GHETTO WARZ 2006 PACKET 3
BY LUKE HARDMAN, SCOTT CALLAGHAN, ZACH WITEOF, CHRIS KRUEGER, MARC SPRARAGEN, GRACE CHENG, NICK POLK, MIK LARSEN, YOGESH RAUT, ADAM BENKATO, and VICTOR LEE
1. (Mik) Like Jesus, Jim Caviezel also was in a movie about him. Based in part from the memoir of Jacques Peuchet, he is betrayed by Fernand and the cargo chief Danglars, because the package he carries from Marshall Bertrand is addressed to the local procurator’s father, a known Bonapartist. Only ten years later, after assuming the names Lord Wilmore, Abbe Busoni, and Sinbad the Sailor, can he earn his revenge on Villefort. A wrongfully accused prison escapee, FTP, name this Alexandre Dumas title character.
A: The Count of Monte Cristo
2. (Luke) The Austrian-Czech physicist who gave it its name also lends his name to inaccurately light and dark bands the eye sees at edges of luminance gradients. This quantity often used in fluid dynamics can be mixed with the Prandtl [prandle] equation and ratio of specific heats, gamma, to determine a pressure ratio before and after a shock. On aircraft, it’s derived from a combination of impact pressure in a Pitot tube, and static pressure. FTP, name this quantity that varies at different altitudes, which describes the ratio between the speed of an object and the local speed of sound.
A: Mach Number
3. (Adam) The oldest god in the Sumerian pantheon, he came to be regarded as the father of all the gods after the Akkadian conquest in 2134 BCE. He was also considered a judge of criminals, and it was believed he created the stars as soldiers against the wicked. Part of a trinity with the sky god Enlil and the water god Enki, FTP, name this Sumerian, Assyrian, and Babylonian deity closely associated with Uruk, as the father of the Annunaki often depicted as a jackal.
Anu
4. (Nick) His father proposed the use of the Greek letter “pi” to symbolize the relationship of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. As a young man, he learned Greek, Latin, Persian, Arabic, and a little Chinese, proving himself a linguistic prodigy. He went on to study law, and was eventually appointed to the Supreme Court of Bengal in 1783. While in India, he continued to display a passion for languages, authoring The Sanscrit Language, in which he noted many similarities between European and Sanskrit words. FTP, identify this famous British philologist, who first proposed the early existence of an Indo-European language.
Sir WilliamJones
5. (Chris) The origin of the myth that "we only use 10% of our brains", these cells vastly outnumber neurons and until recently were not thought to participate in signal transduction. Of the various types are ependymal cells that help to circulate the cerebrospinal fluid and radial cells, which form a scaffold along which immature neurons move. As oligodendrocytes and Schwann cells, name for ten points this cell type that aids in saltatory conduction by depositing the myelin sheaths about neuron axons.
Glia, or glial cells
6. (garen)This author’s popularity waned by the end of his life; his obituary mislabeled him as “Henry.” Early novels such as Typee, White-Jacket, and Omoo were well-received, and Battle-Pieces played upon popular interest in the Civil War. However, his best-known work today didn’t sell out the first run of 3000 during his life and made less than $600, despite being, like his novel Redburn, based on his maritime adventures. Name , FTP, this author of Bartleby the Scrivener, Billy Budd, and Moby Dick.
A: Herman Melville.
7. (Luke) She turned up her nose as she walked by my Cadillac/From the corner of my eye I saw you and you laughed/ You were sittin' on the swing on your front porch/Paintin' your nails like you were bored/ And you yelled "She was sure impressed with you" begins this song by Sawyer Brown that, FTP, finishes the phrase: Some girls don't like boys like me/Awww, but...
