YaleUniversity
Bulldogs over Broadway—Oct 29, 2005
Edited by Mike Wehrman
Packet by Yale (Mike Wehrman, Peter Rebeiro, Ben Colman, Andrew Uzzell, Brett Lazer)
Tossups
1. His so-called “100 days” fresco is in the Cancellaria in Rome portrays scenes from the life of Pope Paul III. He also painted several frescos in the interior of the Palazzo Vecchio and designed an office building which became the Uffizi Gallery, which includes a namesake corridor featuring self-portraits of famous artists throughout history. However, he is better known for his writing, specifically a work commissioned by Cardinal Farnese to “catalogue...artists and their works, listed in chronological order”. FTP, name this early art historian, author of The Lives of the Artists.
ANSWER: Giorgio Vasari
2. They are given by the generating function 1 minus the square root of the quantity 1 minus four X, all over 2 X. Euler found that they give the number of ways of dividing a polygon with n plus 2 sides into n triangles, and they are also equal to the number of paths along the edges of an N by N grid that do not cross the main diagonal, explaining their relationship to the center column of Pascal’s Triangle. The formula for the Nth one is one over N plus 1 times 2 N choose N. FTP, name this sequence of numbers that begins 1, 2, 5, 14…
ANSWER: Catalan numbers
3. A letter written by Clara Schumann complimented the skill of the transition into the C-minor recapitulation of the allegro, and its scherzos may have been modeled on Robert Schumann’s Rhenish Symphony. First performed in 1876, it took 14 years to complete. Its composer said of comparisons with the work of an earlier German composer, “You have no idea how it feels to have the footsteps of a giant tramping behind you.” Its finale contains an homage to the finale of that man’s last symphony, as well as the “Fate” motif from that composer’s 5th. FTP, name this symphony that is often called “Beethoven’s Tenth”.
ANSWER: Brahms’s Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68
4. A leading proponent of deism, he wrote the treatise Reason the only Oracle of Man, and his younger brother Ira founded his state’s university. However, he is better known as a military figure. During his most famous raid, he demanded surrender by yelling, “Come out of there you goddamn old rat”as
opposed to the more well known, but most likely apocryphal “Surrender in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress.” FTP name this revolutionary war figure who was captured by the British while trying to take Montreal, and who, along with Benedict Arnold and his GreenMountain Boys
captured FortTiconderoga.
Answer: Ethan Allen
5. The head of the college, Cyril Fielding, is one of few white people not annoyed with Mrs. Moore. Her son, the magistrate Ronny, is supposed to marry the protagonist, who is in her care. However, on a visit to the Marabar caves, the protagonist suffers a strange psychic experience and falsely believes Fielding’s friend sexually assaulted her. The accused, an Indian doctor, thinks kicking the British out of his country is the only solution. Adela Quested accuses Dr. Aziz of impropriety in, FTP, what novel by E.M. Forster?
Answer: A Passage to India
6. The Ten Regular Attendants, a group of eunuchs, used their court influence to enrich themselves. Zhang Jiao and his brothers revered the god Huang-lao, ironically calling their beliefs “The Way of Supreme Peace”. The empress’s half-brother He Jin defeated the rebels in Henan in 185, but by late in 188, the rebels, followers of Tai Ping Dao, threatened Luoyang, the capital city. The next year, Zhang Rang, the leader of the Ten Regular Attendants, beheaded He Jin, but the warlord Cao Cao put down the revolt in 192. FTP, identify this Chinese revolt that was named after an article of clothing.
ANSWER: Yellow Turban Rebellion or Yellow Scarves Rebellion
7. Five years later, the main characters have moved on to other occupations because of a restraining order, but when an old client returns with new problems, Peter convinces them to reunite. Harris Yulin makes an appearance as an ornery judge, and according to Louis’s passionate defense of his employers “…one time, I turned into a dog, and they helped me.” Hilarity ensues as a resurgence of supernatural activity strikes New York City, and Dana’s baby is attacked by “psychomagnotheric” slime. Featuring Wilhelm von Homburg as the former ruler of Carpathia and Peter Macnicol as the eccentric Janosz Poha, this is, FTP, what Ivan Reitman film that saw the return of Ray, Egon, and Slimer?
Answer: Ghostbusters II
8. He studied in Geneva and received his MD from the University of Pennsylvania. He cultivated friendships with Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Wallace Stevens, and Charles Demuth who was to paint an iconic image which contains both this man’s name and the Great Figure from his poem. His famous works include a series of poems about the paintings of Breughel, a poem with the lines, “I saw the figure 5 In Gold On a Red Firetruck,” and perhaps his most famous work, a poem only 16 words in total, The Red Wheelbarrow. FTP, name this poet who lived near Paterson, New Jersey.
Answer: William CarlosWilliams.
9. St. George’s Caye (pronounced KEY) in this nation was settled in 1650, and a 1798 British victory here over a small Spanish fleet is celebrated on September 10. Though granted full independence in 1981, this country still recognizes Queen Elizabeth II as sovereign. Tourism provides much of this nation’s GDP, especially from divers who come to view the Barrier Reef along its only coastline. FTP, name this Central American nation with capital at Belmopan, formerly British Honduras.
