Matt Cvijanovich Memorial Novice Tournament
Tossups by Florida State (Billy Beyer), Valencia CC (Chris Borglum and Sean Platzer), FMU (Chip Thomas), and Illinois A (Trygve Meade, Greg Baboukis, James Sanner, Ed Wagner)
1. In 1749, this man openly avowed his atheism in “Essay on Blindness,” which led to a stint in prison. He used the many-gods objection when countering Pascal’s Wager by saying “an imam could reason just as well this way”, and a Milan Kundera novel makes reference to this author’s Jacques the Fatalist. His writings on science and philosophy include Elements of Physiology, and he collaborated with the mathematician Jean D’Alembert on a better known 35 volume work, which was first published in 1751. For ten points name this Frenchman who edited the Encyclopédie.
Answer: Denis Diderot
2. This man’s most famous work begins by stating that the blood of “Papists and Protestants” is not required by Jesus Christ and then presents a dialogue between personifications of Truth and Peace. This author of A Key to the Language of America and The Bloudy Tenant of Persecution was closely associated with the Narragansett tribe, and his dispute with the founder of the Quakers led to the work George Fox Digg’d Out of His Burrowes. Known for his feud with John Cotton, for ten points, name this man banished from Plymouth colony in 1635, the eventual founder of Rhode Island.
Answer: Roger Williams
3. This poem’s hero, whose “eyes but close / To look within,” travels to a Hall of Arimanes. He tells a pretty witch “Though it torture me, ‘tis but the same / My pang shall find a voice.” Remarking that he needs “no further guidance,” he attempts to send away a “chamois hunter.” A written charm gives him power over spirits, the seventh of which comments “Nor to slumber, nor to die / Shall be in thy destiny.” For ten points, name this semi-autobiographical poem set “amongst the Higher Alps”, whose morbid titular hero seeks his own demise after the death of his beloved Astarte, written by Lord Byron.
Answer: “Manfred”
4. In 404 AD, a monk of this name was stoned after he leapt into a gladiatorial arena, nudging Emperor Honorius to outlaw such games. In art, Jacques-Louis David painted this figure saying farewell to his young lover Eucharis. In mythology, this figure was banished to Cephalenia and married Circe, the mother of Telegonus. The first three books of a certain epic are sometimes named after this figure, who was received at Pylos by King Nestor three decades after Palamedes placed him in front of his father’s plow. For ten points, name this Ithacan prince, a son of Penelope who longed for his father Odysseus’ return.
Answer: Telemachus
5. SMC proteins create it during chromatin remodeling or chromosome condensation. Euler’s Equations gives the relationship between angular acceleration, angular velocity, and this. Its value for a current loop is given as the cross product of the magnetic moment of the loop and the magnetic field. Precession is either free of or induced by this, which, when crossed with angular velocity, is equal to power. In mechanics, it is equal to the time-derivative of angular momentum. For ten points, name this rotational analogue of force that is represented by tau, which is also equal to the cross product of distance and force.
Answer: torque
6. This protégé of W.E. Channing persuaded Cyrus Butler to donate thirty thousand dollars to her cause. This woman studied the progressive York Retreat while recovering from depression at Greenbank, an estate in Liverpool owned by the Rathbone family. In 1842, she composed the pamphlet Memorial to the Legislature f Massachusetts, and later, was appointed Superintendent of Army Nurses. While teaching a class for female inmates, she observed troubled prisoners chained and lying in their own filth. For ten points, name this nurse and reformer whose efforts led to states erecting special hospitals for mental patients.
Answer: Dorothea Dix
7. He avoided the Imperial service after a religious crisis at Trier, and this student of Aelius Donatus fled to Palestine after the death of his employer. While in Antioch, he experienced a vision in which Christ reproved him for his pagan studies. He praised virginity in the work Against Jovinian, and in his most important historical work, he wrote biographies of more than 130 Christian authors. However, this author of De Viris Illustribus is most remembered for a request made to him in 382 AD by Pope Damasus. For ten points, name this scholar who created the first Latin translation of the Bible, the Vulgate.
Answer: St. Jerome
8. This man, the owner of Animus Consulting, scored the first basket made in Miami’s American Airlines Arena while playing for the Orlando Magic. His college career began at Vanderbilt, but he transferred in 1994, becoming the fourth-leading career rebounder at Penn State. He spent the 2001 through 2003 seasons as backup center for the Utah Jazz, whose owner apparently wouldn’t allow Brokeback Mountain to be shown in his movie theaters. For ten points, name this author of Man in the Middle and enemy of Tim Hardaway, who recently became the first NBA player to come out of the closet.
