2010 Fall Novice Tournament
Edited by Stephen Eltinge, Douglas Graebner, and Matt Jackson
Packet 8
1. This character was orphaned when his father Drogo’s weight sunk the boat his parents were in. While in Lorien, this character is given the Light of Earendil by Galadriel, and this character is later seemingly killed by Shelob. This character was stabbed by the Nazgul Witch King’s cursed blade, and Boromir tries to take an object from him. For 10 points, name this friend of Sam Gamgee, the hobbit protagonist and Ringbearer in The Lord of the Rings.
ANSWER: Frodo Baggins [prompt on Baggins or Mr. Underhill; do not accept Bilbo Baggins]
2. This mountain can be reached from the southwest through the Western Cwm [COOM] and its slopes contain the Khumbu Icefall. This peak’s southern half sits in Sagarmatha National Park, and this mountain is called Chomolangma by some of the local sherpa population. For 10 points, name this mountain on the border between Nepal and China, in the Himalayas, whose summit was first reached by Tenzin Gyatso and Sir Edmund Hillary, the highest mountain in the world.
ANSWER: Mount Everest
3. This economist proposed the “bancor” currency and debated Harry Dexter White at the Bretton Woods conference. This namesake of a “cross” diagram predicted effects of the Versailles treaty in The Economic Consequences of the Peace; he described aggregate supply and demand in his General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. For 10 points, name this British economist whose followers recommend government deficit spending to stimulate economies.
ANSWER: John Maynard Keynes[pronounced CANES, but be lenient and accept KEENZ]
4.An octagonal brick version of this structure was engineered for the Santa Maria del Fiore by Brunelleschi, and a famous Roman one features an Oculus. Four pendentives support this structure in Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia, and nine of these structures sit atop a prominent cathedral in Moscow. For 10 points, name this architectural feature seen atop the Pantheon and the Taj Mahal, which occurs on St. Basil’s Cathedral in an “onion” shape.
ANSWER: Domes
5. These entities are immersed in potassium dichromate and silver nitrate and turn black in Golgi staining. Functioning due to changes in action potential, parts of these bodies are surrounded by Schwann cells or glial cells and include the nodes of Ranvier, gaps in their surrounding myelin sheaths. Synaptic gaps border these objects’ axons. For 10 points, name these cells, containing many dendrites, which carry electrochemical messages through the nervous system.
ANSWER: neurons [accept axons before mention]
6. A love triangle between Golaud, Mélisande, and Pelléas is the subject of an opera by this man, and Golliwog’s Cakewalk is the final movement of his suite for solo piano, Children’s Corner. He also wrote Jeux for Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes, but this composer of La Mer is most famous for the third movement of his Suite Bergamasque. For 10 points, identify the Frenchman who composed “Clair de Lune”.
ANSWER: Claude Debussy
7. The two major classes of these events are divided based on the presence of Balmer lines in their spectra. One type of them peaks at an absolute magnitude of -19.3, which enables it to be used as a standard candle. While that type, 1a, results from the detonation of a white dwarf which exceeded the Chandrasekhar limit, the more common type results from the core collapse of a very massive star. For 10 points, name these extremely luminous astronomical explosions.
ANSWER: supernovae
8. One of this composer's pieces is said to have gotten its name from the firework-like effects of the drums in its score, and in addition to “The Thunderer,” this man composed a piece in 6/8 time for the Washington Post. In his most famous form, he composed “Semper Fidelis” for the US Marine Corps and a piece entitled “U.S. Field Artillery” that is based on the “Caisson Song.” For 10 points, name this American composer of “Stars and Stripes Forever” known as the “March King.”
ANSWER: John Philip Sousa
9. This program, partially influenced by the “black cabinet,” let Zora Neale Hurston document American folklore. One part of this program, ruled unconstitutional by the so-called “sick chicken case,” had a “Blue Eagle” symbol. That aspect of this program, the NRA, was accompanied by the WPA and Tennessee Valley Authority. For 10 points, name this program whose “alphabet agencies” were created by FDR in an attempt to end the Great Depression.
ANSWER: New Deal [accept Works Progress Administration before unconstitutional is read]
10. One character in this novel plays Clymnestra at Charades. Dobbin goes to India after being rejected by another character in this novel, which also sees another character appointed Governor of Coventry Island by the Marquess of Steyne. Jos is murdered by poison in this novel. Rawdon Crawley survives the battle of Waterloo, but George Osborne dies, leaving Amelia Sedley to care for their son alone. For 10 points, name this work about Becky Sharp, a “novel without a hero” by William Thackeray.
ANSWER: Vanity Fair
11. This thinker’s wife Harriet Taylor aided his defense of gender equality in The Subjection of Women. He cited Alexis de Tocqueville’s phrase “tyranny of the majority” and advocated the harm principle in defending one book’s title concept, and argued that actions should be judged by “the proportion to which they promote happiness” in a work named for a moral system founded by Jeremy Bentham. For ten points, name this author of On Liberty and Utilitarianism.
