Listory: Finally a Tournament Without All That Other Crap - Mike Cheyne

Listory: “Finally a tournament without all that other crap” - Mike Cheyne

Written by Jason Cheng, Vasa Clarke, Kurtis Droge, and Jason Golfinos; edited by Kurtis Droge

Packet 5

1. While undergoing hypnosis, the protagonist of this novel imagines himself searching for a hostile mermaid. This novel’s protagonist dates a red-haired woman whom he envisions having black hair at a funeral. A character in this novel dies from running into a wall because he is treated at a maternity ward to save money. Its main character is disgusted by his lover after discovering that she is a grandmother, instead shifting his infatuation to (*) Memo Paris. In its first section, the protagonist is shot with a silver bullet by Harriet Byrd. This novel’s protagonist calls his most prized possession “Wonderboy,” and leads the New York Knights to a fantastic win streak before striking out and failing to capture a pennant. For 10 points, name this book about baseball player Roy Hobbs, the first novel by Bernard Malamud.
ANSWER: The Natural
In this novel, the brash and boastful Jack Keefe becomes a pitcher for the Chicago White Sox, and details his experiences in letters written to a friend in Indiana. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this book that was called the finest writing in America by Virginia Woolf.
ANSWER: You Know Me Al
[10] Much later than Ring Lardner’s You Know Me Al, this author described the adventures of the homeless Port Ruppert Mundys, whose stadium is taken over by the army, in The Great American Novel. Several novels by this author are narrated by Nathan Zuckerman.
ANSWER: Philip Roth

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2. A Nobel Prize-winning poet from this country said that “this anomaly must end” of a military regime that took power here, and his poem “Denial” became a theme song of the resistance. The leader of a regime in this country called it a “patient in a cast” and seized power after the liberal nationalist Venizelists were split by the “July Apostasy.” The 4th of August Regime was a despotic regime in this country. An uprising at its capital’s (*) Polytechnic and a chaotic redemocratization period called the Metapolitefsi ended this country’s Regime of the Colonels. Forces from this country backed a 1974 coup on a nearby island, leading to that island’s invasion by Turkey. For 10 points, name this country whose occasional dictators have included Ioannis Metaxas and Georgios Papadopoulos.

ANSWER: The Hellenic Republic of Greece [or Hellas; the poet referenced in the first sentence is Giorgos Seferis]

The founder of this political dynasty was known as “the Old Man of Democracy” and led the Venizelists for most of the twentieth century. For 10 points each:

[10] Give the name of this family. Georgios was Prime Minister on three occasions, his son Andreas was PM during the eighties, and his grand-son Georgios was PM from 2009 to 2011.

ANSWER: The Papandreou family

[10] Ioannis Metaxas built a namesake line of fortifications to protect Greece from a potential invasion by this country. This Axis power was led at the time by Boris III.

ANSWER: Bulgaria

3. A diplomat representing this leader gave the longest recorded speech at the United Nations Security Council, speaking for eight hours until collapsing of exhaustion. This leader established friendly relations with a northern neighbor under Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, though he later built outposts on that border via the Forward Policy. This leader’s birthday is celebrated as the national holiday (*) Bal Divas, or Children’s Day. The death of an ally prompted this man to declare, “friends and comrades, the light has gone out of our lives, and there is darkness everywhere.” Upon his nation’s independence, this leader delivered a speech which references his nation’s “tryst with destiny.” For 10 points, name this father of Indira Gandhi and first Prime Minister of India.
ANSWER: Jawaharlal Nehru [or Pandit Nehru]
The Razakars were active in this princely state, which attempted to resist joining with a unified India. For 10 points each:
[10] Name this wealthiest of the princely states, whose Nizam was overthrown in 1948 by Operation Polo.
ANSWER: Hyderabad
[10] India also used military force to regain this territory. After the success of Operation Vijay, this territory was annexed from a country ruled by António Salazar.
ANSWER: Goa

