BARGE 2012
Edited by Chris Ray
Packet by My Son Is Also Named Richard Borty (Andrew Lim, Evan Nagler, Jerry Vinokurov, Ilf and/orPetrov)
1. Official sources have repeatedly verified that this figure's ass is rainbow-colored, his characterization was reportedly inspired by sources like an opera featuring a noted coloratura warbler song, Andre Gretry's Zemire et Azor. This figure fatally eviscerates Forte by ripping out his keyboard at the climax of a work set shortly before he is advised to consider “promises you don't intend to keep” when wondering what one gets a woman. One of the first major uses of the CAPS software came in a scene that sees the camera fluidly rotate around this figure as he (*) maneuvers under massive gold-trimmed windows. This figure is cautioned that shouting “GO AHEAD AND STARVE” might not be the best approach to domestic bliss by Jerry Orbach, and tells his love interest to stay out of the West Wing, where he keeps a magical mirror and rose encased in glass. This employer of Cogsworth and Mrs. Potts rises from the dead after catching a knife to the back from Gaston when the love of Maurice's daughter breaks his curse. For 10 points, identify this hulking furball who enters into an interspecies relationship with Belle in a Disney film.
ANSWER: The Beast [allegedly his name is “Adam” but you have to hope nobody answers that]
2. The penultimate chapter of this work laments the “benumbing indolence of mind,” that results in a child who “only asks a question instead of seeking for information,” and argues for the creation of a national education system. This work’s sixth chapter notes that some people “are only taught to observe behavior and acquire manners rather than morals,” and argues that not “much comfort can be expected from... a reformed rake of superior abilities,” while the preceding chapter contains rebuttals of Dr. Fordyce, Dr. Gregory, Lord Chesterfield, and Rousseau. This work argues that those who are raised to be (*) dependent cannot be good parents, that concern for sexual reputation undermines morality, and that the admonition to modesty creates an unfair double standard for the title group. Arguing against the “unnatural distinctions established in society” between the sexes, for 10 points, identify this early work of proto-feminist philosophy written by Mary Wollstonecraft.
ANSWER: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
3. The policies and organizations created by this effort were subject to a recent Obama Administration policy review focusing on regional “Phased Adaptive Approaches,” beginning with Europe. It was supported by Abraham Sofaer and Richard Perle, and was the focus of an inconclusive meeting in Reykjavik summit. The programs established by this effort have been repeatedly criticized by Theodore Postol and currently rely on the SM-3. Failed attempts to realize this program have included (*) Brilliant Pebbles, inspired by the “Kinetic Kill Vehicile”, and using a Boeing-747 mounted with an Airborne Laser. This program has undergone two name changes in the decades after a visit to NORAD by a former Governor of California resulted in its instigation. For 10 points, identify this attempt to “hit a bullet with a bullet,” an ICBM defense system envisioned by Ronald Reagan with a Hollywood-referencing nickname.
ANSWER: Strategic Defense Initiative [or Star Wars; prompt on clear knowledge equivalents like “Ballistic Missile Defense” etc.]
4. This man effusively praised French values in what is considered his foremost essay, “Zola,” leading him to appropriate the title “cultural journalist” from another author's derisive criticism. One of his novels closes as Rosa is loaded into a police car after the protagonist attempted to abscond with the wallet of Lohmann, a student who used to upstage him. This author wrote about Diedrich Hessling, a Kaiser Wilhelm-loving hypocrite, in a work often translated as “Man of Straw.” This author of De (*) Untertan saw the aforementioned novel Professor Unrat adapted by Von Stermberg into the film The Blue Angel. He often sparred publicly with the author of Mario and the Magician, and may have been satirized as Christian in that sibling's novel Buddenbrooks. For 10 points, identify this staunchly anti-Nazi German author whose brother Thomas wrote The Magic Mountain.
ANSWER: Heinrich Mann [prompt on partial answer]
5. In the theory of inflation, this quantity scales as the inverse of the scale factor, and the Sutherland equation describes the dependence of viscosity on this quantity. The coefficients of the virial expansion are a function of this quantity only, and for a black hole, this quantity is given by the surface gravity divided by two pi. In the Maxwell relations, this quantity is conjugate to the (*) entropy and is given by the derivative of energy with respect to entropy. In another equation, the product of this quantity and the number of moles is proportional to the product of pressure and volume by the universal gas constant. For 10 points, identify this quantity which serves as a measure of the amount of kinetic energy contained in a system and is measured in Kelvin.
ANSWER: temperature
6. After discovering that his wife Aegialeia had been unfaithful to him, this man left for Aetolia to see his grandfather Oeneus, and later he married Euippe, daughter of Dunus; after death, this man’s followers were turned into birds. This hero once fought with the Lycian prince Glaucus, but the fight stopped when the two remembered their old friendship. After killing the spy Dolon, this man drove away the horses of Rhesus the Thracian to keep them from (*) drinking the Scamander. Arriving at Troy with Sthenelus and Capaneus, two other Epigoni, this hero fought Aeneas and wounded Aphordite, and accompanied Odysseus to Lemnos to fetch Philoctetes. This favorite of Athena was a king of Argos like his father Tydeus. For 10 points, identify this Greek warrior from the Trojan war who shares his name with a Thracian giant who owned some flesh-eating mares stolen by Heracles.