Answer:Belize
10. One of its first discoverers, Nissim Calderon, incorrectly hypothesized that cyclobutanes form complexes with metals such as ruthenium or molybdenum. In 1971, two French scientists found that metal carbenes react with the namesake compounds to form metallocyclobutane intermediates that then break apart. In it, statistical redistribution of alkylidenes follows alkene double bond cleavage. FTP, name this organic synthesis that redistributes alkenic bonds, for which Chauvin, Grubbs, and Schrock won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
ANSWER: Olefin metathesis or alkene metathesis or transalkylidenation
11. He relates two memories, or “spots of time” which remain with him to his old age, both of which are visions of the English moorland, in his verse autobiography Prelude. After attending Cambridge, he spent time in Revolutionary France, but soon returned to England when he ran out of money. Author of “The Lucy Poems” and “The Excursion” FTP name this poet, who became Poet Laureate in 1843 after the death of Robert Southey, and who collaborated with Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Lyrical Ballads.
Answer: William Wordsworth
12. According to Genesis 11, Abraham’s father Terah settled here after leaving Ur. Its site at the intersection of the Nineveh-Carchemish highway and the road from Damascus contributed to its strategic value, which is perhaps why Surena fought there. Surena’s outnumbered cataphracts made effective use of the feinting Parthian shot, and even their opponents’ large scuta could not save Publius, the son of the wealthy Roman general, from getting arrowed and having his head put on a pike. FTP, name this 53 B.C. battle in which Parthian cavalry crushed Roman legions and Crassus was killed.
ANSWER: Carrhae (accept Harran)
13. He began his public career at the Council of Basel in 1421, though he lost in his defense of Count Ulrich of Manderscheid. Later, he represented Eugene IV at the Diets of Mainz and Nuremberg as papal legate, and as cardinal, he preached two Jubilee indulgences of Nicholas V, as well as calling for the reunification of the Hussites with the Church. A longtime rival of Sigismund, Archduke of Austria, he was seen as a powerful reformer. FTP, what man is sometimes called the first “modern” philosopher because of works such as De Docte Ignorantia, and also presaged the Copernican model of the universe?
Answer: Nicholas of Cusa or Nicola de Cusa or Nikolaus Krebs
14. Major obstacles include decoherence, which violates their unitary character. Reasonable large-scale candidates include electrons of helium atoms and fullerene-based ESR. They can solve problems of complexity class BQP, corresponding to the classical BPP. IBM researchers created a seven-qubit model that ran factorization algorithms faster than classical methods currently allow. Though a classical device with infinite memory could be just as good, FTP, name this device that uses the spin states of particles and principles like superposition and entanglement to operate on data.
ANSWER: quantum computer (accept equivalent forms)
15. The absence of the trade winds leads to the warmer surface waters of the western Pacific flowing toward the eastern Pacific where they evaporate easily, which in turn causes heavier rainfall in the East Pacific and decreased rainfall in the West Pacific. The collapse of fishing industries in the East Pacific during it can be explained by the rapid influx of warm surface waters from the West Pacific, killing off fish populations in large numbers due to thermal shock. These describe, FTP, what meteorological phenomenon often blamed for climatic natural disasters in 1982-1983, possibly caused by the Southern Oscillation or ENSO?
Answer: El Nino
16. Born in Possagno to a family of stone cutters, legend has it that at age twelve he molded a lion out of butter. He designed a marble pyramid as a mausoleum for Titian in Venice, where his own heart is now interred. In addition to the many models of classical subjects he made as a student, he sculpted busts of modern subjects such as Paolina Borghese, Napoleon, and George Washington. FTP, name this Italian Neoclassical sculpture, known for such works as Cupid and Psyche and The Three Graces.
ANSWER: Antonio Canova
17. Representing a prescriptive theory, modern constructions typically incorporate aspects of Kantian non-consequentialism, including the categorical imperative, the principle of ends, and the principle of autonomy, as well as Millsian consequentialist ideas of utility, including the principle of least harm and the righteousness of acts based on rules versus the value of their outcome. In addition, formulations with Rawlsian principles, including liberty, opportunity, and distributive justice, are the basis of many social-contract theories. FTP, what term can be used to describe a collection of principles which dictate actions that produce the outcome of what ought to be?
Answer: normative ethics (do not prompt on “ethics”)
18. There are only two American painters in this collection, James Whistler and Gilbert Stuart. It contains outstanding examples of old master works, such as the controversial Polish Rider which is thought to be by Rembrandt, as well as three Vermeers which are not allowed to be loaned out for exhibitions. Built as a residence in 1913, six years before its owner’s death, it was designed with the intention of eventually becoming a museum. FTP name this museum located at 1 East 70th St. in New York City, the former mansion of a Pittsburgh steel industrialist, a visit to which is kinda like hanging out in a really rich guy’s house.