4. The protagonist of a novel in this language is almost forced to have public sex with a woman who is condemned to be eaten by animals for murdering her sister-in-law, her doctor, her husband, her doctor’s wife, and then her own daughter. It is the language of a novel in which a woman plans to starve herself in her husband’s tomb before she falls in love with a soldier guarding some corpses. The story of the (*) Widow of Ephesus is told in it. This is the language of a novel in which a man observes Milo’s wife use witchcraft to turn herself into a bird, but, when he tries to replicate the spell, he turns himself into a donkey instead. A book in it contains the story of Trimalchio’s Feast. For 10 points, name this language of The Golden Ass and the Satyricon that was used by Apuleius and Petronius.
ANSWER: Latin

The story of this pair of lovers is related is books four, five, and six of The Golden Ass by an old woman while Lucius the donkey is being held in a cave. For 10 points each:

[10] Name these two lovers, one of whom is given tasks like sorting some grain and retrieving beauty from the underworld after she looks at her sleeping husband’s face.

ANSWER: Cupid and Psyche [accept in either order]

[10] Another story told in The Golden Ass is about a woman who hides her lover from her husband in this type of object. After the husband says that this object will be sold, the woman has the lover emerge and claims that she has already found a potential buyer.

ANSWER: a bathtub

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5. This principle was formulated by its creator after his collected manuscripts of three years were stolen from his wife at a train station. This idea’s creator claimed that it must only be applied to things that one knows, and never to things that one does not know, in an interview with George Plimpton for the Paris Review. An apocryphal story tells of how its creator used it to win a ten dollar bet by (*) composing a story on a napkin, “Baby shoes, for sale, never worn.” An instance of this idea is that a conversation about an abortion at a train station does not use the phrases “he said” or “she said.” It was influenced by its creator’s journalistic career with the Toronto Star, and it was first outlined in Death in the Afternoon. For 10 points, name this sparse writing technique of Ernest Hemingway sometimes named after an object that has seven-eighths of its mass below water.
ANSWER: Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory [or Hemingway’s Theory of Omission; prompt on descriptive answers involving “Hemingway”]
Hemingway explained his iceberg theory with respect to this novel by saying that he only kept the man, the boy, and the ocean. For 10 points each,
[10] Name this novel in which Santiago chases and catches a giant marlin.
ANSWER: The Old Man and the Sea
[10] Arguably the first story written using the technique was this piece from the collection In Our Time, in which Peduzzi gets drunk and guides a quarrelsome couple to a fishing hole.
ANSWER: “Out of Season”

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6. This collection contains a poem which qualifies its title declaration with statements like “if you don’t mind a touch of hell” and “if you don’t mind some people dying.” It includes a poem about a “real live democratic” creature which “has a real tale to tell… / and a real tail to tell it with.” This collection contains the poem “Dog” and a poem that repeats the lines “The world is a beautiful place / to be born into.” The speaker of its first poem observes figures writhing “upon the page / in a veritable rage / of adversity” that “attained the title of / (*) “suffering humanity.” A poem in this collection begins with exhortations of “Let’s go / Come on / Let’s go” and contains repeated interjections of “Junk for sale!” For 10 points, name this collection which contains the poems “In Goya’s Greatest Scenes We Seem to See…” and “Junkman’s Obbligato,” written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

ANSWER: A Coney Island of the Mind

Ferlinghetti’s “Dog” wanders around this city, where he sees its “Meat Market” and “Chinatown windows. For 10 points each:

[10] Name this city, whose City Lights bookstore was the birthplace of the Beat movement.

ANSWER: San Francisco

[10] Ferlinghetti’s “Dog” passes by this prominent Art Deco tower in San Francisco, whose view is inferior to Twin Peaks’s because you have to pay to get in. In “Dog,” Ferlinghetti uses the phallic shape of this tower and its name as a reference to sex.

