2005 Chicago Open
Round 2 Tossups
1. Their namesake International Bureau was started in 1941 to address concerns with foreign policy. Members of the so-called “Second Generation” ones included Richard Tawney and Harry Laski. Two of the original ones wrote such works as The Five Children and It and The Ancient Wisdom, and many of them had previously belonged to the Fellowship of New Life. The aforementioned writers Edith Nesbit and Annie Besant were two of the major women associated with it along with Beatrice Webb. G.B. Shaw was also a member of, FTP, what British socialist society that began in the late 19th-century?
Answer: Fabian Society or Fabians
2. His chief non-poetic work is the collection of stories and sketches, The Butterfly of Dinard. In the next decade he curtailed his poetry writing following the publication of his series of love poems to his wife in Xenia. Yet it was the American Dante scholar Irma Brandeis who appeared more often in his poems, in the figure of Clizia. In Harmony and Pastels and Satura he moved away from the pessimism of earlier collections like The House of the Customs Officer and Occasions. That earlier darkness is best seen in Cuttlefish Bones, in which he uses the various symbols of the Ligurian coast. FTP, name this winner of the 1975 Nobel in Literature, who won 16 years after fellow Hermetic poet and fellow Italian, Salvatore Quasimodo.
Answer: Eugenio Montale
3. Its name refers to either a local tree or to the “Hidden Goddess,” whose shrine is located in the western part of the city.
Among the buildings of its Muslim period are Lal Bagh fort and the tomb of Bibi Pari. It entered a period of decline when the provincial capital was moved to Murshidabad, but it later became capital of two provinces, one of which was Assam. It became the national capital after the 1971 war of independence. At present it has nearly twice the population of Chittagong, its country’s second largest city. FTP, name this former capital of East Bengal and current capital of Bangladesh.
Answer: Dhaka
4. Its anatomical neck is obliquely directed, forming an obtuse angle with the body and has a narrow groove separating the head from the tubercles. Two pits at its distal end are known as the coronoid fossa and the olecranon fossa, and the other end articulates with the glenoid cavity. Its intertubercular groove is the site where the teres major and pectoralis major insert, while its proximal portion is the site of attachment of the rotator cuffs. FTP, name this long bone that extends from the shoulder to the elbow.
Answer: humerus
5. According to one legend she entered into a bargain with Poseidon that resulted in his gaining the island of Calauria. When she was prevented from drinking water from a well, she turned all of the natives of Lycia into frogs. She had a sibling who killed herself by jumping into the sea, Asteria, and had children who saved her from rape at the hands of Tityus. The daughter of Coeus and Phoebe, she was helped by Boreas after escaping the watch of Argus and the threat of the dragon Python. She finally came to Delos and gave birth, soon after which one of her children killed Python. FTP, name this lover of Zeus who bore his twin children, Apollo and Artemis.
Answer: Leto
6. This book’s final chapter begins by asserting an aristocratic caste is fundamental to the ennoblement of the human species, while the previous chapter cites Stendahl, Heine, and Napoleon as men who have risen above their own nationality. In the sixth chapter the author distinguishes between philosophers and “philosophical laborers” and defines true genius as “one who either begets or gives birth.” The preface begins with the question, “Supposing truth is a woman—what then?” and the work moves on to exploring the dogmatism of philosophers. This is all done over the course of nine chapters followed by a poem and consisting of 296 aphorisms. FTP, name this overview of the mature philosophy of Friedrich Nietszche.
Answer: Beyond Good and Evil (or Jenseits von Gut und Bose)
7. He argued for a specific type of government in his pamphlet “Political Reveries” and played to the peasant class with a better-known pamphlet, “Extinction of Pauperism.” He was captured by Austrian troops while rebelling against their rule in another nation, ironic as he would reach the Villafranca Peace with Austria almost thirty years later. His second capture led to a six-year imprisonment in a castle known as the “university of Ham.” His father ruled as Lodewijk I [lo-duh-wik] king of Holland for almost five years before going into exile, which this man did 61 years later by going to Britain. FTP, name this man who was captured at Sedan in 1871, bringing his 19 years as emperor of France to an end.
Answer: Napoleon III or Louis Napoleon
8. Among the religious figures in this novel are Sophie, who lives with nuns, and Father Anselme, who arranges the final meeting between two of the central characters. Vresac and Prevan are two fops and the latter is ruined for bragging about his sexual abilities. Meanwhile, Azolan, the protagonist’s servant, is rewarded for his sleeping around and procures such information as the true intent of Danceny. It is Danceny who murders Azolan’s master near the end in a duel fought over the honor of young Cecile Volanges. Cecile had been caught up in the schemes hatched by the Marquise de Merteuil [mur-toy] and the Vicomte de Valmont. FTP, name this 18th-century epistolary novel by Choderlos de Laclos.
