Norcross BDAT I
Questions written by current and former members of the Norcross High School Academic Team (Mostafa Bhuiyan, Andrew Kahn, Steven Miller, Hernan Morales, Doug Morgan, Michael Sokolow), and Adil Khan (formerly of Chattahoochee)
Packet 04 – Tossups
1. In one story by this author, Captain Giles leads a ship while the narrator describes his coming of age. This author of The Shadow Line created a reoccurring character named Tom Lingard. Another of his works concerns the owner of a porn shop named Mr. Verloc, who tries to blow up a Greenwich Observatory. Another novel by this author of The (*) Secret Agent that is set in Costaguana is about Senor Gould entrusting the title character with some silver. His most famous novel is narrated by Marlow, who journeys up the Congo to meet Kurtz. For 10 points, name this Polish born author of Lord Jim, Nostromo, and Heart of Darkness.
ANSWER: Joseph Conrad [MB]
2. These entities are divided into “C,” “S,” and “X” groups depending on their spectral shapes in the SMASS and Tholen classification systems. One of these objects was discovered using the Titius-Bode Law and was located in a region where they typically are not found, (*) Kirkwood Gaps. Divided into Aten, Apollo, and Amor types, the ones beyond Neptune are collectively known as the Kuiper Belt, while examples of these include Vesta and Ceres. For 10 points, name astronomical objects present between Mars and Jupiter in a namesake “belt.”
ANSWER: asteroids [accept meteoroid or comet before “Titius-Bode Law”] [MB]
3. This man expressed his approval of the Compromise of 1850 in his Seventh of March speech and was later influenced by Samuel Foote to debate during the Nullification Crisis. He also represented the plaintiff during a case brought about by New (*) Hampshire legislature and helped settle the border disputes between Maine and Canada by formulating a namesake treaty with Baron Ashburton. He argued Dartmouth v. Woodward and McCulloch v. Maryland and pleaded for “Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable” in debates with Robert Hayne. For 10 points, name this Whig from Massachusetts who fought for protectionist tariffs.
ANSWER: Daniel Webster [MB]
4. This figure was lifted up into the air after striking Thiazi and later broke a promise after stealing some golden apples from Idunn. He competed against fire in an eating contest and turned into a mare to stop and ice giant from constructing a citadel. (*) Earthquakes can partly be attributed to this figure because his wife will sometimes miss the drops that go into her bowl, and at Ragnorok, he will kill Heimdall. He had children with Angrboda and transformed into a goddess to persuade Hoder to hit a certain god with mistletoe. For 10 points, name this father of Sleipnir and Fenrir who was a Norse trickster that caused the death of Balder.
ANSWER: Loki [MB]
5. These structures phosphorylated apolipoprotein, a substance that forms VLDL, a part of blood serum. This organelle also adds mannose-6-phosphate to substances that are bound for the lysosome. In plants, its functional equivalent is the (*) dictyosome, but that name can also refer to the stacks that extend to this organelle’s cis face, cisternae. Its main function is to receive certain compounds that are sent from the rough endoplasmic reticulum and to send those via vesicles. Named for its Italian discoverer, for 10 points, identify these organelles that package and transport proteins.
ANSWER: Golgi apparatus [or Golgi body or Golgi complex] [MB]
6. He wrote of a man that unwittingly shoots his father, thinking that he was an opposing soldier. This creator of Carter Druse described the response of a deaf six-year old child that laughs and plays with some Union soldiers and later finds his house in blazes. This author of “A Horseman in the Sky” and (*) “Chickamauga” wrote of the final memories of Peyton Farquhar and defined war as “a by-product of the arts of peace” in a work originally titled The Cynic’s Word Book. For 10 points, name this author of “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” and The Devil’s Dictionary.
ANSWER: Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce [MB]
7. One member of this group had an intense rivalry with Herbert Lehmann and followed Hugo Rogers as leader. This organization’s opposition included William Leggett and Gorham Parks, two of the many members of the “Locofocos.” One of its final leaders was Carmine DeSapio, and this group also distinguished between “honest” and “dishonest” graft after being led by (*) William Plunkitt. Its most famous sachem was depicted as a tiger by Thomas Nast and held almost complete power in the 1800’s before conflicting with Samuel Tilden. For 10 points, name this New York Democratic party machine once led by Boss Tweed.