A: Some Girls Do
8. (Mik) At the battle’s inception, the Rumelian army was routed by troops under Pal Tomori, but tables turned, and Louis II of Bohemia died in the flight across a river in Csele. It led to the dissolution of Hungary soon after – Austria moved in to dominate modern-day Croatia, while Suleiman’s forces occupied Transylvania and greater Hungary and prepared for the siege of Vienna three years later. Decided by heavy artillery, FTP, what 1526 battle marked the high point of Ottoman successes in Europe?
A: Battle of Mohacs(1526)
9. (Victor) The births of Leonardo da Vinci, Catherine the Great, and Henry James. The deaths of Pol Pot, Greta Garbo, and Jean-Paul Sartre. The opening of the first McDonald's restaurant. The first time Jackie Robinson played for the Brooklyn Dodgers. The death of Abraham Lincoln and the swearing in of Andrew Johnson. At about 2:20AM in 1912, the sinking of the RMS Titanic. 94 years later, Ghetto Warz: Shrimp on the Klaus Barbie. FTP, all of these events all take place in different years on what calendar day, today, also famous for being Tax Day?
April 15th
10. (Zach) They can become poisoned, and come in heterogenous and homogenous varieties depending on whether or not they are in the same phase as their surroundings.In the case of the Ziegler-Natta one, they have been used to mass-produce polymers such as polyethylene and polypropylene, and are also utilized to reduce harmful emissions in engines. A more famous reaction involving them produces ammonia and is known as the Haber Process. FTP, name these substances, examples of which also include enzymes, which greatly speed and allow reactions to take place at lower temperatures by lowering the activation energy needed for a reaction to proceed.
ANSWER:Catalyst
11. (Zach) An attempt by the KGB fails to frame West Germany in a terrorist attack, and alerts NATO to the intentions of the Soviet Union to invade. This is a result of an Azerbaijani attack on a large Soviet oil refinery, which severely cripples their oil reserves. The Politburo decideson war, striking fast and scoring a coup by capturingIceland. The war stalemates, with NATO forces continually falling back and the advance is halted through the use of stealth aircraft. A coup in the Politburo stops the threat of nuclear weapon use at the end of, FTP, what 1986 novel, that does not feature Jack Ryan, by Tom Clancy.
ANSWER: Red Storm Rising
12. (Mik) The mirror depicts only the rear side of a boxy black clock and one of the two golden candlesticks, which are empty and unlit, and barely contrast with the brown wood-paneled floor and mottled gray wall. Also empty is the fireplace, except for whitish-gray steam and the black mechanical object hovering-mid motion. With a clock stopped at roughly 8:03, FTP, what is this 1938 Rene Magritte painting, depicting a small train emerging from the aforementioned fireplace?
A: Time Transfixed
13. (Nick) In 1905, he lost two fingers from his left hand at the battle of Tsushima, while serving as an ensign. Years later, he enrolled at HarvardUniversity, and as a student was once hired to do gardening work on a Massachusetts farm. Politically, throughout the 1920s, he was opposed to the millitarization of his country. When he participated in the London Naval Conference in 1930, he outraged many by accepting limitations on Japan’s naval armaments. FTP, identify this Japanese admiral who eventually planned the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, and later lost the Battle of Midway.
Isoroku Yamamoto
14. (Yogesh)John Reed, author of Ten Days That Shook the World and subject of the movie Reds. Writer George Plimpton. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Updike. The Munsters star Fred Gwynne. Humorist Robert Benchley and late-night talk-show host Conan O’Brien, each twice. FTP, these people, along with the son of New York Times columnist Frank Rich, have all been president of what undergraduate organization, which publishes the world’s longest-running humor magazine?
Answer: Harvard Lampoon (prompt on “Harvard” or “Lampoon”; do not accept “National Lampoon”)
15. (Scott) Pollard’s p minus 1, Williams’ p plus 1, and Pollard’s rho are all examples of this kind of algorithm. The general number field one is the most efficient currently known, though Lenstra’s elliptic curve algorithm is faster for small n, as it searches for smooth numbers. The simplest is probably a modification of Dixon’s method, as it searches for integers a and b satisfying a squared minus b squared equals n, since the left side can be reduced to a plus b times a minus b, giving the values of interest. FTP, all these approaches attempt to do what quickly, important in cryptography?