Answer: Dangerous Liaisons (or Les liaisons dangereuse)
9. Picard’s theorem states that any function which has this property on the entire complex plane must either omit no more than one value from its range or be constant, and Liouville’s theorem says that any function which has this property on the entire complex plane and is bounded is constant, which can be used to prove the fundamental theorem of algebra. FTP, what is this property of a function, indicating that it is infinitely differentiable and hence can be represented as a Taylor series?
Answer: analytic or holomorphic
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10. His first major works were a series of etchings modeled on Renaissance prints he called “Inventions,” the most famous of which was Two Men Meet, Each Believing the Other to Be of Higher Rank. He attempted watercolors as in Red and White Domes, and moved on watercolor to oil transfer as in Room Perspective With Inhabitants and one of his more famous works. A pointillist style is seen in his largest canvas, Ad Parnassum, and his preoccupation with his own mortality is the subject of the late masterpiece Death and Fire. FTP, name this artist who discussed his methods in his Pedagogical Sketchbook, the Swiss painter of Twittering Machine.
Answer: Paul Klee [klay]
11. An adaptation of it featured a song with the lines “When the nay sayers nay you pick up your pace, / So nothing’s going to stop me so get out of my face.” A woman named Gennice replaces the actress playing the title character in that adaptation, an actress who is fond of pineapple ices. Buckles wanted to see the original, which was showing at the Paradise and the Paragon and out the same time as Check Mate. The musical was troubled by a softball accident to the lead, Bette Midler. FTP, name this film of a young girl’s erotic journey from Milan to Minsk, which featured prominently in some Seinfeld episodes.
Answer: Rochelle, Rochelle
12. His later appointments were marred by constant quarrels with Commissary James Blair. Among those subordinates with whom he quarreled were John Fenwick, whom he had imprisoned, and Walter Clarke. Like his father, he served as the crown’s commander on Guernsey, his final political post. His reputation never recovered from his disputes with Philip Carteret and his stints in charge of Maryland and Virginia. Even more damaging was his overthrow, arrest, and deportation from Boston. FTP, name this man responsible for colonists hiding their charter in the Charter Oak, the despotic English head of the Dominion of New England in the late 17th-century.
Answer: Edmund Andros
13. First name’s the same. It identifies John Grimes’ mother in James Baldwin’s Go Tell it on the Mountain, and George Willard’s mother in Winesburg, Ohio. It is Robert Martin’s sister and former best friend of Harriet Smith in Emma, and also the eldest sister of Anne, therefore the oldest child of Sir Walter Elliot, in Persuasion. In a Virginia Woolf novel it names the only daughter of Richard and Clarissa Dalloway, and in The Mayor of Casterbridge it is paired with Jane to give the name of Michael Henchard’s dead child. Another character of this name eventually becomes the sister-in-law of Georgiana and sees her best friend Charlotte Lucas marry a former suitor, the pompous Mr. Collins. FTP, give the common name, the last of whom is second oldest of the Bennet sisters in Pride and Prejudice.
Answer: Elizabeth (or Lizzy or Lisbeth)
14. In the Coulomb gauge it is chosen to be divergence-free, while in the Lorentz gauge its divergence is set to the negative time derivative of the scalar potential. Though it was long thought not to have any physical meaning, the Aharanov-Bohm effect showed that even when the magnetic field is zero, the nonzero value of this can have a physical effect. Any gauge transformation which adds the gradient of a scalar to this quantity will not affect the physical B-field. FTP, what is this quantity, whose curl is the magnetic field?
Answer: vector potential
15. Thomas Arne used the same libretto for an opera of the same name 45 years later. Act III opens with a nautical tune and Act I ends begins and ends in a cave. The work opens with a French overture before continuing on a homophonic chorus in minuet rhythm, “Fear no danger.” The first act closes with the Echo Dance of the Furies and the entire work closes with the elegiac chorus “With drooping wings.” Better known singing numbers are “Come away, fellow sailors” and the aria sung before the titular woman dies in Belinda’s arms, “When I am laid in earth.” FTP, name this opera that debuted at Josias Priest’s Boarding School for Girls with a libretto by Nahum Tate, the masterwork of Henry Purcell.
Answer: Dido and Aeneas
16. Their own tradition describes their first migration under a leader known only as Ibor. A couple of centuries later they broke up into a series of local duchies for a decade after the death of their king Cleph. Their name supposedly derived from a joke told by Odin, one of the tales related by their chief historian Paul the Deacon. After the ascension of Authari they had an uninterrupted royal line until the time of Desiderius, their last king. Their power reached to Spoleto and Benevento but was centered in Pavia and Ravenna. FTP, identify this people who were finally crushed in the late 8th-century by Charlemagne and whose name survives in a region of northern Italy.
