Norcross BDAT I s1

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 08 – Tossups

1. This man put down a peasant rebellion called the Tambov rebellion and also crushed an insurgency led by Stepan Petrichenko in an Eastern shipyard called Kronstadt. He wrote his April Theses while on a sealed train from Germany and established a secret police called the (*) Cheka. After the failure of his War Communism policy, he established the New Economic Policy. This was after storming the Winter Palace in Petrograd in the October Revolution of 1917. For 10 points, name this leader who led the Soviet Union until his death in 1924 and was succeeded by Stalin.
ANSWER: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin [AndrewK]

2. One figure with this name learns that his love Angelica has fallen in love with the Saracen Medoro. A prequel to that work sees this man kill Agricane and fight the paladin Rinaldo. Another figure with this name has an affair with Sasha and sleeps in Turkey to find himself a woman the next day. Described by Mateo Boiardo and (*) Lodovico Ariosto as “inamorato” and ‘furioso,” respectively, another figure with this name has a brother named Oliver and flees to the Forest of Arden to meet his eventual lover. For 10 points, give this name shared by a title figure in a Virginia Woolf biography and the lover of Rosalind in As You Like It.
ANSWER: Orlando [accept Roland] [MB]

3. A mass transport of prisoners to the Dracy concentration camp took place in this political entity and was called the Vel d’Hiv Roundup. This polity was attacked at Mers-el-Kebir, and following the assassination of one of its chief political figures, François (*) Darlan, the rights of its citizens were significantly limited by Pierre Laval. It was formed after the Third Republic fell following an invasion by a neighboring state and saw five consecutive terms served by Philippe Pétain. For 10 points, name this puppet state formed in 1940 after the invasion of Nazi Germany.
ANSWER: Vichy France [prompt on just “France”] [MB]

4. The overture to one of this man’s works uses flute trills to represent some flying insects. This composer of incidental music for The Wasps was inspired by a George Meredith poem to have solo violin cadenzas represent the title (*) bird in another of his works. In his 7th symphony, this composer depicted Captain Scott’s journey to the title continent. Another work by this composer of The Lark Ascending contains “After the Sea-Ship” and was inspired by Leaves of Grass. For 10 points, name this English composer of Sinfonia Antarctica, A Sea Symphony, and fantasias on Thomas Tallis and Greensleeves.

ANSWER: Ralph Vaughan Williams [prompt on partial last name] [MB]

5. This location was made into a province containing three cantons by Guillermo Rodríguez Lara, although only five of its islands are inhabited. This archipelago’s capital of Puerto Baquerizo Moreno lies on the island of San Cristóbal. Its largest island was formed by the merging of six volcanoes into a single land mass. That island, (*) Isabela Island, is home to the only penguins north of the equator. Modern conservation efforts in this chain include the movement of a population of land iguanas from South Seymour to North Seymour Island. For 10 points name this Ecuadorian archipelago known for its giant tortoises and Darwin’s finches.
ANSWER: Galápagos Islands [accept Islas de Colón] [HM]

6. The first voyage to what would become this colony returned with Manteo and Wanchese who would later serve as translators. John White led a later voyage here and is known for his sketches of the surrounding Algonquian natives. After John White returned to England, he was (*) delayed through winter and another three years because of the Spanish Armada and continuing war with Spain. With the establishment of Jamestown, John Smith led search parties for survivors from this colony. For 10 points, name this "Lost Colony" of present-day North Carolina, intended as the first permanent settlement in North America.
ANSWER: Roanoke Colony [prompt on North Carolina] [AndrewK]

7. One of this thinker’s works argues that dialects used to be beautiful in warm climates until the people living in colder climates changed that. He also discussed the beginning of the family in his work that says the founder of society is the man who put a picket in the ground and claimed it for himself. This author of Essay on the Origin of Languages and (*) Discourse on Inequality wrote a treatise on education called Emile. His most groundbreaking work elaborates on how the “general will” works in his work asserting “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.” For 10 points, name this French philosopher who authored The Social Contract.
ANSWER: Jean-Jacques Rousseau [MB]

8. One of his sculptures depicts a kneeling figure holding his hands together in the title activity. Another of his works located in Targu Jiu has seventeen rhomboidal shapes stacked on top of each other. This sculptor of The Prayer and (*) Endless Column showed two block-shaped figures intertwined in one work, another of which features the central figure’s head on its side. The Kiss and Sleeping Muse are works of, for 10 points, which Romanian sculptor who showed a futuristic avian in Bird in Space?