ANSWER: Tammany Hall [or the Columbian Order; or the Society of St. Tammany; or the Sons of St. Tammany]
8. One of this man’s symphonies comes to an end with a depiction of the triumph of a man climbing a mountain. In another of his works, a violin pizzicato represents the execution of a character depicted by a horn and clarinet. This composer of An Alpine Symphony and (*) Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks included “Song of the Night Wanderer” and “Of Science” in his work that utilizes the “dawn” motif. One of his operas centers on the love of Marschallin and Octavian Rofrano. Der Rosenkavalier is by, for 10 points, which German composer who was inspired by Nietzsche to compose Thus Spake Zarathustra?
ANSWER: Richard Georg Strauss [prompt on Strauss] [MB]
9. J. L. Lassaigne developed a test in which sodium is “fused” with nitrogen, sulfur, and elements from this group. An isotope of the heaviest element in this group is created by bombarding bismuth with alpha particles. Another element from this group is used to detect (*) starch and turns dark blue in its presence. This group has elements of three states of matter at room temperature and houses the most electronegative element. Its members are highly reactive because each element has seven valence electrons. For 10 points, name this group whose members include Astatine, Iodine, and Fluorine.
ANSWER: Halogens [prompt on Group 17] [MB]
10. This man’s neighbor Bibi was the model for a sculpture in which part of the title man’s face is contorted. This artist of Man with the Broken Nose sculpted Saint Pierre standing with five other of the title men while (*) ropes hang around their necks. He also included a sculpture of Paolo and Francesca intertwined as part of his larger, more famous work. For 10 points, name this French sculptor of The Burghers of Calais and The Kiss who, in his The Gates of Hell, depicted Dante in The Thinker.
ANSWER: Auguste Rodin [MB]
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11. The resignation of Scooter Mclean after a franchise-worst 1-12-1 season preceded the hiring of this team’s most noted coach in 1959. Before winning a third straight championship in 1967, it defeated the Dallas Cowboys in the (*) Ice Bowl, in which quarterback Bart Starr threw the winning touchdown pass. The franchise’s coach at the time, the namesake of the trophy awarded to Super Bowl champions, was Vince Lombardi. For 10 points, name this only non-profit NFL team and winner of Super Bowls I and II as well as another under former quarterback Brett Favre, the defending NFL champion led by Coach Mike McCarthy and quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
ANSWER: Green Bay Packers [accept Green Bay or Packers alone] [MS]
12. The protagonist in one of his novels accuses his brother of being illegitimate after that brother receives an inheritance from Leon Marechal. This author also wrote a story in which the protagonist is stabbed with a cheese knife by Rachel. This author of Pierre et Jean and “(*) Mademoiselle Fifi” wrote about a character that is persuaded to sleep with a Prussian officer. In another of his stories, the protagonist attempts to repay a possession of Madame Forestier only to find that it is worth only 500 francs. For 10 points, name this author of “Ball of Fat” who wrote about Madame Loisel in “The Necklace.”
ANSWER: Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant [MB]
13. This number is divided by one to find the solution for the smallest radius possible in the Five Disks Problem, while its inverse is used to identify Noble Numbers. This quantity for a regular pentagon is found with Ptolemy’s Theorem. If a plus b all over a is equal to a divided by b, the (*) quotient of those equations is referred to as this number. It equals one plus the square root of 5 all over 2 and is what the ratios between consecutive integers in the Fibonacci sequence approach. For 10 points, name this number represented by phi that is approximately 1.618.
ANSWER: the golden ratio [accept mean of Phidias, golden mean, golden number, golden proportion, divine proportion, golden section; accept phi before mentioned; accept 1.618 before mentioned] [MB]
14. This river’s tributary, the Bani River, joins it near the town of Mopti. The Sankarani River along with the Bani are undergoing the construction of dams to control irrigation and flooding near this river’s Talo Dam . It starts in the Djallon Mountains at Tembakounda and flows past the port of Lokoja and onward to its delta near the Bight (*) of Bonny. Along its 2,500 miles course it passes cities such as Djenne, Bamako and Timbuktu. For 10 points, name this major river of West Africa which lends its name to two countries with capitals Niamey and Abuja.
ANSWER: Niger River [MB]
15. The founder of this faith wrote the Lawh-i-Burhan after two of his followers, whose names mean “twin shining lights,” were executed. That founder also wrote the Seven Valleys and set Ala as the beginning of this faith’s (*) nineteen day fast. Its other aspects include a nine-pointed star and its belief in unity of all faiths according to the Book of Certitude. It has a central location in Haifa, Israel and was preached by the Bab. For 10 points, name this Persian religion founded by Baha'ullah.
ANSWER: Bahá'í Faith [MB]
16. This war contributed to tensions in India among its belligerents with the Battle of Madras and the capture of Robert Clive. These conflicts were known as the Carnatic Wars. This war also saw fighting between Spain and Britain in (*) King George’s War and the War of Jenkins’s Ear. The impetus for this war was a provision of Salic Law which prohibited women from inheriting a throne, which contradicted the Pragmatic Sanction installed to allow Maria Theresa to inherit the throne. However, fighting mainly focused on control of Silesia, located between Prussia and the namesake empire. For 10 points, name this war that ended with the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle that ultimately did not assess the namesake crisis.
ANSWER: War of the Austrian Succession [accept First Carnatic Wars until mentioned] [AndrewK]
17. In this novel, one character hides behind a curtain when Mrs. Honour arrives at the protagonist’s house. The protagonist breaks his arm after being thrown off a raging horse and steals ducks to help his double-crossing friend Black George. (*) Arabella Hunt desires to marry the protagonist of this work, who is taught by Reverend Thwackum. The title character, who was raised by Squire Allsworthy, stabs Mr. Fitzpatrick and competes with Master Bilfil for the hand of Sophia Western. For 10 points, name this work about a “foundling,” a massive novel by Henry Fielding.
ANSWER: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling [MB]
18. These particles hit the leading side of orbiting bodies and push them inwards according to Poynting-Robertson drag. A cross section associated with them is named for Klein and Nishina. An electron and positron join from these particles in (*) pair production, and at lower energy levels they are subject to Compton Scattering. Their energy is found by multiplying Plank’s constant by the speed of light and dividing by wavelength. Einstein discovered that they displace electrons in the photoelectric effect. For 10 points, name these spinless and massless quantized units of light.
ANSWER: photon [do not accept or prompt on light] [MB]
19. The leader of one side in this conflict gave out firearms to Catholic villages as part of the Strategic Hamlet Program. This led to rebellions of the Buddhist majority including a monk who set himself on fire in response to (*) Ngo Dinh Diem. Outrage also came out of the massacre of villagers by William Cailey in My Lai. The impetus for American action in this war came from attacks on the USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin. Operation Rolling Thunder and the Tet Offensive were carried out in, for 10 points, what war that continued from the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution until the fall of Saigon in 1975.
ANSWER: Vietnam War [or the Second Indochina War] [AndrewK]
20. The “extensive” version of this field includes the “move by nature,” in which individuals do not affect the outcome. Other types of this study where the people involved do not matter are called symmetric and asymmetric. Founded by Oskar Morgenstern and John (*) von Neumann, some of its situations include the “Stag Hunt.” Its concept of zero-sum describes the benefit one group receives at the cost of another group. Situations in which the ones involved receive zero benefit by altering their strategies possess Nash equilibrium. For 10 points, name this field of mathematical study which includes the “prisoner’s dilemma” and attempts to find strategic situations.
ANSWER: game theory [MB]
THE ROUND IS NOW OVER. IF THERE ARE ANY PROTESTS, RESOLVE THEM NOW. IF THERE IS A TIE, THEN READ THE TIEBREAKERS BELOW UNTIL THERE IS A SCORE CHANGE.