Answer: John Amaechi
9. In biochemistry, this letter refers to a type of DNA discovered by Alexander Rich that has a left-handed helix rotational sense. Ideal gases have a value of one for the compressibility factor, which is symbolized by this letter, as is the collision frequency, which increases when the temperature of a reaction is increased. In alkenes with geometric isomerism, this letter denotes the arrangement if both of the substituents of higher priority are on the same side, which is the opposite of E. This letter is also used to symbolize the number of protons in a nucleus. For ten points, name this letter that symbolizes atomic number.
Answer: Z
10. In an opera by this composer, the titular wizard hides his death in the tears of his daughter, and in another, the title character wagers that he can catch golden fish in Lake Ilmen. In addition to Kashchey the Immortal and Sadko, this man is known for orchestral works like the Russian Easter Festival Overture. Also known is his “Scene and Gypsy Song,” the fourth movement of Capriccio Espagnole, and “The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship,” the first movement of Scheherazade. For ten points, name this Russian who created the opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, which features the interlude “Flight of the Bumblebee.”
Answer: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
11. F. T. Frelinghuysen served as Secretary of State for this US President, who kept 80 pairs of pants in his wardrobe. His father was a co-founder of the New York Antislavery Society, and as a young lawyer, he won a landmark case leading to desegregation of public transport in New York City. This associate of Roscoe Conkling used tax money to reward political supporters after President Grant appointed him Collector of the Port of New York in 1871, and the Pendleton Act was passed 12 years later, during his presidency. For ten points, name this man who became president after James Garfield was shot.
Answer: Chester Alan Arthur
12. In 2002, this nation won a dispute with a northern neighbor over the Bakassi Peninsula. This African country is home to the village of Rhumsiki, which many tourists visit to see Kapsiki Peak. This country’s third largest city is Garoua, which lies on the Benue River, whose source is the Adamawa Plateau. This country shares its name with the highest peak on the West African coast, which is a thirteen thousand foot volcano. This country, which is sandwiched between Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea, lies to the west of the Central African Republic. For ten points, identify this West African nation whose capital is Yaounde.
Answer: Cameroon
13. The novels A Wreath for Udomo and Mine Boy are set in this nation, as is a drama concerning the waiters Sam and Willie andnovels about the communications professor David Lurie and a gardener named Michael. In another work set here, Julie Summers’ car breaks down and Abdu works as an auto mechanic, while in yet another novel, the Smales family is rescued by their servant July. For ten points, name this country featuring such authors as Peter Abrahams, J.M. Coetzee, Athol Fugard, and Nadine Gordimer.
Answer: South Africa
14. His career began with a 1935 work about the Berger family in which the patriarch, Jacob, kills himself to leave money to his grandson Ralph. His screenplay for the 1936 bomb The General Died at Dawn prompted critic Frank Nugent to make a pun using his name followed by “where is thy sting?” This man, the basis of the character Barton Fink, created a movie star named Charlie Castle and satirized Hollywood in The Big Knife, and also createda violinist-turned-boxer named Joe Bonaparte in Golden Boy. For ten points, name this American playwright who wrote about a cabdrivers’ strike in Waiting for Lefty.
Answer: Clifford Odets
15. It can be detected by terminal transferase dUTP nick end labeling, which is known as the TUNEL assay. It can occur when Bcl-2 molecules release cytochrome c from mitochondria, or can be blocked when the phosphorylated Bad protein forms a complex with the 14-3-3 protein. Robert Horvitz showed that it is dependent on the CED-3 gene in C. elegans, and in that nematode’s development, this event occurs in exactly 131 cells. After this event, particles are eliminated by phagocytosis, and earlier, it can be mediated by a caspase cascade after earlier being initiated by p53. For ten points, name this programmed cell death.
Answer: apoptosis
16. Pope Gregory XIII commissioned this man to create a mural depicting the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre. He created some of the wall and ceiling paintings in the great hall of the Palazzo Vecchio, and Federigo Zuccaro completed several of his frescoes in the Duomo of Florence. He used Michelangelo’s design of the Vestibule of the Laurentian Library as a model for the building of some offices for the Florentine magistrates, which is now the art museum known as the Uffizi. For ten points, name this man who dedicated a 1550 work to Cosimo de Medici that includes many biographies of Italian artists.
Answer: Giorgio Vasari
17. This battle ended when a Chief of Intelligence found both the First and Second army headquarters in turmoil, and ordered a retreat towards Soissons. The original strike force was weakened when two army corps were diverted to the Eastern Front. General von Kluck was unnerved by the slow advance of the British Expeditionary Force into the gap which had opened between his left flank and von Bulow’s right. Earlier, the first use of motorized infantry had occurred when a desperate General Maunoury was rescued by forces in taxicabs. For ten points, name this early battle of World War I on a namesake river.
Answer: First Battle of the Marne
18. Kevin Kiley was recently placed in charge of this institution, replacing George Weightman, who was fired by Francis Harvey, who said he had “lost trust and confidence” in Weightman’s abilities to effect change there. It opened in 1909, and recent controversy has focused on its Building 18, but in 2011, it will be replaced by a facility in Bethesda, Maryland. This establishment was named for the surgeon who led a team in Panama that confirmed that mosquitoes transmit yellow fever. For ten points, name this army medical hospital in Washington, DC, the site of recent uproar over the medical treatment of veterans.