ANSWER: Diomedes
7. One result of this economic formalism is that, regardless of starting point, the dynamics will converge to a balanced path, and a consequence of this formalism is that a change in the savings rate only has a level effect. A critical assumption of this formalism is that the production function has constant returns to scale, and this model gives rise to a first-order (*) differential equation in which the rate of change of the capital stock per unit of effective labor is equal to the difference between actual and break-even investment. This model posits that output is a function of capital and the product of labor and knowledge, and it can be used to show that the accumulation of physical capital can’t account for the increase in output per person. For 10 points, identify this exogenous growth growth model that one its first (and sometimes only) namesake the 1987 Nobel.
ANSWER: Solow-Swan growth model
8. This city inspired the name of a paramilitary force led by General Qassem Soleimani that was linked to an attempt to assassinate Adel al-Jubeir. A notable action involving this city was salvaged after Adhemar returned from the grave and led his followers in a barefoot march around its exterior. One conquest of this city was abetted by an artillery device known as “L,” and depended on the successive conquests of the Latrun corridor, Government Hill, Ammunition Hill, and Mount (*) Scopus. That conquest of this city repeated a feat of General Edmund Allenby, who famously dismounted before entering through the Lions’ Gate, and was marked by the radio signal “Har ha-Bayit be-Yadenu.” In the wake of that 1967 conquest, Shlomo Goren advocated that the Dome of the Rock should be destroyed and the Third Temple built in its place. For 10 points, name this city holy to three religions, the capital of Israel.
ANSWER: Jerusalem (accept al-Quds)
9. The ceiling of this building’s largest interior space was decorated in 1964 by Marc Chagall, while this rectangular building served as the model for the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress. The exterior of this structure's dome contains a central group sculpted by Aime Millet, and its roof contains two other figural groups as well as two bronze Pegasus figures at either end of the gable. Bacchanalian imagery predominates in this building, as one of the sculpture groups on its facade depicts Dionysus surrounded by (*) Maenads, while a painting of the Bacchanalia by Clairin is found on the ceiling of its Salon du Glacier. The center of this building’s foyer contains a bust of its architect by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, who also sculpted the aforementioned facade group titled The Dance. Famous for its Grand Staircase and completed as part of Haussmann’s renovations, for 10 points, identify this landmark designed by Charles Garnier, a music hall located in the French capital.
ANSWER: Paris Opera House [accept Palais Garnier before Garnier’s name is mentioned]
10. One work set in this city was partially written in the trees of one of its parks, while another work titled after a “journey to” this city consists of three novellas including “Let Eve Scream,” “Mona,” and the title work. This city is also the initial setting for a novel in which three orphaned children living in a mansion encounter the adventurer Victor Hugues, who introduces Enlightenment philosophy to Sofia, Carlos, and Esteban. Another novel set in this city includes character such as Beba Longoria and the singer La Estrella, and consists of fragmentary narratives framed as a (*) show. This setting of the memoir Before Night Falls is the location of a novel about Silvestre, Arsenio Cue, and Bustrofedon that is set entirely in the Tropicana cabaret. The home town of the author of The Palace of the White Skunks, Reinaldo Arenas, it is the setting for the opening of Explosion in a Cathedral. For 10 points, name this setting of Three Trapped Tigers, the capital of a country whose authors include Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Alejo Carpentier, and Jose Marti.
ANSWER: Havana or Habana
11. Mice in which the Ikaros transcription factor has been displaced exhibit a complete lack of cells of this kind, and in order to survive the earliest stage of development, cells of this type require contact with stromal cells. The marginal zone variant of these cells are characterized by a lack of CD5 expression, and activation of these cells results in the translocation of their namesake signaling complex into lipid rafts while excluding CD22 and CD45. These cells can be recruited by (*) clonally expanded effector helpers after those helper cells have interacted with activated dendritic cells. Upon exposure to antigens, cells of this type differentiate into plasma cells and secrete antibodies. Produced in humans in the fetal liver and later in bone marrow, for 10 points, identify these cells of the immune system which are responsible for humoral immunity.
