IMSANITY Packet 3

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IMSANITY Packet 3

TOSSUPS

1. One philosopher from this country stated that “all human reality has been replaced by symbols” in Simulacra and Simulation. One man from this country defined différance and wrote Of Grammatology. This country is also the origin of the concept of biopower and the Great (*) Confinement , both of which were coined by a philosopher who attempted suicide several times, possibly due to difficulty grappling with his homosexuality. Suicide was written by a philosopher from this country, Emile Durkheim, while another thinker from this country wrote Discourse on Inequality and The Social Contract. For 10 points, name this country that is home to Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

ANSWER: France <Mathew>

2. For five years, this empire was ruled in name by Andres de Tapia Motelchiuh. One ruler of this civilization named “water monster” built a garrison at Oztuma. A famous account of these people was compiled by the friar Bernardino de Sahagun. City-states within this empire were divided into regions known as calpolli. A monumental sculpture known as the Stone of (*)Tizoc was created by this civilization. These people fought several ritual “flower wars” against the enemy states of Cholula, Huejotzingo, and Tlaxcala. Forces led by Hernan Cortes in this empire were initially repulsed on La Noche Triste, but it was conquered in 1521. For 10 points, name this 16th-century Mexican empire whose rulers included Montezuma II.
ANSWER: Aztecs <Sivakumar>

3. This man argued that quantum mechanics acts like classical mechanics at large quantum numbers; that is his correspondence principle. Magnetization equals the Brillouin function multiplied by N, J, the g-factor, and a quantity named for this man. This man is the first namesake of a theorem that determines that magnetism cannot be explained by classical mechanics and is purely a quantum phenomenon; the second namesake of that theorem is van Leeuwen. The magnetic moment of an electron is nearly (*) 1 when expressed in units of this man’s magneton. Another constant named after this man is equal to h-bar over electron mass times c times alpha, and is denoted a sub 0. This man derived the Rydberg formula using a model he developed where electrons were most likely to be found at his namesake radius. For 10 points, name this Danish physicist who created a model of the atom where electrons move in circular, quantized orbits.

ANSWER: Niels Bohr <Hao>

4. This writer died while writing the first play of a planned trilogy, The Blind Beauty. The line “The murmurs ebb; onto the stage I enter” begins a poem by this author, who opened another work with the poem “In Memory of the Demon.” The best-known work by this writer of Themes and Variations and My Sister - Life includes poems like “The Garden of Gethsemane” and “Holy Week,” as well as the aforementioned (*) “Hamlet”. This author was denounced in an article titled “Reactionary Propaganda Uproar over a Literary Weed” after winning the 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature. His most famous novel includes characters such as Antipov, Yuri, and Lara. For 10 points, name this Russian author of Doctor Zhivago.

ANSWER: Boris Pasternak <Sivakumar>

5. Two years after taking power, this man abolished the Regional Economic Councils created by his predecessor. Near the beginning of this politician’s rule, Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel were given a show trial and sent to prison camps for publishing satirical writings abroad. Several of this man’s policies were opposed by Alexei Kosygin. During an astronaut parade, this man’s foreign minister Andrei (*) Gromyko was assassinated. Under this man and two of his successors, his country became mired in the Era of Stagnation. This man, who authorized the invasion of Czechoslovakia to stop the Prague Spring, was succeeded in his most famous post by Yuri Andropov in 1982. For 10 points, name this man who replaced Nikita Khrushchev as leader of the USSR.

ANSWER: Leonid Brezhnev <Sivakumar>

6. This painter’s chalk self-portraits include one at the age of seventeen and a later portrait “as a figure of horror”. This artist painted over his work The Strawberry Girl to create a portrait of a young girl in a yellow dress, The Age of Innocence. A corpulent admiral holds a saber and stares directly at the viewer in one of his portraits of Augustus Keppel. In opposition to this man’s influence, the(*) Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was formed. In one work by this painter, allegories of Pity and Terror appear behind an actress depicted as Melpomene. This man introduced his idea of the “grand style” in his lecture series Discourses of Art, and he painted Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse. For 10 points, name this British painter who founded the Royal Academy of Arts.

ANSWER: Joshua Reynolds<Sivakumar>

7. One chapter of this work discusses “sleep crawling,” and a later chapter states that parents should focus on teaching their children how to think rather than what to think. Another section of this work describes a ritual where umbilical cords are thrown into the sea in order to bring good luck for fishing. This work states that some women are appointed to the position of taupo, in which she prepares the kava ceremony and must maintain her virginity, but (*) chicken blood supposedly could be used to avoid such an appointment. Derek Freeman accused the author of this book of falling for a “fateful hoaxing” in a work subtitled “The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth.” For 10 points, name this book which profiles the youth from the island of Ta’u written by Margaret Mead.