ANSWER: Coit Tower [or the Lillian Coit Memorial Tower; or “Coit’s Tower”]

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7. In order to perpetrate this type of crime, a man who had part of his ear bitten off kidnaps an elderly woman and plans to bury her alive in an oversized coffin. While investigating this type of crime, Sherlock Holmes makes a series of deductions about the owner of a hat whom he has never met before. Because he had previously committed this crime, Beppo smashes five (*) busts of a French leader in the story “The Adventure of the Six Napoleons,” and it is why Lady Frances Carfax is abducted. James Ryder confesses to this crime in a story where Holmes tracks down the origin of a Christmas goose sold at the Alpha Inn. This crime is central to the plot of “The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle.” For 10 points, name this crime, an example of which was the taking of the black pearl of the Borgias.
ANSWER: jewel robbery [prompt on partial answer; accept theft or stealing in place of “robbery;” accept the theft of the Blue Carbuncle or the theft of the black pearl of the Borgias before mentioned; prompt on “kidnapping” on the first line before read]
For 10 points each, name these objects that appear in Sherlock Holmes stories:
[10] In “A Scandal in Bohemia,” Holmes is tasked with the retrieval of this type of incriminating object from the soon-to-be-married singer Irene Adler.
ANSWER: photograph [do not accept or prompt on “letter”]
[10] In a Holmes story, Alexander Holder is convinced that his son Arthur stole part of this type of object. In a different story, solving the riddle of the Musgrave Ritual leads to the discovery of this type of object hidden in a vault.
ANSWER: crown [or coronet; or the crown of Charles I; or “The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet”]

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8. Robert Southey almost lost his spot as Poet Laureate in 1817 when a poem that he wrote about this person as a youth was published over twenty years after its composition. Thirty-two followers of this leader got drunk on wine and were subsequently walled up in the basement of a building, where they died. This leader’s demands included the abolition of all laws except for the “Law of (*) Winchester.” Despite concessions made to this leader at Mile End, followers of this leader rampaged against Flemish merchants and destroyed the Savoy Palace. After demanding beer, he was attacked at Smithfield, and he was mortally wounded after a fight with William Walworth, the Mayor of London. For 10 points, name this English rebel who rose up against Richard II in 1381 in the Peasants’ Revolt.
ANSWER: Wat Tyler [or Walter Tyler; or Jack Straw]
This supporter of Wat Tyler denounced the aristocracy in a sermon which began with the words, “When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?” For 10 points each:
[10] Name this travelling priest who joined the Peasant’s Revolt after being freed from prison in Maidstone. He partially titles a novel by William Morris.
ANSWER: John Ball [or A Dream of John Ball]
[10] John Ball was a member of this English religious movement, which followed the teachings of the theologian John Wycliffe.
ANSWER: Lollards

9. Upon being invaded by Sparta, this city repeatedly pulled a clever trick by telling the Spartans that they were violating the truce of Carneia, thus forcing them to temporarily withdraw. According to Plutarch, a king of this city tried to lure a thousand youths from a neighboring city into a massacre; that ruler of this place defeated Sparta at the Battle of (*) Hysiae. Weights and measures found at the Heraion of this city are said to date to the reign of King Pheidon, who ruled this city as a tyrant. The organizer of the Seven Against Thebes, Adrastus, ruled over it, and it was the birthplace of a man whose mother was impregnated by a rain of golden light. For 10 points, name this city after which the Greeks of the Iliad are named, the hometown of Perseus.
ANSWER: Argos
The festival of Carneia managed to be an inconvenience at other points in Greek history as well. For 10 points each:
[10] Miltiades had to do without Spartan reinforcements at this battle because Sparta was observing the Carneia. Fortunately, this battle of the first Persian invasion was a Greek victory.
ANSWER: Battle of Marathon
[10] According to myth, the Carneia was started to propitiate this god, after this god brought a pestilence upon the Dorians after this god’s lover, Carnus, was killed.
ANSWER: Apollo

10. A ruling handed down by this man specified for an election to be held in the church of Zion City to replace founder John Alexander Dowie. This man enforced the Elkins Act in a case involving the Western Stable Car Line and by slamming Standard Oil with a fine of over 29 million dollars for unfair shipping practices. In his best known role, he oversaw the resolution of a scandal that began when Eddie Cicotte threw an object that hit Morrie Rath. He refused exemptions on (*) barnstorming rules, and banned “Buck” Weaver and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson for their role in the Black Sox Scandal during his tenure as the first Commissioner of Major League Baseball. For 10 points, identify this American jurist whose unusual first name references a Civil War battle.