Chicago Open 2012: The Reins of History Back in the Hands of Man
EDITORS PACKET #2 (Contains material from team of Saajid Moyen, Ashvin Srivatsa, Joe Nutter, Jasper Lee)
Tossups
1. This practice was pioneered in Great Britain by William Price, a physician who supported the Neo-Druid movement. In Aztec tradition, this act is done after cutting locks of hair from the top of the head, and mixing them with hair that's been stored since birth. In Bali, it's done on an auspicious day during the Ngaben ceremony. Some traditions hold that it removes ashaucha, and after this action, the antim ardas is recited - in that Sikh tradition, it's done during the antim saskar.It was banned as an “evil custom of the past” by the Meiji government in 1873 for being unfilial, but it’s nearly universal in modern-day Japan where,after this action, a picking ceremony with chopsticks occurs. Since the 1960s, Catholic churches have begun to contain columbaria to accommodate this practice. While this act was being performed, widows were sometimes forced to undergo sati. FTP, name this alternative to burying the body.
ANSWER: Cremation [prompt on “funeral”; do not prompt or accept “burial”]
2. During this event, the Conservative Victory Committee aired an ad attacking Ted Kennedy for being “suspended from Harvard for cheating [and leaving] the scene of an accident at Chappaquiddick where Mary Jo Kopechne died." Hunter S. Thompson envisioned himself getting in a car accident with the central figure of this event, who's riding with two hookers in sheep country, in “Fear and Loathing in Elko”. That subject of this event was chosen over Emilio M. Garza and, at the time, was working at the EEOC. During this event, that man was asked “Did you ever use the term Long Dong Silver?,” alluding to discussions with a certain University of Oklahoma law professor, first reported on by Nina Totenberg. Described by its subject as a "high-tech lynching," this event also involved a question about some pubic hair on a Coke. FTP, name this event where nominee to the Supreme Court through the allegations of Anita Hill.
ANSWER: Clarence Thomas Confirmation Hearings [or Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination]
3. Phasons in these objects relax via the atomic rearrangement of structures called “worms”.The cut-and-project method of constructing these objects models them as three-dimensional cross-sections of simpler functions on higher-dimensional hyperplanes, and as a result, the reciprocal lattice for the mass density of these objects cannot be spanned by fewer than 4 basis vectors. Most of these substances are aluminum-rich, including the only natural one known, icosahedrite, which has a crystallographically forbidden five-fold symmetry. Since they can be represented by Penrose tilings, they lack translational symmetry. FTP, name these structures which exhibit long-range order but are aperiodic.
ANSWER: quasicrystals [or quasiperiodic crystals; prompt on “aperiodic tilings” or “quasiperiodic tilings” before Penrose is mentioned]
4. One character in this play compares his situation to an Irish priest sleeping in a public garden whose dreams are interrupted by a little boy who touches his neck with a flower. The third act begins on a darkened stage when two women dressed in the same clothes step out of a picture frame to shock the main character as part of Dr. Dionysius Genoni’s plan. That main character steals Landolph’s sword to attack a man that he repeatedly calls Peter Damian. This play begins with Charles de Nolli preparing to enter a castle that his late mother financed, so it could remain a reproduction of an 11th century German throne room. This play ends when the title character stabs Tito Belcredi who stole his beloved Donna Matilda Spina twenty years earlier at a historical pageant where he hits his head after being knocked off his horse while dressed as the title figure. FTP, name this play about a guy who thinks he's the title German emperor, written by Luigi Pirandello.
ANSWER: Henry IV [or Enrico IV]
5. This emperor granted a pardon to a scholar who wrote the musical treatise Lulu Zhengyi. A Western-style palace was built for this ruler by Giuseppe Castiglione, and he employed Jean-Denis Attiret as his court painter. He rejected an embassy by the crew of the HMS Lion, and issued an edict which directed Lu Xixiong and Ji Yun to produce a "complete library" of literature in four branches, called the Siku-quanshu. This emperor received the Macartney Embassy and his later reign was dominated by a former bodyguard named Heshen. He added the “NewProvince”, modern day Xinjiang, to his country’s territory as part of his Ten Great Campaigns. He abdicated in favor of his successor, the Jiaqing Emperor, just prior to the White Lotus Rebellion. FTP, name this sixth emperor of the Qing dynasty, the grandson of the Kangxi emperor, who ruled from 1735 to 1796.
ANSWER: Qianlong Emperor [or Ch’ien-lung Ti or Hongli or Hung li or Tengeriin Tetgessen Khan or Abkai Wehiyehe huwangdi or Prince Bao]
6. According to the Dogon people of Mali, one of these objects was destroyed by seven great earthquakes, and was associated with the god Amma. In Hindu myth, this type of object was called the Hiranyagarbha. The Bon people of Tibet sing that three of theseobjects hold a golden arrow, a turquoise arrow, and a golden spindle. A Pelasgian myth says that Eurynome created one of these items after dancing with the wind and mating with the snake Ophion, who then coiled himself around one of these. In the Kalevala, several of these objects fall from Ilmatar's knee when her knee becomes too warm. The Chinese god Pangu emerges from one of these after a deep slumber, while a creature called the Benu in Egyptian myth deposits one of these on the sacred mound. FTP, name these objects often found in creation myths, which can be laid in primordial waters by birds.