A: fast integer factoring
16. (Yogesh) The bull terrier that won “Best in Show” at the 130th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in February 2006. The prolific French actor who played Amélie’s father in Amélie. Griswold, the nemesis of Edgar Allan Poe who slandered him after he died. King, the US Senator who ran for president in 1816 on the Federalist party ticket. His grandson, another King, a Union Civil War general. George Carlin’s character in the “Bill and Ted” movies. FTP, give the first name that these individuals share with Chris Rock’s character in Dogma, singer Wainwright, actor Sewell, and a band fronted by Chaka Khan.
Answer: Rufus (accept “Ch Rocky Top's Sundance Kid” before end of first sentence only)
17. (Adam) One of his teachers, Ashcan School artist Robert Henri, told him to use his art to “make a stir in the world,” and trips to Europe engrossed him in the realism he would display in work son solitude like House by the Railroad.. His painting depicts common American scenes, such as empty streets or gas stations, in urban settings like Office in a Small City or rural ones like Gas. FTP, name this 20th century American painter, whose most famous work is probably Nighthawks.
Edward Hopper
18. (Adam) Herodotus claimed they migrated from Lydia in Anatolia shortly following the Trojan War. Dionysius of Halicarnassus argued that they were of local extraction, like modern scholars,who trace their roots to the Iron Age Villanova culture. Their language was largely extinct by the first century AD – the Emperor Claudius was one of the last to know it. FTP, of what ancient northern Italian people, whose dominance was ended by the Romans with the destruction of Veii in 396 BC.
Etruscans
19. (Mik)Named by botanist David Douglas, it was originally proposed as a boundary to settle the Oregon Dispute of 1846, and Forts Nisqually and Puyallup guarded paths across it used by traders of the Hudson Bay Colony until British Columbia was created in 1858. MountThielsen is its “lighting rod”, its Three Sisters are near Bend, and Barlow Road was the last part of the Oregon Trail that crossed, FTP, what volcanic mountain range of the Pacific Northwest that includes MountLassen, Mount Hood, and Mount Rainier?
A: The Cascade Range (Accept Canadian Cascades until Mt.Thielsen mentioned)
20.(Yogesh) Jennifer Wu won the 2004 Jeopardy! Teen Tournament by being the only contestant to correctly identify it. It is the official sister city of Allentown, Pennsylvania. Its most noteworthy building is the ContiGuidiCastle, which contains a museum dedicated to its most famous native son. Opposite the castle is a sculpture by Mario Ceroli inspired by the “VitruvianMan.” FTP, name this Tuscan village best known as the birthplace of the painter of “The Last Supper.”
Answer: Vinci
21. (Marc) This religion was founded in 1958 or 1959 by the possibly fictitious Malaclypse the Younger. It has strict dietary rules, most prominently “no hot dog buns.” Its symbol is the Sacred Chao [cow], a yin-yang looking symbol also known as the “hodge-podge.” One side of the Sacred Chao holds a depiction of a golden apple labeled “Kallisti” (for the fairest); this apple is sacred to Eris, the patron goddess of the religion. FTP, only if you feel like it, give the name of the religion, whose foundational document is the “Principia Discordia.”
A: Discordianism
BONI
1. (Marc) Given a number of cities and the cost of going between any two of them, what is the cheapest route that hits all cities once and then goes back to the start city?
a. This is a description of, FTP, which combinatorial optimization problem?
TheTraveling Salesman Problem or TSP
b. FTP, the TSP belongs to which complexity class of problems?
Function Problem-NP complete or FP-NP complete or NP-hard
c. FTP, the graph theory analog of the TSP states: within a complete weighted graph, find a [blank] with the least weight.