ANSWER: Coming of Age in Samoa <McLain>

8. Antibodies binding to these proteins are characteristic of drug-induced lupus. PAD4 citrullinates these proteins, one of which is replaced by CENP-C and CENP-A at a certain location. Sodium butyrate inhibits enzymes that modify certain amino acids on these proteins. Dimers of these proteins often form a motif that looks like a handshake. Trithroax and Polycomb proteins can modifythese proteins, which can form thirty-nanometer(*) fibers in a zigzag pattern. These proteins contain lots of arginine and lysine residues, and they are methylated, acetylated, and phosphorylated for epigenetic regulation. Families of these highly-conserved proteins are labeled 1, 2A, 2B, 3, and 4. For 10 points, name these very alkaline proteins that act as “beads” around which DNA winds to form chromatin.

ANSWER: histones [prompt on nucleosomes, chromatin, heterochromatin, euchromatin] <Hao>

9. This poem’s protagonist had a namesake ‘pervigilium’ that was edited out by the poet. This poem asks if it is “worth it” to “have squeezed the universe into a ball / To roll it towards some overwhelming question,” and it describes a man who has “seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker.” This poem’s prelude begins “S’iocredessechemiarisposta fosse.” [see-oh cred-ess-uh kay me-uh rees-pohs-tahfoss-uh] Its protagonist has (*) “measured out my life with coffee spoons.” This poem describes “a yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes” and begins “Let us go then you and I.” For 10 points, name this T.S. Eliot poem about an aging man who sees “the women come and go, talking of Michelangelo.”

ANSWER: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock <Carpenter>

10. Simon Lhuilier first studied the orthocentric variety of these figures, whose orthocenter coincides with their Monge point. The square of the volume of these figures is multiplied by 288 in a formula named for Tartaglia; that formula is basically a Cayley-Menger determinant of dimension 3. The volume of one of these figures can also be calculated by “a dot b cross c all over six.” A stellated octahedron consists of two of these figures (*) overlapping, and a twelve-point sphere can always be found for this figure. The sums of the squares of the areas of the faces of this figure are related in De Gua’s Theorem, and this figure has Schläfli symbol “3 comma 3.” This figure is also called the 3-simplex, and it is the only Platonic solid that is a self-dual. For 10 points, name this polyhedron with six edges, four vertices, and four triangular faces.

ANSWER: tetrahedron <Hao>

11. A character in this play says that women “don’t seem to hold together like men” and reminisces about a girl described as “spread.” Later, that character finds a picture of eleven cricket players and is told to take up a hobby such as woodworking. At the beginning of this work, a toilet refuses to flush after its chain is pulled, and two characters discuss an old man who is run over by a truck and a girl who kills a cat. An argument erupts in this play over a footballmatch between (*) Birmingham and Tottenham, and earlier, a character opens an envelope containing twelve matches. That character is grabbed by the throat after arguing about the semantics of the sentence“Light the kettle” in this work. The final of five notes sent by the title appliance in this work reads “Scampi,” and it ends as Ben is about to shoot Gus. For 10 points, name this absurdist play by Harold Pinter.

ANSWER: TheDumbwaiter <Hao>

12. This piece began as an art song for voice and piano which its composer later made into a tone poem. This work’s coda ends with an oboe playing an octave followed by scales to represent the breaking of dawn. Shortly after a contrapuntal section based on the second theme in this work, the woodwinds play the Dies irae. The harp plays (*) twelve consecutive D’s in this work, after which a violin with the E string tuned scordatura enters on an A - E-flat tritone. This piece is based on an identically titled poem by Henri Cazalis. Like the same composer’s Fossils movement from Carnival of the Animals, this piece uses xylophones to represent rattling bones. For 10 points, name this piece depicting dancing skeletons by Camille Saint-Saens.

ANSWER: Danse macabreSivakumar

13. A planned town located within this city is modeled on English architecture and is named “Thames Town.” The Puhui River (poo-hway) runs through the Qibao (chee-bow) Old Town in this city, and the Nanxiang Bun Shop in this city is famous for this city’s namesake soup dumplings. The 88-story Jinmao Tower is located in this city, which is served by Hongqiao (Hong-chee-ow) International Airport. On one side of the Lupu Bridge in this city is the (*)Pudong District, and Jing’an Temple is located on this city’s Nanjing Road. A famous section of Zhongshan Road in this city near the Huangpu (Hoo-ong-poo)River is known to locals as the waitan. A famous TV tower in this city has two large spheres and a long antenna spire. That building, the Oriental Pearl Tower, is located across from the Bund in this city. For 10 points, name this city at the mouth of the Yangtze River, the most populous in China.