ANSWER: Constantin Brancusi [MB]

9. A depolarizing agent is absent when these devices begin to leak out hydrogen gas, a signal that they fail in motherboards in a namesake “plague.” Another type of these devices uses electrolytes to improve its performance. Its earliest prototypes were developed by Musschenbroek. Their namesake quantity is calculated by dividing (*) charge by voltage. These devices, the earliest examples of which was called a Leyden jar, include a dielectric that separates a pair of conducting plates. For 10 points, name these devices that store charge and whose namesake quantity is measured in farads.
ANSWER: Capacitor [MB]

10. One follower of this faith issued the 1890 Manifesto after becoming a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles; that man was Wilford Woodruff. This religion was the subject of the Edmunds-Tucker Act. Thirteen of its principles are outlined in its Articles of Faith, which are now included in The (*) Pearl of Great Price. Adherents are prohibited from caffeine and tea and believe that their founder was given golden plates by a Nephite named Moroni. For 10 points, name this religion founded by Joseph Smith and led by Brigham Young, many adherents of which live in Utah.
ANSWER: Mormonism [accept word forms; also accept Church of Jesus of Latter Day Saints; prompt on LDS] [MB]

SCORECHECK

11. Acceleration due to gravity is the only factor that makes density differences non-negligible in this process according to Boussinesq approximation. The Churchill-Bernstein equation calculates its Nusselt numbers. In this process, the rate of heat loss is proportional to an environment’s temperature minus the object’s temperature. It occurs when the critical value is less than the (*) Rayleigh number and notably takes place inside the mantle and causes namesake currents. For 10 points, name this mechanism by which heat is transferred between fluids in a process contrasted with conduction.
ANSWER: convection [do not accept conduction] [MB]

12. This playwright was the subject of Anthony Burgess’ A Dead Man in Deptford, in which he was depicted as a homosexual spy. His own works includes a play in which a king brings Piers Gaveston from exile, only to end up dead himself. This author of (*) Edward II also wrote a play in which Abigail is poisoned with porridge. Besides writing about Barbaras, another of his plays concerns a Scythian shepherd. Thought not Goethe [pron. Gur-tah], he also wrote a play in which the title figure makes a deal with Mephistopheles. For 10 points, name this author of The Jew of Malta, Tamerlane, and Doctor Faustus.
ANSWER: Christopher Marlowe [MB]

13. This figure once formed a successful Christian rock band by adding Jesus into the lyrics of a love song. Earlier, he created a “Ginger Separatist Movement” that sought world conquest, while in another episode he feigns tolerance of Islam in a failed attempt to convince Fox News to cancel (*) Family Guy. Although he ate Kenny’s cremated ashes in Season 6 and later acted as the vigilante leader of Coon and Friends in Season 14, this child prefers to eat Cheesy Poofs while watching “Terrence and Phillip,” without being bothered by his cat. For 10 points, name this anti-Semitic, power-hungry, obese child who wears a red jacket, a resident of South Park, Colorado.
ANSWER: Eric Theodore Cartman [HM]

14. An extinct relative of this animal had its condyle situated above the teeth and was called Teinolophos. These animals contract their muscles to activate their rare ability of electroreception to detect electric fields. OvCNP peptides comprise the (*) venom that they eject through their ankle spurs. Many of their characteristics are similar to that of birds, although they are more closely associated with an animal in the same order, the echidna. For 10 points, name these egg-laying monotremes that can have prominent “duck-bills.”
ANSWER: Platypus [accept Ornithorhynchus anatinus] [MB]