ANSWER: eggs (cosmic eggs, world eggs, golden eggs - anything like that)
7. This artist teamed up with Otomo Yoshihide for the 2000 collection Moving Parts. He created one project by having patrons at the Shedhalle galleries in Zurich walk on 3,500 copies of recordings of footsteps, then sold the resulting damaged records. A recent solo show by this artist saw people vocalizing the text from his 60 foot long Manga Scroll. He smashed records and taped-together shards during his early career as a DJ, while a cassette player was mounted on a ladder in his Tape Fall, and he created a montage of guns being fired in Crossfire. After failing to get this artist’s permission to edit his film Telephone for a Super Bowl commercial, Apple aired a knock-off spot of people in movies having phone conversations. One of his works runs for 24 hours and contains montages revealing the current time of day. FTP, name this director of 2011’s The Clock.
ANSWER: Christian Marclay
8. In three dimensions on a cubic lattice, the D3Q19 form of this equation is typically used. Chapman-Enskog expansion of this equation in terms of the Knudsen number reproduces the Navier-Stokes equations. This equation models the probability of finding a particle at a given time, position, and velocity, as a function of the particle’s position at the preceding timestep plus a sum over collisions with other particles, relaxed to local equilibria. The collision operator in this equation is often replaced by the BGK operator, which is linear in inverse relaxation time; the rest of the right hand side consists of the external force term and the diffusion term which taken together would form the Vlasov equation. FTP, name this linear stochastic partial differential equation which is used to simulate fluid flows.
ANSWER: lattice Boltzmann transport equation [accept lattice BGK or LBGK, prompt on "LBE"]
9. This author critiqued Stanley Edgar Hyman in his essay “‘Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke’’ and responded to an Irving Hower review from the magazine New Leader in the essay “The Word and the Jug.” In one novel, Sister Bearmaster prevents a red-headed woman from grabbing a protagonist, who she claims is her son Cudworth, when he rises from a coffin as a stunt. This author included the sections “The Seer and the Seen” and “Sound and the Mainstream” in an essay collection titled for a review of the film version of Intruders in the Dust. This author’s second novel describes a man who changes his name from Bliss after abandoning his black adopted father Reverend Alonzo Hickman to become the racist senator Adam Sunraider. This author of Shadow and Act expanded his short story “Battle Royale” into a novel ending when the protagonist fights Ras the Exhorter during riots in Harlem. FTP, name this black writer who never published his novel Juneteenth during his lifetime, after the success of his first novel Invisible Man.
ANSWER: Ralph Ellison
10. The second chapter of this book begins by criticizing the “pigeonhole disease” in social science - that chapter is entitled “The Classical Styles,” and opposes two ideas referred to as "mystical illuminationism" and "ascetic maraboutism." The author divides one classical style into three complexes called siyyid, zawiya and maxzen. The third chapter is entitled “The Scripturalist Interlude," which refers to the modern period, where people have moved past prior archetypes like Sunan Kalidjaga and Sidi Lahsen Lyusi. During the interlude, Sukarno and Muhammad V have become the dominant spiritual icons who justify the modern world through their religion.This work contrasts the societies of Indonesia and Morocco, building on its author’s earlier text, The Religion of Java. FTP, name this 1968 book by Clifford Geertz which examines modern-day Muslim religion.
ANSWER: Islam Observed: Religious Development in Morocco and Indonesia
11. One of this man’s underlings was the subject of Andre Resendez’s 2009 biography, A Land So Strange. His best known expedition was based on the assumption that Panuco could easily be reached by land. With his pilot Miruelo, he reached a body of water then called Espiritu SantoBay. After he cut off the nose of an Indian chief, he reportedly “discovered” that the Apalachee people were hiding gold. He took part in a campaign to pacify Cuba headed by Diego Velazquez, who then sent him on a failed mission to capture Hernan Cortes, during which he was taken prisoner. His treasurer and second-in-command Cabeza de Vaca was one of only four men to survive his namesake expedition, and wrote a chronicle of it. FTP, name this conquistador who led a disastrous 1527 expedition to Tampa Bay, Florida.
ANSWER: Panfilo de Narvaez
12. The abdominal LE cells of Aplysia are a model system for the study of the relationship between memory and this phenomenon. Mutations in NTRK1 may result in HSAN type 4, a congenital lack of this phenomenon. The “fast” type of it is transmitted via the neospinothalamic tract, starting in afferent A-delta neurons with free nerve endings in the stratum granulosum. When multiple tissue areas are served by the same dermatome, a nonlocalized, or “referred” form of this symptom may occur. COX-2 inhibitors treat this symptom by reducing prostaglandin synthesis. Mirror box therapy is used to treat a form of it that is common in amputees. FTP, name this sensation, caused by nociception, which typically occurs after tissue damage.
ANSWER: pain [accept "nociception" until mentioned]
13. On the night before this battle, Union recruits were assured of survival by Brigadier Generals James Jackson and William Terrill, both of whom died the next day. Tourists to this battlefield can take a supernatural tour of the Dye House, and its fighting occurred on land owned by Henry P. Bottom. An acoustic shadow prevented the Union commander from hearing Daniel McCook’s troops defending Dixville Crossroads, while Daniel's brother Alexander McCook commanded the I Corps, and Phil Sheridan was ordered to seize Peters Hill. Also known as the Battle at Chaplin Hills, right after this battle, wounded Confederates began a march to Harrodsburg. This battle caused Don Carlos Buell to be sanctioned and replaced by William Rosecrans, who was put in charge of the new Army of the Cumberland, which fought two months later at StonesRiver. FTP, name this tactical victory for Braxton Bragg in October 1862, fought at a battle site in Kentucky.
ANSWER: Battle of Perryville [or Battle of Chaplin Hills before that's mentioned; prompt on “Battle for Kentucky”]
14. Susan Okin asks whether this idea requires the abolition of gender both within and outside the family in her 1989 tome on this, gender, and the family. Michael Sandel condemns "deontological liberalism" and its results in a 1982 book on the limits of this. Michael Walzer introduces his idea of "complex equality" and puts forth a "defense of pluralism and equality" in his book on this concept. In his sequel to After Virtue, Alisdair MacIntyre contrasts views of Aristotle and Hume on this topic - that book asks "Which rationality?" and "whose" version of this idea we should accept. Richard Posner famously wrote about the economics of this, while the best-known account of it describes the "reflective equilibrium" where theories are tested against moral judgments, and posits that this concept is equivalent to fairness at a certain original position. FTP, name this philosophical idea, a theory of which was created by John Rawls.
ANSWER: justice
15. One family in this novel lives in a hall called Plumstead Episcopi, while the poor Mr. Quiverful lives in the dilipated house Puddingdale with 14 children before he's given a job running a hospital. The main female has two men propose to her during a party held at Ullathorne Court. The crippled-yet-seductive La Signora Madeline Vesey Neroni flirts with men while lying on her couch after she was forced to move from Italy when her father Vesey Stanhope was summoned. At the end of this novel, Francis Arabin is appointed dean and marries Eleanor Bold, who scorns the advances of the chaplain Obadiah Slope, while Septimus Harding eventually resigns from his position as warden of Hiram’s Hospital. This novel begins after the death of Bishop Grantly when Dr. Proudie is controversially appointed as bishop of the title town. Preceded by The Warden, FTP, name this second novel in Anthony Trollope’s Chronicles of Barsetshire.
ANSWER: Barchester Towers
16. That third movement of this piece is a 3/8 adagio in the key of B-flat. The last movement reprises the theme of that movement before restating the recitative-like passage which opened the piece. The composer wrote down the main theme of this work after getting a tonsil removed, and made two recordings of this work with Beatrice Harrison as the soloist. The first movement of this work revolves around a six-bar winding theme in 9/8 time which is first introduced by the violas but is then repeated by the soloist. The most famous recording of this work was made with John Barbirolli conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. FTP, identify this signature performance piece of Jacqueline du Pre, an E minor work for a string instrument and orchestra by the composer of the Enigma Variations.
ANSWER: Edward Elgar’s cello concerto
17. Studies of this mineral have been used to show that water was present during the Late Heavy Bombardment. It’s not apatite, but metamictization in this mineral makes it particularly suited to fission-track dating, and enables uranium-thorium-helium thermochronometry. Classifying these minerals in granitic rocks by their prismatic and pyramidal qualities yields a classification that may solve the problem of polygenetic granite. Since hafnium strongly partitions into this mineral, lutetium-hafnium dating of this mineral is used to determine the time at which crust first formed.Concordia diagrams for this mineral are used to set a lower bound on the earliest date of petrogenesis. Samples of this mineral found in Jack Hills are the oldest known minerals. FTP, name this silicate mineral from which metallic zirconium is produced.
ANSWER: zircons [do not accept “zirconium”]
18. Maurice Hamington compared this woman with Maurice Merleau-Ponty in her book Embodied Care. This woman told the story of the "Devil Baby" which terrorizes Italian women who have evil husbands in her book The Long Road of Woman’s Memory. She proposed improving the world through “lateral progress," and wrote that robust democracy requires "sympathetic knowledge." This good friend of Mary Rozet Smith took up baking after Leo Tolstoy called her an absentee landlord. Her bookThe Spirit of Youth and the City Streets analyzed juvenile delinquency. This president of the Woman's International League for Peace and Freedom explained her pacifism in the book Peace and Bread in Time of War.She's better known for working with Ellen Gates Starr on another creation, which was modeled on Toynbee Hall. FTP, name this activist who founded a social settlement in Chicago called Hull House.
ANSWER: Jane Addams