2004 Chicago Open
Editor Packet 2 – Tossups by Subash Maddipoti
1. This writer was the devoted lover of the countess of Albany, the wife of the Young Pretender. This tale appears in his bitter autobiography, which first appeared in English in William Dean Howells’ 1877 translation. He wrote a harsh satire against France, the Misogallo, but is chiefly known for his plays, such as Virginia, Sophonisba, and Maria Stuarda. His finest work, though, is considered to be the Biblical tragedy Saul, one of the 19 tragedies he wrote between 1777 and 1789. FTP, name this 18th-century Italian dramatist
Answer: Vittorio Alfieri
2. Its Type IV variety is the primary component of the basal lamina. Since cells do not attach well to its naked form, a linkage system featuring the attachment of integrin to fibronectin to this molecule is the typical way in which it is found in the body. Dermatomyositis and scleroderma are known to disrupt its function and can also disrupt its secretion, which is managed by the osteoblasts. Its Type II is found in cartilage, but the Type I is the most prevalent form of, FTP, what fibrous protein, the most abundant protein in vertebrates?
Answer: collagen
3. The first one was touched off by a proposal that magistrates of the high courts give up four years of salary. Among those involved were several members of the Conti family, including Armand de Conti. The second began with the defeat of the Spanish at Rethel but turned tide when Cardinal Retz joined forces with Mademoiselle Chevreuse and Gaston D’Orleans. That second ended with the king’s return to the capital following the making of peace with all the princes, except for the prince de Conde [con-DAY]. Waged between 1648 and 1653, FTP, name this set of two revolts against the policies of Anne of Austria and Cardinal Mazarin in France.
Answer: the Fronde
4. Its second part was never arranged for publication and contains an eleventh section that takes up more than half of that part. Stanley Cavell and Warren Goldfarb have suggest a reading for the opening sections of its first part, spurred primarily by the writer’s decision to open it with a quote from Augustine. That quote is followed up by an example of “five red apples” as an order given to a grocer. A total of 693 sections appear before Part II, which plays heavily on the grammar of the word “to see” and introduces a few more “language-games.” FTP, name this work that appeared posthumously in 1953, the chief articulation of the language philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Answer: Philosophical Investigations
5. His girlfriend Miroslava Vavrinec acts as his sponsorship agent and press officer. Many believe that she was the one who orchestrated the firing of his longtime coach Peter Lundgren. He owns a cow named Juliet, which was given to him as a prize for winning his biggest event. He won that event by defeating Mark Phillipousis and seventh months later he defeated Marat Safin to win his second Grand Slam. FTP, name this Swiss player who recently defeated Andy Roddick to win his second consecutive Wimbledon, the number one ranked mens tennis player in the world.
Answer: Roger Federer
6. One character by this name is a historical personage who, along with Statira, is a title character of Nathaniel Lee’s The Rival Queens. Another marries a Dutch merchant and settles in Holland, all the while accompanied by her maid Amy. She receives this name by accident and is better known as the Mademoiselle Beleau, the “Fortuante Mistress” referred to in the subtitle of that 1724 novel. Yet another is loved by three men, two of whom are the Comte de Guiche and Christian de Neuvillette. FTP, give this name shared by the title heroine of a Daniel Defoe romance and the love of Cyrano de Bergerac.
Answer: Roxana or Roxane
7. They can be made to have an extremely high gradient in the optical densities, resulting in extremely low measured speed of light within them; some have slowed beams of light down to mere meters per second. In November 2003 independent teams led by Rudolf Grimm and Deborah Jin were able to show that they can also be formed from molecules. Chu, Phillips, and Cohen-Tannoudji won a Nobel for the technique used to create them, though the final achievement, using a cloud of approximately 2000 rubidium atoms, was done by Wieman, Ketterle, and Cornell. Formed from matter that has been cooled to near absolute zero, FTP, name this so-called fifth phase of matter.
Answer: Bose-Einstein condensate (prompt on “B-E-C”)
8. His grandfather Christopher served in the First and Second Continental Congress. He served with Andrew Jackson in the Creek War, and in 1823 Jackson appointed him commissioner to negotiate the removal of the Seminoles from Florida. He would go on to become president of the South Carolina Railroad Company and first advocated a transcontinental railroad via a southern route. The appointment of his friend Jefferson Davis to Franklin Pierce’s cabinet gave him a new opportunity and he would become minister to Mexico. FTP, name this man who, in 1853, negotiated the purchase of 30,000 square miles of the southwestern U.S.
Answer: James Gadsden
9. The composer’s entry for this work in his catalog states that it originally had five movements, with the original second movement, a minue,t being removed. The work differs from similar works in the genre by the composer in its comparatively lean scoring: two violins, viola, cello, and double bass. Theorized to have been written in response to an earlier divertimento work, commonly known as “A musical joke,” it is perhaps the best-known serenade in the classical repertoire. FTP, name this Serenade No. 13 by Mozart, which inspired a Broadway musical by Stephen Sondheim.