ANSWER: Shanghai <Hao>

14. One military action in this country led to the election of Herbert Blaize, and that action occurred in the same year as a trip to this country by US Representative Ron Dellums. A prime minister of this country led a strike known as the “Red Sky” disturbances and kept a personal army called the Mongoose Gang. This country’s first prime minister was Eric Gairy, whose overthrow led to concerns over the length of Point(*)Salines International Airport and the safety of students at St. George’s University. In 1983, Maurice Bishop was overthrown by Hudson Austin, after which Ronald Reagan authorized the most famous military intervention in this country. For 10 points, name this Caribbean island which was invaded by the US in Operation Urgent Fury.

ANSWER: Grenada <Sivakumar>

15. These compounds can be transformed into alkyl chlorides using SOCl2 and pyridine through inversion of configuration. The Dess-Martin periodinane is used to gently oxidize these compounds, and reacting two equivalents of a Grignard reaction with an ester creates these compounds. This compound and a carboxylic acid are produced in the Cannizzaro (*) disproportionation, and the secondary type of these compounds can be oxidized to form ketones. These compounds show a broad peak between 3200 and 3600 wavenumbers in IR spectroscopy. Drinking the wood variety of these compounds will cause permanent blindness. For 10 points, name this class of organic compounds characterized by a hydroxyl group, whose ethyl type can be found in sake and vodka.

ANSWER: alcohol <Hao>

16. During this period, several photographs of protests and strikes were taken by John Vachon. One man best known for his photographs during this period collaborated with James Agee on a book about the Fields, Burroughs, and Tingle families titled Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. One image from this period shows a man wearing a hat hunched over a railing and is titled(*)White Angel Breadline. Several photographers during this period, such as Walker Evans, worked for the Resettlement Administration and Farm Security Administration. One photo taken during this period depicts Florence Owens Thompson and her two young children and was captured by Dorothea Lange. For 10 points, name this period of U.S. history during which Migrant Mother was taken.

ANSWER: Great Depression <Sivakumar>

17. One character in this novel has a heart attack after his son founds the “Institute of Union with Nothingness” and convinces his young granddaughter to shave her head for it. After finding pornographic pictures he took of their servants, one woman in this novel leaves her husband Count Jean de Satigny. The head of a woman decapitated in a car crash is stored in a hatbox under the bed during the birth of twins Jaime and Nicolas in this novel, which begins with the gift of pet dog Barabbas. The novel is narrated by the student (*) Alba as she awaits the birth of a child conceived by rape in a military prison, mirroring her grandfather’s rape of Pancha Garcia. In this novel, after the death of the green-haired Rosa, her silent and clairvoyant sister Clara marries the hacienda owner Esteban. For 10 points, name this novel about the Trueba family, by Isabel Allende.

ANSWER: The House of the Spirits [or La casa de losespiritus] <Carlson>

18. A giant creature in this book has bones that are “tubes of bronze” and limbs like “rods of iron.” The titular character of this book is asked whether he can pull in another creature by a fishhook. These are the behemoth and the leviathan, respectively. This titular character is visited by three doubting friends, (*) Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar, and one faithful friend, Elihu. After this Biblical character loses his wife, children, and livestock, he proclaims, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked will I depart.” For 10 points, name this Old Testament book about a resident of Uz, that explains why bad things happen to good people.

ANSWER: Book of Job [or Iyyov or Iyyov] <Mathew>

19. Early in his career, this man briefly operated a competitor to the Hudson River Steamboat Association known as “The People’s Line.” In Nicaragua, this man founded a passenger steamship service called the Accessory Transit Company which helped remove William Walker. This man got Daniel Webster to argue for the plaintiff in Gibbons v. Ogden and also served as Gibbons’ ferry captain and business manager. This businessman held a monopoly on transport across(*) Panama for the first year of the California Gold Rush. This man, who created Grand Central Station in his most famous role, was a rival of James Fisk and Jay Gould as owner of the New York Central Railroad. For 10 points, name this American business magnate and philanthropist who names a university in Nashville.

ANSWER: Cornelius Vanderbilt <Sivakumar>

20. In Arthurian myth, Sir Kay can hold his breath for this number of days. In this number book of the Iliad, Ajax and Menelaus take back the body of a fallen Patroclus; Ajax is also the namesake of the Athenian tribe of this number. In Greek myth, Leto suffered for this many days and nights before birthing Artemis and Apollo. Mayan mythology has this many distinct levels of (*) hell and Heimdallr has this many mothers. In the labor of this number, Heracles kills Hippolyta while stealing her girdle. When Odin learns the runes, he hangs from Yggdrassil for this number of days and Thor takes this many steps after killing the Midgard Serpent before dying. For ten points, how many muses are there in Greek mythology?

ANSWER: 9Orlov

BONUSES

1. This organization has been led since 2014 by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this terrorist organization which was expelled from its capital of Raqqa by the Syrian Democratic Forces in October 2017.

ANSWER: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (or IS; or ISIL; or ISIS; or Daesh)

[10] As part of its campaign to “purify” Iraq, ISIS has led a genocide against this Christian minority, many of whom live near the city of Sinjar.