ANSWER: B cells or B lymphocytes
12. One battle during this conflict saw a force under Thomas Forster forced to surrender after being encircled by the army of Charles Wills. After the Marquis de Torcy denied aid to this conflict’s instigator, a meeting to plan this event was held at St. Germain between the Duke of Berwick and Charles Brux. The main instigator of this conflict had previously refused Bollingbroke’s advice that he become an Anglican, and it commenced when John Erskine, Earl of Mar, raised an army at Perth. After Erskine fought to a stalemate with John (*) Campbell at Sherrifmuir on the same day that the Battle of Preston took place, this uprising’s namesake landed at Peterhead, but the rebels were routed by Campbell and that namesake had to retreat to France where he married a granddaughter of Jan Sobieski.. For 10 points, identify this uprising of Scots under the putative leadership of James Edward, also known as the Old Pretender, which occurred thirty years before a similar revolt known as “the 45”
ANSWER: Jacobite Rebellion of 1715 [accept “the fifteen” as it’s also known; accept First Jacobite Rising; apparently Britannica counts some weird earlier uprisings, so accept Third Jacobite Rising but do not accept the Second]
13. When one character in this play protests “Hain’t I yer lawful wife?” her husband answers, “Yew air my Rose of Sharon... yer two breasts air like two fawns.” In the first act of this play, a bag of gold coins found under the floorboards helps two minor characters finance a trip to California, while during a celebration in the third act, an old man’s dancing tires out the fiddler. After being (*) seduced in his mother’s parlor, a character in this play decides to go west to join his brothers, Sim and Peter, but returns after having gone to get the sheriff, who ends this play by remarking on the “jim-dandy farm” belonging to Ephraim. All that happens while he’s taking away Abbie Putnam, the wife of Ephraim, who has smothered the child she had with Ephraim’s son Eben. For 10 points identify this play about the Cabot family by Eugene O’Neill.
ANSWER: Desire Under the Elms
14. This thinker's daughter appears as the respondent to queries like “Why Do Frenchmen” and “Why a Swan” in a series of “metalogues” that open a work which applies cybernetics to addictive disorders and postulates the “double bind” of schizophrenia. This thinker was heavily cited by a colleague in the aforementioned Steps to an Ecology of Mind, published a year before this thinker's tape-recorded chat with James (*) Baldwin, A Rap on Race. The Mundugumor, Chambri, and Arapesh are analyzed with regard to aggression and gender relationships in one of this thinker's works, while another inspired The Making and Unmaking of an American Myth by vocal critic Derek Freeman. This wife of Gregory Bateson and author of Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies interviewed 68 teenagers for her most famous work, which blamed stressful adolescence on Western culture's sexual mores. For 10 points, identify this author of Coming of Age in Samoa.
ANSWER: Margaret Meade
15. A strong acid catalyzes the formation of S,S-acetals from carbonyl compounds and these types of functional groups. This functional group is present in a tripeptide which removes oxidizing agents, and molecules with this functional group can reduce vitamin K epoxide to vitamin KH2. Subjecting the product of a reaction between an aldehyde or ketone and one of these molecules to treatment with H2 and (*) Raney nickel can be used to convert a carbonyl group into a methylene group. Fatty acid synthesis employs esters of this type, and coenzyme A is an esterifying compound of this type. This functional group is also found in the amino acid cysteine. For 10 points, identify these functional groups which are analogues of alcohols in which the oxygen is replaced by a sulfur.
ANSWER: thiols [or mercaptans]
16. In one novel by this writer, the title character, Wolfstein, teams up with a man named Ginotti to seek the elixir of eternal life. This author of St. Irvyne, or the Rosicrucian dedicated to Harriet Westbrook a “philosophical poem” that opens with the lines “How wonderful is Death/ Death and his brother Sleep!” entitled Queen Mab and a play in which Beatrice plots the murder of her father, Count Francesco. This author recalled how, “while yet a boy I sought for ghosts,” in a poem that describes “the awful shadow of some (*) unseen Power,” while another of his poems ends with Jupiter destroyed by Demogorgon, leaving the title character and Ione to observe the triumph of mankind. This author of The Cenci ended one poem by noting that the soul of the title character “beacons from the abode where the Eternal are,” while another ends by asking, “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” For 10 points, identify this poet who wrote Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, Prometheus Unbound, Adonais, and “Ode to the West Wind.”
ANSWER: Percy Bysshe Shelley
17. This composer called for the cellos to play two octaves of a descending C major scale in a work whose Gavotte was removed so it could premiere in time his final concert. Another work by this composer in the same genre begins with a 6/8 and 9/8 alternating vivace. This man paired a piece marked by its unusual third movement bass drum solo with a similar work in F with movements like “Song of the Blacksmith” and “Fantasia on the Dargason.” This composer of the (*) Brook Green Suite used his home of Thaxted to title a hymn extracted from another work to fit the words “I vow to thee, my country.” This composer of a pair of suites for Military Band had an extra movement added by Colin Matthews to his most famous work, which used two women’s choruses for a movement subtitled “the Mystic.” For 10 points, name this composer of the St. Paul's Suite, best known for The Planets
ANSWER: Gustav Holst
18. The capital of this region has a unique motto, NO8DO, a rebus said to have been conferred by Alfonso the Wise commending the city's loyalty during a rebellion by his son. A strategically key city in this region, overlooked by the Castillo de Santa Catalina, is Jaen, which controls a pass across the Sierra Morena that was the site of Las Navasde Tolosa. This region is also home to the city of (*) Cadiz, which, owing to its strategic position, was raided by Sir Francis Drake seeking to impede the Spanish Armada and blockaded by Lord Nelson before the Battle of Trafalgar. Fat, naked Europeans flood its port city of Malaga during the summer, when they seek out its region of Costa Del Sol. Seville is the capital of, for 10 points, what region of southern Spain whose cities include Cordoba and Granada?