HAVOC II ROUND 6 – Packet by Chuhern Hwang
1.Colonel Pickering prevents Alfred from hitting one character with this first name. Another character of this first name is accompanied by Mr. Gardiner to Pemberley and earlier saw her friend Charlotte Lucas marry Mr. Collins. One character by this name utters the phrase “not bloody likely!” while being trained in phonetics while another by this name loves Mr. Wickham before that man runs away with Lydia Bennett. FTP, give this name shared by Henry Higgin’s Cockney flower girl in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion and by the eventual lover of Mr. Darcy in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
A: Elizabeth [accept Doolittle until “first name;” accept Pygmalion until “character”]
2.Dmitri Kabalevsky wrote one of these pieces for Soviet youth, and Mozart’s twentieth is his only one in a minor key and his twenty-sixth is often called the “Coronation”. Franz Liszt wrote one of these for two of the solo instruments entitled “Pathetique”, and both Sergei Prokofiev and Maurice Ravel wrote ones for Paul Wittgenstein to be played only with the left hand. Beethoven’s fifth and final of these compositions is called the “Emperor”. FTP, name these pieces written for orchestra and solo piano.
A: Piano Concerto[prompt on concerto]
3.Practitioners of this school founded the nine-mountain monasteries in Silla. Some members of this sect experience Mushi dokugo, or “enlightenment alone,” although Dokuan Genko stated that roshi should not need approval from teachers. It was spread by Bodhidharma and it traces its roots to Sakyamuni plucking a white lotus before a sangha, the Flower Sermon. This school is also known for counterintuitive questions called koans, which include “what is the sound of one hand clapping?” FTP, name this school of Mahayana that promotes enlightenment through meditation, a branch of Buddhism common in China and Japan. A: Chan or Zen Buddhism [accept Thien or Seon Buddhism]
4.One of his earliest poems praised the “distant fire” of a “Proud Evening Star.” This author of Dream-Land wrote “But Evil things, in robes of sorrow/assailed the monarch’s high estate,” in The Haunted Palace, which Roderick recites in one of this man’s short stories. Another poem describes iron, brazen, golden, and silver types of an instrument, while other poems tell about a maiden in a kingdom by the sea and a creature that croaks “Nevermore.” FTP, name this American Dark Romantic author of The Fall of House of Usher, The Bells, Annabel Lee, and The Raven.
A: Edgar Allan Poe
5.This artist painted a lion hunt and a Jewish wedding after a trip to North Africa, during which he also painted a man in yellow riding a horse outside a yellow-walled city in The Sultan of Morocco. This artist also painted portraits of George Sand and Frederic Chopin and painted an Ottoman on horseback near a pile of dying Greeks in Massacre at Chios. Other works show a nude’s throat being slit as a king sits on his bed, and a work in which a man in a top hat marches next to a woman flying a tricolor. FTP, name this artist of The Death of Sardanapalus, a French Romantic who painted Liberty Leading the People.
A: Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix
6.This figure planted hazel, poplar, and chestnut near a watering hole so that a flock of goats would produce spotted and speckled offspring. He named the city of Bethel after dreaming that his brother, a guardian angel of Edom, climbed into the clouds on a ladder. This man who married Laban’s daughters disguised himself in sheepskin to receive the blessing of his father with the help of his mother, Rebecca. FTP, name this Biblical figure who fathered the twelve tribes of Israel and wrestled an angel, a son of Isaac and brother of Esau.
A: Jacob [Accept Yakub; prompt on Israel]
7.The Qutb Minar’s construction began under a dynasty of these people in northern India. This group defeated the forces of Hulegu Khan at the Battle of Ain Jalut, and members of this group also ruled the Delhi Sultanate in the Khilji Dynasty. Despite defeating the Mongols, this group was conquered by the janissaries of Selim I. This group’s leaders were killed in the Massacre of the Citadel by Muhammad Ali Pasha, and this group that had led the Bahri and Burji dynasties had earlier lost the Battle of the Pyramids and fought at Madrid under Napoleon. FTP, name these former rulers of Egypt, a group of Islamic slave soldiers.
A: Mamluks [or Mamelukes]
8.The 2008 edition of this event featured a set of eight terracotta men who had previously been displayed at Qizhong Stadium in Shanghai in 2007. Last year, this event also saw Zheng Jie pledge her winnings to Sichuan earthquake relief after she defeated Ana Ivanovic. Bjorn Borg won this five times in succession, and the Rosewater Dish has been awarded for the past two years to Venus Williams. FTP, name this tournament where last year’s five-set final saw Rafael Nadal end Roger Federer’s five successive titles, a grass-court tennis grand slam held at the All-England Club.