15. In this play, one character refuses to look upon another until she covers herself with a handkerchief. While the protagonist attempts to seduce another character, the eavesdropping Damis jumps out to reveal his nature. After talking to (*) Elmire, the protagonist accuses himself of being an “unhappy sinner full of iniquity.” An eviction notice is given to a family the protagonist tricks, but later he would be arrested by King Louis XIV, which then allows for the marriage of Mariane and Valere and the saving of Orgon’s house. For 10 points, name this Moliere comedy about a religious hypocrite.
ANSWER: Tartuffe, or the Impostor [accept Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur] [MB]

16. The densest possible method of packing of these objects is hypothesized to be hexagonal close packing according to the Kepler Conjecture. A coordinate system named for these objects contains a zenith angle and an azimuthal angle, and these entities also boast the greatest possible ratio of volume to (*) surface area. The equation of this shape is given by r2 = x2 + y2 + z2 and its volume is found by using the formula 4/3πr3 [ four thirds pi r cubed]. For 10 points, name these three-dimensional shapes, examples of which include globes and tennis balls.
ANSWER: spheres [MB]

17. Operation Chengiz Kahn was a response to this country’s move towards independence, which was led by Sheik Mujibur Rahman’s “six-point movement” and occurred during the office of Yahya Khan. Currently, this country has major political parties known as the (*) Awami League, BNP, and the Jatiya League. Major support from India helped in its liberation, which came on December 16th, 1971. Formerly known as East Pakistan, this is, for 10 points which country that, after independence, moved its capital to Dhaka?
ANSWER: People's Republic of Bangladesh [MB]

18. These entities can contain a loess, while large cracks called bergshrunds are created by these objects. Ridges referred to as aretas are created between these entities. They have two regions called the (*) ablation and accumulation zones. Evidence for ones in the past is observable through kettle lakes, and these objects use abrasion to create drumlins. Their movement can leave behind a conglomerate of debris called moraine. For 10 points, name these geographical features that come in continental and alpine types which are large sheets of ice that break into icebergs.
ANSWER: glaciers[MB]

19. He wrote of an unemployed, unappreciated 40-year-old referred to as Wilkie by his father, though he often calls himself “hippopotamus”. That character, Wilhelm Adler, gets scammed in the stock market in this author’s Seize the Day. He also wrote about a Jewish man named (*) Moses that goes through relationships with Ramona and Madeleine. The title character of another of his works goes after Charlotte Magnus even after being married to Stella. For 10 points, name this American author of Herzog and The Adventures of Augie March.
ANSWER: Saul Bellow [or Solomon Bellows] [MB]

20. This thinker used Socrates’ “doctrine of recollection” to search for the Eternal Truth and wrote that the conflicts between the “finite and infinite” act as the reason why humans do not align themselves with God and are “in despair.” This author of (*) Philosophical Fragments introduced the “knight of faith” as the final level of existence and questioned Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac in that same work. He also discussed crop rotation in his work about the ethical and aesthetic “stages of existence.” Judge Wilhelm is a pseudonym of, for 10 points, which Danish philosopher and author of The Sickness Unto Death, Fear and Trembling and Either/Or?
ANSWER: Søren Aabye Kierkegaard [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.

TB1. One of this city’s leaders established a center at Susa and began the minting of coins. Along with Antiochus, this locale also saw the restoration of the temple Esagila. Necho II began a campaign against this city in the Battle of Carchemis, while this city also saw the reign of the Amorite and (*) Kassite dynasties. A ruler of the “neo” phase of this place destroyed the First Temple, while another formulated an “eye for an eye” based law code. For 10 points, name this city home to Nebuchadnezzar and Hammurabi, as well as some namesake “hanging gardens.”
ANSWER: Babylon [or Babylonia] [MB]