Answer: Walter Reed Medical Center
19. His brother Frank was sent to jail for high treason after the raid by Leander Starr Jameson, next to whom he is buried in Matobo Hills. An associate of C.D. Rudd, L. Ron Hubbard claimed to have been a reincarnation this man up until 1902. A strong supporter of colonization, he used his own police force to control Mashonaland, and he founded a namesake colony that would later split tobecome Zambia and Zimbabwe. For ten points, name this founder of the de Beers diamond mining company, whose foundation provides a scholarship for students to study at Oxford or Cambridge.
Answer: CecilRhodes
20. George Gray developed the cyano-bipheny type of these, which were surprisingly stable considering their phase type. The Onsager model predicts phase transitions of these based on concentration, and Friedrich Reinitzer is considered their discoverer. In their least ordered phase, molecules lie in the same direction but have ends that are not aligned, which is called nematic, and more ordered phases include cholesteric and smectic. These rod-shaped materials flow, but are packed with a high degree of order. For ten points, name these substances found in its namesake display in computer and television screens.
Answer: liquid crystals
21. This novel’s narrator describes his Indian friend Kepi as “a scrounger, a sort of human tick who fastens himself to the hide of even the poorest compatriot.” That narrator cheats Fillmore’s mistress out of 2,800 francs and is obsessed with the lice in the armpits of a friend. Grove Press quickly followed up on this book’s success by publishing Black Spring in 1936, but because of censorship this novel was not published in the US until 1961. For ten points, name this “more Northern” autobiographical novel that recounts the Parisian experiences of a 47-year-old expatriate slacker named Henry Miller.
Answer: Tropic of Cancer
Matt Cvijanovich Memorial Novice Tournament
Bonuses by Florida State (Billy Beyer), Valencia CC (Chris Borglum and Sean Platzer), FMU (Chip Thomas), and UIUC House (Trygve Meade, Greg Baboukis, James Sanner, Ed Wagner)
1. Answer stuff about an American labor union, for ten points each.
1. Created in 1905 to attempt to be “one big union” for workers in all imaginable trades, members of this radical union were nicknamed “wobblies.”
Answer: International Workers of the World or IWW
2. This co-founder of the IWW had earlier been a leader of the Western Federation of Miners. Upon his 1928 death, an urn with half his ashes was buried in the Kremlin.
Answer: William “Big Bill Haywood
3. This woman, organizer of the 1903 “Children’s Crusade” march to publicize the plight of child workers, was also a founding member of the IWW. Today, her name lives on in the title of a left-wing magazine.
Answer: Mary Harris “Mother” Jones
2.Name these works by Beethoven that feature the piano, for ten points each.
1. The presto third movement of this work is actually the best, although the slow and soft first movement is better known. This sonata, dedicated to Giulietta Guicciardi, was given its nickname by Ludwig Rellstab.
Answer: Moonlight Sonata (also accept Piano Sonata No. 14)
2. This work opens with three orchestral chords that are each followed by a short cadenza. A seven-part rondo is the form of the third part of this last Beethoven piano concerto.
Answer: Emperor Concerto (also accept Piano Concerto No. 5)
3. This piano trio in B-flat was named for a student of Beethoven’s, a certain Rudolph from Austria who went and shot himself thereafter.
Answer: Archduke Trio (also accept Opus 97)
3.It attempted to show that the reality of societies lies in something called solidarity, and that the title phenomenon is critical for intellectual development of a society. For ten points each…
1. Name this 1893 work that also defines abnormal forms of the title practice, including forced and anomic.
Answer: The Division of Labour in Society or De la division du travail social
2. This French sociologist wrote The Division of Labor in Society, along with the case study, Suicide.
Answer: Émile Durkheim
3. Division of labor is promoted in this 1776 work, in which the Scottish author describes laissez-faire economics and a pin factory.
Answer: An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
4.Answer the following about assassination attempts, for ten points each.
1. Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot in 1914 by this man, a member of the Black Hand in Sarajevo.
Answer: Gavrilo Princip
2. A heavy oak table is attributed to having shielded Adolf Hitler from a large portion of a July 20th, 1944 blast after a bomb was planted in Hitler’s east Prussian headquarters by this man.
Answer: Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
3. Mehmet Ali Agca of the Turkish Grey Wolves attempted to assassinate this important figure in 1981, but succeeded only in wounding him.
Answer: Pope John Paul II (or Karol Wojtyla; prompt on “John Paul”)
5.One particular episode featured Nathan’s not being able to shoot Linderman, and Peter entering Mohinder’s house, only to be attacked by Sylar. For ten points each…