A: The Championships, Wimbledon
9.This province’s Tobeatic Game Reserve and Kejimkujik National Park inspired Albert Paine's The Tent Dwellers. It includes the town of Truro, near Cobequid Bay, which is part of the Minas Basin. This province includes Sable Island, as well as another island connected to the mainland by the Canso Causeway. That island contains the Bras d’Or Lake as well as the city of Sydney. The Cabot Trail runs through this province’s Cape Breton Highlands National Park, and its town of Yarmouth lies near the mouth of the Bay of Fundy. FTP, name this Canadian Maritime province with a capital at Halifax.
A: Nova Scotia
10.A Supreme Court case In re this man declared that it was within the power of the federal government to issue injunctions to regulate interstate trade. Grover Cleveland claimed that this man disrupted mail service to send the US Army to settle a strike led by this man against the Pullman Palace Car Company. Due to a speech he gave in Canton, he was imprisoned by President Wilson, and this man cooperated with Bill Haywood to found an organization more radical than the AFL. FTP, name this man who was imprisoned for violating the Espionage Act, a perennial Socialist candidate for president who helped found the Industrial Workers of the World.
A: Eugene Victor Debs
11.The Dicer enzyme is used to create fragments of these molecules that control the activeness of genes in a process known as these molecules’ interference. Okizaki fragments are added onto short strands of these molecules known as primers. Cloverleaf-shaped ones of these molecules carry an anticodon loop, while operons control the production of messenger types of these molecules that are translated by ribosomes. FTP, name these molecules with r-, t- and m- varieties, long strands of nucleotides that use uracil rather than thymine as a base.
A: RibonucleicAcid
12.In one play by this man, Arnolphe attempts to raise his ward Agnes to be an ideal wife and another of his plays tells of the moneylender Harpagon, whose love for money impedes the weddings of his children. In addition to The School for Wives and The Miser, he wrote a play in which Alceste loves Celimene but is frustrated with society. During a performance of a play about the hypochondriac Argan, this man collapsed, dying shortly thereafter. In another of his plays, Orgon is almost evicted from his own house by the titular religious hypocrite. FTP name this French playwright of The Misanthrope, The Imaginary Invalid, and Tartuffe.
A: Moliere[or Jean Baptiste Poquelin]
13.This ruler attempted to win over the Monophysites but failed because he contradicted the provisions of the Council of Chalcedon. This man's general Narses defeated the Ostrogoths at Taginae, while another of his generals defeated the Vandals in the reconquest of North Africa; that general Belisarius also helped defeat Hypatius, whom the Greens had backed in a civil unrest between chariot-racing factions, the Nika Riots. This ruler also ordered the construction of the Hagia Sophia. FTP, name this man who ordered a compilation of his empire’s civil law, a husband of Theodora and emperor of the Byzantines. A: Justinian I [or Justinian the Great]
14.This thinker postulated Sophia as the final stage of development of an aspect of males that has earlier stages known as Eve, Helen, and Mary. This psychologist also believed that people tend to connect causally unrelated events, and he influenced the Myer-Briggs Type Indicator with his ideas on personality. This man who postulated the ideas of synchronicity, anima and animus, and introversion and extroversion also formed the idea of a reservoir in the unconscious of human experience. FTP, name this thinker who came up with the idea of the collective unconscious, the Swiss founder of analytic psychology. A: Carl Gustav Jung
15.A major “accretion event” likely created Hoag’s Object, which is one of these objects, and the Antennae are a pair of interacting ones of these. Gerard de Vaucouleurs improved on a tuning-fork shaped morphological classification for these objects created by Edwin Hubble. Lenticular and elliptical are varieties of these entities that include the Andromeda one. FTP, name these types of celestial objects whose centers contain supermassive black holes, known for spiral ones such as the Milky Way.
A: Galaxy
16.This country is the setting which a harelipped gardener travels through in one novel, and yet another novel in this setting tells of a bakkie being stolen after Bam and Maureen Smales escape a civil war with their servant. In another novel set here, Stephen goes to the city in search of his sister Gertrude to find his son Absalom charged with murder. FTP, name this nation that is the setting of The Life and Times of Michael K,July’s People, and Cry, the Beloved Country, home to authors such as J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, and Alan Paton, who wrote against this nation’s apartheid.
A: Republic of South Africa
17.This man served as a general for Bento Gonçalves and helped take Santa Catarina in the War of the Tatters. The Tukory aided this man’s victory at the Battle of Milazzo, fought after his earlier success in helping the Colorados in Uruguay. This man’s forces won the Battle of Bezzecca in the Invasion of Trentino, in which he led the Hunters of the Alps. He led the Expedition of the Thousand, and despite his dislike for the Count Cavour, he fought the Kingdom of Two Sicilies for the Risorgimento. FTP, name this general who fought to unify Italy with his Redshirts.
A: Giuseppe Garibaldi
18.In statistics, this quantity is equal to one minus beta, or the Type II error, and is the probability of correctly rejecting a null hypothesis. The optical type of this is equal to the reciprocal of focal length of a lens. This term is defined as angular velocity multiplied by torque in rotational systems, and is defined as both I times R squared and as the current multiplied by the voltage drop in electrical systems. FTP, name this quantity that has a mechanical form equal to work over time, measured in watts.