Answer: The Frick Collection
19. The similarity between the name of one of its characters and the Genesis term for the primordial ocean lead some to believe that it formed the basis for Genesis. Besides Tablet V, it is almost complete, first discovered at the library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh. Mummu was shut out of the picture after his planned rebellion with Apsu is discovered by Ea. Later, Kingu becomes the most powerful of the gods, and is destroyed in order to create the men who populate the world made out of Tiamat’s corpse. FTP, name this Babylonian creation epic that describes the supremacy of Marduk.
ANSWER: Enuma Elish
20. Publications he founded include Taller (tie-AIR), a literary journal which began in 1938, and Plural and Vuelta, started in 1971 and 1976, respectively, both of which were dedicated to art and politics. He served as his country’s ambassador to France from 1945 to 1962, and to India from 1962 to 1968, but he resigned in protest to the Tlatelolco Massacre. He published his first collection of poems Luna Silvestre, at age 19. FTP name this author, winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature, who is most well known for his study of Mexican identity, The Labyrinth of Solitude.
Answer: Octavio Paz
YaleUniversity
Bulldogs over Broadway—Oct 29, 2005
Edited by Mike Wehrman
Packet by Yale (Mike Wehrman, Peter Rebeiro, Ben Colman, Andrew Uzzell, Brett Lazer)
Bonuses
1. Answer the following about a record producer for the stated number of points.
A. For 10, this bearded svengali founded Def Jam records in 1984 in his NYU dorm room along with Russell Simmons.
Answer: Rick Rubin
B. For five, although Rubin originally was a hip-hop producer he oversaw the production of this music legend’s four albums on American Records, in which he covered such songs as Soundgarden’s “Rusty Cage” and Nine Inch Nails’s “Hurt.”
Answer: Johnny Cash
C. For five, Rubin was also the overseer of this album, the first by the Beastie Boys, featuring the group’s first hit, “Fight for Your Right.”
Answer: License to Ill
D. For 10, just as he revitalized the career of Johnny Cash, Rubin might reinvigorate the career of this artist, also an NYU dropout, with his album 12 Songs due in November. On it, he plays guitar himself, something he hasn’t done since 1967’s Kentucky Woman album, and songs include “Oh, Mary” and “Delirious.”
Answer: Neil Diamond
2. Identify these theorems from electromagnetism 5-5-10-10
[5] This erroneously named force, which is technically determined by Kirchhoff’s laws, is the measure of the electrical energy of a source.
ANSWER: electromotive force
[5] This law states that the integral of the induced electric field is equal to the opposite of the change in magnetic field with respect to the change in time.
ANSWER: Faraday’s Law of Induction
[10] This law, derived from Faraday’s Law, states that the induced electromagnetic flux in an electric current will oppose the change in magnetic flux.
ANSWER: Lenz’s Law (pronounced “Lents”)
[10] The results of moving magnetic fields intersecting with conductors, the circulating flow of electrons creates electromagnets that oppose the motion of the external field.
ANSWER: Eddy currents
3. Name these Missouri cities for ten points each.
A. This fast-growing city in the near the center of the state is home to the flagship campus of the University of Missouri.
Answer: Columbia
B. Located about 50 miles north of Kansas City along the Missouri River, it was the eastern terminus of the Pony Express.
Answer: St. Joseph
C. This town in the state’s Boot-heel with a population of just over 3,000 people is noteworthy because of its namesake fault line and violent earthquakes in 1811-12.
Answer: New Madrid (MAD-rid)
4. Identify these major academic journals for ten points each.
A. This periodical with current articles devoted to “Childhood Growth and Coronary Events in Adulthood” and “MicroRNA Signatures and Prognosis in CLL” was once known as The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal.
Answer: New England Journal of Medicine
B. This journal published at Oxford has traditionally been a mouthpiece of English-speaking Marxist historians. Concentrating both on recent and older history, its recent articles include “The Agrarian Problem in the Fourteenth Century” and “Popular Literacy in a Tropical Democracy: Costa Rica 1850-1900.”
Answer: Past and Present
C. There is a debate whether or not Charles Homer Haskins and the other founders of the Medieval Academy of America knew the modern parlance of this journal’s name, which is Latin for “mirror.” Despite the gynecological connotation, it is still America’s premier journal for Medieval Studies.
Answer: Speculum
5. Name these now-retired baseball players given descriptions of their appearances on Seinfeld, for ten points each.
A. He eats a donut with a knife and fork, which puzzles George. Also, George takes him on a wild highway chase following a man who supposedly flipped him off, instead of taking him to the PBS pledge drive, at which he is supposed to appear.
Answer: Danny Tartabull
B. Kramer promised a sick boy that this Yankee would hit two homeruns for him if he gave Kramer back an autographed birthday card. Since one of his homeruns was ruled a triple and an error, Kramer tells him he has to catch a fly ball in his hat.
Answer: Paul O’Neill
C. This one-time love interest of Elaine supposedly spit on Newman and Kramer after Newman said, “Nice game, pretty boy,” following a tough loss to the Phillies in which he committed a crucial error.
Answer: Keith Hernandez
6. Answer these questions about a scandalous period of Church history FTPE.