Hamiltonian cycle (do not accept “Hamilton[ian] path”)
2. (nick) FTPE, identify these works by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
(10) In this highly symbolic four-part work, Nietzsche creates his own prophet who heralds the coming of the “Overman” (sometimes also referred to as the “Superman”).
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
(10) This 1887 work, consisting of three long essays, details his theory of “Slave and Master Moralities.”
On the Genealogy of Morals
(10) This is Nietzsche’s autobiography, whose title is taken from the Vulgate.
Ecce Homo
3. (Adam) For ten points each, name these figures from Carolingian history:
This ‘Mayor of the Palace’ stopped Moorish forces at Tours in 732 CE.
Charles Martel
Although he was declared King of the Franks in 771 CE, he was not crowned Holy Roman Emperor until 800 CE.
Charlemagne (accept equivalents)
This son of Charlemagne was nicknamed ‘the Fair’ or ‘the Debonair’ and was the last to rule over a unified Frankish kingdom.
Louis the Pious (also Louis I)
4. (Scott) Given a description, name the Australian city, FTPE:
A. Claming to be the most isolated capital city in the world at 2700 miles from Sydney, 80% of the population of Western Australia live here, on the shore of the Indian Ocean.
Answer: Perth
B. Named after the wife of King William IV, this city nestled between Gulf St. Vincent and the LoftyRanges is one of the few cities in Australia that was not settled by convicts.
Answer: Adelaide
C. This city just south of the Great Dividing Range on Port Phillip Bay is the capital of Victoria and Australia’s second largest city.
Answer: Melbourne
5. (Chris) Answer these questions about blood types for ten points each.
The A and B antigens that cause the ABO blood type are synthesized from a precursor H antigen. If an individual inherits a pair of recessive genes that do not produce functional H antigen, they will not express any of the ABO blood types and have this rare condition, named for the city in which it was discovered.
Bombay phenotype
In addition to ABO system anitgens, the Rh system also differentiates blood from individuals. Rh stands for what organism in which this factor was first discovered?
Rhesus monkey
When an Rh negaive mother gives birth to an Rh positive child she develops antibodies against the Rh factor, and her later children are at risk of Rh disease, where maternal antibodies cross the placenta and attack fetal blood. Based on this, to what class of immunoglobulins do anti-Rh antibodies belong?
IgG
6. (Yogesh) F5PE, say if these films were directed by Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, both, or neither.
Suspiria (1977)
Answer: neither
Blowup (1966)
Answer: Antonioni
Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
Answer: Fellini
8½ (“eight and a half”) (1963)
Answer: Fellini
Love in the City (1953)
Answer: both
The Bicycle Thief (1948)
Answer: neither
7. (Yogesh) FTPE, answer these questions about the first use of the “temporary insanity” defense in the US legal system.
The defense was first used by this Civil War general, who shot and killed his wife’s lover in 1859. He and his wife later reconciled.
Answer: Daniel Sickles
Sickles’ wife’s lover, Philip, was the son of this prominent Maryland lawyer who wrote the 1814 poem “Defence of Fort McHenry.” That poem later became more famous under another title.
Answer: Francis Scott Key
Sickles’ lawyer was this future Secretary of War, whose dismissal led to the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson.
Answer: Edwin Stanton
9. (Adam) F15PE, name the composers from clues.
1. The Italian composer who made the transition from Renaissance to Baroque music, he is known for his many madrigals, and for what is perhaps the first opera, Orfeo.
Claudio Monteverdi
2. The subject of an opera by Hans Pfitzner, this 16th century Italian composer composed over 100 madrigals, composed the Pope Marcellus Mass and Mass in B Minor, and was known as the “Savior of Church Music”.
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina(either acceptable)
10. (Marc) Identify these waves FTPE.
a. This partially static wave is categorized by the presence of nodes: points on the wave medium that don’t seem to move at all. The wave can be observed in a jump rope held at both ends and oscillated at just the right frequency.