A: Power
19.A man-eating monster of Aventine Hill once stole cattle which themselves were stolen by this man, who then dug out a mountain to kill Cacus. This man sacked Troy after Laomedon refused to give him the horses of Zeus, and he died after being poisoned by a shirt given by his wife, Deianira, after this man had earlier killed Nessus. He also killed some man-eating birds near Lake Stymphalia and rerouted the Alpheus and Peneus rivers so that in a single day he could clean the Augean Stables. FTP, name this Greek hero hated by Hera, who slew the Nemean Lion and the Hydra as part of his Twelve Labors.
A: Heracles or Hercules or Alcides [AcceptCacus until “this man”]
20.The United States became involved in a rebellion in this nation with a series of airstrikes named Operation Classic Resolve. In 2003, a group of soldiers in this nation led the Oakwood Mutiny against its current president. After winning another war here, the United States fought the Bolo War against its natives. A leader of this nation who put down the First Quarter Storm was deposed in the People Power Revolution of 1986, after which Corazon Aquino came to power. Emilio Aguinaldo fought for the independence of, FTP, what nation once ruled by Ferdinand Marcos, a predominately Catholic country ruled from Manila?
A: the Philippines
EXTRA TOSS-UP; only read if there is a tie
21.In addition to this procedure’s Fischer variety for finding trace amounts of water, another form of this process can be used to find the iso-electric points of colloids and is known as the zeta potential type. Finding the point of inflection of the curves for this method gives the equivalence point. This method usually involves a burette and commonly performed ones involve phenolphthalein turning pink. FTP, name this laboratory method in which a reagent and indicator are used to find the concentration of a reactant.
A: Titration
1.FTPE, Andrew Jackson invaded Florida during the first war with this group.
[10] Name this Native American group which fought against the U.S. under Osceola and was originally an offshoot of the Creek.
A: Seminole
[10] Andrew Jackson defied John Marshall’s ruling in Worcester v. Georgia by enacting the Indian Removal Act and sending the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole on this journey to Oklahoma.
A: Trail of Tears
[10] Later amended by the Burke Act, this 1887 legislation divided Indian reservations into privately-owned plots and tried to assimilate Indians into American culture.
A: Dawes Severalty Act
2.His works include The Savage Mind and The Raw and the Cooked. FTPE:
[10] Name this French founder of structural anthropology, author of The Elementary Forms of Kinship.
A: Claude Levi-Strauss
[10] Levi-Strauss studied the role of the Trickster in these tales; Camus wrote about one of these “of Sisyphus.”
A: Myths
[10] This American comparative mythologist explored the development of an archetype in The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
A: Joseph John Campbell
3.This work was originally found above the doorway of its artist’s The Gates of Hell. FTPE:
[10] Name this sculpture showing a man resting his chin on his hand in meditation.
A: The Thinker [Accept Le Penseur or The Poet]
[10] The Thinker is a sculpture by this French artist who also depicted a scene from the Hundred Years’ War in The Burghers of Calais as well as several from the Inferno, including The Kiss.
A: Auguste Rodin
[10] Rodin was accused of casting this life-size male nude based on Michelangelo’s Dying Slave from a living model.
A: The Age of Bronze [or L’age d’airain]
4.FTPE, Their officers included centurions and tribunes, and they were at various times divided into cohorts or maniples.
[10] Name these units of the Roman army, several of which were destroyed at the battle of Teutoburg Forest.
A: Legions
[10] This general allied with King Bocchus to capture Jugurtha before fighting a civil war against Marius. He used his legions to march on and secure power over Rome.
A: Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix
[10] This rich Roman general had gold poured down his throat after losing the Battle of Carrhae to the Parthians, though he is perhaps better known for being part of the First Triumvirate. A: Marcus Licinius Crassus
5.The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral lies atop this city’s Toompea Hill. FTPE:
[10] Name this city that is the capital of Estonia.
A: Tallinn
[10] Tallinn lies on the Gulf of Finland, which is an arm of this sea which includes the Rugen and Oland islands and which the Vistula River empties into.
A: Baltic Sea
[10] Vaasa is a port on this northern portion of the Baltic Sea, which is sandwiched between Finland and Sweden.
A: Gulf of Bothnia
6.One of these in Greek myth moved around the sea so that Leto would have a place to safely give birth. FTPE:
[10] Name this geographical feature, several of which were created using fishhooks in one story in which a god tricks his brothers into pulling these features up.
A:islands
[10] That god is part of the mythology of this island group, whose other deities include Pele, a goddess of fire and volcanoes whose current home is considered to be Kilauea.
A: Hawaii [Accept Hawaiian Islands or State of Hawaii]
[10] This Hawaiian trickster god and namesake of a Hawaiian island tricked his brothers into pulling up the islands and also climbed Haleakala to lasso the sun.
A: Maui
7.In this novel, Wilson cares for the protagonist after mistakenly believing he is shot. FTPE: