. One Nobel Laureate from this country wrote a novel in which this nation breaks off of Europe and floats away. In another novel by that author, the dog of tears, the boy with the squint, and the man with the black eye patch are a few of the characters in a world struck by the titular malady. Those works are The Stone Raft and Blindness. For 10 points, name this Iberian nation home to Jose Saramago.
ANSWER: Portugal
19. In the 19th century, The Tivoli Club was opened in this city as a front for gambling. The owner of that club, Jefferson “Soapy” Smith was a crime and political boss in this city during the 1880s. This city’s airport was labeled Stapleton’s folly after its longest serving mayor. Its current mayor is Michael Hancock who took over after a former mayor of this city won an election against Dan Maes and Tom Tancredo to win the governorship of the state that contains this city. That man is John Hickenlooper. For ten points, name this “Mile High City,” the largest city in and capital of Colorado.
ANSWER: Denver, Colorado
20. One set of cases in which this concept does not exist are Frankfurt examples, and Frankfurt also describes this concept in terms of first and second order desires. The belief that both this concept and a seemingly opposing concept are both true is referred to as compatibilism, while those who argue solely for this concept are referred to as libertarians. According to the Principle of Alternative possibilities, agents have moral responsibility only if this concept is true. For 10 points, name this philosophical concept in which agents have the ability to choose their own course of action, which is contrasted with determinism.
ANSWER: free will
Bonuses
1. This man’s opera Satyagraha is based on Gandhi’s early life and he also composed the Portrait Trilogy. For ten points each:
[10] Name this minimalist composer who wrote his Symphony Number One, Low, was based on a David Bowie album.
ANSWER: Philip Glass
[10] Glass’s best known opera is this first work in the Portrait Trilogy. Its title character is a German physicist who discovered General Relativity.
ANSWER: Einstein on the Beach
[10] Einstein on the Beach is frequently interrupted by these interludes. Glass said they are the “joining function” of the work.
ANSWER: Knee Plays
2. This collection includes such poems as “The Idiot Boy” and “Lucy Gray.” For ten points each:
[10] Name this poetic collaboration between William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge published in 1798.
ANSWER: Lyrical Ballads
[10] Wordsworth was responsible for this set of poems that included “Strange fits of passion have I known” and “She dwelt among the untrodden ways.” There is some speculation as to whether they were based on his sister Dorothy.
ANSWER: The Lucy poems
[10] Wordsworth would later publish this sonnet which laments “Little we see in Nature that is ours;/
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!” and criticizes the materialism of the Industrial Revolution.
ANSWER: “The World Is Too Much With Us”
3. In one post this man helped draft the Ostend Manifesto and in another he negotiated a treaty that set the border with England at the 49th parallel. For ten points each:
[10] Name this Secretary of State under James K. Polk and Minister to Britain under Franklin Pierce.
ANSWER: James Buchanan
[10] James Buchanan would go on to be the 15th president by defeating this man, the first Republican presidential candidate, a famous explorer who was also called the “Pathfinder”.
ANSWER: John C. Fremont
[10] In the 1856 election Buchanan also defeated Millard Filmore, who was running as the candidate of this party whose members perpetrated the Louisville Riots.
ANSWER: Know Nothing Party (ACCEPT: American Party or Nativist Party)
4. Its preexponential factor represents the frequency of molecular collisions and the steric effects that disallow certain orientations. For 10 points each:
[10] First, name this simple equation that models the dependence of the rate constant on temperature. It is named for a Swedish chemist who also defined acids and bases in terms of hydronium and hydroxide ions.