Answer: A Little Night Music or Eine kleine Nachtmusik (accept early buzz of Serenade No. 13)
10. The western half of the region in which they are found comprised the Phelps and Gorham Purchase of 1790, the world’s largest land purchase at the time. Their southern ends are characterized by glacial hanging valleys leading to waterfalls in such areas as Fillmore Glen and Watkins Glen. There are eleven of them in total and four of them – Conesus, Hemlock, Canadice, and Otisco – are known as the “minor” ones. Several of them are named for Indian tribes once indigenous to the area, including Owasco, Cayuga, and Senega. FTP, name this group of thin lakes in upstate New York.
Answer: Finger Lakes
11. The protagonist of this novel has a son who is writing an essay entitled “Why I Love America” and who plagiarizes from speeches by Henry Clay and Abraham Lincoln to finish the assignment. His sexually precocious daughter, Ellen, is unable to write the same essay and is seemingly a precursor to Margie-Young Hunt, the town seductress. Several other citizens of the fictitious New Baytown are introduced, though the focus is on the disintegrating life of grocery store clerk Ethan Allen Hawley. The only one of its author’s novels not set in and around the Salinas Valley, FTP, identify this John Steinbeck work whose name is drawn from a line in Shakespeare’s Richard III.
Answer: The Winter of Our Discontent
12. When using this technique it is helpful to create a Kovats retention index to standardize the results. In this technique the sample is injected into a flow controller, which is linked directly to a column that rounds through a column oven before exiting through the detector. Either packed or capillary columns can be used and both contain a liquid stationary phase which is adsorbed onto the surface of an inert solid. It begins as its name might suggest with the sample being vaporized. FTP, name this specific type of chromatography.
Answer: gas chromatography (accept gas-liquid chromatography; prompt on “gc” or “chromatography”)
13. They orchestrated a new source of income through a series of government-mediated Urbariums in the late 18th-century. While their power was waning, they managed to establish the Agrarian League in 1894 to appeal to anti-capitalist sentiments among the lower classes. By definition they could not serve in the Landtag, as they had their own house in government. Their power increased when they financed the army of Frederick II, but it began to decline when they opposed the Frankfurt Assembly in 1848. FTP, give this name for the landed Prussian aristocracy.
Answer: Junkers [YOON-kers]
14. He was the first artist to translate Winckelmann’s writings into English, though he broke most of their rules. His unrealized dream was a series of frescoes echoing Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel but peopled with Shakespearean characters. He featured 47 paintings of his in the Milton Gallery he opened in 1799, but none of his famous works like the pen drawing Perseus Returning the Eye of the Graii or his oil of Lady Macbeth were shown. FTP, name this favorite painter of William Blake, a Swiss-born Englishman best known for his allegorical The Nightmare.
Answer: Henry Fuseli (or Johann Heinrich Fussli)
15. He sold European books during the day to support himself during his time at the New School for Social Research. His professional work included the articulation of the “Preferred Habitat” theory for the term structure of interest rates and a theorem stating that the value of a firm is not affected by whether it is financed by equity or debt, which he co-formulated with Merton Miller. He was also the originator of the “life cycle hypothesis,” which states that consumers would aim for a stable level of income throughout their lifetime. FTP, name this Nobel laureate who won the economics prize for his work on saving more than 45 years after he left his native Italy.
Answer: Franco Modigliani
16. One of this play’s characters is an avid fisher and author of a book entitled Days and Nights. Act Two begins with three characters reading aloud from a book by Maupassant. Two years pass before the third act, in which Paulina observes that one of the protagonists is now making a successful living as a writer. In the final act two games of lotto are played, with the second taking place after Dorn discovers the central tragedy. At the same time Shamrayev presents Trigorin with a stuffed version of the title creature, to which Nina had earlier compared herself. FTP, name this play that ends with Treplyev’s suicide, a work of Anton Chekhov.
Answer: The Seagull
17.His paper on Halley’s Comet so impressed his superiors that he was offered an assistanceship at the Lilienthal Observatory to the celebrated lunar observer J.H Schroter. He was the first to make effective use of the heliometer to measure the apparent diameter of the Sun, and he corrected the measurement errors made by James Bradley in Bradley’s catalog of stars. Other accomplishments included noting the double stars for both Procyon and Sirius, and his work on 61 Cygni, which led to his discovery of parallax. FTP, identify this German astronomer also known for his namesake functions.
Answer:Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
18. He was probably spared his life due to the discovery of letters addressed to Francois La Chaise. Those letters had been written by the secretary to the duchess of York, Edward Coleman. Edmond Berry Godfrey took his depositions and soon after was found murdered in the fields near Primrose Hill. Equally guilty was his colleague and collaborator Israel Tonge. FTP, name this man who, in 1678, fabricated the tale of a Jesuit plan to assassinate Charles II in what became known as the Popish Plot.
Answer: Titus Oates
19. It is the name given to the Ugaritic god of evil. In another tradition, it lives in the mazes of Stygia and creates such underworld minions as the Habbalah and the Cenobites. In some Jewish legends it is an androgynous dragon, and in Caananite mythology it is a follower of Yam, who is not able to save this seven-headed beast, known as Lotan, from being killed by Baal. FTP, name this chaos animal which will be destroyed on Judgement Day and which lent its name to a work by Thomas Hobbes.
Answer: Leviathan
20. He was the chief editor of the 1961 first edition of the complete works of Ronald Firbank, whom he greatly admired, and he wrote a biography of the 17th-century diarist John Aubrey. His first novel, The Afternoon Men, was published after he left Balliol, where he met Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene. He died in 2000, twenty five years after completing Hearing Secret Harmonies and almost fifty years after the completion of A Question of Upbringing. Those two works were the bookends of his duodecalogy. FTP, name this British writer of A Dance to the Music of Time series.
Answer: Anthony Powell
2004 Chicago Open
Editor Packet 2 – Bonuses by Subash Maddipoti
1. Name these occurrences of slave rebellion in the first half of the 19th-century, FTP each:
A. In 1841 slaves being transported on this ship overpowered the crew and sailed into the British West Indies. When England refused to return them, Secretary of State Daniel Webster called for war with the British.
Answer: the Creole
B. The rebels had made over 250 pike heads and bayonets and 300 daggers, but their plan was betrayed and thirty-five men, including the revolt’s namesake, were hanged and not able to carry out their 1822 plan to burn Charleston.
Answer: Denmark Vesey’s rebellion
C. Most likely the largest slave revolt in the U.S. took place in 1811 near New Orleans at the plantation of this man. 500 slaves rioted through the countryside before being attacked by the U.S. army.
Answer: Major Andry
2. Name these writers, who were ridiculed by others for their work, FTP each:
A. This Caroline poet’s chief work, “Theophila, or Love’s Sacrifice,” caused him to be ridiculed by Samuel Butler and Alexander Pope.
Answer: Edward Benlowes
B. John Dryden took some shots at The Virtuoso and Epsom Wells, two of this poet’s plays, in his poem “Mac Flecknoe.”
Answer: Thomas Shadwell
C. In his 1726 Shakespeare Restored he pointed out the inaccuracies of Alexander Pope’s edition of Shakespeare, to which Pope responded by satirizing this man in the 1728 edition of The Dunciad.
Answer: Lewis Theobald
3. Name these things about chemical valence, FTP each:
A. First expand the acronym VSEPR [VESS-purr], as in the theory allowing for the prediction of molecule shapes and bond angles (Moderator: spell it out if team requests)
Answer: valence shell electron pair repulsion theory
B. According to VSEPR theory PF3, or phosphorous trifluoride, would assume this molecular geometry.
Answer: trigonal pyramidal
C. This theory of coordination possesses three postulates: first, most elements exhibit a primary and secondary valence; second, every atom tends to satisfy primary and secondary valence; and third, the secondary valence is directed toward fixed directions in space.
Answer: Werner’s coordination theory
4. Name these paintings by Hieronymus Bosch, FTP each:
A. It is a painted rectangle with a central image of the eye of God, with Christ watching the world. In the corner appear the “Four Last Things”: the Deathbed, the Last Judgment, Heaven, and Hell.
Answer: The Seven Deadly Sins
B. This narrow panel painting depicts the various troubles that befall the titular skinflint.
Answer: Death and the Miser
C. The left wing features physical punishment, the center depicts a Black Mass, and the right contains the blandishments of food and sex in this triptych dedicated to Bosch’s favorite saint.
Answer: The Temptation of Saint Anthony
5. Answer these questions about the Furies?
A. For 5 points, the Furies were born from the blood of what figure?
Answer: Uranus
B. For 5 points, the Furies received what ironic nickname after accepting Athena’s absolvement of Orestes for murdering Clytemnestra? Give the Greek term.
Answer: Eumenides
C. For 5 points each, what were the Greek names for the three Furies?
Answer: Megaera and Tisiphone and Alecto
D. For 5 points, the Furies were represented with the snakes, dog’s heads, and the wings of what animal for their hair?
Answer: bat
6. Name these things about the policies of the Tokugawa Shogunate, FTP each:
A. During his reign Ieyasu held this class of feudal lords hostage in his capital at Edo.
Answer: daimyo
B. Ieyasu’s descendants instituted this policy that prevented Japanese from leaving the country and foreigners from entering. It roughly translates as “closed country.”
Answer: sakoku
C. The Tokugawa policy of taking 50 percent of the peasant rice crop in taxes led to several rebellions, the largest of which was this 1739 one that led to the death of 84,000 peasants.
Answer: IwakiDaira revolt