Answer: the Lombards
17. In his second appearance we learn that his mother is a Christian Scientist and of how Billy Tabeshaw and Dick Boulton cheated his father. He talks with his friend Bill about their mutual love of the Cardinals after having broken up with his girlfriend Marjorie in “The End of Something.” His pregnant girlfriend Helen appears in “Cross-Country Snow” as does his uncle George, who also was also present in this character’s first appearance, “Indian Camp.” In a better-known tale he returns home after World War I in “BigTwo-HeartedRiver.” FTP, name this figure introduced in the collection In Our Time and who also appears in “The Killers,” a character present in numerous Ernest Hemingway stories.
Answer: Nick Adams
18. They can be made by reacting an imine with hydronium and be catalytically hydrogenated by Raney nickel, though sodium borohydride works faster. Only their methyl variety can undergo the iodoform reaction, while many of them can me made by reacting a corresponding nitrile with an organolithium reagent. In the presence of chromium VI or potassium dichromate they can be created by oxidation of a secondary but not primary alcohol. FTP, name these organic compounds that do not react in the Tollens test, and whose simplest member is acetone.
Answer: ketones
19. After leaving the cabinet he went to England and Holland to negotiate loans for the cities of Georgetown and Alexandra. Later, as the U.S. agent in London in 1836, he received the bequest by which James Smithson founded the Smithsonian Institution. He served in three cabinet posts – first as Madison’s attorney general and last as John Quincy Adams’ treasury secretary, though his best-known accomplishment came in between. He also ran for vice president on a losing ticket in 1828 with John Quincy Adams. By then he had already concluded an agreement demilitarizing the U.S.-Canadian border. FTP, name this man who, as acting secretary of state, negotiated an 1817 accord with British minister Charles Bagot.
Answer: Richard Rush
20. The introduction to this work’s third part begins with a description of the author’s encounter with a Malaysian man who knocked at his door. The woman who answered the door was the lovely Barbara Lewthwaite, the subject of another man’s poem “The Pet Lamb.” Later on the author mentions the help of his wife Margaret Simpson during his time at Dove Cottage, and that third and final part ends with the declaration “I will sleep no more!” The first part dealt with the author’s early life, such things as his time in Wales and his encounter with the young prostitute Ann. Published anonymously in the fall of 1821 and including sections on the “Pleasures” and “Pains” of the titular substance, FTP, name this work by Thomas De Quincey.
Answer: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
2005 Chicago Open
Round 2 Bonuses
1. He subverted the common usage of the time in his essay “On Gusto,” defining the word as power or passion defining any object. FTP each—
A. Name this man whose other essays include “My First Acquaintance with Poets,” The Pleasure of Hating, and those collected in Table Talk.
Answer: William Hazlitt
B. According to Hazlitt, among those literary works with Gusto are those of this man, who became famous for his collaboration with Charles Montagu on a 1687 parody of Dryden’s The Hind and the Panther. His own poems include “Solomon on the Vanity of the World” and “Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind”
Answer: Matthew Prior
C. Hazlitt concludes the essay by claiming that if this famous work by John Gay is not full gusto then “we are altogether mistaken in our notions on this delicate subject.”
Answer: The Beggar’s Opera
2. Name these people or battles important in Cyrus’ establishment of the Persian Empire, FTP each:
A. Cyrus began his conquest by overthrowing this Median king, the son of Cyaxares, and, according to Herodotus, Cyrus’ grandfather.
Answer: Astyages
B. With his defeat of Croesus, the last king of this notoriously wealthy empire in Asia-Minor, Cyrus’ conquest was almost complete.
Answer: Lydia
C. Cyrus’ defeated and captured Croesus at this 546 BC battle fought near the gates of Sardis, the Lydian capital.
Answer: battle of Thymbra
3. Name these things relating to organometallic chemistry reactions, FTP each:
A. In this type of synthesis reaction two molecules of an alkyl bromide are added to two molecules of sodium to produce two of those alkyls bonded together and two molecules of sodium bromide.
Answer: Wurtz Reaction
B. Commonly written in the form R-Mg-X, where R is an alkyl group and X is either bromine, chlorine, or iodine, are these extremely reactive compounds named for their French discoverer.
Answer: Grignard reagents
C. Typically based on titanium tetrachloride and triethylaluminum are these catalysts used in the production of unbranched, stereoregular polyalkene polymers.
Answer: Ziegler-Natta catalysts (names may be reversed; prompt on partial answer)
4. Name these works by Francisco Goya, FTP each:
A. It is said that even today the imperious stare of Queen Maria Luisa stops visitors to the Prado who pass by Goya’s depiction of the family of this monarch.
Answer: Charles IV
B. Drawn from a contemporary play by Antonio de Zamora, this canvas shows a priest who believes his life will last only as long as he can keep the devil’s lamp lit, which he does by pouring oil on the lamp.
Answer: The Bewitched Man
C. At the front center of this canvas is a Spanish citizen stabbing a white horse belonging to the cavalry of Murat, four members of which are still alive and hold their swords raised to slash at other Spaniards.