ANSWER: John Stuart Mill
12. One character from this work argues that he needs six pounds in order to buy firewood and consults his niece about his daughter Betty's unconsciousness. Characters from this play include land-greedy Thomas Putnam and the Reverend Parris, as well as a character who calls for "more weight" before dying, Giles Corey. Women including Tituba are accused by Abigail Williams in, for 10 points, what play in which John Proctor is accused of being a witch during the Salem witch trials, written by Arthur Miller?
ANSWER: The Crucible
13. This man waged war against Maxentius and Licinius and he’s not Octavian, but he was promoted to the rank of Augustus at Eboracum. One year after this Tetrarch’s vision at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, he issued the Edict of Milan. This man called the First Council of Nicaea and was baptized on his deathbed. For 10 points, name this first Christian Roman emperor, a man who moved the capital to a self-named city in Byzantium.
ANSWER: Constantine I [or Constantine the Great]
14. This word, rather than “gravitational,” is used as an adjective to describe the mass term in Newton’s Second Law, and it also describes moving reference frames that do not accelerate. This property, in the absence of a net force, is exemplified by the center of mass of a body moving at a constant velocity. For 10 points, name this physical property that, in Newton’s first law, is defined as a body’s tendency to stay at rest before acted upon by an outside force.
ANSWER: inertia[accept word forms like inertial; do not accept moment of inertia]
15. This author wrote a poem in which he asks his beloved to “come live with me and be my love.” This author of “The Passionate Shepherd To His Love” wrote a play in which Abigail is poisoned by her father Barabas. In another of this writer’s plays, the magicians Cornelius and Valdes help the title character summon Mephistophilis. For 10 points, which Elizabethan playwright and contemporary of Shakespeare penned The Jew of Malta and Doctor Faustus?
ANSWER: Christopher Marlowe
16. The third-century Roman emperor Septimius Severus was born in this modern country’s town of Leptis Magna. Stephen Decatur burned the USSPhiladelphia in this country during the 1804 Barbary Wars, and this country was colonized by Italy from 1912 to 1943. Its current leader was implicated in the Lockerbie airplane bombing in Scotland, and its flag is entirely green. Ruled by Muammar al-Qaddafi, for 10 points, name this North African country with capital at Tripoli.
ANSWER: Libya
17. In one of this author’s poems, he wrote of how the protagonist goes insane after a flood which kills Parasha and is chased by a statue of Peter the Great. This author of The Bronze Horseman wrote about a character who rejects Tatiana for not being worldly enough and kills Lensky in a duel over Olga. Another of this man’s plays portrays a Tsar before the Time of Troubles. For 10 points, name this Russian author of Eugene Onegin and Boris Godunov.
ANSWER: Aleksandr Sergetevich Pushkin
18. This man established the system of missi dominici to administer his empire; he patronized the scholar Alcuin of York and the biographer Einhard. He crushed the Lombards at Pavia, though Basques at Ronceveaux Pass massacred his troops under Roland. This son of Pepin the Short had his capital was Aachen, and gained a certain title from Pope Leo III. For 10 points, name this man who became the first Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas day 800, a “great” Frankish king.
Answer: Charlemagne [accept Carolus Magnus or Charles I or Charles the Great or Karl der Grosse]
19. One deity of this phenomenon commonly rides a ram and licks sacrificial butter with his seven tongues. In addition to the Vedic deity, Agni, this entity, which defines Surt and his world of Muspellheim in Norse myth, caused a Titan to be chained up and have his liver eaten by eagles, and is presided over, though not the forge, by Vulcan or Hephaestus. For 10 points, name this phenomenon stolen from the gods by Prometheus, which engulfs a dying phoenix.
ANSWER: fire [accept flame or other clear knowledge equivalents]
20. Organic examples of these compounds are combined with alcohols in the Fischer esterification reaction. There are multiple dissociation constants for polyprotic ones, such as the oxalic and phosphoric kinds. They are proton donors by the Bronsted-Lowry definition and dissociate in water releasing hydrogen ions. With a weak acetic kind and strong nitric and sulfuric kinds, for 10 points, what type of compound causes a pH less than 7 in aqueous solution?
ANSWER: acids [accept carboxylic acids before phosphoric]
21. One ruler of this dynasty briefly kissed Napoleon in a meeting on a barge, and another member established zemstvos and abolished serfdom before his assassination by the group People’s Will. Succeeded by the Rurikids, its first member, elected to end the Time of Troubles, was Michael. The last of this dynasty relied on the mystic Rasputin to heal his son’s hemophilia. For 10 points, name this Russian dynasty that included three Alexanders and both Czars named Nicholas.
ANSWER: Romanov dynasty orfamily
1. These mixtures scatter light in the Tyndall effect and include aerosols and emulsions. For 10 points each:
[10] Fog is an example of what type of mixture consisting of a dispersed phase spread evenly throughout a continuous phase, often compared with a solution?
ANSWER: colloid
[10] This type of colloid is composed of a gas dispersed in a liquid and is exemplified by shaving cream.
ANSWER: foam
[10] This type of heterogeneous mixture contains particles larger than those in colloids, which will settle if left undisturbed. Muddy water is an example.
