Dunbar Academic Fall Tournament 2009
Round 5 Tossups by Jason Loy (5), Benji Nguyen (4), Shen Gong (3),Sandy Huang (3), Aaron Cohen (2), Amit Bigli (1)Charlie Dees (1),Jeffrey Hill (1),Thomas Littrell (1), and Connie Prater (1)
1.In one of this writer's short stories, an Arab is given a choice of freedom or execution by Daru. In another of his works, Stepan frequently suggests taking over Ivan Kaliayev's role of throwing a bomb at the Grand Duke. This writer of The Guest and the drama The Just Assassins also wrote a short story collection entitled Exile and the Kingdom. One of his novels follows a lawyer who witnesses the suicide of a woman, Jean-Baptiste Clamence. Another novel follows a man, who murders an Arab and wishes to be greeted with cries of hatred at his execution, named Mersault. For 10 points, name this French writer who wroteThe Fall, The Plague, and The Stranger.
ANSWER: Albert Camus
<Nguyen>
2.This battle was preceded by the Battle of Brandy Station, which kept J.E.B. Stuart from fighting here. This battle also saw fighting at Peach Orchard and Devil's Den. Beginning when forces under A.P. Hill met forces under John Buford, a critical moment during this battle came when Dan Sickles advanced to Emmitsburg Road and thereby left a gap in the lines that G.K. Warren and the 20th Maine barely managed to fill. This battle also included fighting at Culp's Hill and Cemetery Ridge. For 10 points, name this American Civil War battle where Union forces were commanded by George Meade and where a charge was led by Pickett.
ANSWER: Battle of Gettysburg
<Littrell>
3.Greenland’s Sirius Passetis is one of the three major lagerstatten containing fossil evidence from this period. Common organisms during this period included the first known chordatePikaia and the trilobite predator Anomalocaris. Preceded by the Vendian and followed by the Ordovician periods, fossils from this period were found in Canada’s Burgess Shale.Events occurring near the beginning of this period include the the Pan-African Orogeny and Varanginian Ice Age.This period is known for its namesake “explosion” and subsequent mass extinction. For 10 points, name this first period of the Paleozoic Era.
ANSWER: Cambrian Period
<Loy>
4. This entity can cause an immortal to lose his or her voice for either nine or eighteen years. This entity converges with similar entities named Cocytus, Phlegethon, and Acheron. Due to this entity, Semele was killed by Zeus and Phaeton was killed by Helios. Thetis attempted to provide immortality by dipping Achilles into this entity. This river’s bank serves as the hundred-year home of wandering souls who could not pay a toll after dying to Charon. For 10 points, name this river of hate which, by encircling a certain place nine times, separates Earth from the Greek Underworld.
ANSWER: Styx
<Loy>
5.This composer wrote the “Liebestod” theme for an opera concerning the wife of King Mark. This composer depicted Hans Sachs in another opera.This composer also wrote about Daland, who is the father of the Norwegian girl Senta, in one opera. In addition to Tristan and Isolde,The Mastersingers of Nuremburg,andThe Flying Dutchman, he implemented his idea of the leitmotif in an opera where the dwarf Alberich is the antagonist to the character who kills Fafner and loves Brunhild, who is one of the titular characters of The Valkyries. For 10 points, name this German composer of a cycle of operas concerning Siegfried entitledThe Ring of the Nibelung.
ANSWER: WilhelmRichard Wagner
<Dees>
6.This river flows north from its namesake lake where it meets the Kicking Horse River at Golden after flowing past Invermere. This river flows past the Arrow, Revelstoke, and Kinbasket Lakes and it merges with the Pend-Oreille River after rounding the Selkirk Mountains. Lake Roosevelt was formed by this river due to the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam, and this river merges with the Yakima and another tributary in the Tri-Cities area. Travelling between Vancouver and Portland before flowing into the Pacific Ocean, for 10 points, name this river which receives the Snake and forms part of the border between Oregon and Washington.
ANSWER: Columbia River
<Gong>
7. Surprisingly, this commentator used to date Laura Ingraham but now this commentator dates Katy Tur. In 2007, this commentator launched a blog entitled The News Hole. For seemingly advocating a light prison sentence for Michael Vick, Football Night in Americanamed this commentator the first “Worst Person in the NFL.” This commentator uses Chris Matthew’s laugh to signal the beginning of the“Oddball” segment. He has most frequently awarded the moniker of “Worst Person in the World” to Bill O’Reilly. For 10 points, name this anchor who used to co-host SportsCenter with Dan Patrick but now hosts Countdown on MSNBC.
ANSWER: Keith Theodore Olbermann
8. During this war, Count de Lally defeated Sir Eyre Coote at the Battle of Wandiwash. Charles of Lorraine was defeated at this war’s Battle of Leuthen. Charles de Rohan and Prince Joseph of Saxe-Hildburghausen were also defeated at this war’s Battle of Rossbach. Both Louis-Joseph de Montcalm and James Wolfe died at this war’s Battle of Plains of Abraham, which resulted in a decisive British victory.Including the French and Indian War, for 10 points, name this war between European powers that lasted from 1756 until 1763, named for the amount of time in which it was fought.
ANSWER: Seven Years’ War [prompt on French and Indian War]
<Loy>
9.A similar product of this compound known as PFA contains carbon-oxygen bonds and is used for molding and extrusion processes. This compound gains its unique features through the high electronegativity of one atom, lowering the effect of London dispersion forces, and the so called “cop killer bullets” are coated with this material. This polymer of tetrafluoroethylene has a coefficient of friction less than zero point one, making it the only known surface on which a gecko cannot stick to. For 10 points, name this product commonly used as a non-stick surface for cooking ware.
ANSWER: Teflon [or PTFE; or polytetrafluoroethylene]
<Cohen>
10.This writer depicted a group of samurai battle against an imperial army with aid from the One Who Destroys in his novel, The Game of Contemporaneity. Another of his novels is narrated by a liver cancer patient who recounts “Happy Days” in the work entitledThe Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Way. This writer depicted Harelip's encounter with an African-American POW in “The Catch.” The protagonist of another of his works is a teacher named Bird, whose son is born with a brain hernia while another of his works follows brothers Matsu and Takashi. For 10 points, name this Japanese writer ofA Personal Matter andThe Silent Cry.
ANSWER: Kenzaburo Oe
<Nguyen>
11. In 1907 with Harvey Carr, this psychologist demonstrated the ability to turn voluntary motor responses into conditioned responses in the Kerplunk experiment. In 1920 with Rosalie Rayner, this psychologist demonstrated empirical evidence of classical conditioning in the Little Albert experiment.This psychologist claimed to be able to train an artist, a lawyer, a doctor, or even a beggar if given twelve well formed infants. He later dabbled in advertising coffee breaks for Maxwell House after researching child-rearing and animal behavior. For 10 points, name this American John Hopkins psychologist who founded behaviorism.
ANSWER: John BroadusWatson
12. This philosopher criticizes the titular figure for claiming to have revelations from God in a work entitledThe Book on Adler. This philosopher published a work under the pseudonym “Anti-Climacus” and discussed the threshold for when a human is “in despair” when not being aligned with God and takes its title from the Gospel of John. This philosopher is known for a book discussing the “teleological suspension of the ethical” on whether or not Abraham was justified in sacrificing Isaac. For 10 points, name this Danish philosopher who wrote The Sickness unto Death, Either/Or, and Fear and Trembling.
ANSWER: Soren AabyeKierkegaard
<Bigli>
13.Dakshinamurthy is a form of this god facing south, while in another form this godvanquished Yama. As Ardhanari, this god possesses both male and female aspects and this god once procreated with Vishnu's avatar Mohini.This god swallowed the poison from the oceans to obtain amrita, turning his throat blue. Often depicted on a tiger skin, this god wields the trident and this god’s worship symbol is the phallic lingam. He caught the river goddess Ganga in his hair and he burned Kama with his third eye. The father of Skanda, for 10 points, name this Hindu god, husband of Parvati and father of Ganesh, who is known as the destroyer god.
ANSWER: Shiva
<Gong>
14.He replaced the people with radishes in his The Temptation of St. Anthony, while another work features a worker bent over carrying the titular plants. In addition to The Flower Carrier, he created a three layered work, which depicted a mound with fists coming out of it rising above the ceiling of an intricate factory. Another work in that medium has notable features like a group of conquistadors and Aztec warriors fighting below an eagle clutching a serpent in its mouth. Also creating visual interpretations of the Popol Vuh, for 10 points, name this muralist of Detroit Industry and a history of Mexico, the husband of Frida Kahlo.
ANSWER: Diego María de la Concepcion Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de laRivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodriguez
<Gong>
15. After the Treaty of Nonsuch was signed, this entity’s construction was ordered to begin. This entity fought at both the Battle of Portland Bill and the Battle of Eddystone. Near Flanders at the Battle of Gravelines, this entity was defeated by John Hawkins and Charles Howard. Marquis of Santa Cruz proposed the construction of this entity while this entity would later be led by the Duke of Medina-Sidonia. This entity’s arrival would inspire the Tilbury Speech delivered by Elizabeth I. For 10 points, name this fleet, designed to restore Roman Catholicism, sent by Philip II.
ANSWER: Spanish Armada [or Invincible Armada; Armada Invencible; or Grande y Felicisima Armada; or Great and Most FortunateArmada]
16.The enzyme that synthesizes this molecule can be inhibited by the antibiotic oligomycin. Fritz Lipmann first proposed the important role function this molecule has while one reaction producing this molecule occurs in the thylakoid. Along with NADPH, this molecule is produced in the light-dependent reaction of photosynthesis in a process known as photophosphorylation while this molecule is also produced alongside NADH in glycolysis. Adenylate cyclase uses this molecule to produce cyclic AMP. For 10 points, name the primary biological energy currency that is found in the mitochondria.
ANSWER: ATP [or adenosine triphosphate]
<Cohen>
17.One of this writer’s works was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as the “Intellectual Declaration of Independence.” In that work, this writer states that the titular entity must become “Man Thinking” rather than “the parrot of other men’s thinking.” In addition to the Phi Beta Kappa address,this writer also discussed himself as a “transparent eye-ball” that is “nothing” yet can “see all” and as “part or particle of God” and wrote that “a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds” and “to be great is to be misunderstood.” For 10 points, name this writer who wrote “Nature,” “American Scholar,” and “Self-Reliance.”
ANSWER: Ralph Waldo Emerson
<Prater>
18.One method for solving for thermodynamic pressure utilizes a constant of proportionality named after the “volume” or “bulk” version of this property. This property is zero in Euler's fluid equations and the Prandtl number is given as the kinematic version of this property over thermal diffusivity. This property’s kinematic version is also a parameter in the Navier-Stokes equations and there is also a dynamic version of it. Below the lambda point, helium fluids possess a value of zero for this quantity, as they become superfluids. For 10 points, name this property, which quantifies a fluid's internal resistance to flow.
ANSWER: viscosity
<Nguyen>
19.Following the death of one character in this novel, Mr. Green tries to have the body buried in a chapel, though his will states that he'd rather be buried next to his wife, Frances, who dies shortly after giving birth to Hareton. The protagonist of this novel marries Isabella, though he mainly uses her to gain revenge on the man who married his love, the sister of Hindley.This novel is primarily told from the perspectives of Lockwood and Nelly Dean, though one character is a man who inherits the titular property after the death of Edgar Linton. For 10 points, name this novel, depicting the love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, by Emily Bronte.
ANSWER: Wuthering Heights
<Nguyen>
20.Along with Habib el-Bourguiba, this leader negotiated the Djerba Agreement. Believed to have been involved in the disappearance of Imam Musa al-Sadr, this leader, the target of Operation El Dorado Canyon, outlined a few political views in The Green Book and named the regime the “government by the masses,” or Jamahiriya. Coming to power by overthrowing Idris I, this leader was the target of a 1986 U.S. bombing raid due to this leader’s support of terrorism, including the bombing of the La Belle discotheque. For 10 points, name this current head of state of Libya.
ANSWER: Muammar al-Qaddafi or [Muammar al-Gaddafi]
<Loy>
TB.One step in this process is facilitated by the alpha-beta barrel structure of the TIM enzyme, leading to the formation of an enediol intermediate. The action of hexokinase begins this process by attaching a phosphate group to its principle reactant, and in one common setting for this process, it is followed by a reaction that oxidizes a product to an acetyl group. In another setting, that product is reduced to lactate or alcohol, while when performed during aerobic cellular respiration, it precedes the Krebs cycle. Yielding two molecules each of pyruvate and ATP, for 10 points, name this process, the decomposition of a glucose molecule.
ANSWER: glycolysis
<Loy>
TB.In a closed Congressional session this leader denounced the authoritarian policies of one of his predecessors in what became known as his secret speech. This leader put Janos Kadar in power to replace Imre Nagy after Hungary declared its withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact. This leader’s attempt to increase armaments in the Caribbean was discovered by the United States in July 1962, leading to the Cuban Missile Crisis. For 10 points, name this Premier of the Soviet Union from 1958 to 1964 who was succeeded as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union by Leonid Brezhnev.
ANSWER: Nikita SergeyevichKhrushchev
<Hill>
TB.This writer created Gladys Farmer, who is the sweetheart of Claude Wheeler. In addition to writing One of Ours, this writer wrote about the singer Thea Kronborg in The Song of the Lark. This writer created Crazy Ivar, who gives advice to the woman that loves Carl Lindstrum. Father Jean Latour works to bring a cathedral to New Mexico in one of her works, and in another work, Jim Burden befriends the wife of Cuzak, a Czech farmer in Nebraska. Alexandra Bergson and the Shimerdas were created, for 10 points, by this Americanwriter who wroteO’ Pioneers, Death Comes For the Archbishop, and My Antonia.
ANSWER: Willa SiebertCather
<Dees>
Dunbar Academic Fall Tournament 2009
Round 5 Bonuses by Sandy Huang (20) and Alvin Shi (1)
1. The Contract Clause was not violated in this Supreme Court case. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this 1837 Supreme Court case dealing with bridges connecting a namesake city over a namesake river to Boston.
ANSWER: Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge [or Warren Bridge v. Charles River Bridge]
[10] This 1857 Supreme Court case stated that slaves could never become citizens of the United States.
ANSWER: Dred Scott v. Sandford [or Sandford v. Dred Scott]
[10] This Chief Justice presided over both the Charles River Bridge case and Dred Scott case during the 19th century.
ANSWER: Roger Brooke Taney
2. Chingachgook is portrayed as the enemy of the Hurons in this novel. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this 1826 novel of the Leatherstocking Tales in which Magua is shot by Natty Bumppo.
ANSWER: The Last of the Mohicans
[10] This American writer wrote The Last of the Mohicans and three other Leatherstocking Tales.
ANSWER: James Fenimore Cooper
[10] This James Fenimore Cooper novel depicts Harry Wilder’s mission to capture the titular character.