ANSWER: suspension
2. Pozzo is led by his slave Lucky after going blind in the second act of this play. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this play, in which Vladimir and Estragon contemplate suicide after being informed that the title character will not be showing up.
ANSWER: Waiting for Godot or En Attendant Godot
[10] This author wrote about Clov and Hamm in Endgame in addition to writing Waiting for Godot.
ANSWER: Samuel Beckett
[10] Beckett is commonly associated with the “Theatre of the Absurd”, along with this British Nobel Laureate who authored The Caretaker, The Birthday Party, and The Dumbwaiter.
ANSWER: Harold Pinter
3. This movie opens with an Army commando team searching for hostages in a Central American jungle. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this film in which a commando team is killed one at a time by the title creature, which can become invisible and fought some Aliens in a 2004 movie.
ANSWER: Predator
[10] This actor plays the protagonist, Dutch, in Predator. He is also known for his roles as Conan the Barbarian and the Terminator.
ANSWER: Arnold Schwarzenegger
[10] In the original Alien movie, the protagonist, Ripley, was played by this actress, who also appeared as demonically-possessed Dana Barret in Ghostbusters.
ANSWER: Sigourney Weaver
4. This poet’s possible homosexuality can be seen in his “Calamus” poems. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this American widely known as the father of free verse, the author of “O Captain! My Captain!”
ANSWER: Walt Whitman
[10] Whitman is probably best known for this poetry collection published in a “death-bed edition,” which includes the Calamus poems and “O Captain! My Captain!”
ANSWER: Leaves of Grass
[10] Leaves of Grass also contains this autobiographical poem which features the lines “What is the grass?” and “I am large, I contain multitudes.”
ANSWER: “Song of Myself”
5. Answer these questions about Spanish conquistadores, for 10 points each:
[10] This figure defeated a much larger force than his own at the battle of Cajamarca before conquering the Inca empire in 1532.
ANSWER: Francisco Pizarro
[10] Pizarro defeated this last Inca emperor, who was ransomed for a room filled with gold before being executed anyway.
ANSWER: Atahualpa
[10] This earlier conquistador, mistaken for a deity, overthrew the Aztec empire and killed the last Aztec emperor, Cuhautémoc, in 1521.
ANSWER: Hernan Cortes
6. It lies north of Washington, and its capital is Victoria. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this Canadian province whose largest city, Vancouver, was the site of the 2010 Winter Olympics.
ANSWER: British Columbia
[10] This other political subdivision of Canada lies northeast of British Columbia and east of the Yukon Territory. It contains the Great Slave and Great Bear lakes.
ANSWER: Northwest Territories
[10] This city on the Great Slave Lake saw an economic boom in 1991 after the discovery of diamonds nearby. It became the capital of the Northwest Territories in 1967.
ANSWER: Yellowknife
7. Madame Pace encourages the Step-Daughter to work harder in this play. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this play describing members of a family, including The Father and the Mother, who convince the Director to stage their story.
ANSWER: Six Characters in Search of an Author
[10] This playwright wrote of an actor falling off his horse in his play Henry IV, in addition to writing Six Characters in Search of an Author.
ANSWER: Luigi Pirandello
[10] Luigi Pirandello was a writer from this European country. Other writers from here include Tasso and Dante.
ANSWER: Italy
8. It was ended by the Treaty of Ghent. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this war during James Madison’s presidency, during which the British burned Washington D.C. and Francis Scott Key wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner”.
ANSWER: War of 1812
[10] Andrew Jackson defeated the British in this city after the Treaty of Ghent was signed. Huey Long’s namesake bridge is north of this city, which the US used as a port after Pinckney’s treaty.
ANSWER: Battle of New Orleans
[10] One cause of the War of 1812 was this British practice, exemplified by the Chesapeake affair, in which American sailors were seized and drafted to fight Napoleon.
ANSWER: naval impressment [prompt on conscription or the Press]
9. To perform this operation on matrices, the number of rows of the left-hand matrix must equal the number of columns of the right-hand matrix. For 10 points each:
[10] Identify this matrix operation, which can also be performed on real numbers, where it equals 1 when performed on a number and its inverse.
ANSWER: multiplication
[10] Matrices do not have an inverse if this value is 0. This value equals a times d minus b times c for a 2 by 2 matrix.
ANSWER: determinant
[10] This rule describes a method of solving linear equations that expresses the solutions in the form of a ratio of determinants.
ANSWER: Cramer’s Rule
10. Its primary virtue is known as ren, and its namesake wrote the Spring and Autumn Annals.
For 10 points each:
[10] Name this Chinese philosophy stressing filial piety, which includes respect for one’s rulers and elders within the family.
ANSWER: Confucianism
[10] The Lu version of this text has 20-chapters. The most important in Confucianism, it records sayings of Confucius and his pupils.
ANSWER: The Analects [accept Lún Yu]
[10] The Analects is in a group of this many Chinese Classics. It’s also the number of essential Confucian relationships, and of traditional Chinese elements such as wood and metal.